tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32086234312911671742024-03-08T16:01:30.884-06:00A Thirteen Petalled Rose, a Cup of Blessing.A little, and likely little posted to, blog about spirituality, theurgy, Neoplatonism, philosophy, theology and just about anything else that might float across my mind.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-81755825010645804342018-10-17T12:47:00.002-05:002018-10-17T12:47:46.350-05:00Trismegistus Designs!?
Hey folks, I'm starting a gofundme to get a business venture off the ground; designing and making religious and esoteric vestments. Any bit of aid is greatly appreciated.
https://www.gofundme.com/trismegistus-designs&rcid=r01-153979571287-2149253de80145a8&pc=ot_co_campmgmt_w
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-7801355937404521762018-07-06T19:42:00.000-05:002018-07-06T19:43:14.103-05:00Rosicrucians in the World or So I'm a Rosicrucian, Now What?
Recently, a discussion concerning Rosicrucianism and what it
is supposed to be doing in the world came up. What follows are some thoughts on the subject. These are meant to be in no way definitive, final, or particularly well thought out.
As seems to be the case with many
esoteric societies, the emphasis most people have is on the Work done on the
self or practitioners. And quite rightly, too;Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-25511203475620454722015-01-19T15:09:00.000-06:002015-01-19T15:09:24.396-06:00Carry Water, Chop Wood?
This
has come up a few times today. Okay, it came up once and then I brought it up
again, but I'm going with it (and apparently this will be more rambling than
usual). It seems to me there is an importance to the integration of spiritual
work with our everyday lives. I've haven't always looked at it this way. A
decade or so ago I would have gone in for the "magical schizophrenia"
approach, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-70250485186428093732014-12-27T11:33:00.000-06:002014-12-27T11:33:17.896-06:00Incarnating the Light
I was going to write a solstice hymn, as I have typically done for the
last few years, but I’ve done enough of that for the last several months
that it seemed somewhat unappealing. So, something else instead.
Of late, I’ve been thinking about the soul and incarnation and, at
least in my part of the world, it so happens today is the Winter
Solstice which, no doubt amongst other things, is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-83226023293232416822014-12-20T12:36:00.000-06:002014-12-20T12:41:28.063-06:00Time and the SoulOf late, I've been thinking about the relationship between Transcendent Time and the Soul. Transcendent Time is, according to Iamblichus, an image of Eternity and the three noetic moments. However, Transcendent Time is in the realm of the soul rather than the intelligable and intellective realms that are prior to the realm of the soul or psychic realm. The three moments of Time coming from Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-35600060883446484832014-09-18T15:39:00.000-05:002014-09-21T10:06:38.776-05:00The Limits of Ontology: The Good and Evil in Pseudo-DionysiusAll five parts of my presentation on pseudo-Dionysian ontology can be found here: http://jeffreyskupperman.com/2014/09/18/the-limits-of-ontology-the-good-and-evil-in-pseudo-dionysius/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-65789963824564711252014-08-27T09:22:00.002-05:002014-08-27T09:22:54.695-05:00The Limits of Ontology: The Good to Evil in Pseudo-DionysiusLast year I gave a presentation at the Apostolic Johannite Church's annual Conclave on ontology, good, and evil in pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. While the paper itself is available for download via academia.edu (https://www.academia.edu/3618989/The_Limits_of_Ontology_The_Good_to_Evil_in_Pseudo-Dionysius), the presentation was also video recorded. These videos are now in the process Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-22777625724076308912014-07-29T09:03:00.001-05:002014-07-29T09:04:13.112-05:00Thinking about Miasma - Also, a plug for my book.So, it has been approximately a millennium since my last post. My apologies. During that time I've been working on a book about Iamblichean Neoplatonism. This has since been published as Living Theurgy Avalonia Books. An excuse more than anything else, but I thought I'd get the book plug out of the way.
Something I do not talk a great deal about in the book, largely because Iamblichus does not Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-39029638745044206422013-06-21T09:43:00.002-05:002013-06-21T09:48:19.565-05:00Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's theurgy.I was recently asked if I thought people were born to be magicians, if it was fate, in the astrologically determined sense of the word. This, of course, got me thinking about what Iamblichus says about incarnation, which is found largely in the surviving fragments of his Peri Psyche, On the Soul.
According to Iamblichus, souls incarnate for one of three reasons. Most people are dragged into Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-67238009039338805092013-03-24T08:26:00.000-05:002013-03-24T08:26:20.049-05:00I Have Not Started a TrendProbably. Unless I have. Here is Father Anthony Silvia's post about how he would go about forming an open-source order of Martinists. If he were to do such a thing. Which he is not.
http://anthonysilvia.com/2013/03/23/i-am-not-forming-an-open-source-order-of-martinists/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-42264108082431150812013-03-23T06:33:00.001-05:002013-03-23T06:33:13.972-05:00I Did Not Form a Rosicrucian SocietyA single person cannot form a society.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-36773667551447218652013-03-14T11:30:00.000-05:002013-03-14T11:30:17.898-05:00Why I'm not Starting a Rosicrucian OrderThis started out as something of a joke, and I received the more or less expected reactions. But, seriously, I have no plans to start a Rosicrucian Society. There are at least four reasons why, three of which are even sort of good.
First, it is simply not something I could do on my own. If you look at If I were to Form a Rosicrucian Order you will see a list of things I think should be Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-45195074747933746432013-03-14T09:33:00.001-05:002013-03-14T09:33:20.822-05:00On Being the New Kid and Not Pleasing Everyone, Therefore You're EvilYesterday, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, with the aid of the Holy Spirit, elected a new Pope. Pope Francis I, formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina. By his election, Pope Francis sets a number of firsts, being the first Jesuit and first Argentinian to be elected Pope, and the first to name himself for Saint Francis de Assisi. While his is not the first non-European Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-69461887142777624672013-03-04T19:08:00.000-06:002013-03-04T19:08:12.715-06:00If I were to form a Rosicrucian Order . . .
. . . which I'm not, it might look something like this:
The order's organization would be based loosely around the formative myth within the Fama Fraternitatis, with degrees of study based on the generations, as it were, of those original Rosicrucians. So, there would be three degrees for the three generations or rows of succession, as well as an office of Custodian, representingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-807646388671651682013-03-01T13:18:00.001-06:002013-03-01T13:18:33.670-06:00Fate, Providence, and . . . Astrology?Recently, Monsignor Scott Rassbach wrote an insightful blog post on astrology. This is not so much a response to the Monsignor's post but is somewhat inspired by it. It likely wonders around a bit, and doesn't necessarily come to any real conclusions, but you're probably used to that by now.
Fate may be, if somewhat over simplistically defined as that which we must do, and is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-82169955886104725712013-01-09T17:45:00.002-06:002013-01-10T18:07:10.974-06:00Agalmata Empsychon I am currently in the process of writing a chapter on the agalma empsychon, or ensouled statue, in Living Theurgy. Having gotten beyond the Hermetica's descriptions of wonder working, sometimes actually moving statues to the late Platonic views, I have come to find these a rather fascinating idea. In the chapter I connect this to the use of icons (eikons) in Orthodox Christianity, which itself isAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-33996696527155597012012-12-21T09:20:00.002-06:002012-12-21T09:20:27.344-06:00A Solstice Hymn
To Helios
8.7.8.7D
Incense: Pounded Frankincense and
Heliotrope.
Hail and
harken O glorious
Sun, Lord of noeric fire
and image of
Eternity.
Hail, great king who does inspire
us towards
truth and wisdom, you
who
are the creative mind
of the
cosmos, and leader of
celestial gods entwined.
Harken intellect
who thinks
&Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-17754027976511057332012-12-16T09:58:00.003-06:002012-12-17T07:51:15.349-06:00A Hymn to Hermes
To Hermes
Incense:
Frankincense
Harken, messenger of gods and
leader of souls and
songs.
Harken, you strong son of Zeus, to
whom the gold staff belongs.
Wing-booted son of Maia, you
harmonizer of tones.
Harken, close friend of Apollon,
oh thrower of the stones.
Harken, Lord of the second sphere
moving at equal pace,
Who Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-56862380893716866482012-09-02T11:26:00.000-05:002012-09-02T11:26:45.721-05:00Aion and Neoplatonic Psychology, Part IIIn the last post we talked a little about the concept of Eternity in Iamblichus.1 In this post we will look at the relationship between the soul and moments of Eternity.
As we talked about in the previous post, the nature of the human soul is divided; it inclines simultaneously towards the divine realm and the realm of generation, belonging in both at once. The divided essence of the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-33786107423325700582012-09-01T17:21:00.000-05:002012-09-01T17:24:36.802-05:00Aion and Neoplatonic Psychology Pt I.The later Neoplatonists began discussing time in a fairly unique and important way. In his commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Iamblichus connects the intellectual triad of Being, Life, and Mind with three "moments" connected to Aion, Eternity, the pre-essential Demiurgos. These moments have nothing to do with temporal time as Aristotle understands it in the Physics, i.e. "movement in respect of the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-27239553772499295612012-06-20T12:07:00.000-05:002012-06-20T12:12:03.480-05:00Tikkun OlamRecently, a brief discussion of tikkun olam occurred on an online Gnostic group that I frequently read but rarely reply to. As I was not part of the original conversation I refrained from discussing specific questions that were addressed to someone else. That's only polite, right? I do have some thoughts on the subject however, and as I haven't blathered on about kabbalah for a while it might be Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-67565409383038060522012-02-14T20:40:00.003-06:002012-02-14T20:42:38.773-06:00Valentine's DaySo, I didn't make you anything for Valentine's Day. But I did find you these:Between Eros and Anteros: The Teachings of IamblichusScolia on ErosAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-60354422938934031912012-01-30T08:07:00.004-06:002012-01-30T09:33:25.621-06:00On the Mystical ExpeirenceIamblichus, in his discussion of theurgy in De Mysteriis, talks about three different kinds of theurgic practice, each fitting for different kinds of people. The first level is the physical theurgy, or theurgic rituals using physical symbols for an anagogic purpose. The third level is non-physical theurgy, the theuryg of silence, that uses nothing physical as its purpose to contact the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-67302628207546499832012-01-27T13:58:00.002-06:002012-01-27T13:59:26.100-06:00The Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition Conference 2012 - Call for AbstractsThe Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition Conference 2012July 14-15, Milwaukee, WICall for Abstracts:Since 2001, the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition (JWMT) has worked to publish diverse perspectives on the occultisms, magical practices, mysticisms and esotericisms commonly known as the “Western Mystery Tradition.” The JWMT is expanding the work of the web journal through its first Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3208623431291167174.post-979719595695959652012-01-02T12:42:00.002-06:002012-01-02T12:44:46.845-06:00A Feast of Light(Yes, I know, I'm a little late with this.)"The sun ... not only furnishes to those that see the power of visibility but it also provides for their generation and growth and nurture though it is not itself generation. ... In like manner, then ... the objects of knowledge not only receive from the presence of the Good their being known, but their very existence and essence is derived to them from Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12107164402295666876noreply@blogger.com4