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So, I saw a meme somewhere on 4chan, the WW2 never happened "cover yourself in oil" style meme, and the last quote was "The head bites the tail. In death they are born". The other quote I found interesting is "Babylon wages war on Babylon, Babylon vanquishes the evil of Babylon, Babylon falls and Babylon rises, the wars aren’t real but the genocides of your people are, how they massacre you like cattle! How God weeps for your misguided souls!"

That got me thinking about Dante's Inferno, Lovecraftian horror, occultism, the new world order, Zionism and such ideas. The quotes are pretty profound and deep for a meme. Yes, I know the symbol of ouroboros is a real thing, but both quotes are completely made up.

Anyways, could you guys please recommend me some mystical books that have (excuse me for using this phrase) "the same kind of energy" as the quotes. Bonus points if it's:

>Something based on/can be linked to reality
>Something dystopian
>Something that sounds highly unlikely but yet so reasonable
>Something apocalyptic that is theorised to happen
>Something apocalyptic that has been theorised to have happened in ancient/modern history
>Generally something that gives of the same feel of bleakness, apocalypticism, mysticism and emptiness as the quotes

Only books for me that come to mind as being close to the idea are "Dante's divine comedy", "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The protocols of the Elders of Zion".

>> No.17913308

>>17913286
You are on 4chan(nel)

>> No.17913320

Lacarriere's The Gnostics. Trust me.

>> No.17913325

>>17913286
Some parts of the old testament I guess. The song ‘by the rivers of babylon’

>> No.17913335

>>17913286
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMDchwbOvvY

>> No.17913339

>>17913286
Personally I interpret the quotes you've put as metaphors for initiation but that might just be because I read so much about it. Basically detox from all the other occultist shit you've read and read the Trads instead. You're welcome.
The Divine Comedy is fucking based though.

>> No.17913342

>>17913286
The System of Anti-Christ by Charles Upton

>> No.17913351

>>17913335
Go to >>>/vt/ until you've realised what you're after doing.

>> No.17913395

>>17913351
pardon?

>> No.17913411

>>17913395
You are excused.

>> No.17914262

>>17913335
swans song used

>> No.17914326

>>17913286
Aion by Carl Jung

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>>17913286
I think it is this meme you are refering to. And yes, there is a suprising amount of wisdom in these memes

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Anons, I saw a post ages ago, that said something on the lines: "the ouroboros means only what Soloman meant by it, reincarnation is a misunderstanding". Do any anons know what did he mean by this?

>> No.17914580

>>17914391
Read Heidegger's essay on Nihilism at the end of Nietzsche Vol. IV. Ouroboros is intimately connected with the Nothing, and the flight of Being.

>> No.17914633

If you haven't gotten into Lovecraft besides Call of Cthulhu you might like stuff from the dreamlands cycle, particularly the Doom of Sarnath, about the fall of a fantasy city.

>> No.17914639

>>17914375
Best meme I've ever seen tbqhwy

>> No.17914738

>>17914580
Thank you anon

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>>17914580
Do you mean this?

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>>17914781
That's the one anon, but you might want to read a secondary work on this as well as the ending portion of the Vol. IV lectures (mainly Being as Void/Abundance and the Ontological Difference) also make sure to read the Analysis at the end if you are reading the Harper Collins edition. Good luck anon, the essay is quite complex and even "mystic" at times, but the ideas it contains are legitimately world-shattering imo.

>> No.17915112

>>17915106
Thank you for your time and guidance anon

>> No.17915196

>>17915112
no problem anon! Here's one of the more apocalyptic portions of the text where Heidegger describes Nihilism as the destiny of Being (and man in a sense)::
>The default of the unconcealment of Being as such releases the evanescence of all that is hale in beings. The evanescence of the hale takes the openness of the holy with it and closes it off. The closure of the holy eclipses every illumination of the divine. The deepening dark entrenches and conceals the lack of God. The obscure lack lets all beings stand in the unfamiliar.....the unfamiliarity of beings as such brings to light the homelessness of historical man within beings as a whole. The "where" of a dwelling in the midst of beings as such seems obliterated, because Being itself, as the essential occurring of every "abode", fails to appear.

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>>17915196
Oof, that's that good shit. It's passages like this where Heidegger really made a name for himself.