By popular request, I am finally remaking a lot of my old videos and doing a kind of soft re-launch for the channel. My last video on astrological magic blew up (relatively speaking), so I decided to remake it with updated explanations & ideas, answering all the questions I originally got posed, whether in comments or in Discord.
As my practice has matured, i've tended to move away from Medieval & Renaissance sources and more towards Late Antique (post Iamblichan) neoplatonism. In this video I discuss the worldview & mechanics of theurgy as it appears in Iamblichus, Proclus & Damascius, and try to relate it to astrological terminology. I discuss the World Soul, the Nous & Demiurge as well as the drawbacks of atheistic materialism in approaching this system.
Part 2 will focus more heavily on the mechanics section of the last video. Here is focus more on Seirai, Chains of Sympathy & Proclus' discussion on procession & reversion in On the Hieratic Art.
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