/lit/ - Literature

>>17467491
Brother in the Light

Daily reminder to newfags/atheists/m*rxists
Delve into:
Platonism,neo-platonism,metaphysics,gnosticism,Thomas Aquina,hermeticism,western esotericism,occultism,alchemy,goetia,theurgy,jewish kabbalism and mysticism,ceremonial magic,tarot,sigil magic,peganism,Carl Jung(best author I will mention),after Jung read Evola and Crowley,Crowley is extremely autistic and larpy but it filters the red ditors,put Evola later into the reading list,and as fantastic as he is don't end up worshiping him,he isn't perfect.
Start with the Bible if you haven't already

>>17426446
Marx had to write a long reddit post about Stirner and it's shit,I don't relate to Stirner anymore since I delved to deep into what I mentioned above.

One common point Marxists use is that porky created identity politics as a distraction
>150. As we mentioned in paragraph 134, industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems. And a considerable proportion of the system’s economic and environmental problems result from the way human beings behave. Alienation, low self-esteem, depression, hostility, rebellion; children who won’t study, youth gangs, illegal drug use, rape, child abuse, other crimes, unsafe sex, teen pregnancy, population growth, political corruption, race hatred, ethnic rivalry, bitter ideological conflict (e.g., pro-choice vs. pro- life), political extremism, terrorism, sabotage, anti-government groups, hate groups. All these threaten the very survival of the system. The system will therefore be FORCED to use every practical means of controlling human behavior.
-Ted Kaczynski

>>11781301
not exactly its hard to explain, because it is based upon an ontology that I'm currently working on and on my own mystical experience. what i mean is the unspeakable that unites that which we can talk about and that which we can not, that which is is and that which is not, not simply in the idea of nothingness and somethingness but in the sense of the unspeakable as that which "is" neither the absolute nor the absolute and at the same time both.

>>10886799
That is a huge fucking question OP.

>Kabbalah
Jewish mysticism. Ignore. You might as well be observing the flights of birds or cutting up livers.

>alchemy
Originally, it was man's first attempts at chemistry and material science. Mystically it has come to represent the transformation in one's self from layman to knower, from lead to gold, from mundane to sacred. Ignore, unless you are a Jungian examining the diagrams of the spheres and plates of furnaces to figure out what the alchemists were trying to say about themselves.

>tarot
Good for convincing yourself of things. Don't bother unless you want to practice tarot to busk for money on the street.

>magick (assuming Crowley type)
Literally a sex cult by a sad, ignorant reactionary whose greatest achievement in life was the result of his greatest torment (Christianity).

>Theosophy
oh look, more scammers.

Occultism is largely a waste of time OP, but it's there if you want to give them money. Charlatans will always be there.

>>10328728
If you had actually finished with the Greeks and Romans, you would know.

>>9402265
>>9402436
Alright well supposing this isn't a bait thread to make normies and edgelords mad I'll give you an honest answer.

Consider that humanity needs religion, and its existence as a science of the spirit is a crutch used to support parts of our brain that we don't fully understand yet with the scientific method. If you were raised in religion, your head is swimming in myths and symbols so pervasive they are inescapable. So why try to escape them?

I would recommend you read the comparative mythology work of Campbell and Frazer, Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane, and research Jung's idea of individuation and collective unconscious. You will soon form your own opinion about the human need for faith, religion, and its place in your life. This is something you can't be told.


ps Atheism is for edgelords and agnosticism is for pseuds. Hitchens and Dawkins are very sad cases, sadder than true believers who live and die without ever understanding why the symbols they worship have such power over them.

>>9311647
>art is the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in conciousness