/lit/ - Literature

>>8944913
>>8944903
both fair

in honesty one of the excuses I've been providing myself is the lack of an ideal pseuonym. For some psychosomatic reason I've never put anything out under an actual name. I know this is a reasonably creative group when it's not an exercise in self loathing, so give me something to reduce the excuses I have for bearing my soul to the world.

what's the best avenue to get a non-kooky primer on Western esotericism (specifically kaballah)?

Enough of literature makes at least passing references that I feel I'm very much missing things I shouldn't be.

>>8328373
>Life would be so much easier if only I believed in something!
You're not about to get a backbone out of being a scrub! You don't give a hoot about God anyway--if you did, you would believe regardless of all logic. What you want is to have the correct stock of phrases and theories so that you can be said to have done a well job of your mind if ever you get judged... how very Christian of you, to always be preparing for what won't come. Ultimately you're only looking for someone to blame or be blamed by, not knowing the terrible implications of it. You also, very illogically, desire for continuation after the end, like you're so sure this life is bad and another would be better; of course you also don't dare question the existence of something before yours, likewise what comes after is assured. You poor fool, you're so dazed by your own smallness.

A straight line is stupid. Let's think of it as an axis of speed in which data is delivered (where visuals is the apex), how much attention it calls to the mind (aural beats the others) and how prompt it is to call for meaning and remembrance (symbolic stuff beats all); lastly a medium also can have a negative value, i.e. which of the aforementioned axises it doesn't deal with.

So for example read literature is almost purely symbolic with a vestige of aural, and usually no visuals; as such it delivers meaning and memory almost perfectly, but slowly, and requires attention. Music calls to attention and emotion by its very nature, and optionally has language in it; like literature though, it has a fixed, set time. Single images are timeless, and can have meaning in various ways, but by their immediate nature they can be disregarded easily and can take a lot of attention to understand and perceive throughly.

What are some good esoteric books?

plz respond

>In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone. Probably aware of what was happening, she fell seriously ill and came to spend more time at home than at court. The emperor's pity and affection quite passed bounds. No longer caring what his ladies and courtiers might say, he behaved as if intent upon stirring gossip.