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Abbas the Alchemist
Приєднався 28 жов 2020
Ibn Arabi once said, "Humans are asleep; at their death they awaken". If you want to awaken through gnosis you've come to the right channel. Let's explore the innumerable facets of the psyche (soul).
Together we will delve into literature, philosophy, poetry, art, alchemy, theurgy, psychology, and spiritual traditions via Carl Jung, Peter Kingsley, Henry Corbin, Algis Uzdavinys, and many more!
Welcome, hunters of sacred shades on the eternal hills.
Together we will delve into literature, philosophy, poetry, art, alchemy, theurgy, psychology, and spiritual traditions via Carl Jung, Peter Kingsley, Henry Corbin, Algis Uzdavinys, and many more!
Welcome, hunters of sacred shades on the eternal hills.
Breathing in the Gods in Theurgy
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Hello,
This video will explore the complex of concepts involving breath, air, light, wind, and psychological states. We will see how the augoeides and the pneuma-ochema can be potentially seen to overlap and we will use various sources from the Hindu traditions to help exemplify and expand on certain concepts that are less articulated in the ancient Greek context.
Music Credits: Shadows and Dust' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
Relaxing Roman Music by Adrien Von Ziegler
#greekmythology #theurgy #alchemy
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Hello,
This video will explore the complex of concepts involving breath, air, light, wind, and psychological states. We will see how the augoeides and the pneuma-ochema can be potentially seen to overlap and we will use various sources from the Hindu traditions to help exemplify and expand on certain concepts that are less articulated in the ancient Greek context.
Music Credits: Shadows and Dust' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
Relaxing Roman Music by Adrien Von Ziegler
#greekmythology #theurgy #alchemy
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Trophonius and the Throne of Mnemosyne
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To help support the work: 'buymeacoffee.com/abbasalchemy This evening we will be discussing the Cave of Trophonius and the adventures of Timarchus recounted by Plutarch in his De Genio Socratis. We will also discuss the Throne of Mnemosyne and the importance of memory and repetition for the continuity of the cosmos and end with a hymn to the God Himself. Music Credits: Shadows and Dust' by Scot...
Photagogia: Theurgy and the Luminous Vehicle
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Good evening, Many viewers were expressing great interest in the video on "The Black Sun" and inquiring into the mystical experience of drawing in the light. This evening we'll be delving deeper into the nature of light through Iamblichean/Proclean metaphysics surrounding the theurgic ascent on the luminous rays. This is a complicated and information-packed video. Do not feel overwhelmed and tr...
Aphrodite is NOT the Goddess of Love.
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If you care to support this channel please visit the link below: buymeacoffee.com/abbasalchemy Hello friends, This evening we'll be exploring some of the hidden depths of Aphrodite. Too often we forget that we've inherited a fabulous misunderstanding of the Hellenic Gods along with other polytheistic pantheons. Let us remedy that this evening. Take care. #ancientgreeks #theurgy
Titans and Tea: Reflecting on the Small and Beautiful
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Good evening everyone, As the Sun stays with us longer and the flowers continue to show their Spring colours, let us take some time to sit with some tea and discuss a few things. Let us foster an appreciation for the small and the beautiful in a Titanic world. Join me, friend. buymeacoffee.com/abbasalchemy Music Credits: Marika Papagika - Hrissaido - tsamiko (1919) Adrien Von Ziegler #gnosis #a...
Helen and the Esoteric Trojan War
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Good evening, We will explore the Neoplatonic interpretation of the Battle of Troy and discuss how it has been understood to be an analogy for the battle of the human soul between spirit and matter. We will also discuss Helen and her role as Beauty personified. #alchemy #gnosis
Synaesthesia and Theurgy: using your five senses
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#theurgy #greekmythology #synesthesia Khaire, This evening we'll be discussing the use of synaesthesia in creating a sense of vividness that encapsulates theurgic praxis. We will discuss how to consciously embrace our senses as well as discuss briefly how each sense overlaps through what Aristotle termed "common sense" or "common power". We will also explore some examples of how the ancients vi...
Seeking Wholeness: Collecting the Limbs of Dionysos
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If you care to support this channel and my work please consider the purchase of a coffee www.buymeacoffee.com/abbasalchemy (*Note: I do NOT monetize my videos) Good evening, This video is the second in a series of three. We will continue to explore aspects of Dionysus along with specific amplifications of concepts that will aid us in understanding how we can heal the dismemberment and fragmenta...
Dionysus Divided: Neoplatonic Exegesis and Theurgy
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Good evening, This video will begin a series that I hope will help creatively expand your theurgic and alchemic praxis. It is important to understand the fundamental Orphic myth of Dionysus' demise at the hands of the Titans to get a qualitative sense of what the existential trauma facing the human is, and more importantly, how to remediate that trauma and collect the broken pieces of our soul....
Dead/Pan and the Metaphysics of Mud
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Sometimes on a spiritual path, it is important to apply some correctives and realignments lest we lose our way. The path forward is not simply to gaze ahead but to look in all four directions, including behind us, at the dead and our ancestors. Our virtualized and technologized society has made us numb to both human dignity and human degradation. And proclaimed innocence or ignorance is no long...
Statues, Stones, and Xoanon: why we fear matter
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To support this channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/abbasalchemy This evening we'll be exploring the potential psychological and philosophical reasons for the anxiety we face with regard to "idols" and "inanimate representations". With the increase in power of artificial intelligence, it is imperative that we re-consider our relationship with materiality. We may consider ourselves living in the time ...
Chaldean Pistis, Pathways of Song, and Parmenides
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I do not monetize my channel on UA-cam. Please consider supporting this channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/abbasalchemy Good Evening, Tonight we'll take tackle a number of inter-related concepts that will culminate in the description of faith (pistis) as understood by mystics and poets and philosophers prior to the lifetime of Plato. #greekmythology #greekphilosophy #theurgy
Nymphs, Muses, and Energeia
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Hello, This evening we'll be discussing a seemingly haphazard collection of ideas and reflections that will hopefully provide some support and grounding for true theurgic practice. To support this channel: www.buymeacoffee.com/abbasalchemy #theurgy #alchemy #greekmythology
Theophanies and Theurgic Prayer: Docetism Revisited
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This evening we'll be discussing Henry Corbin's analysis of docetism as a spiritual orientation and perspective. We will show how Iamblichean metaphysics and Ibn Arabi's metaphysics can overlap to aid us in the practice of theurgy. We will also touch upon the reality of psychic images.
Identifying the Gods: Paul and Barnabas Encounter the Lycaonians
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Identifying the Gods: Paul and Barnabas Encounter the Lycaonians
The Return of the King: Kronos Redivivus
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The Return of the King: Kronos Redivivus
Mythical Origins of Kronos/Saturn in Hesiod and Pherekydes
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Mythical Origins of Kronos/Saturn in Hesiod and Pherekydes
Kronos, Saturn, and the Age of Aquarius: Jung's Apocalyptic Visions
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Kronos, Saturn, and the Age of Aquarius: Jung's Apocalyptic Visions
The Erotic Tyranny and Theurgy in the "Myths of Gyges" and "Actaeon and Diana"
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The Erotic Tyranny and Theurgy in the "Myths of Gyges" and "Actaeon and Diana"
The Philosopher's Stone: In Defense of "Spiritual" (and physical) Alchemy
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The Philosopher's Stone: In Defense of "Spiritual" (and physical) Alchemy
Gnostics were Cosmic Pessimists (and other lies)....
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Gnostics were Cosmic Pessimists (and other lies)....
Cosmic Hospitality: Response to Survive the Jive's "Gods in Disguise" Video
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Cosmic Hospitality: Response to Survive the Jive's "Gods in Disguise" Video
The Origins of the Unconscious in the Timaeus
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The Origins of the Unconscious in the Timaeus
C.G. Jung and Odysseus' Necromancy and Memory's Bridge to the Dead
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C.G. Jung and Odysseus' Necromancy and Memory's Bridge to the Dead
The KEY to Alchemical and Theurgic Practice
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The KEY to Alchemical and Theurgic Practice
Human Limitation: The Circle and Wheel
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Human Limitation: The Circle and Wheel
A Brief Introduction to the Human Soul
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A Brief Introduction to the Human Soul
Chaos, Chora, and the Prima Materia in the Alchemical Vas
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Chaos, Chora, and the Prima Materia in the Alchemical Vas
Hegel go Hegel
What album of Adrians music is used for this?
Do you have a list of sources for this video? It is exceptionally interesting and I want to use your research as a starting point for exploring the sources further.
Thank you my brother...beautiful work. More power to you
No, not math. That would be mathematics. Anthropology Is a study of humanity.
Aquarius is also the age of ganymede, the adolescent homosexual lover of zeus. No idea what that implicates, but the social developments lately seem strangely thematic.
Humanity has not been in a comparable crisis since the end of the ice age. Atlantis is bound to fall again, as it happened before and will happen infinitely after.
Amazing video thank you
I keep returning to your videos. I've watched them all at least 5x and have considered leaving feedback so often, but how can i can i say more than I've already said?. Where better to lay this than at your feet!?
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Latin - Anima and Hebrew - Ruah, both meaning soul or spirit coresponds etymologically to breath and air. Thank you for another great material.
@@j3fr0uk I found this information in Van der Leeuw's "Phenomenology of religion", but you can check any etymological dictionary. Anyway, why do you think it is pig-latin? It's pretty intuitve that ancient people could associate breath with agency. Even English words like "animal" or "animation" suggest that. You breathe = You have soul, It's simply agent detection.
@@j3fr0uk I know what does pig latin mean, but I do not understand why do you think that word "anima" or it's etymology has anything to do with pig latin.
@@j3fr0uk sorry but I do not get your comments
What was the guys name at the end. 21:30 you said “. “ alchemical theories and I couldn’t make out the name for the life of me of the theorist lol
@@mildredmelan the alchemist Ibn Umail
@@abbasalchemist thank you 🙏
Thanks for making these videos brother
the nose knows
Well the title is a lie Aphrodite is goddess of love 🤦🏻♂️
I always smell the glue from kindergarten class 40yrs ago lol good time's
Does it cause a out of body experience?
Keeep going . We need the book of changes after the/this religous apocolypse
Do you I ching??
@@DolanIre_blackhair A magical book!
@@abbasalchemist yea!
Honesty thank you for your voice. I almost fell into the abyssssss
@@DolanIre_blackhair Such kind words. Thank you.
Thank you brother... who lets middle sister know its safe to come out of the cave.... how the book changes And how it stays the same
Middle brother guides middle sister
Very good trilogy, sir.
Another fantastic piece of work Abbas. An observation on your commentary on the sun consuming the fog/mist of the morning; when I practice the Empedocles technique using all 5 senses as sacraments a very unusual thing happens. As the procedure takes hold my vision completely fogs out as though I’m enveloped in a mist or morning fog. I become functionally blind in this state which was at first a bit strange. Gradually this fog is burned off which restores a new kind of vision which is impossible to describe. It’s as though reality is lit by a different sun. Hopefully other people out there are practicing the Empedocles techniques!
As a Big Old Qi Head I heartily approve of and enjoyed this video. Gratzi.
It’s a feminine spirit, it might be the breath, but it’s the soul that’s the differentiation. This revitalizes you. It’s not confined to the breath because this can also be a demonic force, depending on who’s holding the fire.
But my shadow helps me
It’s my BA IT IS THIS, BUT IT’S ALSO THE FEELING IN YOUR BODY, YOU GET THIS FROM GETTING THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE BA THAT AWAKENS YOUR KA AND MAKES ANKH-then THE MERKABA
I wonder if if it’s because mycelium is like dark matter
Thanks!
@@burn_Burn_BURNNN Thank you!
What most people don't know is that water and sea is a symbol of the kosmos and generation, the the kosmos is always changing and not static, and as Porphyry demonstrated in his "On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey", Odysseus represents the human soul, roaming through the waters of the kosmos. And since the soul bound to the senses, represented by Paris, as Sallust informs us, acknowledges only Aphrodite in the world, the goddess can be rightly said to rule the kosmos alongside with Poseidon. But as you correctly pointed out, both Aphrodite,Athena and other goddesses can share the same functions, to show that the gods are not limited to any human conception, because if Athena is philopolemic on one hand, or lover of war, on the other hand she is bright as the sun and a vehicle of the wisdom of Zeus. And does not Aphrodite loves also Ares, out of which emerges Harmonia, who, according to Proclus, is married to Cadmus, or the sublunary realm? So perhaps the gods are present everywhere, in various forms and expressions, and this connectedness between them sugests that is we who actually discriminate them, and not that they are actually different or apart from each other.
Wonderful comment and an excellent observation! Let me direct you also to the initiatory intimations of diving into the sea (see Bacchylides Ode 17 regarding Theseus and Minos) to renew and re-establish cosmic integrity and dominion.
@@abbasalchemist It is interesting that in that Ode Theseus is not received by Poseidon, but Amphitrite. Being that Poseidon is the maritime demiurge, that would be the same if a son of Hades descended into the underworld but was not received by his father. Because all demiurgic forms are in a way Zeus himself, logos and rationale, but adapted to each realm. In the underworld, unseen; in the sea, somewhere else riding his chariot; and perhaps in the heavens, already seated in his fiery throne, yet difficult to gaze upon, and menacing. And if Hera is the World Soul itself, it is only fair that Amphitrite be that part of the kosmos in which everything is in motion. If Zeus is eroticaly active throughout his realm, according to Butler, it is only fair that in the realm of contrariety, division and multiplicity His seed be already present there, and that out of all of that, something beautiful may be seen emerging, because everything is a product of His love, of His union with something. In that capacity, Hera becomes Aphrodite, Amphitrite becomes Aphrodite, Semele becomes Aphrodite in the eyes of Zeus, provokong his Eros, causing him to move and change form. But in reality, this never took place at one moment in time, but happen all the time always, as Salutius said, and as kabbalists and hindus say. Creation and union between the gods is always happening, and they only seem to change according to our perception.
Never in my life I clicked on a video faster
Right? Too much mud slinging going on. Making muddy minds
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Ohm phe.... OM
Have you ever come across Bendis?
@@jupitersstring2823 In the Republic, yes. In practice, no.
Delighted this started with a poem. Can't wait to listen to the rest of this. Thank you.
Dont forget, before there was Faust, it was Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Back to Shakespeare again! And ironic the inspirational interplay between these texts - major German works influenced by early modern English scene.
Marlowe's version is truer in spirit perhaps, although without the alchemical and Walpurgisnacht elaborations of Goethe. Goethe's is more interesting as a whole, but unfortunately Goethe mistitled it---"Faust: A Tragedy". Goethe allowed for Faust's Redemption. But this flies in the face of Greek "Tragedy". Transcendental redemption and admission to Heaven are anti-Tragic elements foreign to Greek tragedy.
He who smelt it dealt it!
As someone who practices yoga and has taken yoga teacher training, it is refreshingly captivating to see parallels and differences between ancient vadic and western mystery traditions on the metaphysics of breath. Excellent content 👌
Great observation! I also love the poetry invocation (Goethe) at the beginning. The more poetic content out there of high quality, the better.
You would LOVE Taliesin’s map.
Holy cow this video got my brain churning. I was thinking of the plot to Orestei by Aeschylus and the concept of Hospitality being upheld and in that moment I was definitely thinking of Odin, to which you flash that you apparently did a video on? Excellent. You know who is also a "Spear-Shaker" divine breather like Diana? Odin. Also involved with runes (language), poetry.
So, so good. Amazing work here.
Love your work. Quick question: do you speak like this irl or is it more of a presentation?
Have you ever made a video about hylics, psychics, and pneumatics?
Audio mixing is trash again ……😢 bro fell off fr
How do you spell the name of the islamic mystic at 21:18
Ibn Umail
Have you ever been approached for an interview on another channel? If not you should reach out to a few. Your channel is amazing.
In the future, I'd love to interview him. I'm soon to start a podcast, going with the other poetry videos I make, which include other areas of interest like psychology, philosophy, the occult, and more.
You should check out the books by Jason Read and the books by Nathan Brine, both Daoists though of very different sorts. Much of this video made me think of their work.
Perhaps your most significant video to date. Excellent stuff.
you would love the book "Hellenic Tantra" by Gregory Shaw
Thank you! Added to my list!
The Rosicrucians have an interesting practice of inhalation to withdraw the vital forces from the limbs into the heart: “I must decrease, but he (Christ) must increase.” The vital forces are then exhaled back into the limbs: “he (Christ) must increase, but I must decrease.” It is said that, with time, the blood becomes impregnated and transformed.
I never knew this. Is this written somewhere? Would love to read more about it.
@@nathanhassallpoetry You can find information about it in Samuel Robinson’s book Alois Mailander: A Rosicrucian Remembered, as well as in Gustav Meyrink’s book The Transformation of the Blood.
@@danawright777 Thank you. What a title for a book, The Transformation of the Blood. I just wrote a poem last week that used blood as a repeated image and refrain during a numinous experience involving a succubus-type energy. Once it's published in a lit mag I'll make a video of it for my UA-cam channel. Thank you for your suggestions I've wishlist one book and searching where to source another. 🙏
phenomenal insights, beautiful l narration , truly enlightening ! thank you !