"Listening Post Alpha Journal: Year One" by Bobby Hale et al

"Listening Post Alpha is a diverse group of magickal practitioners doing experimental mediumistic work with hacked AM/FM radios called spirit boxes, in concert with a Post-Thelemic form of English Gematria, the ALW Cipher, as the primary tool of analysis. Listening Post Alpha Journal: Year One is a 300+ page compilation of LPA session transcriptions and analysis. The journal also includes esoteric research inspired by the spirit box sessions that cover an array of topics including the work of occultists like Kenneth Grant, Michael Bertiaux, Allen Greenfield, and Jake Stratton-Kent as well as deep dives and strange new takes on the experiences of Richard Shaver, John Keel, and Philip K. Dick. Also included are dozens of full-colored artistic renderings by the Agents of Listening Post Alpha."

"Celestial Gems & Sigils — De Lapidibus & Liber Sigillorum — Talismanic Lapidaries of Damigeron and Techel" by Regulus Hess and Christopher Warnock

"Celestial Gems & Sigils is a comprehensive translation of the variant manuscripts of De Lapidibus, "On Stones" and the Liber Sigillorum, "The Book of Sigils" the most important medieval magical lapidaries. Lapidaries are key esoteric texts giving the physical characteristics as well as medical, magical and spiritual powers of stones and minerals. While the manuscripts used for the translation date to the Middle Ages, the origin of these texts is much older. Lost in the mists of antiquity they are a priceless source of ancient esoteric lore. The translator, Regulus Hess, consulted many sources and parallel texts to provide a comprehensive and definitive edition of De Lapidibus and the Liber Sigillorum with over 400 footnotes and an exhaustive discussion of the relevant sources. The wisdom of the ancients regarding the occult virtues and magical powers of over 100 gems and minerals is now laid open in Celestial Gems & Sigils.

But in addition to the properties of stones, Celestial Gems & Sigils provides extensive astrological attributions and magical talismanic images. An astrological magic commentary is provided by Christopher Warnock, who has been called "the father of the traditional astrological magic revival" and the "elder statesman" of astrological magic and has written and published many books on astrological magic and traditional astrology. In his commentary Warnock traces the use of images from the Liber Sigillorum for astrological talismans in Picatrix and Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Also included is Warnock' Grimoire of the Seven Planets, containing talisman recipes inspired by the Liber Sigillorum with special talismanic images by Holly Ellis.

Warnock explains how contemporary practitioners of medieval/Renaissance astrological magic can use the Liber Sigillorum & the Grimoire of the Seven Planets to create astrological talismans that are new, yet firmly within the tradition. Celestial Gems & Sigils is an exciting product of the 21st century Hermetic Renaissance of esoteric arts, yet firmly rooted in this ancient tradition."

If identity (self) can be dissolved, along with personal history (antecedents), and time and place, then what exists actually? The difference between YHWH and Brahman is that the former speaks (this includes writing): he has personal identity despite his Brahman-like ubiquity. This self-disclosure in verbal form permits a dialog between him (the macrocosm) and differentiated micro-cosmos. […] Sankara believed there were not plural selves but just the one self which could be identified with Brahman. This fits in with my line of thinking supra. Also, YHWH differs from Brahman in that he is involved in history — human history, what is involved is the evolution of human freedom. And the universe is real: seeing it we are seeing the field (web) in which YHWH operates. Not (as Sankara believes) mere maya. Human history represents successive levels of self-disclosure by YHWH — meaning self-awareness. Human history is the deity waking up. The opponent to YHWH at any moment is his antecedent self: he is dynamic (in process), not static. He must eternally surpass himself.

Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

Customs, rites, myths, and taboo are a language. As in language, where the sounds which make up words are, taken in themselves, meaningless, so the parts of a custom or a rite or a myth (according to Lévi-Strauss) are meaningless in themselves. When analyzing the Oedipus myth, he insists that the parts of the myth (the lost child, the old man at the crossroad, the marriage with the mother, the blinding, etc.) mean nothing. Only when put together in the total context do the parts have a meaning — the meaning that a logical model has.

Susan Sontag, “The Anthropologist As Hero”

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"Was he one or many, merging

Name and fame in one,

Like a stream, to which, converging,

Many streamlets run?

Who shall call his dreams fallacious?

Who has searched or sought

All the unexplored and spacious

Universe of thought?

Who in his own skill confiding,

Shall with rule and line

Mark the border-land dividing

Human and divine?

Trismegistus! Three times greatest!

How thy name sublime

Has descended to this latest

Progeny of time!"

— Hermes Trismegistus, a Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The Relative Strength of Signs and Planets" by Colin James III