Having studied now for the last couple of years, the so called western mystery tradition, i have to say i am starting to feel rather disillusioned by all of it for a good few reasons. I am not sure how familiar many of you will be with it here but in the west the occult was always a taboo subject and it was one of the only things i feel i hadn't really looked into, probably subconsciously for this reason. Having researched the history of the Western Mystery Tradition i have to say that it seems to all go back to different Christians in the middle ages. Hardly the origins one would assume for what is normally considered to be a negative or though wrongly so practice. The root of so called western eroticism and the WMT is none other than the Hermetic Qabalah. This was a system developed in Florence via the Medici platonic university by Giovanni pico della mirandola in the middle ages/early renaissance. He revived texts believed to be the tales of a wise pagan who foretold the coming of Christ as the texts were wrongly date. If it was discovered that they came from after the development of Christianity they would have most likely been burned and lost forever. However this was not the case. Giovanni translated these Hermetic Texts which was a rather strange cross over Esoteric tradition with the dual God of the Egyptian Thoth and the Greek called Hermes. Giovanni fused traditional Judaic Kabbalah developed a few hundred years earlier in Europe with Hermeticism, Gnosticism , Kabbalah and Christian Mysticism into what became the foundation of the Occult in the west.
Now through the teachings and developments of Mirandola and other Christian mystical thinkers a chap called Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa wrote a book called the Three Books of Occult Philosophy which is considered to be basically the roots of all the practical eroticism in the west which draws upon the mystery religions of antiquity and the work of different Christian Qabalists of the time. The glypth we received from this time period of the Qabalah comes from a Jesuit priest by the name of Athanasius Kircher and its still the main one that is used today by those who study in the WMT, he also interestingly enough added Egyptian mythology to the Western Qabalah. The tradition of the Occult grow out of Christian roots, many of whom were simply trying to convert Jews by using the Qabalah to prove the divinity of Christ. Even the famed Pentagram is simply pentagrammaton of Yod Heh Shin Vav Heh or the Hebrew name Yeshua or Jesus. Now a lot of the teachings went underground into different orders like the Rosicrucian's , although people still debate if such a grow really existed or not. It all comes back into the open in the Victorian age when a few Freemasons and who were also Rosicrucian's in England created a Pesudo Masonic order called the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. A lot of things were developed and added into this system of magick. Basically the Qabalah is the roots of the system and is the means that the esoteric grades are reached, through different rituals, divination and such. The order itself was based on a completely made up story about a secret Rosicrucian order in Europe giving them permission to start an order and finding a secret manuscript that was in fact developed by another Freemason. The order basically fall apart because of what can basically be summed up as ego issues with its members. The most famous member of the Golden Dawn was probably Crowley who taught the other big name Israel Regardie in occult matters, this is were we find all of the information getting made published for the first time. Now Ra basically said Crowley was highly distorted and i can only assume his material is like wise.
This rant may sound a little over the top but i am starting to feel rather disillusioned by the Occult in general. Once investigated it seems to not have the glamor nor a strong tradition that is at least fairly undistorted. On the other hand i find a lot of over the top rituals, lots of reading and memorizing , having to join occult orders to dress up in robes and dance about in what boils down to new aged guided meditations. I am sure people will disagree with what i have said but i cannot help but speak my mind on the subject. I am now getting more convinced that the only true spiritual practice is being the Love in the moment and Meditating, as well as having a far philosophical understanding through a good source such as the Ra material. So there you have it.
Now through the teachings and developments of Mirandola and other Christian mystical thinkers a chap called Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa wrote a book called the Three Books of Occult Philosophy which is considered to be basically the roots of all the practical eroticism in the west which draws upon the mystery religions of antiquity and the work of different Christian Qabalists of the time. The glypth we received from this time period of the Qabalah comes from a Jesuit priest by the name of Athanasius Kircher and its still the main one that is used today by those who study in the WMT, he also interestingly enough added Egyptian mythology to the Western Qabalah. The tradition of the Occult grow out of Christian roots, many of whom were simply trying to convert Jews by using the Qabalah to prove the divinity of Christ. Even the famed Pentagram is simply pentagrammaton of Yod Heh Shin Vav Heh or the Hebrew name Yeshua or Jesus. Now a lot of the teachings went underground into different orders like the Rosicrucian's , although people still debate if such a grow really existed or not. It all comes back into the open in the Victorian age when a few Freemasons and who were also Rosicrucian's in England created a Pesudo Masonic order called the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. A lot of things were developed and added into this system of magick. Basically the Qabalah is the roots of the system and is the means that the esoteric grades are reached, through different rituals, divination and such. The order itself was based on a completely made up story about a secret Rosicrucian order in Europe giving them permission to start an order and finding a secret manuscript that was in fact developed by another Freemason. The order basically fall apart because of what can basically be summed up as ego issues with its members. The most famous member of the Golden Dawn was probably Crowley who taught the other big name Israel Regardie in occult matters, this is were we find all of the information getting made published for the first time. Now Ra basically said Crowley was highly distorted and i can only assume his material is like wise.
This rant may sound a little over the top but i am starting to feel rather disillusioned by the Occult in general. Once investigated it seems to not have the glamor nor a strong tradition that is at least fairly undistorted. On the other hand i find a lot of over the top rituals, lots of reading and memorizing , having to join occult orders to dress up in robes and dance about in what boils down to new aged guided meditations. I am sure people will disagree with what i have said but i cannot help but speak my mind on the subject. I am now getting more convinced that the only true spiritual practice is being the Love in the moment and Meditating, as well as having a far philosophical understanding through a good source such as the Ra material. So there you have it.
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