The Origin of the Magic Art (Pliny the Elder - c. 77 AD)

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  • The Origin of the Magic Art
    Adapted from Pliny the Elder's The Natural History
    Translated by John Bostock and H.T. Riley. London (1855)
    Read and animated by Dan Attrell
    You can read the full text here: www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 95

  • @TheModernHermeticist
    @TheModernHermeticist  10 місяців тому +28

    Please like, share, and leave a comment to be a sweet-smelling incense unto the algogods. Make Pliny roll in his grave.

    • @guidedmeditation2396
      @guidedmeditation2396 10 місяців тому +2

      True magic is actually no less than universal knowledge that is older than anything recorded in human history. Billions or trillions of years old. Teaching methods and periods of documented activities come and go but the true origin is not even on this planet. Still its interesting to learn about periods in more recent history.

    • @Bildgesmythe
      @Bildgesmythe 10 місяців тому +5

      Thanks again for your perfect voice and great art illustrate the video.

    • @Shadoweknows76
      @Shadoweknows76 10 місяців тому +1

      Here's your sweet comment. I am a child of God. I am nephilum Daughter of god. Nothing about my all seeing knowledge has been fun a memory from 4m old isn't cool. Accidentally hurting people physically and training your babies to not Accidentally kill during play. We are many and it's about to get erased and fixed. Depending on the person on judgment day. You should be seeking y
      Our creator instead of teaching this 😢

  • @Monica23881
    @Monica23881 10 місяців тому +10

    We could use some legislation banning human sacrifice in these times as well.

    • @Cholatemilk1
      @Cholatemilk1 10 місяців тому +3

      I agree with the sentiment but I believe most countries murder laws include this

  • @david-jr5fn
    @david-jr5fn 10 місяців тому +25

    The Zoroastrians homeland however was Airyana Vaeja, a place in the far north and so this is the ultimate origin of magic. The Celts themselves say that the knowledge of the druids comes from the Northern islands of the Earth

    • @arturhashmi6281
      @arturhashmi6281 10 місяців тому +3

      It is mythical place, Celts believed that they came from the west, for example. Zoroaster did not live 6 thousands years before Plato, Gilgamesh was not king 20 thousands years ago, You should not take myths literally

    • @FramingEden
      @FramingEden 10 місяців тому +2

      Without a pure cause whether it be for concealing or revealing, yes, without a pure cause everything will be for nought, it would be better to not try than try with half measure, but how can one try with full measure? Is it for passion? Is it for feeling? Is it for pride? Greed? To satiate the unending thirst for knowledge... no... see a full measure of effort can be offered by those of a broken heart and contrite spirit, the praises can be heard at the moment of victory, the sound of a child's needs through tears and howling, yes, we all posess 'magic' some men have Conquered the world, namely Jesus, Jesus Teaches Us The Greatest Teaching, Lose Your Life And Gain It, Covet Your Lige And Lose It... it is the hand which presseth the olive which gets the oil... understand everything you do not want is everything that will cause you to grow... see? It is only through suffering, climbing to the Pinnacle of that which I despise, that I see the scale of the mountain I must remove, it is only from a very high place I see the web tug and pull at destiny... you want the truth? You cannot handle the Truth, unless you become broken first, destroy all that you know so that a pure temple may be lifted from the ash...

    • @david-jr5fn
      @david-jr5fn 10 місяців тому +1

      @@arturhashmi6281 The Celts don't all have the same origin so it's impossible to say they came from north, south, east or west unless we talk about specific Celts. Gilgamesh reigned around 2700 BCE, which is approximately 4,700 years ago.

    • @arturhashmi6281
      @arturhashmi6281 10 місяців тому

      @@david-jr5fn Celts as any indo-european ethnic group came to Europe from Asia thats what I meant, but british Celts believed that they came from the west, You are right about historical Gilgamesh, If he was real, but some of the sumerian kings from their own chronicles ruled ~ 40k years bc, which is just impossible, thats what I meant again

    • @mickeysquintz9650
      @mickeysquintz9650 10 місяців тому +2

      HYPERBOREANS

  • @TheWisestOwl
    @TheWisestOwl 10 місяців тому +10

    Nice video, great editing as always.

  • @TheModernHermeticist
    @TheModernHermeticist  10 місяців тому +15

    If you're wondering about "Hermippus, who wrote about the whole craft very carefully, compiled abstracts for and commentaries on the two million verses written by Zoroaster", see FGH 1026 F57 (courtesy of Daniel Ogden).

  • @sieben.5141
    @sieben.5141 7 місяців тому +2

    “That these doctrines should have been received by any portion of mankind, and transmitted to us by the aid of memory, is to me surprising beyond anything I can conceive”.
    Beyond anything you were able to conceive, indeed.

  • @markdpricemusic1574
    @markdpricemusic1574 10 місяців тому +17

    Once again, many thanks for all your work. Very much appreciated!

  • @GlynWilliams-wz7ol
    @GlynWilliams-wz7ol 10 місяців тому +7

    Just would like to say. Thanks for your amazing work. Love and peace. Glyn

  • @sonofsothis58
    @sonofsothis58 10 місяців тому +9

    Thank you for reading this classic, I enjoyed it.

  • @appidydafoo
    @appidydafoo 10 місяців тому +7

    One of my favorite books. Great reading. Thank you.

  • @Marjorie-yt7pb
    @Marjorie-yt7pb 10 місяців тому +9

    Making my day . Wonderful artworks and reading 😇

  • @mrwondering2594
    @mrwondering2594 10 місяців тому +12

    Your the best thanks for all you do
    I wonder if perhaps you can do a few videos of shamanism/ancestral magic surely all the arts stemmed from it

  • @graceanderson6532
    @graceanderson6532 10 місяців тому +7

    Thanks for your work man! Much appreciated 💙

  • @Bildgesmythe
    @Bildgesmythe 10 місяців тому +4

    Always great to see a new upload!

  • @tedhand6237
    @tedhand6237 10 місяців тому +4

    So stoked you keep cranking these audiobooks out. This is the content I am here to see.

  • @ChrisLively
    @ChrisLively 10 місяців тому +4

    Greetings from Chattanooga, TN. I love the topic and the art presented here is such that I could look at it forever. There's more going on than just art I feel. Thanks for your time and for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

  • @garrinking6489
    @garrinking6489 10 місяців тому +2

    I mean, I was glad to see David brought in this year, both these guys are underrated even Chris as a mega pro deserves that rec!

  • @isacvlad
    @isacvlad 10 місяців тому +7

    🙏

  • @macavelli8905
    @macavelli8905 10 місяців тому +4

    Interesting presentation very good video

  • @SobekLOTFC
    @SobekLOTFC 10 місяців тому +3

    This was awesome, Dan- keep up the excellent work 👏

  • @rxno6921
    @rxno6921 10 місяців тому +1

    So happy I’ve found this channel. Thank you 🙏

  • @FreedomandRights4US
    @FreedomandRights4US 10 місяців тому +7

  • @phillipbernhardt-house6907
    @phillipbernhardt-house6907 10 місяців тому +3

    Lots of interest here...from the discussion of the Druids (which, I think, really needs to be taken into account when discussing the later Insular Celtic "druids" as if they're more sacerdotal rather than sorcerous!) to the mention of the cynocephalus plant, which I am now wondering if it made it into my discussion of Dogheads or not...I remember coming across the reference, but I might not have included it since it was talking about a plant rather than a monstrous race, though I'll have to check, as this is something that I know I agonized over whether or not to include even in a footnote. (Strange how such things that seem so big in the moment of research and writing can be so easily forgotten a decade and more onwards...!?!)
    Looking forward to speaking further soon! Thanks for your continued excellent work!

  • @wojo6567
    @wojo6567 10 місяців тому +4

    I like the video and will be watching many more of your content. My friends like the magic trick where I disappear for some reason. One of these sentences is true and one is false ...you decide.

  • @Jude107c
    @Jude107c 10 місяців тому +1

    You have a wonderful fireside voice! Please, add no music to your future readings! Listening to your readings makes me feel like I’m in a dark and cosy library chamber in a manor lit only by a fire place!

  • @robertpaulcorless7048
    @robertpaulcorless7048 10 місяців тому +4

    Ta Dan x

  • @1ntrcnnctr608
    @1ntrcnnctr608 10 місяців тому +3

    magnificent

  • @ewadsworth
    @ewadsworth 10 місяців тому +4

    💎

  • @otilium7503
    @otilium7503 10 місяців тому +2

    Thank you

  • @johnnewton8017
    @johnnewton8017 10 місяців тому +4

    “Et in Arcadia ego”

  • @Cholatemilk1
    @Cholatemilk1 10 місяців тому +2

    Heck ya dan

  • @NateSpinney
    @NateSpinney 10 місяців тому +1

    Even the disciples through lots to determine who would be the new disciple bus win such an art, as drawing lots which is a part of the magical arts is conducted in accordance with God and Soli guard then it is not an abomination to his eyes, but pleasing to his will and those who can see understand this most occult truth of the occult

  • @TheHappinessOfThePursuit
    @TheHappinessOfThePursuit 10 місяців тому +4

    👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @jasminenwhitaker9717
    @jasminenwhitaker9717 10 місяців тому +2

    Good morning everyone blessings 🙌 🙏 ✨️ ❤

  • @timnizle1
    @timnizle1 10 місяців тому +5

    Well I guess that xplains it, gods never listen ...it's my damnable freckles!!
    🤣👌🙏

  • @leoalvarado6466
    @leoalvarado6466 9 місяців тому +2

    I find some of the dates wrong? Zoroastrianism was in 1768 B.C.E. or so ! 😮

    • @lunam7249
      @lunam7249 8 місяців тому

      persians in 1768 BC...zoroaster i believe was alive around 900a.d. or 1100 years ago

  • @johnnewton8017
    @johnnewton8017 10 місяців тому +3

    Is that Nero’s birth chart!?

  • @mickeysquintz9650
    @mickeysquintz9650 10 місяців тому +1

    I have two translators translating Liber Vaccae to English as I write this. First time in the public sector. Let me know if you want to talk shop.

    • @JohnnyPork82
      @JohnnyPork82 10 місяців тому

      didn't mind unveiled already do that

  • @dangerouswitch1066
    @dangerouswitch1066 8 місяців тому +1

    Pliny the elder, glad we have what little ww do.

  • @retribution999
    @retribution999 8 місяців тому

    What about Pico and his natural magic?

    • @TheModernHermeticist
      @TheModernHermeticist  8 місяців тому

      What about it?

    • @retribution999
      @retribution999 8 місяців тому

      @@TheModernHermeticist I'm surprised there was no mention of natural magic as describe by him in Oration on dignity on man.

    • @TheModernHermeticist
      @TheModernHermeticist  8 місяців тому

      Check this out for the Magical and Orphic Conclusions ua-cam.com/video/Q0V45dp7R04/v-deo.html

    • @TheModernHermeticist
      @TheModernHermeticist  8 місяців тому

      (I see from the comments you've already checked it out!)

  • @merlinidlehands3302
    @merlinidlehands3302 10 місяців тому +1

    Bibbty Boptty BOO

  • @markgamble7699
    @markgamble7699 10 місяців тому +3

    Biggest magic lies within the kjv bible, for those who read it spiritually… 22 Hebrew Alphabet in Psalms 119… Then again, all religions have the same magic just different names…

    • @lunam7249
      @lunam7249 8 місяців тому +1

      correct!!❤❤ the bible is just 1 big magic book, with "yeh-zues" as its greatest magi...

  • @sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317
    @sonsofthewestredwhiteblue5317 10 місяців тому

    Who else clicked on this because they thought the dude Barney Gumball got into a bar fight and flogged Wade Boggs over also catalysed the conventional application of magic….
    “Lord Palmerston”!

  • @NateSpinney
    @NateSpinney 10 місяців тому

    The only reason that Simon, the sorcerer displeased God so much was that his sorcery was not conducted in accordance with God in Sol, Egret God, or even the healing arts, and magics of the apostles, or it could be called nothing other than magic was not an abomination in the eyes were God, because it was done in accordance with God, and solely of God

  • @adildaruwalla.messengerofa2337
    @adildaruwalla.messengerofa2337 8 днів тому

    PLEASE CHANGE TITLE FROM MAGIC TO MIRACLE.

  • @johndee3301
    @johndee3301 10 місяців тому +1

    "Magic doesn't work because Nero quit practicing. Nero, being insanely greedy, wouldn't have quit if it works, therefore it doesn't work." Not very solid logic from my man Pliny the Elder.

    • @lunam7249
      @lunam7249 8 місяців тому

      and how do you explain "steve jobs"?

    • @johndee3301
      @johndee3301 8 місяців тому

      @@lunam7249 Steve Jobs? wtf. Jobs was no magician! He was a narcissistic moron who couldn't even connect with his own children. He was just a corporate avatar. Jobs died miserable, shaking with cancer, and regretting his entire life. He was a peasant, lots of money in the bank, but he died a very poor man. Cool sweaters though!

  • @WitchyWitchOf420
    @WitchyWitchOf420 9 місяців тому

    Train.....in Rome
    ?

  • @Writhe_n_Shine
    @Writhe_n_Shine 10 місяців тому +1

    Got to love the haters!

    • @TheModernHermeticist
      @TheModernHermeticist  10 місяців тому +1

      I love the haters cuz they wrote so much more than the lovers

  • @suesmith9665
    @suesmith9665 10 місяців тому

    Witery

  • @alreadybanned-pe6se
    @alreadybanned-pe6se 10 місяців тому

    Jesus is King

  • @metafisicacibernetica
    @metafisicacibernetica 10 місяців тому +5

    🙏