Reuchlin and the Wonder-Working Word - The Kabbalistic Reformation of Medieval Magic through יה(ש)וה
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2022
- Like many fields, the theory and practice of Magic underwent radical renovation and transformation during the 15th century Renaissance. Ficino's translations of Hermetic and Platonic texts along with Pico's infusion of Kabbalah into magic would create new vistas in the European world of magic. Reuchlin would not only transmit these ideas across the Alps to inform Agrippa and Dee, but his own works would further push this Kabbalistic-Magical reformation. In this episode - as part of a collaboration with @TheModernHermeticist - I'll be covering his important, but still untranslated, 1492 De Verbo Mirifico (The Wonder-Working Word) where Reuchlin argues that all of magic can be reformed by returning to primaeval words of power. Further, that a new power, miracle-making word יה(ש)וה has the power to transform all of magic, philosophy and magic!
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Recommended Readings:
Reuchlin - De Verbo Mirifico (Latin) - archive.org/details/bub_gb_lS...
Pico - 900 Conclusions (Latin) - archive.org/details/pico-1486...
Zika - Reuchlin's De Verbo Mirifico and the Magic Debate of the Late Fifteenth Century - www.jstor.org/stable/751134
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We have all heard of these sources but you have opened the curtain for the first time to my knowledge-
Dude I just received my Esoterica t-shirt (or should I say a badly misshapen, way too large, cheap imitation of one) and there ain't nothing esoteric about it. But I won't be returning it cause I don't do that, so consider the $31 and change a donation cause I like what you do.
Tying this all in with the Asclepius (which I'm also working on) was *chef's kiss*
I really appreciated that shade personally
I love that this guy basically spent a bunch of time working on this deep esoteric philosophy system to basically come out the other end with the fancier equivalent of: GOD = DOG?!?! *Mind becomes blown*
Like damn I wish I could get away with assigning deep religious significance to wordplay! lol I loved this video - wonderful as always!
Fun fact about barbarous words: these were already used in 3rd millennium BCE incantations written in Sumerian, who were very fond of using strange and foreign words (e.g. Hurrian) in their spells. One such barbarous phrase turned out to be the name of a Hurrian dog-trainer :)
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Commenting on this to boost it in the algorithm. This is an incredible video as always! It's a shame that your Renaissance era videos aren't doing as well they're no less fascinating than anything else you produce.
I willing to bet anything this will be more popular amongst the younger generation after Gen Z
Soo good 👍❤️🔥
Thank you for a scholarly look at Renaissance and reformation of magic. 🙏❤️🌈🌹
Listen, if you've ever had to repel a pirate, you know how important that utterance is.
I'm so happy to find your channel
Love the kids yelling in the background 😁
3 year old fell down - bounced back, though
@@TheEsotericaChannel awww!
Thanks!
It's incredible to hear about this work that so informed Agrippa and Dee, and contemporary Occult practice (much of which he'd probably critisize!) Pity it hasn't been translated - definitely a great project for someone! Of the mature age of 25, of course. Thank you for this!
I am always so amazed how few people know of Agrippa when his compendium is the source material for the vast majority of modern occult "grimoires" as for Dee I think Crowley's interest in Enochian magic has fostered Dee's ongoing visibility, even though the Enochian system is nearly impossible to learn and use what with the extensive reliance on the made up language.
This whole channel is extremely valuable. You are sharing material that is immeasurable in money. If I tried to materialistically assess financial value to it it would cost thousands of dollars taking into consideration the rare material which you only find in very specific books and university lectures. My deepest gratitude! Channels like this are a huge service to God, to human kind.
hahahaha i bursted out laughing the moment you mentioned that the esoteric spelling of christ can repel pirates XD
🤙 Mahalo for all your efforts. I'm so into your episodes. I become relaxed & yet energized. Not much online does that.
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I honestly couldn't have asked for a better companion piece than this. It gives an excellent general overview and deals with a lot of the connective tissue with early modern and modern occultism where my project deals more with the particular elements of De Arte Cabalistica. There's also my Battle of the Books: The Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn Affair video which gives more context: ua-cam.com/video/a5XbslL06TU/v-deo.html.
Added note: 37:00 De Arte Cabalistica in the French by Francois Secret is quite good. And I imagine there's a huge, huge pile of work done on Reuchlin done in the German world that has not come over to the Anglosphere. There have been quite a few works on Reuchlin come out in English over the past few decades, but unfortunately few of them work 'in the esoterica mines' so to speak. That's definitely the area that is ripe for research, especially if you have the rare Latin+Hebrew+XYZ Modern Languages skill combo.
It's funny because, as you mention, there is a good bit of work on Reuchlin as a Judeo-friendly humanist (a good look in post WWII German scholarship..."remember that one guy that didn't....") but even back in Zika's article he complained how there was so, so little interest in Reuchlin's actual published works precisely because they deal with 'esotericism.' It's remarkable how virtually unchanged that situation is.
9:27 "Why don't these feature at more Renaissance Festivals?" Lol, that's great, wasn't expecting that biting humor.
Let’s goooooo!
Dr. Sledge, your videos are always well researched and carefully articulated. All that you said about Johann Reuchlin at the end of this video is perfectly transferable to his great nephew, Philip Melanchthon. It seems that Reuchlin was offered the chair of Hebrew at the new Wittenberg University in 1510 but sent Melanchthon to this post instead of himself. Melanchthon would work closely with Martin Luther at Wittenberg and help Luther in countless ways, even leading the Reformation after Luther's death. This work by Reuchlin is all the more remarkable considering Luther's early friendship with several local Rabbis and, sadly, his later Anti-Semitic work. As a Lutheran pastor, I was unaware of Johann Reuchlin but deeply aware of Melanchthon. Thank you for this video!
Yep, these connections run very, very deep.
@@TheEsotericaChannel very deep indeed. Smitten by Witten.
It's wonderful to have this historical information. Thank you for your work!
Great episode! Thank you for bringing this part of history to light.
Great episode. A small point: When Reuchlin weighs in on (pseudo-)Abano, he is probably referring to the Lucidarium Necromantice, not the later Heptameron. "Roberthus et Bacon" probably refers to the explicitly necromantic text De Nigromancia sive Thesaurus Spirituum attributed to Roger (alternately William) Bacon and Robert the Turk (e.g. Sl. 3885, Ad. 36674, Wellcome 110, Chethams Mun.A.4.59).
A welcomed nuance, many thanks!
Would love to have him on!
Great episode! Thank you!!!!
Dr. Sledge never disappoints: another magnificent video! I had never heard of Reuchlin, even though I had read some reference to De verbo mirifico. Thank you so much for the high level always, dear Doc!
Thanks for all the effort you've put into this one, as well as Dan. This is my favorite project yet.
What a wonderful video- thanks so much
Thank you for this link in the chain of Renaissance and Christian magic.
Fascinating! ⚡️💎
Thank you so much, Dr. Sledge. This video pulled together for me all the loose threads of the subject matter into a comprehensible picture. It’s like when someone tells you the name of a song that you couldn’t remember on your own! Love your mind and THANK YOU! 🙏👍🥰
Bravo. Easily my favorite episode of Esoterica. My two favorite channels working together on my favorite subject has me smiling.
Thank you so much for this episode, Doc! I really appreciate this. You have no idea.
What a mind he had.
Dr.Sledge & Dr.Attrell: The *OTHER* Intellectual Dark Web.
But dark like the Botsina deKardinuta
Aselamu alaykum. I hope my question, which unfortunately does not fit this topic, does not bother you. However, your name aroused my curiosity to ask. What role does the enemy of Adam play in your cosmology? I support the Yazidi interpretation.
the GOOD intellectual dark web
@@xandacab4285 why are they “bad”…..
Thank you very much for this video, Dr. Sledge! I've learned a lot about phenomena that still occur in modern occultism - a true treasure house of knowledge, as always
Especially love your Renaissance videos. Gives me hope. Some theologians and intellectual historians are finally allowing for the category of Renaissance Theology as legitimate. It's not just secular humanism, scholasticism, or paganism; there are cooler and stranger combinations. Let's stop skipping the period from Aquinas to the Reformation/Counter-Reformation! Ironically, in the modern age Reuchlin probably received more attention and interest from scholars of Judaism than Catholic theologians (Gersom Scholem, Elliot Wolfson). Interreligious friendship from beyond the grave. Thanks again!
Wonderful work as always, Justin!
I study religion in twentieth century literature, but these videos are so helpful to orientate myself with the long contexts of western esotericism, and are also just incredibly engaging. I really appreciate what you do.
Very refreshing course and it's encouraging to know that others carry the torch. Good stuff.
Great job per usual, Dr Sledge! 👏
The Tetragrammaton/Pentagrammaton demonstration is one I've performed for people who've demonstrated indifference to Tetragrammaton. I've tossed it into arguments, writing the words out in English and Hebrew time and time again desiring just one thing - to catch only a hint of others recognizing the profundity of the conversion of IHVH into IHShVH and then relating back to what, more often than not, is their faith, and a faith they pursue ardently. I stumbled over it while beginning to create my own Sephir Yetzirah (please forgive me if I've butchered the anglicized spelling of that) at about the age of 21. I'm 43 now and still have my little evolving book of numbers, but the point is that I began at 0-1 and continued number by number using whatever references I had at my disposal as well as my own experiences, contemplating each while dividing, adding, determining the square roots and cubes and all of that stuff in the tiniest script I could manage for pages and pages while my wonderfully mystic girlfriend at the time busied herself with her own similar studies and I quite literally stumbled onto that simple interjection of that flaming letter into that eternally regenerating sequence of four letters with their gematraic value of 26, thus resulting in a living, illuminating name five letters long and my mind was blown by it!
Of course I can see how it might seem arbitrary to the average person. I make no bones about that. And indeed, it always has seemed to. I seem simply incapable of arousing any degree of the enthusiasm I myself feel when faced with that iota of the Mystery. I've never received so much as a "Huh" from anyone I've furiously sketched it out for.
In the end, I took it to be an example of why it might be best to remain silent when it comes to matters that are occult or esoteric in nature. And it makes me love you and your channel all the more, Dr. Sledge. (What a metal name you have.)
Excellent as always!
Thank you for your fine work. 👍
Great job, thank you for this information!
Thank you!
Really remarkable
Kaballahistic mic drop 🎤 😁
I absolutely *adored* this subject being covered! This was an awesome video! But quick shout out to your kids shouting in the background. That was adorably funny!!!
Yeah, my 3 year old fell down and acquired two bobos in the background of filming this episode!
@@TheEsotericaChannel Aww, poor little guy!!! Hopefully they weren't down for the count for long!
girl...ish, and bounced back!
I definitely wish I'd found your channel sooner, but the timing of this is pretty impeccable. I'm just starting my senior thesis on Renaissance/Reformation era magic, and this video has definitely given me some questions/ideas to follow up on. Thank you!
Good afternoon everyone
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That meditation you talk about 20 minutes in. I’ve experienced the exact same thing under meditation of the Lotus Sutra.
Also this is a common thing among people in the ultra (running) community. I have experienced it myself running a ultra.
I enjoy meeting up with that guy, that other aspect of myself. Saying “bro, you can’t do this, we are overheating, you are going to suffer a stroke”. I love murking that dude.
He always comes back tho.
That ego is a B.
Awesome! I love the videos you've been making over the Renaissance.
I'm glad, but I wonder why they perform so poorly?
@@TheEsotericaChannel hm, I didn't know they were doing poorly. I for one find them interesting. Gives historical context for later developments. Hopefully others will too, later if not now.
Hoffendlich waere die Annre aa, wann net nau dann schpeeder.
@@TheEsotericaChannel I wager THIS would be the video that shifts that notion of Renaissance as staid, known, established and strictly scholarly and "bookish" versus the ancient mysteries and mysticism in the near east and in Kabbalah. Like engineering vs quantum physics. Whereas learning of Kabbalah amidst Renaissance I think would go long ways to shift that notion. Plus mention Rosicrucians and Bruno and that'll enflame imagination. Maybe specific titles will also help shift impressions. Rather than the forefront topic but the milieu. Am spitballing notions and seeing what sticks. I need more learning.
I am listening 🌹
Of course it repels pirates! Pirate repelling was of great value back then.
I love your videos and your channel as a whole. I'm a middle school drop out and you explain things so perfectly, that even my dumbass can understand. Your work is amazing
If you're watching this channel and understand this lecture you're def not a dumbass. I say that as a 9th grade dropout who's also watching and understanding it😉
You've certainly shown that all this stuff should be studied in academia. However bizarre it seems to so many of us, it's still human intellectual endeavor that deserves to be properly catalogued and studied. Who knows when we may move farther away from modern "physical reality we can touch is all there is" to a different viewpoint where going back to this stuff could be useful? Modern physics may take us there in the future.
Beautiful! I suspect the condition of the Heart is the most important element; even more so than "the wonder working word".
24:00 #itself
Very interesting episode. I wonder if this is where MacGregor Mathers got his material to write the 5=6 ritual for the golden dawn. The placement of the shin is the great grand key for connection in the grade. Thanks for the great episode Dr Sledge.
I'd put my money on it
@@architeuthis3476 the most interesting part for me when i got 5=6 was how the shin was the key for connection, this was when I realized that the gd system was not a magical system per say but a theurgical system.
@@architeuthis3476 Well this is kind of personal. During my 5=6, when my mentor uncovered the shin on the altar, I started to see different color lights around the vault and they were pulling me in. If that makes any sense.
@@architeuthis3476 well…. There’s a lot I’m missing. It was not the color of the walls that was pulling me. There were orbs and they talked.
Thanks Dr Sledge. This episode bought to mind Crowley's Paris Working. While he & Victor Neuburg were intimately connected, they recited a versicle in Latin requesting Hermes "come bringing the forbidden word". tee hee !
The idea of a ur-religion. How about a video on Montague Summers
Qabalah, to receive, to make oneself receptive, humble and purified.
I ❤️u!!!!!!!
great presentation. I wonder if magical words are easier framed as simply magical sounds and not probe into what they actually might mean. These sounds do magical stuff.
Renaissance videos underperforming or not, I thought it was fascinating!
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
~Terence McKenna
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This is one of the best you have done :)
I am very happy with: "Johannes Reuchlin: Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe mit Kommentar: Bd. 2,1: De arte cabalistica libri tres (1517). Die Kabbalistik" It is so beautiful. A little bit expensive, maybe. But that is it worth.
Found a Reuchlin - De Verbo Mirifico-Book from the same editors. Still read. :) Thank you for your inspiration!
P.s. I would really like the opportunity to be initiated inside of the legendary Esoterica Mines. I KNEW they weren’t just a myth! :)
Interesting note about Theurgy Via a statue , my own Rebbe passed a tradition to me that when the people of Israel committed the Sin of the golden Calf , that the Calf Arron had moulded , spoke and moved . He was a hereditary Kohanim
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Under-appreciated? Boy, I’ll say! I’ve never heard of the guy! Thanks for shedding light in this dark but foundational corner of esoteric thought and history!
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NAB'S Wonder Working Word. "Until the Day Breaks and the Shadows Flee Away. Vessel of light. Symbolic Paper Poppy. Wow. Divine and farseeing combination. Attested by Alias - Newton After Blake.
Huh?
@@TheEsotericaChannelMerely endorsing your great show with tried and tested techniques. Dr Sledge.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Great Show . Hint, hint. As in great ????
A "synchronicity"? A few seconds after my previous post, you described YHVH. :)
Hey, isn’t there a translation by Martin Goldman? “On the Art of Kabbalah” it is somewhat old tho, 1993
Yep, but not DVM - the translation of de arte isn't without problems as well
If you can just stick a shin in there and its majic, what about a maim or aleph? Why just fire?
I love esoterica channel!
He gives a dozen reasons why the shin but mostly it's just Jesus
As a hermetic Qabalist I can offer this: the mother elements are already implied in the Yud, Heh and Vav of the Tetragrammaton, the final heh being corresponded to the element of Earth. Thus the "missing element" is what west calls Spirit or the east Akasha. The Divine 5th element, corresponding to the Spiritual Fire, Shin
@@22Teachings thats interesting. The way I read it, the mother letters coorespond roughly to the sulphur/mercury/salt. Tetragrammaton has a bazillion interpretations,as it should. They say if you number it out far enough, you get the whole torah,possibly shekinah meaning all corporeal existance,if you kept extending the Name forever. Bal Shem Tov said the true pronunciation of the tetragrammaton is just human breathing. Its all poetry,in a way.
@@drphosferrous listening to this video while driving I was opening my mind to the sound of the name. Just breathing. Absolutely love that 🙏
hi. I was wondering if I could ask you for help with something? I found a UA-cam video titled Enochian calls on the channel angelsonholiday and I was wondering if you recognized the reading, if you could tell me where it comes from? I'd really like to reference it. I certainly understand if you don't want to but I don't really know any other expert on Enochian lol.
I also feel great relief when I sing while laying on the floor lmao
It stands to reason we once lived without need for word. In school we are taught the "progress" of written language. Perhaps it was regression. And when word was spoken... what was that first word spoken? What power could it retain?
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Interesting to note the "tolerance" of the age of inquisition is appropriation and conversion, as it still continues in today's inquisition. I appreciate the acknowledgement of the pairing of occultism and Christianity, which they are, and even the Jewish understanding of much of these concepts are no longer known, even in the Jewish world, enacting an indirect linguistic conversion through altered ontology.
Yep, gotta start somewhere - better than " kill them all, god will know his own."
The meditation referenced around the 23rd minute mark is exactly what is taught by Hindu sages like Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Prolonged silence for a long period of time will eventually initiate what feels like your sensation of being a body merging with the air/world/non-body which will strike fear into the heart of the initiate, as well as a quickening of the heart beat. Your inner voice will tell you you’re dying, but really it’s Him that’s dying.
By doing this meditation you are removing the walls that keeps the ego/false self “in the mental space”. If you can continue the meditation and overcome that fear (John 3:16), you will be fully initiated into Sagehood.
Tracks....
@@TheEsotericaChannel not sure what you mean but hopefully it’s good 😎
@@silentsage2462 He means "that tracks" or sounds right. 😊
I find that the anxiolytic and entheogenic properties of certain cultivars of cannabis indica help in the practice of this particular form of meditation.
I see that! Purity of BodyMind, Steady Silence in Dhyana, holy words are Mantras/“infused” Sound like AUM
Very interesting. If you add the ש to the middle of the tetragramaton it spells יהשוה , which in English is "yehoshua", which was Jesus's actual Hebrew name.
It definitely does not spell that
Ah, you are correct. There is an ע at the end of Yehoshua. Doh, sorry about that. I should have checked first. However, I disagree with you Archi as the full hebrew name is Ye-Ho-Shua; Yeshua is the more colloquial truncated form. Same person. I just got the spelling wrong. Would have been cool though
9:29 as a Jew who *loves* ren-fairs, I support the idea of featuring Jewish book burning reenactments in ren-fairs wholeheartedly 🤣
I always wanted to make an outfit with the Jew hat and yellow circle to make it really uncomfortable. "Oh this is the part where you have to blame us for poisoning your wells and burn a bunch of us on evidence derived from torture. " The middle ages - fun for all ages!
@@TheEsotericaChannel Oh yeah, also have reenactors pass out Judensau pamphlets to fair-goers to really immerse folks with the climate of the times
Dr. Sledge, I am down, signed up. I am a cryptographer and PhD computational linguist. Russian, Spanish, are my foci..., Can read ANCIENT Greek and Latin (with significant help). Working on Hebrew and Aramaic... yeah, not easy. Cam you point me to a corpus that you would like me to analyze?
love me sum enochian magii
Please what book will you recommend for me who wants to practice Christian magic
This is an academic channel.
I had to get out a dictionary to figure out what you were saying in your first few sentences. Lol
:) yep, this ain't an introductory channel
@@TheEsotericaChannel You should become a battle rapper and roast MC’s with terms like Salvific, Orphic and Obscurantism. You and Matisyahu would be an amazing draw! XD
Haha... I always learn a few new words too.
Excellent production. I had never seen the conversion of the tetragrammaton to the pentagrammaton before; I had assumed that it was because of the lack of vowels in the original Hebrew alphabet. I thought it was 'yod hey vav hey' - the unutterable name of god; the flame, the door, the nail, the door. All four symbols derived, of course, from the flame; the entire Aleph-Bet actually. I like the alembic on the shelf behind you; it's symbolic of the time when water was contaminated (more often than not), and people would seek out alcoholic beverages (spirits) from religious practitioners such as monks in monasteries because they were safe to drink. I can not avoid mentioning the treachery of language since you spoke of alchemy. Shall we meditate upon the subject of alchemy in unison, inhale... exhale, inhale... exhale, do we now conspire? In the context of magic and mystery schools, the subject of the philosopher's stone and transmutation of base metals has a tendency to be taken as a literal physical outcome of having 'gotten it,' even though it is a spiritual objective that is being sought. The real transmutation is the transmutation of one's soul. The frame of Hildegard of Bingen receiving the divine revelation is a depiction of 'enlightenment' or human spiritual transmutation (the real objective.)
I'd suggest taking a look at his other videos on alchemy then. I'll warn you though, he really tears into the idea of alchemy as being originally about spiritual transformation, which is a pretty modern invention of Jung among others (ironic given that those people often make an inverse accusation), though in its last century or so alchemy did start to pivot to more spiritual meanings as it broke up and became chemistry.
There's a whole ton of reasons he gives about why the spiritual interpretation doesn't work historically
"God became man so that man might become God" - St Athanasius
Reuchlin seems to sort of look at the divine grace that flows through the saints and see it as a prerequisite to wonderworking in this day. But the idea of seeking out this grace so that one may attain powers seems problematic, almost transactional.
I can see critics saying, to seek such powers in itself will preclude one from being able to attain grace, as such grace cannot come without complete humility.
The prerequisite of obtaining grace before truly utilizing the Wonderworking Words seems almost unobtainable save for a few, I could see that being frustrating to the casual practitioner in those days, surely they stuck to their magic circles, much less self-work.
Hope didnt misunderstand the video
Dr., have you ever thought about doing translation of these books your self?
Nah, my Latin is competent but by no means expert level.
@@TheEsotericaChannel if you do, any translations, I'd definitely purchase them
When you spelled out IHSUH, I was reminded of the Arabic name for Jesus, Isa. A name that is also allegedly in an old secret Buddhist text in some monastery.
(In tellings of this text, a young foreign man joined the monastery and gained miraculous powers in a few years of study then returned home. The man who alleged that this text existed, claimed that that Isa is the young Jesus Christ between 12 and 30!)
Have you seen the video "Joe Rogan - Santa Claus Was a Mushroom!" @ 2:16?
Do you believe Mosheh (I hope I spelled it right I should have googled it first but I didn't) was historical?
probably not.
Please make an episode of Zizek's Christianity!!! 🙏
I remembered seeing that particular spelling before in a diagram by Athanasius Kircher in Barb.or.155 (I had to look that up, I didn't just remember it) in a diagram with various Hebrew spellings of Jesus' name. Which looks a whole lot like a magical symbol. Athanasius Kircher is another person that would be interesting to learn more about.
Thank you! This is similar to the Hindus Om (aum).
It would be interesting to know how all this interest in magic continued / continues to survive for centuries -- despite what I'm assuming is never a successful spell cast
People also still pray
From my understanding, Agrippa was studied by famed swordsmen, Montoya and the Dredd Pirate Roberts.
"the ineffable name of god, JHVH"
But you effed! You effed it right there!
Eh, *shrugs*
Oy, vey! 🤣
I wish I could labor in the esoterica mines. Any recommendations for ways that us uneducated peasants can contribute to this work?
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