/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13843291]

Where to begin?

[Anonymous No.13843401]

>>13843291
Copenhaver's Corpus Hermeticum. AND IF ANYONE SAYS THE KYBALION, I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!

[Anonymous No.13843410]

>>13843401
THIS, this AND ONLY THIS

[Anonymous No.13843439]

>>13843401
The Kybalion is good but... it's not hermetics.

[Anonymous No.13843496]

[Anonymous No.13843601]

>>13843291
You have to be initiated to read the real stuff

[Anonymous No.13843620]

>>13843291
>be cumbrain pagan
>realize that Christians are developing Platonism with Zoroastrianism to expand the metaphysics of personhood and its relation to divinity, breaking the sterility that had gripped the intellectual world since the death of Aristotle
>oh fuck, muh egypt, muh athens, muh pagan traditions
>better plagiarize the latest advances in ontology and epistemology in light of a christology-based anthropology and Neoplatonism that finally unites the Geist with finitude and its capacity to be divinized
>better slap on some old as fuck egyptian mythology figure to pose as the source of these new-age pseudo-mystery sub-platonic ramblings to claim validity and usurp historical primacy
>Plotinus doesn't care about it and only anally ravaged theurgists like Iamblichus fall for it because they are so desperate to invalidate the Christians who are btfo'ing of them at every turn
>fails and falls into obscurity
>corpus gets picked up again centuries later by Renaissance larping weeb-fags who have a hard on for "muh ancient occult egypt" and uncritically accept the Hermeticum as ancient wisdom to spite bigdick daddy Pope who won't let them research their proto-materialistic, humanistic drivel
>throughout history, larpers and dilettantes the world over continually resort to the texts because the writings are retarded enough to be accessible but vague enough to seem profound
BORN TO PRAY
HERMES IS A FUCK
AVE MARIA, Kill Em All 124 AD
I am servant-of-christ man
777,666,333,001 DEAD OCCULTISTS

[Anonymous No.13843638]

>>13843601
Nah. Nothing is hidden anymore. You just have to know the keywords to know what to look for.

Surface-level keywords will only render you shit conspiracy theories on youtube and a Gaia subscription.

But the deeper you get into the studies, the deeper you'll know what you want to learn about. Once you have a name for your desire you can more easily find it.

You will not find sacred mysteries if you don't know what mysteries to search for. If you look for "sacred occult mysteries", at best you will find Blavatskyian Theosophy, which is fake esotericism.

But if you have names for that which you want to learn, then the world's your oyster.

Protip, OP: look into the alchemical traditions. Hermeticism. Martinism. Freemasonry. 17th century Rosicrucianism.

Also read Jung.

[Anonymous No.13843983]

>>13843620

[Anonymous No.13843995]

>>13843638
>Freemasonry. 17th century Rosicrucianism

embarrasing if you think that's the deepest level

[Anonymous No.13844005]

>>13843620
kek this really puts things in perspective. Occultists have been cringe for 2000 years

[Anonymous No.13844006]

>>13843291

This appears to be a man who puts on a lot of affectations because he's actually a very dull person, with no inner life. A man whose soul is closer to pic related, and he became so bored even with himself that he started putting on lots of random affects one day.

[Anonymous No.13844014]

>>13843620
you're disgusting

[Anonymous No.13844035]

>>13843620
>christianity
>developing anything of value

[Anonymous No.13844101]

>>13843620
Fucking based

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[Anonymous No.13844579]

>>13844108
Give up giving OP good recommendations, they never seem to care about actual good ones.

[Anonymous No.13844613]

>>13844579
they do so

[Anonymous No.13845660]

>>13843620
noice

[Anonymous No.13845699]

Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles

[Anonymous No.13845718]

>>13843620
Based

[Anonymous No.13845753]

>>13844035
Wash your penis