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@ikk16

4 жыл бұрын

The original of this book is in the hands of Turkish researcher writer Oktan Keles.

@MrSteventodd

3 жыл бұрын

This is maybe the 5th video of this channel I’ve watched. They’re all great but this one put it over the top for me. The layers of material you downloaded to us, the speed at which it came, not to mention the fascinating topics covered- 10 outa 10!! I’ve never been so motivated to go to patreon. I am smarter after this video and in part bc of this channel and I feel like I owe a little bit for the amazing work that went into this. BRAVO!

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrSteventodd Thanks so much for saying so and considering to support the channel on Patreon! I hope the content is worthwhile and thought-provoking. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment!

@garytucker8696

3 жыл бұрын

The letter r is the 18th letter in the alphabet Jack the Rippers letter was signed with the r quite far from the end of Ripper example " Rippe r "18 books bound in human parchment, just coincidence is I guess !! Thank you for sharing Sir brilliant.

@vinodunnithan6184

11 ай бұрын

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"1000 subscriber special" +500k over 3 years? Well done.

You: "I'm a calligrapher." Me: "Of course you are. How could you not be?"

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, pretty unsurprising :)

@seane.9937

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing. Lol funny. Thank you fir sharing your work..

@Duchess_Van_Hoof

Жыл бұрын

He's like my college teacher who spreaks the normal languages, Swedish, German, French, English, Spanish, some greek and then practically fluent in Japanese and Chinese. Perfectly ordinary.

Loved it. "Ancient evil is not going to release itself" Informative and funny!

14:29 A priest in the streets, but a necromancer in the sheets.

Roast you? Great Scott Man, the more I learn about you the more awsome I find you. It is becoming increasingly apparent that you are one of the most learned, most skilled indeed most impressive human beings that I have ever even read about much less had the honour, the exquisite delight of actually achieving a communication with. I know that the acknowledgement of a comment in a You Tube series is not quite a communication but you get the idea. Thank you for everything, you are deeply appreciated. I hope that your life is as full as you make other people's.

The ability to write in the margins is one of the reasons that I love paper books. E-books and audiobooks are convenient, but think of the generations of thoughts that are being lost.

@Asehpe

2 жыл бұрын

It is interesting, though, that some e-book reading apps (like Adobe) will let you add marginal comments, and even drawings and doodles, to the text (.pdf) you're reading. So our modern technology is kinda working to bring all those traditions back to life.

@boldbearings

2 жыл бұрын

Writing. In. The. Margins. 😱

@dark_fire_ice

2 жыл бұрын

Technically, that's illegal, to write in the margins

@gregcampwriter

2 жыл бұрын

@@dark_fire_ice Not if I own the book.

@dark_fire_ice

2 жыл бұрын

@@gregcampwriter nope, Modification are, currently, against the copyright, via assumption true, but that won't change here in the States

It amuses me how similar magical practice is to finding some kind of exploit in a videogame. Go to this box and if you have the sniper rifle equipped and jump backwards just as someone is going through the door you can actually glitch through the wall which gives you the ability to spawn an invisibility cloak. If not done in time however the system will recognize you're exploiting and boot you from the game. .... This line of thought on magic fits in nicely with Simulation Theory.

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

I made the same connection in another episode - comparing a magical text to old school game genies or the Konami code. Totally agree.

@Asehpe

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheEsotericaChannel Old ideas never die; they spawn germina in new forms... A lot of spells sound like secondary quests in a videogame.

41:45 Instructions unclear. Demon offered me talent in playing blues music in exchange for my soul.

@TheEsotericaChannel

4 жыл бұрын

I should have also said that if you do any necromancy in the state of the Mississippi it's always the soul for guitar lessons deal. Robert Leroy Johnson, patron necromancer.

@TheEsotericaChannel

4 жыл бұрын

It's also worth noting that this episode, in a real sense, can be traced back to our middle school art class.

@CaptiveReefSystems

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheEsotericaChannel 😄👍

Very interesting all in all, this video is packed with all kinds of small tidbits that a layman like myself would never realize (lack of punctuation in lating, the nature of the word Gothic etc) that really help to keep interest throughout a fairly long video. Little bits of dry humor help a lot as well.

@TheEsotericaChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks - glad you enjoyed it. But yes, a little long but hopefully folks will find it interesting. And yes, I like my humor like I like my martinis.

Real Necronomicon - necromancer's cookbook. Lovecraft's Necronomicon - hitchhiker's guide to strange eons and dimensions.

Man, I love your quips and interjections, I've watched a bunch of your videos now and I feel that you do a great job of interjecting humor into your videos and just make the topics even more engaging

I just got to this video and the announcement about reaching 1000 subscribers when you currently have 616K subscribers was something else. You've come a long way in a relatively short amount of time.

Wow 10 months later and your at 40k. Great job! Love Esoteric studies!

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad the channel is growing!

I swear I'm not a necromancer! but this vegetarian Jewish neoplatonist just snorted. All your videos are wonderful.

That was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be, I learned quite a bit. Thank you!

We need a video on that "Underground Clergy Necromancy Movement". That sounds insane!

What a great reproduction and draw! Gr8 content and video! Thank You for sharing your knowledge

@TheEsotericaChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely - Glad you enjoyed it!

Aw, man. Things have been so tight over the last few months. That being said, last month was my ten-year anniversary with the company I work in. In more comfortable times, there was a pretty relieving financial bonus that accompanied that. I promise, Dr. Sledge, that should that bonus still be a thing and I get mine, I am most definitely going to put my name into the hat for that document of yours. It is beautiful! And I've wanted to hit the "join" button on your channel for ages. So holding thumbs. 'Cause I'll be damned if you don't rock like Noah's Arc on a particularly stormy night, or any similar vessel that might be found throughout the worlds various literary works involving a devastating flood taking place at around that time.

You are amazing! Thank you for the videos

Beautiful calligraphy, Dr. Sledge.

What a cool idea, the raffle. The manuscript is quite The Work of Art. Very impressive project & channel…

Beautiful manuscript recreation ✨

I love your channel so much :)

Congratulations on the upcoming new family member! ❤

I was this many years old (today), realizing that the "speech impediment" of the Roman leader in Monty Python's "Life of Brian" was ACTUALLY how the Romans back then would actually have spoken..... So all of the snickering and laughter at him in the movie probably wouldn't have taken place because that's the way they actually spoke back then.... Which really makes history that much more interesting (as well as funny).....!

I really liked that your sense of humor showed in this one

Congratulations on the birth and also thank you for the analysis of the CLM 849 it was very informative and understandable. A few months ago I started to study it and hopefully I'll come to an end with it someday. On another note, your video helped me greatly on how to build up an ancient book, helpful information for horror/fantasy writing as well. Thank you once again.

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, friend - glad the information was helpful and interesting!

This was great. Thank you.

3 years late but still congrats on the birth of your kiddo wishing that all the best and great things may come upon your kids life path

@bloodyfluffybunny7411

5 ай бұрын

Btw I'm preparing a visit to the ritman library for some book I'm trying to write on magic

I am amazed at your talents!

This has a lot in common with interpreting medieval fencing manuals. First you need to get the transliteration, then you need to try to figure out what the words mean, ie translate it into some kind of modern language, then you need to actually understand it, which requires understanding colloquialisms, random references to things that aren't around anymore, and then decipher the meaning from the words. It's a whole lot of work to come up with anything practical. Probably why the demonic tutor is so sought after.

Awesome content.

Yay on the new little one!

Like my name says, I'm into necromancy, I love your approach to everything, I have an ever growing library, now I have more books I need to add to it. I bind books, a lot can be told about how someone binds their books.

Love this 🙏

Yo i just found this guy hes great thank you man

@jameslangley2196

3 жыл бұрын

Same, this is a great channel

Thanks!

So sad I've discovered this channel so late. I've been looking for a copy like that for a while now.

Thank you.

Wonderful discussion! Your depth of knowledge and passion for the material really shines through. I almost did the same MA program in Amsterdam, I don’t doubt we would’ve been friends. What was your overall impression of the program and your time there?

@TheEsotericaChannel

2 жыл бұрын

It was world class, profs were super helpful and with the Ritman there it was just wonderful! Miss a'dam a ton

Nice!

"an undergraduate working as a scribe doing a little necromancy on the side." the more things change, the more they stay the same. "it wasn't well known outside the people who owned it." so it's a hand me down cliff notes. messy and near illegible. starting to really identify with this student. an invisibility spell.....heh, I didn't need a spell for that in college, fml.

This text may have been a personal book of shadows, i.e. the articles copied from a master work and used for experimentation of a practitioner. The master work is likely still around and probably contains additional rites and rituals in additional to the ones gives.

@imaassholeyourtheproblem410

2 жыл бұрын

That was my first thought when he said the way it was written seemed to be rushed, that or he was take notes from someone.

Great!

Ancient evil is not going to release itself... Truer words have never been spoken! Dude 😎!

Thanks

What would you say is the rough average "text size" for manuscripts. I know some can be tiny but I'm trying to mimic a look of a spellbook. Shalom.

If there was anybody we could get into the great library at the Vatican you get my vote

@TheEsotericaChannel

2 жыл бұрын

I've already been there :)

@renzob.4501

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheEsotericaChannel sweeeeet!!

Recto? Damn near Killedo.

I've been to a chain library, at St. Wulfram's church in Grantham, Lincs.

There's a lot of conditions you have to fulfill there. Presumably that's so whoever sold you the spell can blame you when it doesn't work.

@TheEsotericaChannel

Жыл бұрын

Yep!

when I took German in high school we used German textbooks from the early 20th century, And they were in blackletter! It only took a month for me to be able to read it easily. But blackletter was apt, very dense with little space between words and none really between letters.

@TheEsotericaChannel

Жыл бұрын

Yep, they were still printing philosophy in Fraktur until the 60s I think

Chapter ten, chapter ten, chapter ten... Congrats on XxXxX - kinda exploded from here

@TheEsotericaChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it kinda did!

Finally an option for vegan necro's

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Right?

Already planning to join your Patreon, but I would chip in extra when I join if you do an alternate studio track reading the Latin in your best impression of the pompous clergyman in The Princess Bride. Then, any time you are about to read a language you aren't perfectly comfortable pronouncing, you'd mix your pop culture references and threaten, "I have altered the pronunciation; Prey I do not alter it further," followed by a clip like "Wenny. Wheniwidi whetchy is what bwings us heah today."

'Necromancers by Night' - good name for a band

For a glass of absinthe poured to actually marbled in the glass

"there Is a possessed book speaking in language unknown" Anyone watching this: nah, I'd win"

I may be blind but I do not see a link to any database in the description with a list of books encased in human flesh. Can you point me in the right direction for this knowledge? I would love to see which tombs were actually produced in such a macabre manner.

Breathe of life your videos are! no pun intended

Came here for the alchemy, stayed for the humour. And the book recommendations of course.

@TheEsotericaChannel

Жыл бұрын

Humor you say...

Man I really wish I had discovered this before last July 😪

@tandavahealing

3 жыл бұрын

Feeling the same!

MAN This is my kind of raffle. Too bad I missed it.

Congratulations on the birth of your second child!

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much - they are doing well! I'm so touched by all the well-wishing on the channel!

@j4m32hz6

3 жыл бұрын

That's wonderful!

Good day sir! Have you looked into Al Buni's book of Necronomicon called the 'Sun Of Knowledge' or in Arabic شمس المعارف الكبرى , many believe that it was the first book that illustrated magic practices and interactions with demons. It was also translated into Latin and got forbidden in Europe lost due to its blasphemy. I think there’s a relation between the books you mentioned and this book.

@TheEsotericaChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, I have to admit that my knowledge of esoteric work in the Islamicate world is pretty weak. It's something I'm working to get a better handle on and will eventually have to learn Arabic much better. Thanks for the recommendation - I'll have to check it out. There is just so much amazing and interesting stuff out there!

@paulshaddix5290

4 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing..I google you arabic input...you are sage...gesheed..thank you...

@MiguelLopez-tt9pq

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't know it was translated into Latin. I have that book but in Arabic so I can't read it, but I have a partial Spanish translation. It's mostly talismans made during properly timed astrological elections using Arabic letters to make magic squares, combined with Islamic prayers and names of Allah. I did come across a ritual to summon some jinn though, but I think these are Islamic jinn so I don't know if it can be considered necromancy. It's a very religious book.

Oh, this is another example where history trumps fiction. Now I want the rest of the book, great reference material abd inspiration, as an amateur fiction writer of course.

41:40 is this style uncommon for latin texts of this time? Because interestingly, modern "educated"/academic German relies pretty heavily on dependent clauses, to the point were I would say German sentences are twice as long as English ones. So this style might have been inspired by the authors native language

Do we have any idea which scribes would have worked with these manuscripts? Is there a known centre of production? I know there's a famous case of Johann Schönsperger producing unlicensed copies of inculabula in Augsburg. The history of underground bookmaking during the witch trials is a topic just screaming to be explored, assuming it hasn't already.

Is there a reason you say the word "sigil" with a long I? I've never heard it pronounced that way. Just interested academically. This was a fantastic video. I'm really excited to see this kind of scholarship being applied in public depictions of esoteric studies.

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

Not really, I have a slight speech impediment and that may be affecting my pronunciation as well. Glad you enjoy the channel's content!

@andythedishwasher1117

3 жыл бұрын

I see! My apologies, didn't mean to call you out, just making sure it wasnt one of the many esoteric misconceptions I'm in the process of reprogramming. Thanks again!

Really enjoyed this one, thanks! I'm a geek for all things paleographical & philological (I just scored the 3 vol set of Henry & Schwyzer's Plotini Opera and have been drooling over the apparatus criticus, the Index Vocabulorum quea apud Plotinum primum leguntur, the indices testium et fontium...well you get the idea). I have to ask though... did you try the invisibility spell? did it work? did you remember to burn the white cloak?

@TheEsotericaChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Sh!t...I knew I forgot something :) Yeah, ditto on the paleography. I got to teach it a few times mostly to art students - would love to do so again!

I would be fascinated to hear your impressions of the Voynich manuscript. As you probably know, there have been numerous attempted interpretations - but most of them involve special pleading, or bad cryptography, or pure fantasy. Do you have any gut feeling about what this manuscript really is? - because I don't.

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

I actually worked briefly on the European Voynich Manuscript Transcription Project. My short answer at this point is that I am partial to the hoax theory and I do not think contains an underlying text in either a natural or artificial language. I know people want there to be more 'there' there, for all sorts of reasons, but the mathematical analysis of the text just doesn't strongly indicate that.

Greetings justin, first of all congratulations on your second kid and I hope all goes well, much love to your family. My question is how has your knowdledge and study impacted your practice and perhaps vice versa ?

@TheEsotericaChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much - should be an exciting August! What do you mean here by 'practice'? It's an interesting question - I just want to make sure I'm understanding it correctly.

You recently reached ⅓M subscribers! Congrats!

@TheEsotericaChannel

Жыл бұрын

True story - it's wonderfully crazy !

Could one use necromancy to resurrect the destroyed book?

So on an invisibility spell, are they claiming I can make myself invisible to normal people? or invisible to demons? Or just what?

@tevilblingbloing

5 ай бұрын

I think most of invisibility spells are more like rituals thats always require some ingredients ,so these spells are less than invisible ,and more like camouflage of incents and liquids

The original of this book is in the hands of Turkish researcher writer Oktan Keles.

ANYONE GETTING A FOGGY PORTAL FORMING AT 44:31? Can you post the next page please!

Perhaps that sword is meant to show its stabbed in center of ground such as other manuscripts say to do

25:55 me when I was a master’s student

Would you be willing to sell recreations or even original texts? I am a collector and would be very intrested.

@TheEsotericaChannel

Жыл бұрын

I sell rare and antiquarian occult volumes and rarely some calligraphy

It strikes me that the invisibility spell(s) worked but on the book

Congratulations 🎉

If I finish jitterbug perfume with a high citrus note and no beat would that count for something I got an interlibrary loan for an Aboriginal text that has the name of God but music can only be a trans mitted

You're a calligrapher as well? Okay, now I just know there's going to be a harpsichord somewhere in your house. There has to be.

@TheEsotericaChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Don't I wish!

Does anyone else find it funny that CLM sounds like some sort of arcane pronunciation of sigilum?

But remember how the humanists called their preferred script? "Littera antiqua". They saw the Medieval "gothic" culture as a corruption of the timeless antique culture. Not as not modern enough, but as TOO modern to be of value.

@TheEsotericaChannel

3 жыл бұрын

True this!

I used to be a necromancer, then I took an arrow to the knee.

@Luna_tia

Жыл бұрын

What was that? Dragons? Love Skyrim. Great comment 😂

@lemuelseale1640

Жыл бұрын

Kneecromancer!

@DG-iw3yw

11 ай бұрын

Kneecrophiliac

Ash didn't read the book it was a recording of someone else that could his friends played, which released the evil. Good stuff.

god i love the sense of humor. as a nonbinary vegan mage i approve of this manual

@Signorellielli

3 жыл бұрын

Nerd

@bigaschwing2296

2 жыл бұрын

Do those things have anything to do with how good of a mage you are? Do they make you super mage?

@bigaschwing2296

2 жыл бұрын

Like on Scott pilgrim saves thx workd?

Evil Dead ❤️ I met Bruce Campbell when I was 8 mos preggo waited in line 3 hours totally worth it ❤️

Kid❤❤

Did you try the invisibility spell? Does it work?

@juriaan13

3 жыл бұрын

He used it on john cena...

@theprinceofdarkness4679

3 жыл бұрын

I used it on my coffee cup That was a mistake I had to buy a new one

@liamconverse8950

3 жыл бұрын

@@theprinceofdarkness4679 Good one but all this is really not just a joke

@theprinceofdarkness4679

3 жыл бұрын

@@liamconverse8950 I guess juriaan13 didn't get the memo

@liamconverse8950

3 жыл бұрын

@@theprinceofdarkness4679 Science was developed by guys who believed in magic and alchemy, ie John Dee, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton. And today we see the world being controlled by science, almost magically so

Congratulations! My wife and I are expecting our first child in August too. Synchronicity?? Thank you for your work

Celebrating a /thousand/ subscribers?!

@TheEsotericaChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we've gotten a few more since then ;)

Why do it on a Wednesday? An association with Woden?

Can necromancy be used to resurrect Latin?

@tevilblingbloing

5 ай бұрын

Latins is a languence foresight there is not a Soul, if you want to ressurect latin make plp use it again

🙂

I think it is very interesting how in the late middle ages you had priests preforming magic ither wight or black in private. I have heard of things like this before and we know they did happen but speaking as a catholic this is something that is never spoken of or even acknowledged in many catholic circles..................like the many pagan origins of many catholic customs and traditions and even theology. I think the reason for this is bc. well many are ignorant of these things and the ones who are not will not talk of them for fear of opening the church up to farther ridicule mostly from protestants. So many Catholics today will try to ignore or gloss over the churches dirty / secret/ not so secret past of some priests dabbling in magic or the fact that the Roman catholic church is aside from the Canon Christianized Paganism.

Wouldn't it be easier to summon a demon to do the transcribing?😅