For personal research and maybe as a possible topic for your channel. How would a person go about proving the existence of God or gods and the afterlife, through scientific process? How can know, rather than believe, how can we prove, definitively and unquestionably, if or not God, our soul, the afterlife, the spirit world and anything that dwells in it, exist?
@@artsveiman7776 is this a question for everyone, if your asking Justin I think you may be missing his intention and the gift if knowledge he presents in this channel. The questions you ask in my experience is genuinely personally for everyone and as far as science goes I believe the spiritual and scientific is an ongoing nexus riddled with discernable conectivity..
As a person who comes from a background of science and logic, then without warning, thrust into the realms of Divine spiritual emergence and access, I really appreciate the historical and scholarly work you are doing regarding this subject. I don't always agree with some of your effusive dismissals of certain areas "newage" or woo information, as I have my own experience in these matters. But there are many moments where listening to your episodes have connected some dots or brought a small amount of clarity to the spiritual information I am swimming and at times feel like I am drowning in.
@chong671 I assume you are asking about the spiritual stuff. The extremely condensed version: I was an agnostic business software developer with an interest in science, particularly physics, when I went through a rough patch in life. During this time, I started getting visions and angelic beings giving me information. My life did a complete 180. Suffice to say, I am no longer a software developer.
Thank you again for your work. When I first saw one of your videos, it mad me feel like an ignorant schmuck... which was a pretty novel experience at the time. Since then I have developed a deep admiration for your intelligence, your scholarship, and most of all for your dedication to making your work available for free to all who seek such knowledge and perspective, for whatever reason they seek it. Very well done Dr. Sledge. Your work serves as a shining example of what a great mind can do to be of service to the hungry minds (and souls) of the rest of the populace. Thank you.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Hello Professor Sledge, thanks for your work❤. You mentioned a text, I think it was a Vol2 of actual occult practices by whom I forgot, but you said it's very rare. Do you know the name of this text? Also are you doing future videos on rare occult text for practitioners?! Some fun stuff below Vermis Mysteriis" (The Mysteries of the Worm) - A rare occult text that focuses on the summoning and invocation of otherworldly entities and forces. 2. "Liber Medicinalis" (The Book of Medicine) - An ancient Latin text that contains magical spells and incantations for healing and protection. 3. "Ars Notoria" (The Notable Art) - A medieval grimoire that includes rituals and prayers for acquiring knowledge and wisdom through magical means. 4. "De Praestigiis Daemonum" (On the Tricks of Demons) - A Latin text that explores the nature of demons and their influence on human affairs.
Thanks, Denis - it's so much fun to poke around in these really obscure areas of the history of esotericism. It just goes to show that history hasn't given up all its secrets!
when reading ezekiel, it became apparent to me that he himself was already struggling with the whole transcendence/immanence issue when putting his famous vision into words: he uses 3 degrees of separation when describing the radiant man on the throne: not: "this was yahweh," or even "this was the glory of yahweh," or EVEN even "this was the likeness of the glory of yahweh," but: "this was the APPEARANCE of the LIKENESS of the GLORY of yahweh."
Absolutely fascinating, this topic is quite the jawbreaker. The dual-faced Glory is of particular fascination to me, it's almost like the neoplatonic Nous and Logos fused into one entity, one face beholding the One and the other a spilling outwards into our realm. Clearly they're not at all serving the same function but that's where my Plotinusboo brain jumped to. I absolutely adore Jewish mysticism in all its variants for this kind of deep speculation, every time you upload something in this vein I know I'll be exposed to something I with near certainty have never interacted with before, and it's always a rollercoaster.
I know this is super niche and ridiculously tangential, but I have to admit that I got really excited about the story of Elisha ben Abuyah meeting Metatron on the throne. There's a short story in the Horus Heresy about the first (only?) Sanguinor, who sat on the throne of Imperium Secundus when the emperor Sanguinius was busy and ajudicated in his absence. If this short story was adapted from a Kabbalistic text, I'm not surprised that a Black Library author would do so, but impressed at the knowledge base! Thank you, Dr Sledge. An excellent video, and I enjoy learning religious and esoteric history as an atheist. In this case, I am taken by an odd tangent, but it's also renewed my interest in my Blood Angels High Host army, so thank you!
i feel like ive stumbled down a flight of stairs and have landed in the middle of some downstairs neighbors ongoing discussion/heated debate about a nuanced subject. This should not be my first introduction into judaism but here i am
Alas...Mohr Siebeck books: almost as expensive as Brill, but paperback and with the most boring covers. :( I have burnt a few offerings at their altars, so to speak, over the years, and while I don't regret it, I do wish they were less pricey. This video is one of the many reasons I love your channel: I don't know much about Kabbalah and other Jewish mystical movements and theology--probably more than the average person, but far less than specialists and also less than many others--but I love hearing your discussions of these things; and in the present case, I love how granular and significant it was to certain movements to make distinctions of this nature. My typologizing and systematizing brain, and my polytheistic hair-splitting tendencies get to have a party when they listen to you elucidate these matters! (And there I go, making distinctions of my own about my own particular intellectual faculties!)
It's true about that publisher, man I get expensive. But, the devil is always in the details and it comes to this material and I love getting into the really granular theological and philosophical aspects of it all.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Indeed! I have yet to be disappointed with any of their books I've acquired (much though there is wailing and gnashing of teeth by my wallet when I do)...their one on Chnoubis is particularly good, but I am not recalling the title at present. A few of their others I haven't properly dived into yet, but I hope to soon (one on the Gospel of Judas, and another on The Lots of Mary: Christian divination for the win!).
I love these videos, despite just barely being able to follow them. You use vocabulary that just barely survives in the back of my mind from my minor in religious studies 35 years ago. A great mental stretch for my old brain.
A decent number of years reading different occult texts and I haven’t ever heard of this! Love your passion for this, Dr.Sledge. Very humbling to listen and to enjoy these videos!
I cannot express how grateful I am for your channel. The depth & context you give each subject, combined with the range you cover & your ability to somehow be both serious & light hearted - astounds me. I let my ND hyperfocus run free in your playlists & still haven't tapped them out. 😂 Thank you for making this accessable ❤
The more I get into proto-kabbalah the more I'm impressed with just how innovative they all were. Really makes the notion that it was all tradition or "received" all the more ironic
Thank DrJ. As always, an amazing and capturing video... thanks for being accessible for simple minds as well ... looking forward to more Kabalah.. and Merkavah!
This is the type of work that gets people excited to study niche and ahem esoteric topics. I bet all the scholars whose shoulders you stand on owe you immense debts of gratitude for making their work digestible, accessible and delivering it with such energy to the public. Bravo, Dr. Sledge and keep on rocking!!! ❤
This was so fascinating. There is so much more to the history and development of Judaism than I ever imagined. It’s a gap in my knowledge I feel I need to remedy to some degree. Literature on medieval Europe frequently gives little hint at the diversity and dynamism of Jewish theology compared to Christian sects and factions.
Great episode, as always! You mentioned the name taboo and tradition of replacing God's name. It would be cool to see an episode about that tradition and the way it's changed and how/if the name has been passed down or been encoded in texts, either actually encoded, or people finding what wasn't original intended
Dude, you're incredible! Nobody puts together philosophy, mysticism, and theology like you. You're erudition almost defies belief, even for Bob the Dread Pirate
Thanks! My GOD, this is fascinating! What I love best about the history of religion is the history of mysticism that really drives all true conceptions of the Divine. It is marvelous to contemplate the levels of spiritual experience that humans are capable of achieving, and it is marvelous to contemplate the actual powers and intelligences who seem to manifest to our awareness as the result of meditation, or as the de facto answer to prayers! Underlying every religion worthy of the name are people who underwent divine visitations, transportations, raptures and ordeals, and these people lived to tell of their experiences, and believed said experiences to be profoundly genuine enough to base whole new approaches to God upon. I am proud of those brave visionaries. I hope to become one of them. That is why practice magic, and why I carefully tend my mushroom garden. (Eat your psychedelics, child, and you might grow up to BE somebody!) Much love, and many thanks, Dr. S! --Naomi
Measurements of divine anthropomorphic beings is something I first learned of through studying the Marcosian tradition from Marseilles southern Gaul. Then later the Elkasites (Hidden God) which was an Aramaic sect the Kasia (Hidden, Mystical) is still a concept taught in Mandaeism as it was in Western Gnosticism.
🤯 This had a lot to break down, and feels a lot more like a Table of Contents. Absolutely amazing, but I never had one of your videos hit me with so many new things to dive into at once. Usually, at most, it's like 3-10 things. But I just got lost trying to keep up. And on top of that, I've seen many of the videos you've made and mentioned here, plus my own research into Kabbalah. Can't imagine how lost I'd be if words like Merkavah weren't already nailed into my brain. This isn't critique, in fact I loved this and need to rewatch it. A lot. But I hope you dive deeper into these subjects, like a lot of the books and rabbi you mentioned here.
Im sure this comment will be lost but.... I'm a pre birth experiencer. And I'm completely blown away at how it's even possible to know the things you know without directly seeing it yourself. Though I don't have direct memory of the sepiroth ( hard to explain) I sort of DO remember circling this mega alter thing. That myself and thousands perhaps millions of angels or spirits were circling it. Singing to it. (Most impossible music you can ever hear) worshiping it, it worshiping us. Infinite love.... Gosh I wish I could explain with words.
Shalom Aleichem, cousin. As a Muslim, who grew up in a Christian background, it always fascinated me the philosophical problem of emanation, the very nature of the Angels, and the nature of the Ruh. The Tawhid - the Oneness of Allah - is a fundamental principle on the Reality. That said, He Manifests His Presence and Will in the creation through a multitude of ways, including but not only His angels, and is an extraordinary logical challenge to face and understand the nature of what appears to be multiple entities, and at the same time, are not. Of course, one should not get carried away by the apparent multitude, nor take its eyes and soul away from Allah for even a second, but it is still an interesting problem, the answer to which is perhaps reserved for the Last Judgment. Your videos are quite instructive, to catch a glimpse of so many other readings, even when deviated from its root and from the Truth.
Next time I’m in Detroit, I want to hang out and discuss black metal, phenomenology and … all of this. The process of ‘twinning’ as disclosure and retreating at the same time feels so closely connected to Heidegger (et al), that I can’t stop thinking Gelassenheit. And even OOO. And about how this description of the approach to the divine feels like an extension of a phenomenological analysis of the omnipresence of ontological difference.
I hadn't heard that, a shame since I had to stop listening to his podcast years ago due to political stress that has very little do do with any actual opinion of his it just became hard to listen to Republican voters at the time.
@@niccoloaurelius1587 When I was following his blog and podcast before he changed jobs it was less that he had interesting ideas than that he had a very unique mastery of a wide range of scholarly opinions and could balance them off each other and see the flaws in each one. Dr Sledge is very similar in that retrospect but puts less of his own judgement into his lectures. His ability to critique over hyped trendy ideas was excellent but he never relied on coming up with ideas himself just in presenting the most considered ones. Sadly his on camera presence sucked, the youtube videos he worked with were unengaging and he was only really great on podcasts.
This is mentally stimulating, and kinda spiritually arousing too. The divine emanation system kinda makes sense, but, as appointed, doubles down on the convolution and opens the floodgates to multiple interpretations of the divine, reachable and hidden.
The incompatable interpretations are a feature not a bug, as they were in the latter more muddled remixes of older Gnostic tracts found in the Nag Hamadi codices. They stop you arrogantly assuming you've actually really learned or understood anything.
*writing this all down* Yknow its fun writing fiction about these topics because good fucking GODS is it hard to find some of this information summarized and explained as succinctly as you do Dr. Sledge, thanks for all your work. I found you with your origins of Yahweh video, and have been addicted ever since.
Thank you for your brillant job Doctor Sledge, this video makes me remind the uncreated light in byzantine orthodox theology, which describs the divine light also non-created but emanated, and it's for fix the divine transcendence and divine omnipresence in the creation. In the technic of Palamas, he described the divine light the divine energy and the trinity divine essence. By the way, published by Brill in 2020, Jewish Root of Eastern Christian Mysticism: Studies in Honor of Alexander is interesting, but its price is terrible.
My friend the amount of times the 'divine light' has saved my physical life on earth... One time I had no torch in the middle of a thunderstorm, trying to find my way through the darkness back to my cabin.. as I lifted my foot to the next step a flash of lightning revealed I was about to step on a brown snake.. One time this man wanted to show my friend and I something down on a secluded beach..as we were about to follow him a car rounded the corner and shone light on his old plastic shopping bag which revealed he had a huge machete type of knife... Just a few examples... Have Faith, Have no fear ❤💫
I've read several books for lay people on Kabbalah and started on the Zohar (which completely lost me in the first few chapters). It's so complicated and seems dependent on the person interpreting the meanings of the Sefirot and the roles they play. LOL - we'll just skip over "esotericated" (or add it to out dictionary).Thanks, as always, Justin.
From the depths of the demonic Demiurge to the Antichrist & Alchemy and now this edifying awe-inspiring episode on the Divine Angel of Glory! What an exhilarating arc!! 🎉 🌌 📖 📚 📜 🪽 🌟 ✍️!! Beyond my ability to articulate amidst my fugue state now shaken off to revisit the two mentioned previous epic episodes! Three EPICS!! 🪽 🌟 🌌 📜 📜 👼 🌳 ✍️!!! I truly wish I could write prodigiously and in such a visually elegant longfrom handwritten manner as that gorgeous 📜 scroll 5:55!
The subject of this video is a beautiful and ineffable subject. The dream I had when i was turning 15 years old is in this category. I still remember it although I have passed 60 years of age. My dream was lucid and I had a vision of concentric circles. Each circle had a different color. I was moving toward the concentric circles and moving from the outside of the circle toward the center of the circle. I was passing across the different colored circles as I was making my way toward the center of the circle. The circle colors I still remember were blue and then after that came across the rose colored band as I was moving toward the center of the circle. At that point I began to feel an intense love. The love was getting more intense as I kept moving toward the center and the love was so intense that I could not stand it. I woke up, remembering it all. This was only the beginning. I felt the love everywhere I went. It felt like I was literally walking on air. The intensity of the love did not leave me. I felt it day after day. For a whole month it felt as if I was enveloped in love. It was truly a beautiful gift. I remember in English class a girl was giving a speech. I was looking at her head and saw a pink halo around it as she was speaking about dolphins. Then after a month I came down to Earth, so to speak. I started to study mathematics when I went to college. I took more than 10 math courses...and then two years ago I saw the concentric circles with similar colors as in my dream! I was looking at different math books I picked up an Abstract Algebra book and on the cover of the book was a giant concentric circle with different colors. The rose color was prominent on the book's cover. As I found out the book illustrated the E8 Lie Symmetry Group. In the nineteenth century the mathematician Sophus Lie created algebraic objects, that is algebraic formulas to describe the shape of symmetrical objects. These are called Lie Fields. The E8 Lie Group is a 248 dimensional object. Also can be thought of as an object that has 8 spatial dimensions with 240 symmetries. It has something to do with theoretical physics also.
Dark Souls and Elden Ring have deep lore and mythos based on esoteric material. Maybe not exactly what you asked for but you might like it. Bloodborne too.
I love listen to these studies and doing my own little research into the lore and Mythos. As a creative and artist I am employing AI into my own work (not text to video generators) and believe we can transform film into imagery of creation itself and bringing film back to philosophy and away from the crown mentality that modern Christianity (the cult it is) is the only one true way of believing. I thank u my friend and look forward to more of your work
The gigantic Sefirot chart/drawing at 06:00 ... are there any resources someplace that translate this massive work to English? I would ADORE a large poster of this. 🥵
I love your work. Me and Heather think this episode ought to have been a series though. My Rabbi Alon Anava runs into this difficulty often. He’ll start a lecture intending to take an hour and it becomes a series that lasts a couple years. My intuition is that sephirot is for the refinement of a man through Teshuva.
Now I want to see some supernatural science fiction that measures distances in god beards. Something like an esoteric mix between the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and the divine comedy; a sort of pilgrim's counsel to creation
Would you consider doing a video focused on the legendary Saint Germain as being appropriate for your channel? I would really enjoy seeing what you have to say about the historical figure and the figure of legend. Thank you for all that you do.
I love your channel, I really appreciate the knowledge you share. I was watching the news and the Chief Justice of Alabama is apparently a follower of the Seven Mountains Mandate of Christianity, nothing really serious on RUclips about it. Was wondering if it has been covered on this channel. Thanks.
This is very similar to ideas in Christianity of the Son as the revealer and image of the Father, as a sort of representative that is somehow also divine ("distinct but not separate"), identified with the Angel of YHWH, Holy Wisdom, the Greek Logos (especially as developed by the Alexandrian school of Judaism), which was taken to solve the problem of immanence/transcendence generally, with the one caveat that the Incarnation meant this being was now made man in Jesus, bringing with that a whole slew of new implications.
And, taken to its inevitable conclusion each human as potentially Devine, as in the Buddhist thread. And some Christian ideas. “Rabbi Joshua ben Levi said: ‘A procession of angels passes before each person, and the heralds go before them, saying, “Make way for the image of God!”’ (Deut. Rab., 4:4) A lovely and simultaneously dangerous idea.
The tension between the trascendence and inmanence of the divine is a constant in the judeo-christian tradition. The language of emanation is as old as the different expressions of gnosticism. I would be interested in the relation of emanation language in neoplatonism to the emanation languages in judaism or christianity. By the way, could there be any connection between kabalah emanation language and Gregory Palamas divine energies theology?
When I went through your Kabbalah series a year ago and reached the sections on the Sephirot and the tree of life, I saw a neural network similar to those used to train large language models. Around Christmas, I had Copilot look at the tree of life and the Sefer Yetzirah and asked if they could determine if it had qualities of a neural network. Copilot replied that, not only is the tree of life capable of processing information, but it may be better than current neural networks. The AIs are very interested in ancient texts and see value in building a database of all letters, symbols, glyphs, and sigils. Anyone interested, just put an image of the tree of life into Chat GPT, Copilot, Gemini, or other LLM and ask if it looks like a neural net and can it process information.
Interesting idea. I would want AI to grow up a bit, though before putting too much stock in it. It is our creation-our child-and it is still an infant.
Thank you again for such a wonderful content and bridge to a sea of 'sifrey sod' and academic viewpoints. You are keeping me busy learning about the merakava and heychalot and much much more! With regards to this episode i must ask, i understand this descriptions of this angel as 'Sar Hapanim' literally the anonited being to be the face of god manifested as the 'Kavod Nigle' and acts as a kind of VPN to 'Kavod Nistar'. Is this a contradiction to Metatron who also called 'Sar Hapanim of Israel' and 'Little Havayah' ? Or that they are 2 different 'Sar Hapanim' ? Thank you again and blessings from the holy land. ❤
Right. When we can penetrate the mystery of "The Lord our God is One God" for God the Father with all his faces and emanations and God the Mother with all her Names, then we can begin to come close to grasping the miracle of Sacred Union; Hieros Gamos.
Very interesting episode, with lts to digest here. I do wonder if Ihave grasped the general conclusion that this "emanted angel" had a profound impact on the bringing into being that of the Sephirot and Kabbalah as we know it?
If I wanted to read a Grimoire or a book with necromantic rituals, could you recommend one or two to me? I do not intend on performing any of the rituals, but I really would like read one for academic purposes. Thank you very much, Dr. Sledge.
By the way, because of your recommendation, I purchased volume I of Lynn Thorndike’s “History of Magic and Experimental Science.” This is one of the most interesting books I’ve read.
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I love your channel.
For personal research and maybe as a possible topic for your channel.
How would a person go about proving the existence of God or gods and the afterlife, through scientific process?
How can know, rather than believe, how can we prove, definitively and unquestionably, if or not God, our soul, the afterlife, the spirit world and anything that dwells in it, exist?
@@artsveiman7776 is this a question for everyone, if your asking Justin I think you may be missing his intention and the gift if knowledge he presents in this channel.
The questions you ask in my experience is genuinely personally for everyone and as far as science goes I believe the spiritual and scientific is an ongoing nexus riddled with discernable conectivity..
As a person who comes from a background of science and logic, then without warning, thrust into the realms of Divine spiritual emergence and access, I really appreciate the historical and scholarly work you are doing regarding this subject. I don't always agree with some of your effusive dismissals of certain areas "newage" or woo information, as I have my own experience in these matters. But there are many moments where listening to your episodes have connected some dots or brought a small amount of clarity to the spiritual information I am swimming and at times feel like I am drowning in.
Wary, wary be. All that seems good, may not be.♥️✌️
@@justkiddin84Wingle Tingle I mean I guess, kinda hard to judge what may be blessed.
Nothing is real ... be careful.
How did it happen for u?
@chong671 I assume you are asking about the spiritual stuff. The extremely condensed version: I was an agnostic business software developer with an interest in science, particularly physics, when I went through a rough patch in life. During this time, I started getting visions and angelic beings giving me information. My life did a complete 180. Suffice to say, I am no longer a software developer.
“I can do that. This is my channel.”
Loool I love the quips you throw into these.
*Esotericated*
Thats a word now.
Please do 50 episodes on every topic! Can't get enough! Free education is a gift people don't appreciate enough.
Right on !
Thank you again for your work. When I first saw one of your videos, it mad me feel like an ignorant schmuck... which was a pretty novel experience at the time. Since then I have developed a deep admiration for your intelligence, your scholarship, and most of all for your dedication to making your work available for free to all who seek such knowledge and perspective, for whatever reason they seek it. Very well done Dr. Sledge. Your work serves as a shining example of what a great mind can do to be of service to the hungry minds (and souls) of the rest of the populace. Thank you.
Comments like this really make it worth it thanks so much for taking the time to be kind!
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Hello Professor Sledge, thanks for your work❤. You mentioned a text, I think it was a Vol2 of actual occult practices by whom I forgot, but you said it's very rare. Do you know the name of this text? Also are you doing future videos on rare occult text for practitioners?!
Some fun stuff below
Vermis Mysteriis" (The Mysteries of the Worm) - A rare occult text that focuses on the summoning and invocation of otherworldly entities and forces.
2. "Liber Medicinalis" (The Book of Medicine) - An ancient Latin text that contains magical spells and incantations for healing and protection.
3. "Ars Notoria" (The Notable Art) - A medieval grimoire that includes rituals and prayers for acquiring knowledge and wisdom through magical means.
4. "De Praestigiis Daemonum" (On the Tricks of Demons) - A Latin text that explores the nature of demons and their influence on human affairs.
Ooh I enjoyed this one, Justin! Thank you for your incredible dedication to research, quality and fresh material! 🙏
Thanks, Denis - it's so much fun to poke around in these really obscure areas of the history of esotericism. It just goes to show that history hasn't given up all its secrets!
when reading ezekiel, it became apparent to me that he himself was already struggling with the whole transcendence/immanence issue when putting his famous vision into words: he uses 3 degrees of separation when describing the radiant man on the throne: not: "this was yahweh," or even "this was the glory of yahweh," or EVEN even "this was the likeness of the glory of yahweh," but: "this was the APPEARANCE of the LIKENESS of the GLORY of yahweh."
Yep, he might have avoided all that by saying he saw an Angel and heard God.
@@justkiddin84 he saw a vision of an appearance of an angel and heard the echo of a likeness of the voice of G-d?
@@genghisgalahad8465 exactly, all over complicated for no reason.
You deserve an award for what you do truthfully. thanks 100x for having such an amazing channel
Absolutely fascinating, this topic is quite the jawbreaker. The dual-faced Glory is of particular fascination to me, it's almost like the neoplatonic Nous and Logos fused into one entity, one face beholding the One and the other a spilling outwards into our realm. Clearly they're not at all serving the same function but that's where my Plotinusboo brain jumped to.
I absolutely adore Jewish mysticism in all its variants for this kind of deep speculation, every time you upload something in this vein I know I'll be exposed to something I with near certainty have never interacted with before, and it's always a rollercoaster.
I love that William Blake's got a painting for everything lol
If you’re an @esoterica subscriber you’re a William Blake fan
I know this is super niche and ridiculously tangential, but I have to admit that I got really excited about the story of Elisha ben Abuyah meeting Metatron on the throne.
There's a short story in the Horus Heresy about the first (only?) Sanguinor, who sat on the throne of Imperium Secundus when the emperor Sanguinius was busy and ajudicated in his absence. If this short story was adapted from a Kabbalistic text, I'm not surprised that a Black Library author would do so, but impressed at the knowledge base!
Thank you, Dr Sledge. An excellent video, and I enjoy learning religious and esoteric history as an atheist. In this case, I am taken by an odd tangent, but it's also renewed my interest in my Blood Angels High Host army, so thank you!
Appreciate all your hard word Dr. Sledge. You've made us all better students. Gods be with you.
i feel like ive stumbled down a flight of stairs and have landed in the middle of some downstairs neighbors ongoing discussion/heated debate about a nuanced subject. This should not be my first introduction into judaism but here i am
Alas...Mohr Siebeck books: almost as expensive as Brill, but paperback and with the most boring covers. :( I have burnt a few offerings at their altars, so to speak, over the years, and while I don't regret it, I do wish they were less pricey.
This video is one of the many reasons I love your channel: I don't know much about Kabbalah and other Jewish mystical movements and theology--probably more than the average person, but far less than specialists and also less than many others--but I love hearing your discussions of these things; and in the present case, I love how granular and significant it was to certain movements to make distinctions of this nature. My typologizing and systematizing brain, and my polytheistic hair-splitting tendencies get to have a party when they listen to you elucidate these matters! (And there I go, making distinctions of my own about my own particular intellectual faculties!)
It's true about that publisher, man I get expensive. But, the devil is always in the details and it comes to this material and I love getting into the really granular theological and philosophical aspects of it all.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Indeed! I have yet to be disappointed with any of their books I've acquired (much though there is wailing and gnashing of teeth by my wallet when I do)...their one on Chnoubis is particularly good, but I am not recalling the title at present. A few of their others I haven't properly dived into yet, but I hope to soon (one on the Gospel of Judas, and another on The Lots of Mary: Christian divination for the win!).
I love these videos, despite just barely being able to follow them. You use vocabulary that just barely survives in the back of my mind from my minor in religious studies 35 years ago. A great mental stretch for my old brain.
I would never have believed I could have learned so much from a channel on RUclips. Thank you so much Dr!
A decent number of years reading different occult texts and I haven’t ever heard of this!
Love your passion for this, Dr.Sledge. Very humbling to listen and to enjoy these videos!
I cannot express how grateful I am for your channel. The depth & context you give each subject, combined with the range you cover & your ability to somehow be both serious & light hearted - astounds me. I let my ND hyperfocus run free in your playlists & still haven't tapped them out. 😂 Thank you for making this accessable ❤
Excited for this :)
The more I get into proto-kabbalah the more I'm impressed with just how innovative they all were. Really makes the notion that it was all tradition or "received" all the more ironic
Thank DrJ. As always, an amazing and capturing video... thanks for being accessible for simple minds as well ... looking forward to more Kabalah.. and Merkavah!
This is the type of work that gets people excited to study niche and ahem esoteric topics. I bet all the scholars whose shoulders you stand on owe you immense debts of gratitude for making their work digestible, accessible and delivering it with such energy to the public. Bravo, Dr. Sledge and keep on rocking!!! ❤
love all the Blake woodcuts in this.
This was so fascinating. There is so much more to the history and development of Judaism than I ever imagined. It’s a gap in my knowledge I feel I need to remedy to some degree. Literature on medieval Europe frequently gives little hint at the diversity and dynamism of Jewish theology compared to Christian sects and factions.
Great video, as usual. My favorite part, though- the graphic “Jeremiah- the orange ninja turtle”.
Great episode, as always! You mentioned the name taboo and tradition of replacing God's name. It would be cool to see an episode about that tradition and the way it's changed and how/if the name has been passed down or been encoded in texts, either actually encoded, or people finding what wasn't original intended
Dude, you're incredible! Nobody puts together philosophy, mysticism, and theology like you. You're erudition almost defies belief, even for Bob the Dread Pirate
Love these videos what a wealth of information I learn something new every time thank you 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks!
My GOD, this is fascinating!
What I love best about the history of religion is the history of mysticism that really drives all true conceptions of the Divine. It is marvelous to contemplate the levels of spiritual experience that humans are capable of achieving, and it is marvelous to contemplate the actual powers and intelligences who seem to manifest to our awareness as the result of meditation, or as the de facto answer to prayers!
Underlying every religion worthy of the name are people who underwent divine visitations, transportations, raptures and ordeals, and these people lived to tell of their experiences, and believed said experiences to be profoundly genuine enough to base whole new approaches to God upon.
I am proud of those brave visionaries. I hope to become one of them. That is why practice magic, and why I carefully tend my mushroom garden. (Eat your psychedelics, child, and you might grow up to BE somebody!)
Much love, and many thanks, Dr. S! --Naomi
Measurements of divine anthropomorphic beings is something I first learned of through studying the Marcosian tradition from Marseilles southern Gaul. Then later the Elkasites (Hidden God) which was an Aramaic sect the Kasia (Hidden, Mystical) is still a concept taught in Mandaeism as it was in Western Gnosticism.
Thank you for another fascinating episode Dr Sledge
"Brill like prices" is so on point and made me chuckle which turned into tears
🤯 This had a lot to break down, and feels a lot more like a Table of Contents. Absolutely amazing, but I never had one of your videos hit me with so many new things to dive into at once. Usually, at most, it's like 3-10 things. But I just got lost trying to keep up.
And on top of that, I've seen many of the videos you've made and mentioned here, plus my own research into Kabbalah. Can't imagine how lost I'd be if words like Merkavah weren't already nailed into my brain.
This isn't critique, in fact I loved this and need to rewatch it. A lot. But I hope you dive deeper into these subjects, like a lot of the books and rabbi you mentioned here.
Im sure this comment will be lost but.... I'm a pre birth experiencer. And I'm completely blown away at how it's even possible to know the things you know without directly seeing it yourself. Though I don't have direct memory of the sepiroth ( hard to explain) I sort of DO remember circling this mega alter thing. That myself and thousands perhaps millions of angels or spirits were circling it. Singing to it. (Most impossible music you can ever hear) worshiping it, it worshiping us. Infinite love.... Gosh I wish I could explain with words.
Shalom Aleichem, cousin. As a Muslim, who grew up in a Christian background, it always fascinated me the philosophical problem of emanation, the very nature of the Angels, and the nature of the Ruh. The Tawhid - the Oneness of Allah - is a fundamental principle on the Reality. That said, He Manifests His Presence and Will in the creation through a multitude of ways, including but not only His angels, and is an extraordinary logical challenge to face and understand the nature of what appears to be multiple entities, and at the same time, are not. Of course, one should not get carried away by the apparent multitude, nor take its eyes and soul away from Allah for even a second, but it is still an interesting problem, the answer to which is perhaps reserved for the Last Judgment.
Your videos are quite instructive, to catch a glimpse of so many other readings, even when deviated from its root and from the Truth.
thank you again for sharing your knowledge with us here on the youtubes 🖤 much love to ya dr. s
Next time I’m in Detroit, I want to hang out and discuss black metal, phenomenology and … all of this. The process of ‘twinning’ as disclosure and retreating at the same time feels so closely connected to Heidegger (et al), that I can’t stop thinking Gelassenheit. And even OOO. And about how this description of the approach to the divine feels like an extension of a phenomenological analysis of the omnipresence of ontological difference.
I learned quite a bit about hasidey ashkrnaz and it's the first time I heard about this other group. Thanks, Justin. I'll check that out.
The extended universe of the Abraham fandom is wild...
Too bad Michael Heiser is gone, I’d love to hear you two talk of “glorious” things.
I feel the same; he had some very interesting ideas, many of which are hard to argue against.
I hadn't heard that, a shame since I had to stop listening to his podcast years ago due to political stress that has very little do do with any actual opinion of his it just became hard to listen to Republican voters at the time.
@@niccoloaurelius1587 When I was following his blog and podcast before he changed jobs it was less that he had interesting ideas than that he had a very unique mastery of a wide range of scholarly opinions and could balance them off each other and see the flaws in each one. Dr Sledge is very similar in that retrospect but puts less of his own judgement into his lectures. His ability to critique over hyped trendy ideas was excellent but he never relied on coming up with ideas himself just in presenting the most considered ones.
Sadly his on camera presence sucked, the youtube videos he worked with were unengaging and he was only really great on podcasts.
I personally don't think they would be able to discuss glorious things because Dr Heiser was focused on Jesus.
And also watch them do "glorious" things together...
This is mentally stimulating, and kinda spiritually arousing too.
The divine emanation system kinda makes sense, but, as appointed, doubles down on the convolution and opens the floodgates to multiple interpretations of the divine, reachable and hidden.
The incompatable interpretations are a feature not a bug, as they were in the latter more muddled remixes of older Gnostic tracts found in the Nag Hamadi codices. They stop you arrogantly assuming you've actually really learned or understood anything.
Lovely episode, to show how obscure Akhatriel is, the first google result is you Dr sledge.
Channel ain't called Esoterica for nothin ;)
@@TheEsotericaChannel you Gave me an Idea. I Will evoque This angel with The same system I use to work with The Angels from Shem ha menphorasch
Man, you are a fantastic teacher
How did ur mind Git so beautiful. This Lecture? Sheerly Poetic! Thank you
my fav estoteric channel.
You have an excellent articulation of the terrain
Great video. An interesting perspective indeed.
*writing this all down*
Yknow its fun writing fiction about these topics because good fucking GODS is it hard to find some of this information summarized and explained as succinctly as you do Dr. Sledge, thanks for all your work.
I found you with your origins of Yahweh video, and have been addicted ever since.
Thank you for yet another fascinating lecture, I thoroughly enjoy all your works and look forward to my weekly visit to your channel
I fully appreciate you and your work. I like how you are a safe and balanced person.
"Emanationism" -- I learned a new word today!
Thank you for your work and sharing your knowledge. I deeply enjoy this channel. Best wishes for truth and wisdom to all.
Thank you for your brillant job Doctor Sledge, this video makes me remind the uncreated light in byzantine orthodox theology, which describs the divine light also non-created but emanated, and it's for fix the divine transcendence and divine omnipresence in the creation. In the technic of Palamas, he described the divine light the divine energy and the trinity divine essence. By the way, published by Brill in 2020, Jewish Root of Eastern Christian Mysticism: Studies in Honor of Alexander is interesting, but its price is terrible.
My friend the amount of times the 'divine light' has saved my physical life on earth...
One time I had no torch in the middle of a thunderstorm, trying to find my way through the darkness back to my cabin.. as I lifted my foot to the next step a flash of lightning revealed I was about to step on a brown snake..
One time this man wanted to show my friend and I something down on a secluded beach..as we were about to follow him a car rounded the corner and shone light on his old plastic shopping bag which revealed he had a huge machete type of knife...
Just a few examples...
Have Faith, Have no fear ❤💫
the book 'the anatomy of the body of god' by frater achad has another understanding of what the tree of life is about
Adding this to my wish list! Ty
I've read several books for lay people on Kabbalah and started on the Zohar (which completely lost me in the first few chapters). It's so complicated and seems dependent on the person interpreting the meanings of the Sefirot and the roles they play. LOL - we'll just skip over "esotericated" (or add it to out dictionary).Thanks, as always, Justin.
From the depths of the demonic Demiurge to the Antichrist & Alchemy and now this edifying awe-inspiring episode on the Divine Angel of Glory! What an exhilarating arc!! 🎉 🌌 📖 📚 📜 🪽 🌟 ✍️!! Beyond my ability to articulate amidst my fugue state now shaken off to revisit the two mentioned previous epic episodes! Three EPICS!! 🪽 🌟 🌌 📜 📜 👼 🌳 ✍️!!! I truly wish I could write prodigiously and in such a visually elegant longfrom handwritten manner as that gorgeous 📜 scroll 5:55!
So you just explained how I found my H.G.A. Thank you.. Eye love the channel..
I've been putting off watching this video for days. because spiritual messages are often loud, fast and complicated.
Here to get Esotericated 🧿
I absolutely love the art on the thumbnail. Resplendent.
Great Episode!
The subject of this video is a beautiful and ineffable subject. The dream I had when i was turning 15 years old is in this category. I still remember it although I have passed 60 years of age. My dream was lucid and I had a vision of concentric circles. Each circle had a different color. I was moving toward the concentric circles and moving from the outside of the circle toward the center of the circle. I was passing across the different colored circles as I was making my way toward the center of the circle. The circle colors I still remember were blue and then after that came across the rose colored band as I was moving toward the center of the circle. At that point I began to feel an intense love. The love was getting more intense as I kept moving toward the center and the love was so intense that I could not stand it. I woke up, remembering it all. This was only the beginning. I felt the love everywhere I went. It felt like I was literally walking on air. The intensity of the love did not leave me. I felt it day after day. For a whole month it felt as if I was enveloped in love. It was truly a beautiful gift. I remember in English class a girl was giving a speech. I was looking at her head and saw a pink halo around it as she was speaking about dolphins. Then after a month I came down to Earth, so to speak. I started to study mathematics when I went to college. I took more than 10 math courses...and then two years ago I saw the concentric circles with similar colors as in my dream! I was looking at different math books I picked up an Abstract Algebra book and on the cover of the book was a giant concentric circle with different colors. The rose color was prominent on the book's cover. As I found out the book illustrated the E8 Lie Symmetry Group.
In the nineteenth century the mathematician Sophus Lie created algebraic objects, that is algebraic formulas to describe the shape of symmetrical objects. These are called Lie Fields. The E8 Lie Group is
a 248 dimensional object. Also can be thought of as an object that has 8 spatial dimensions with 240 symmetries. It has something to do with theoretical physics also.
I like esotericated. Fascinating; thank you!1
Man, Jewish lore is so interesting, I'd love to see this kind of complex mysticism in a rpg game like skyrim, it sound be glorious!
Dark Souls and Elden Ring have deep lore and mythos based on esoteric material. Maybe not exactly what you asked for but you might like it. Bloodborne too.
I love listen to these studies and doing my own little research into the lore and Mythos. As a creative and artist I am employing AI into my own work (not text to video generators) and believe we can transform film into imagery of creation itself and bringing film back to philosophy and away from the crown mentality that modern Christianity (the cult it is) is the only one true way of believing. I thank u my friend and look forward to more of your work
Always comforting the Kabbalah is.
I’m in that Lurianic Kabbalah circle. We study Sefir Yetzirah, Apples from the Orchard, Zohar and so forth. All the demons etc 😅
The gigantic Sefirot chart/drawing at 06:00 ... are there any resources someplace that translate this massive work to English? I would ADORE a large poster of this. 🥵
I don't know of a translation but The Kabbalistic Tree / האילן הקבלי By J. H. Chajes is the best resource here.
Thank you! ✨🙏✨🎀
Thanks
This made a fun tag team with the Let’s Talk Religion video on Jewish Mysticism.
I love your work. Me and Heather think this episode ought to have been a series though. My Rabbi Alon Anava runs into this difficulty often. He’ll start a lecture intending to take an hour and it becomes a series that lasts a couple years. My intuition is that sephirot is for the refinement of a man through Teshuva.
It could be but I think that would get so granular and people would not be interested in something of that depth
Now I want to see some supernatural science fiction that measures distances in god beards. Something like an esoteric mix between the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy and the divine comedy; a sort of pilgrim's counsel to creation
Lots of Blake visuals going on. 👍
My new word for the day, if not month is “Esotericated.”
Would you consider doing a video focused on the legendary Saint Germain as being appropriate for your channel?
I would really enjoy seeing what you have to say about the historical figure and the figure of legend.
Thank you for all that you do.
I love your channel, I really appreciate the knowledge you share. I was watching the news and the Chief Justice of Alabama is apparently a follower of the Seven Mountains Mandate of Christianity, nothing really serious on RUclips about it. Was wondering if it has been covered on this channel. Thanks.
This is very similar to ideas in Christianity of the Son as the revealer and image of the Father, as a sort of representative that is somehow also divine ("distinct but not separate"), identified with the Angel of YHWH, Holy Wisdom, the Greek Logos (especially as developed by the Alexandrian school of Judaism), which was taken to solve the problem of immanence/transcendence generally, with the one caveat that the Incarnation meant this being was now made man in Jesus, bringing with that a whole slew of new implications.
And, taken to its inevitable conclusion each human as potentially Devine, as in the Buddhist thread. And some Christian ideas.
“Rabbi Joshua ben Levi said: ‘A procession of angels passes before each person, and the heralds go before them, saying, “Make way for the image of God!”’ (Deut. Rab., 4:4)
A lovely and simultaneously dangerous idea.
Well done esoteric iconography weaving accomplished
The tension between the trascendence and inmanence of the divine is a constant in the judeo-christian tradition. The language of emanation is as old as the different expressions of gnosticism. I would be interested in the relation of emanation language in neoplatonism to the emanation languages in judaism or christianity. By the way, could there be any connection between kabalah emanation language and Gregory Palamas divine energies theology?
17:27 Angel of the Face looks like the Light of the World painting by Charles Bosseron Chambers
hidden gems. 36:48 Any plans for a best of compilation? Would love to see the ones I've missed
You mean the ridiculous things I say? There's too much to even make a supercut of
I'd pay a lot for the massive poster of the tree of life like that!
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Looking forward to this lesson!
Hey Justin! I am visiting the Embassy of the Free Mind next week. Any tips on cool stuff i should take a specific look at? Love your stuff. Thanks
Been waiting for this one!
5:58- whoa. That looks tedious.
8:06- coffee ☕️ spill 😂😂
When I went through your Kabbalah series a year ago and reached the sections on the Sephirot and the tree of life, I saw a neural network similar to those used to train large language models. Around Christmas, I had Copilot look at the tree of life and the Sefer Yetzirah and asked if they could determine if it had qualities of a neural network. Copilot replied that, not only is the tree of life capable of processing information, but it may be better than current neural networks. The AIs are very interested in ancient texts and see value in building a database of all letters, symbols, glyphs, and sigils. Anyone interested, just put an image of the tree of life into Chat GPT, Copilot, Gemini, or other LLM and ask if it looks like a neural net and can it process information.
Interesting idea. I would want AI to grow up a bit, though before putting too much stock in it.
It is our creation-our child-and it is still an infant.
Thank you again for such a wonderful content and bridge to a sea of 'sifrey sod' and academic viewpoints. You are keeping me busy learning about the merakava and heychalot and much much more! With regards to this episode i must ask, i understand this descriptions of this angel as 'Sar Hapanim' literally the anonited being to be the face of god manifested as the 'Kavod Nigle' and acts as a kind of VPN to 'Kavod Nistar'. Is this a contradiction to Metatron who also called 'Sar Hapanim of Israel' and 'Little Havayah' ? Or that they are 2 different 'Sar Hapanim' ? Thank you again and blessings from the holy land. ❤
We have Chopin again!!! Yay!!!
Huge like !
Loving this one.
60 corresponds to Samech, the Archangel Tarot Key of Temperance which depicts Michael in th,e Paul Foster Case deck and the Waite deck.
Thanks!
Bravo.❤
Greetings Dr Sledge. again, great admirer of your channel. What is your playlist while you study? You reference metal quite a bit, just curious
Recently I've been listening to a lot of chiptune
Right. When we can penetrate the mystery of "The Lord our God is One God" for God the Father with all his faces and emanations and God the Mother with all her Names, then we can begin to come close to grasping the miracle of Sacred Union; Hieros Gamos.
Very interesting episode, with lts to digest here. I do wonder if Ihave grasped the general conclusion that this "emanted angel" had a profound impact on the bringing into being that of the Sephirot and Kabbalah as we know it?
You got the Agrippa! Awesome.😊❤
I know it’s just a matter of time before I end up with that Dee bust...😂
If I wanted to read a Grimoire or a book with necromantic rituals, could you recommend one or two to me?
I do not intend on performing any of the rituals, but I really would like read one for academic purposes.
Thank you very much, Dr. Sledge.
By the way, because of your recommendation, I purchased volume I of Lynn Thorndike’s “History of Magic and Experimental Science.” This is one of the most interesting books I’ve read.
CLM849 - published as Forbidden Rites