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Finding its roots in Greek Folk Magick, Goetia is best known today from its role in Medieval, Renaissance & Early Modern manuscripts such as the Clavicula Salomanis and Grimorum Verum. It is the Ceremonial Art of summoning spirits, especially the demonic.
The Greco Egyptian Magical Papyri are at the origin of all Western Esotericism. A collection of hymns, rituals, ingredients & phylacteries, these beautiful papyri offers us an insight into the working technology of magick in Late Antiquity.
The philosophies, writings & practices attributed to the divinised Greco-Egyptian Sage, Hermes Trismegistos. Found in numerous scrolls & manuscripts from the 2nd century BC to the 3rd century CE, we see a worldview characterised by an androgenic divine mind, moral exhortations of the Way of Hermes & Spiritual Rebirth.
While rarely included among Esoteric Arts, Sabbatic Witchcraft contains the working knowledge of the Cunning Folk & Village Lore. From this field of practice emerges a worldview centred around communication with the cycles of nature, acknowledgment of Land Spirits & a promise of milk & honey.
From the geometric & transcendental complexities of the Timaeus, the followers of Plato transformed his philosophy into a religion, complete with purifications, rituals & a goal of salvational gnosis upon reunion with the Divine Nous. Via Imablichus & the other Neoplatonists, Theurgy emerged.
Considered Christian heresy by the early church fathers, Gnosticism is a complex spectrum of Esoteric Christian thought that emerged in the early centuries AD. Building on Platonic concepts of the Demiurge, we see a beautiful set of beliefs around a Divine Feminine Sophia, the revelation of Christ & various "Secret Teachings" of the Apostles.
Evolving from ancient schools of Jewish Mysticism such as the Merkaba & Hekhalot literature, Kabbalah is a complex & revolutionary methodology of reading esoteric truths within the Torah, complete with a system of divine emanations & trees to explain the totality of God.
The art, science & theory of sublime transmutation. Alchemy is an experimental process that contributed greatly to the rise of modern Chemistry. It is a dynamic set of practices & theories that seek an understanding of physical reality through the totality of spiritual & chemical processes & substances. It is a total philosophy of nature, and an attempt to transform it through experimentation.
The Tantras are allegorical & educational texts that contain the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards. Containing references to obscure deities, powerful mandalas, mantras & mudras, Tantra is more than just sex, it is a path towards enlightenment that acknowledges and uses the body in its full sensuality.
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