/lit/ - Literature

>>23019195
>4chan has always been a Christian board
Woah look at the oldfag from 2015.

>>16530314
>I lack nothing
>not "I shall not want"

>>16484499

>>16354598
>Inability to appreciate and enjoy German and its literature is not a sign of deficiency on the part of the language

>Christians who say Islam is satanic because of jihad and beheading and opposing feminism and gay rights

The Bible is touted a lot here but how many of you actually read it?

>>16080439
because Proclus cites him
>>16080123
literally read any hieroglyphic hymn about atum/ptah/amun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_Texts

I am the ba of Shu, the self-developing god: it is in the body of the self-developing god that I have developed. I am the ba of Shu, the god mysterious of form: it is in the body of the self-developing god that I have become tied together. I am the utmost extent of the self-developing god: it is in him that I have developed.

I am the one who stills the sky for him, I am the one who silences the earth for him. I am the one who foretells him when he emerges from the Akhet, putting fear of him into those who seek his identity. I am one who is with millions, who hears the affairs of millions. I am the one who transmits the sentence of the self-developing god to his multitude. I am the one who officiates over his bark-crew, being stronger and more raging than every Ennead. The speech of the original gods, who developed after me, has been repeated to me, when they asked of the Waters my development, seeing my strength in the great bark that the self-developing god sails, and how I have acted among them, causing my reputation according to my development. I shall speak. Become still, Ennead! Become silent, gods, and I will tell you my development myself. Don't ask my development of the Waters. When the Waters saw me, I was already developed. He does not know where I developed. He did not see with his face how I developed.

It is in the body of the great self-developing god that I have developed. He created me in his heart, he made me in his efficacy, he exhaled me from his nose. I am exhale-like of form, created by that. august self-developing god who strews the sky with his perfection, the total of the gods' forms, whose identity the gods who sail him do not know, whom the "sun-folk" follow. It is in his feet that I have grown, in his arms that I have developed, in his limbs that I have made a void. He created me himself in his heart, he made me in his efficacy. I was not born by birth.

I am one exhale-like of form. He did not give me birth with his mouth, he did not conceive me with his fist. He exhaled me from his nose, he made me in the midst of his perfection, which excites those who are in the inaccessible places when he strews the sky with his perfection.

My clothes are the wind of life: it came forth about me, from the mouth of Atum. How I developed was in the god who developed on his own, alone, older than the gods. I am the one who touches for him the height of the sky. I am the one who brings to him his efficacy,who unites for him his million of ka placed in protection of his associates because it was through creation in its entirety that I developed, at the speech of that august self-developing god who does not turn back on what he has said. For I am the one who made to the limit, according to his command.
I am the god mysterious of form, but I am in the utmost extent of sunlight.

>>16056724
>I think

>>16003942
>there was NOTHING else he could have done

>>15983797
>Freemasons
what's next you're gonna say the rosicrucians and that thelema hag are a legit continuation?
if it has a name it is not genuine

>>15889373
>Romans 2

>>15884025

>>15829833
>latest
>new
>Synthesis
>dialectic
"Everything is Contemplation"
-T. Plotinus 264 AD.

>>15816711
>read a fucking book
>and this is one thing the neoplatonists lacked, traditional liturgy.
>read a fucking book
>Zeno and Atomism
>read a fucking book
>have you read Iamblichus?
>the neoplatonists lacked, traditional liturgy.
>read a fucking book
So then, after declaring that pure intellects are “unbending and not mingled with the sensible realm,” you raise the question as to whether it is proper to pray to them. For my part, I would hold the view that it is not proper to pray to any others. For that element in us which is divine and intellectual and one—or, if you so wish to term it, intelligible—is aroused, then, clearly in prayer, and when aroused, strives primarily towards what is like to itself, and joins itself to essential perfection.
And if it seems to you incredible that the incorporeal should hear a voice, and that what we utter in prayer should have need of a further sense-organ, and specifically of ears, you are deliberately forgetting the facility of the primary causes for knowing and comprehending within themselves all that is inferior to them; for they embrace in unity within themselves all beings together. So then, it is neither through faculties nor through organs that the gods receive into themselves our prayers, but rather they embrace within themselves the realisations of the words of good men, and in particular of those which, by virtue of the sacred liturgy, are established within the gods and united to them; for in that case the divine is literally united with itself, and it is not in the way of one person addressing another that it participates in the thought expressed by the prayers.
>but even the christian LITURGY has egyptian symbolism
Yes. Also Elysian/Orphic theurgy, there is nothing original in Christianity. Even the rites of eating Christ flesh and drinking his blood comes from Elusian Sparagmos

>>15814635
Wops are the niggers of europe

Cope more you disgusting dago shit stain

If the Gnostic Good, your "monad", is the Arche of all things. And he is perfectly good.
Why did he create/cause the Demiurge?

>>13438694

I've heard Jews defend that by saying >it's just someone named Jesus, it doesn't mean it's THE Jesus

>mfw

>>13243133

>he doesn't understand the radical transmulgation of particles in an accelerator acting in accordance with the MPC-based Keynesian multiplicity property

>He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

>>3860769
>alienated gay guy likely living in some shit part of the USA or other homophobic wasteland detected

These old things?
About to throw them away.
With the gold rings that make them don't fit like OJ.
Usually, I take them off with Oil of Olay
MCs is crabs in a barrel, pass the Old Bay
Hot as hell, and it's a cold day in it
Working on a way that we roll away tinted
Some say the price of holding heat is often too high
You either be in a coffin, or you be the new guy
The one that's too fly to eat shoe pie. Never too busy
Never too busy when it comes down to you and I
Swear to god,
a lot of niggas wish to die.
They need to hold they horses
there's bigger fish to fry.
You're on the list, if not, pick a number spot
Ten and a half Timbs is made to kick your bumber claat
I could have had a V-8
F-150 quad cab but i'll be straight.
money comes and goes like that two-bit hussy that night that tried to rush me
Dwight pass the dutchie
So I can calm down so they don't get it twisted
Take it from the fireside it won't get blistered
Got it, what happened?
Oh, it's not /lit/.

why do you study liberal arts?

Or you faggots can toughen the fuck up, and perhaps consider that the anxiety that causes you to consider these wacky methods (that are not used by 99.9% of the human population) is likely the cause of lost or degraded sleep.