Monthly Archives: July 2022

Esoteric Molinism: On Contradiction

contradictions are meaningful, and so are non-contractions. God has the sovereign power of actualising contradictions but because ex contradictionem quodlibet, he had a choice of actualising either zero or infinite contradictions. God wanted creation to contain some non-contradictions and so … Continue reading

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Paperclips A Parable

i think stories about paperclip maximisers are about startups, the bay area and the people who get attracted to rationalist cults – a neurodiverse kind of focus, an entitlement to the world and its resources because of sociopathy, or coming … Continue reading

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Angelus Analysed

the pre-tridentine hail mary is simple hinayana, a mantra exerpted from the gospels the tridentine addition of the first person plural supplication elevates it to mahayana the angelus lifts it to vajrayana by adding the structure of: BONG BONG BONG… … Continue reading

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Why Traditionalists Are Not Protestants

it’s a pleasing and tidy thought but i don’t think it’s true. like “protestant” is not a generic name for “offshoots of the Latin church”. “protestant” refers to a very specific ecclesiastical current grounded in issues from 500 years ago … Continue reading

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Mr. Tolkien the Magus

trying out the idea that Tolkien was broken by the Great War and reforged by a trauma-spirit (what are they called in Worm again?) that led to a genius growing inside him, covered by a triple personality-shell of 1) being … Continue reading

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Tolkien and Simulation

i think i have underconsidered the importance of the clever heretic tolkien’s belief in secondary creation to the simulationist current of religion

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On Cremation

what i find most distasteful about the modern cremation rite is you do not see any burning. the cremations i have been to are crudely dramatic, with recorded music, electric motors and an absurd curtain covering the coffin as your … Continue reading

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On St. Mr. Democritus

Democritus is only the go to name because he’s in the scientific mythology as one of the brief “ancient names” mentioned to add important Classical References to the heroes and acts of the early modern project of “Science” the way … Continue reading

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They Wanted You To Know Linguistics

This is from the foreword of The French Language (2nd Ed. 1953) by Alfred Ewert M.A. Litt.D. in the Faber and Faber “The Great Languages” series. In 1933, when the first edition was published, it was still reasonable to expect … Continue reading

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Cookbooks Don’t Tell You How to Eat

one thing i have noticed with evocational grimoires is this pattern: they have complicated methods of evoking spirits with big diagrams, long formulae, barbarous words, methods for escalating to higher tiers, what sort of space weather there should be… but … Continue reading

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