Right in time for the holidays a post about going offline ... in your Gradle builds!

https://www.liutikas.net/2025/12/19/Going-Offline.html

#gradle #hermetic

Through the fateful influence of J R “Bob” Dobbs, I came into contact with the Hermeticists on a transcendental level.

When I read that they practice open access occultism, I became somewhat skeptical. To me, it sounds like an open house at the Freemasons. I'm no linguist, but occult and open seem to me to be very contradictory terms. Anyway, since I had also read Joseph Ratzinger, I thought I was prepared. I had a random card drawn from the Crowley Tarot, and it was the “Prince of Discs.” -- Wow. The Hermeticists interpret this as follows:

The Prince of Disks represents the airy part of Earth, indicating the florescence and fructification of that element. He rules from the 21st degree of Aries to the 20th degree of Taurus.

The figure of this Prince is meditative. He is the element of Earth become intelligible. Clothed in light armour, his helmet is crowned with the head of a bull; and his chariot is drawn by an ox, this animal being peculiarly sacred to the Element of Earth. In his left hand he holds his disk, which is an orb resembling a globe, marked with mathematical symbols as if to imply the planning involved in agriculture. In his right hand he bears an orbed sceptre surmounted by a cross, a symbol of the Great Work accomplished; for it is his function to bring forth from the material of the element that vegetation which is the sustenance of the Spirit itself.

The character denoted by this card is that of great energy brought to bear upon the most solid of practical matters. He is energetic and enduring, a capable manager, a steadfast and per severing worker. He is competent, ingenious, thoughtful, cautious, 'trustworthy, imperturbable; he constantly seeks new uses for common things, and adapts his circumstances to his purposes in a slow, steady, well-thought out plan.

He is lacking almost entirely in emotion. He is somewhat in sensitive, and may appear dull, but he is not; it so appears because he makes no effort to understand ideas which are beyond his scope. He may often appear stupid, and is inclined to be resentful of more spiritual types. He is slow to anger, but, if driven, becomes implacable. It is not very practicable to distinguish between the good and evil dignities in this card; one can merely say that, in case of his being ill-dignified, both the quality and quantity of his characteristics are somewhat degraded. The reaction of others to him will depend almost entirely upon their own temperaments.

In the Yi King, the airy part of Earth is represented by the 53rd hexagram, Kien. The commentary concerns the flight of wild geese, “gradually approaching the shore”, then “the large rocks”, then “advanced to the dry plains-the trees-the high ~ finally, to “the large heights”. It thus symbolizes slow, steady emancipation from repressive conditions.

The description is even happier than that given by the Qabalah, although in every way congruous with it. Practical considerations are never absent from Chinese thought, even at its most abstruse and metaphysical. The fundamental heresy of the Black Lodge is con tempt for “the world, the flesh, and the devil”, all which are essential to the plan of the Universe; it is cardinal to the Great Work for the Adept so to order affairs that “even the evil germs of Matter shall alike become useful and good”.

The error of Christian Mystics on this point has been responsible for more cruelty, misery, and collective insanity than all others put together; its poison can be traced even in the teaching of Freud, who assumed that the Unconscious was “the devil”, whereas in fact it is the instinct which expresses, beneath a veil, the inherent Point-of-View of each, and, properly understood, is the key to Initiation, and a hint of what seed may blossom and fructify as the “Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel”. For “Every man and every woman is a star”.

https://word.undead-network.de/2025/12/19/17469/
#crowley #doobs #hermetic #JRBobDobbs #occult #OpenAccess

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-MusaeumHermeticum/pages/396-naked-man-caduceus/

Gemini AI didn’t know anything about what is going on in this picture. If you do, please check the Web page and then comment, either there or here.

The central figure, a naked male, is #hermes or #Mercury , & labeled as such with the #alchemy symbol and by carrying his caruceus.

I do not own this book 😉

#vintageArt #alchemy #occult #barefoot #fobo #engraving #nakedMan #hermeticism #hermetic #hermeticALchemy

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-MusaeumHermeticum/pages/000-2-title-page-full-page-border-alchemy/

A border from the title page of a compilation of several books on #alchemy #hermeticism #theurgy #occult subjects from 1678 (actually there was an earlier edition too).

I asked Google Gemini to explain the symbology and it did a credible job, if not perfect: the philosopher’s stone is the search gorr personal godhead, not for gold. See the web page for what it said.

#vintageArt #border #occult #hermetic #fobo #GIMP #Gimp_3 #engraving #phoenix #witchcraft

Some Thoughts About the Hermetic Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth Heavens in the Nag Hammadi Library - blog @ https://medium.com/sant-mat-meditation-and-spirituality/some-thoughts-about-the-hermetic-discourse-on-the-eighth-and-ninth-heavens-in-the-nag-hammadi-7865d37d5269
& @ https://santmatradhasoami.blogspot.com/2025/06/some-thoughts-about-hermetic-discourse.html

#gnostic #gnosticism #mysticism #spirituality #gnosis #meditation #SpiritualAwakening #hermetic #NagHammadi

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Archangel Michael 2.0 has even more time for you if you just visit @LauraKBuzz 's socials ^_^J

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