How a Gnostic Book Combined Ancient Mystery Schools - Nag Hammadi Codex VI

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  • Опубликовано: 13 июл 2023
  • The Egyptian Gnostic Manuscript Library found in 1945 has transformed how we think about ancient Philosophy and Spirituality. Among those 12 codices is one more mysterious than all the others. Nag Hammadi Codex VI combines tales of Jesus as the angelic healer Lithargoel, narratives about the salvation of the soul in history, paradoxical utterances of an androgyne deity, the defeat of the persecuting Imitator by "Our Great Power" and several texts of profound Hermetic Wisdom and even a dash of Plato. In this episode I explore what is perhaps the most perplexing collection of ancient mystery wisdom to survive from antiquity.
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    Nongri's Blog on Nag Hammadi VI - brentnongbri.com/2018/07/10/a...
    " - God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts - 978-0300248609
    The Nag Hammadi Scriptures - 978-0061626005
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  • @TheEsotericaChannel
    @TheEsotericaChannel  10 месяцев назад +31

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    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 10 месяцев назад +5

      i think about you and Irving Finkel way too much, respectfully

    • @AdAdAdAdAdAdAdAdAdAd
      @AdAdAdAdAdAdAdAdAdAd 10 месяцев назад +1

      When a video on Joachim of Fiore?

    • @billkillernic
      @billkillernic 10 месяцев назад +1

      Where can one see scans of these fragments? Everything I google is like 3 pixel resolution makes it impossible to read...

    • @ron1313
      @ron1313 10 месяцев назад +2

      Wow I remember when there was 13K subscribers, congratulations bro! ❤
      I know it's a herculean endeavor, but can we do a series on the history of magic from around the world with the major discoveries (Temples, papyrus ect) & practices developed over time? Your series on the development of the Kaballa was amazing, thanks.
      3300-3200 BCE:
      During this period, in ancient Mesopotamia, the Sumerians developed a complex system of magic and divination. Clay tablets such as the "Burning of the House" ritual text demonstrate the use of spells and rituals for protection, healing, and exorcism.
      3200-3100 BCE:
      Egyptian civilization emerged during this period, and magical practices played a significant role in their culture. The "Hymn to the Nile" and "Pyramid Texts" contain references to spells, incantations, and rituals for communication with the gods and protection against evil forces.
      3100-3000 BCE:
      Ancient Egypt continued to develop its magical traditions. The "Coffin Texts" and "Book of the Dead" provide insights into spells and rituals performed during funerals and the afterlife. Magical amulets, such as the Eye of Horus, were also prevalent during this time.
      3000-2900 BCE:
      In ancient Mesopotamia, the Akkadians rose to power, and their magical practices focused on invoking and appeasing deities through rituals and offerings. The "Incantations of Ishtar" and the "Enuma Elish" are examples of texts that reference magical practices during this era.
      2900-2800 BCE:
      The Old Kingdom of Egypt witnessed the development of royal mortuary cults and the construction of the Great Pyramids. Magical spells and rituals were employed to ensure a smooth transition to the afterlife for pharaohs. Pyramid texts and magical inscriptions found in tombs shed light on these practices.
      2800-2700 BCE:
      In ancient Sumer, the city-states of Ur and Lagash thrived, and magical practices were integrated into religious ceremonies. Cuneiform tablets, such as the "Rituals of the Moon," detail the use of divination and prayers to the gods.
      2700-2600 BCE:
      During this period, the Indus Valley Civilization (in present-day Pakistan and northwest India) flourished, but our understanding of their magical practices is limited due to the lack of deciphered texts. Archaeological discoveries, including seals and amulets, suggest the existence of magical beliefs and rituals.

    • @user-ey8qu1wf4n
      @user-ey8qu1wf4n 10 месяцев назад +1

      Can you do one on the picatrix?

  • @3_Trees
    @3_Trees 10 месяцев назад +321

    Vendetta cannibalism sounds metal as heck

  • @thomashutcheson3343
    @thomashutcheson3343 10 месяцев назад +33

    "...reveals himself as Christ. As one does." Priceless!

  • @anthonystark6379
    @anthonystark6379 10 месяцев назад +38

    If you didn't have me at "vendetta cannibalism" you DEFINITELY had me at "physical forensic recreation"
    (My special interest is forensic reconstruction of textiles)

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 10 месяцев назад +4

      the meme potential is strong. and shirt potential.

    • @anthonystark6379
      @anthonystark6379 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@beepboop204 I need this as a hoodie **yesterday**

  • @interqward1
    @interqward1 10 месяцев назад +51

    This is not only one of the most content-rich channels anywhere, but this particular episode contains some truly perceptive and intellectual probings on ancient texts and ideas and the whole context of how these even came to be in existence, materially. We are today, not just inheritors of the ideas themselves, AND the books (or some of, and some fragments of) but privileged to have such people as Dr Justin Sledge convey them to us in his authentic scholarly style - and brain-power, let's be honest here!

    • @danu6718
      @danu6718 10 месяцев назад +1

      I wholeheartedly agree. I am fascinated by this research.

  • @amouramarie
    @amouramarie 10 месяцев назад +51

    This guy is such a pleasure to learn from. The very best kind of philosophical/religious/what have you teacher. The kind that, while having his own beliefs, is happy to help you learn all aspects of these topics that there are, so that you can make your own conclusions and find your own way. If only all leaders of the spiritual side of life taught like this. 🙏

    • @atombomb6719
      @atombomb6719 10 месяцев назад +1

      He's part Beast from Xmen
      The teacher from Ferris Bueller
      Anyone? Anyone?
      And part Merlyn

  • @Writhe_n_Shine
    @Writhe_n_Shine 10 месяцев назад +88

    Favorite. Episode. Ever.
    I've been stuck in this rabbit hole for a while now, but this synopsis style video covering so much at once (while really only talking about a single barely recognized object) is fantastic. It gives a sense of the whole exactly in the way I think you inteded it to (for myself at least).
    Quite a "Gnostic" experience, thank you. Cant wait to get some HWA merch! Still debating if I wanna wear a shirt with a demon mirror on it - but maybe... hmmm... treasure...

    • @virkots
      @virkots 10 месяцев назад +2

      SAME

    • @jmp01a24
      @jmp01a24 10 месяцев назад +1

      Ditto.

    • @campbellpaul
      @campbellpaul 10 месяцев назад +4

      This is my primary study right now, too. Very intriguing (but confusing) stuff..

    • @Writhe_n_Shine
      @Writhe_n_Shine 10 месяцев назад +1

      @hara3435 Ah yes, the holographic universe. Gnosticism: Digital Edition!
      Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out (^_^)

  • @Fr.O.G.
    @Fr.O.G. 10 месяцев назад +8

    The idea there's enough of an audience for this subject to have merch available makes the young philosophy major/OTO initiate/Elaine Pagels's lecture bootlegger in me's heart soar.

  • @jotapeguarnieri
    @jotapeguarnieri 10 месяцев назад +11

    Your channel is helping me become a healthier person!
    One thing I absolutely hate to do is working out. To make it more tolerable, I started listening to your videos when I'm exercising, it helps me take my mind off how much I hate doing it.
    Thanks for your fantastic content!

    • @TheEsotericaChannel
      @TheEsotericaChannel  10 месяцев назад +8

      That's great - I dream up many scripts working out !

  • @codex3048
    @codex3048 10 месяцев назад +10

    Appreciate your honesty in admitting that many of the Nag Hammadi texts are virtually incomprehensible to us today. The only thing we can be sure of is that there are esoteric meanings and phrases embedded in them that were only known to a select few at the time, and are well beyond recovery by us. To think that moderns are going to be able to decipher everything and explain it all is hubristic to the extreme.

    • @FoursWithin
      @FoursWithin 10 месяцев назад +6

      I'd state that the bible itself is largely incomprehensible to us today . Which accounts for the numerous interpretations for what the actual message that was meant to be conveyed.
      Literal, figurative, metaphor of this or that, mystical , psychological, astrological, and so on and so on.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 10 месяцев назад

      We might be able to get future AI to translate such texts for us

    • @lukeaustin4465
      @lukeaustin4465 7 месяцев назад

      Gnosis is simply knowledge but not the same as men see it (truth is in the eye of the beholder) the knowledge is TRANSFORMED to the individual through a new mind he knows differently. The mind of the true God knows differently to the mind of man (gods). Our true fundamental sin is missing the mark of that mind. All of reality is known differently with a new processor (mind) of the data coming into us.
      Many people I observe take the nag hammadi texts at face value literally as the form they are presented in, the problem they got there is how they know is faulty, so this "secret" knowledge isn't known to them because their sin hasn't gone, their sin/error is missing the mark of the truth. This is the same problem in any religion the overwhelming "multitude" take things in a carnal way, in each religion an elite class knows differently, a mystical way of knowing not "after the flesh", the remission of sin has happened to them.
      "This is how Gnosticism and mysticism came into existence in early and medieval Christianity, Sufism in the Islamic religion, Hasidism and Kabbala in Judaism, Advaita Vedanta in Hinduism, Zen and Dzogchen in Buddhism. Most of these schools were iconoclastic. They did away with layers upon layers of deadening conceptualization and mental belief structures, and for this reason most of them were viewed with suspicion and often hostility by the established religious hierarchies. Unlike mainstream religion, their teachings emphasized realization and inner transformation. It is through those esoteric schools or movements that the major religions regained the transformative power of the original teachings, although in most cases, only a small minority of people had access to them. Their numbers were never large enough to have any significant impact on the deep collective unconsciousness of the majority. Over time, some of those schools themselves became too rigidly formalized or conceptualized to remain effective." ~ Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
      Salvation is the result of being saved from the god that we are, the god of this world (which each individual must overcome, their own ego)
      Look carefully in the the first chapter of genesis, God there is plural...
      Gen 1:26 ASV And God (H430) said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
      H430 search
      Original: אלהים
      Transliteration: 'ĕlôhı̂ym
      Phonetic: el-o-heem'
      BDB Definition:
      (plural)
      rulers, judges
      divine ones
      angels
      gods
      It's secret knowledge in as much as it's hard for men to quiten there own minds from the perceived form and so they can't see what's hidden in PLAIN sight (blinded by the ego), the briain is constantly assembling reality to us, this is where the demiurge is.
      Joh 8:14-16 ASV 14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Even if I bear witness of myself, my witness is true; for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye know not whence I come, or whither I go. 15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. 16 Yea and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
      Jesus knows differently to how man knows, man goes by form/flesh, the form of reality, not the immaterial substantially reality itself... it's the gods role to give form to the formless (the true God is formless)...
      2Co 4:4-6 ASV 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
      darkness is simply the unmanifested, unlimited potential, the all, no name/title can describe.

  • @myblackaura
    @myblackaura 10 месяцев назад +52

    I think this has been one of your most rewarding episodes lately. I've been struggling with the longer episodes, and a bird's eye view like this makes it really worthwhile. Thanks as always.

  • @NiobiumThyme
    @NiobiumThyme 10 месяцев назад +13

    Not even 5 minutes in and we have already broached heart eating, cannibalistic blood feuds.
    Im intrigued.

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 10 месяцев назад +2

      thats why this stuff goes so good with black and death metal! and those horror-core rappers too

  • @samanthabirdx
    @samanthabirdx 10 месяцев назад +11

    May all of the obfuscated texts be revealed to you 🙏 out of the darkness, into the light.
    Appreciate your work.

    • @melissamoore521
      @melissamoore521 10 месяцев назад +2

      Amen, Shalom, and Namaste! I second this emotion!

    • @danielstone520
      @danielstone520 10 месяцев назад +2

      Send all the books

  • @cristoferurlaub7499
    @cristoferurlaub7499 10 месяцев назад +29

    Thank you so much for videos like these. I'm a religious person, but it's incredible to me that modern mainstream Christianity can be content with so little in terms of texts and resources they draw from. We're really missing out.

    • @maxwellsimon4538
      @maxwellsimon4538 10 месяцев назад

      That's an interesting perspective you have. Are there any texts or ideas from outside the mainstream you've integrated into your beliefs?

    • @user-fq4yz5ek3r
      @user-fq4yz5ek3r 10 месяцев назад +2

      I know so many other people of faith that I just want to tell them," keep reading the scriptures,but don't let that be the only book you read!". Our libraries hold 1,000s of years worth of the thoughts of the finest minds humanity could offer,but so few go there.

    • @cristoferurlaub7499
      @cristoferurlaub7499 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@user-fq4yz5ek3r And the few writings that made in into canon got there by politics more than spirituality

  • @sariahmarier42
    @sariahmarier42 10 месяцев назад +2

    I have this wonderful woman mentor, I call her my Hippy Godmother, which she hates because she says the hippies were the ones in the park smoking weed while she was studying philosophy and spirituality... But I find it incredible that so much of what she refers to as "the Ancient Wisdom Techings" coincide so completely with actual ancient wisdom teachings... especially books and manuscripts which were either not yet discovered in her time or which she (and those who taught her) may never have had access to before the advent of the internet. *She's 76 and doesn't even know how to use a computer. But she knows things mentioned in these texts... and that, I find astonishing!!!

  • @stevepbrady
    @stevepbrady 10 месяцев назад +9

    Love the use of William Blake's art. One of my personal favorites, and a great match for this content.

  • @Mikkelltheimmortal
    @Mikkelltheimmortal 10 месяцев назад +34

    Good day to you Dr. Sledge. I would like to once again thank you and everyone else for creating this channel. I really appreciate the work you do and that you're willing to do this for free. I wish I was in a better financial situation so I can throw a ton of money your way to help you keep going.

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 10 месяцев назад +3

      damn decent of you

    • @keyscook
      @keyscook 10 месяцев назад +1

      Likewise!

    • @chrishigh3858
      @chrishigh3858 10 месяцев назад

      i’m a patron and … gotta cut XPN oh dear, to afford

    • @chrishigh3858
      @chrishigh3858 10 месяцев назад

      giv just a little.

    • @Mikkelltheimmortal
      @Mikkelltheimmortal 10 месяцев назад

      @@chrishigh3858 how about you give for me. I'm already forced by my government to financially support religions that I want wiped from the planet. If you can convince them to stop stealing from me to finance their religion, than I can help support him. But till that happens, when someone openly admits that they are not in a good financial situation, don't badger them and make them feel worse. Seriously, that's exactly what JW's do and I F*ing hate it. And now all you've managed to do is piss me off, and show that you have learned absolutely nothing from Dr. Sledge

  • @MisterCynic18
    @MisterCynic18 10 месяцев назад +7

    I was not expecting an extremely metal history lesson to be the intro to this video

    • @TheEsotericaChannel
      @TheEsotericaChannel  10 месяцев назад +6

      You must not have been around here long ;)

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 10 месяцев назад +1

      i bet for people around my generation, Gaahl and bands like Wardruna and Heilung have done more to inform peoples ideas about neopaganism than your Alistair Crowleys or Anthony La Veys. its crazy that back in 2008 i did a presentation for university about the political ideologies of black metal, before you had alt right or otherwise neopagan/neofascist people all over the internet, when it was a total fringe thing to present. crazy stuff!

    • @MisterCynic18
      @MisterCynic18 10 месяцев назад

      @@TheEsotericaChannel not long enough it seems, I was expecting all the hardcore stuff to wait until you dug into the texts themselves

    • @MisterCynic18
      @MisterCynic18 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@beepboop204 eluveitie and moonsorrow were my intros 🤘

  • @Jaylicelizpectre
    @Jaylicelizpectre 10 месяцев назад +8

    Just read Thunder: Perfect Mind for the first time and it struck me as very proto-Nietzchean… so maybe, backwards in time, very Heraclitean. It works in contradictory and suggestive aphorisms to work towards a vision of grandeur - what’s distinctly different is that thunder perfect mind is more Platonist/ transcendental, while Heraclitus and Nietzche are (to be kinda reductive) immanent philosophers

  • @carrie5980
    @carrie5980 10 месяцев назад +2

    I feel like Vendetta Cannibalism should be on one of the t-shirts or coffee mugs in your merch store now. 😅

  • @johncollins211
    @johncollins211 10 месяцев назад +3

    Dr sledgehammer at it again striking down the hoards of the profane with his malleus gnosis.

  • @phillipbernhardt-house6907
    @phillipbernhardt-house6907 10 месяцев назад +5

    Superb treatment of this particular codex of the Nag Hammadi Library!
    It's precisely this sort of thing that needs to be asked more: why are the texts we have in certain manuscripts there, why are they in the order they are, what motivations might have gone into organizing entire volumes, and so forth. I've touched on it lightly in some of the things I've published in relation to Irish material, and hope to do more of it eventually (the "To Do" list for academic things in my case is pretty extensive currently, alas!).
    On a separate note: I look forward to working with you in the near future, and would love to just chat for a bit at some point, if you'd be available and interested in doing so!

  • @flowerpt
    @flowerpt 10 месяцев назад +2

    Good call including the construction/handling history into. I thought about the monks hiding the books in the sand in the back of my mind throughout the video.

  • @Pallasathena-hv4kp
    @Pallasathena-hv4kp 10 месяцев назад +5

    As usual, thank you for these wonderful and above average videos 😁 My interest in Crowley began in the 1980’s when my parents took me to an anti-rock music seminar. I went logically from Crowley to the word “Gnostic,” and grabbed a copy of the Nag Hammadi library (a large tan paperback) in my 20’s. Now, being in my 50’s, I applaud your work which helps keep my curiosity alive ‘n’ kickin.’ 👏

    • @MsAldil
      @MsAldil 5 месяцев назад

      How did learning the Nag hammadi help you in these 30 years of life???

  • @Dank-gb6jn
    @Dank-gb6jn 10 месяцев назад +24

    Thank you for this wonderful work Dr! As a rebuilding Christian, I have found it necessary to study all aspects of Christianity (as best a layman can); and have decided to deep dive into Gnosticism, which this video will surely help with.

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 10 месяцев назад +3

      in either a Heidegger or Wittgenstein book i read, there was some sort of anecdote to the effect that texts are like oranges: its best for you to enjoy extracting the juices, rather than having someone else break it down to the bare elements and present you with dry, barebones orange remains. it can be very fascinating to revisit things we were first exposed to as kids, and see how really juicy they are in hindsight.

    • @Dank-gb6jn
      @Dank-gb6jn 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@beepboop204 indeed, experiences are generally best understood personally, the same can be said with knowledge and textual study. I have to get around to getting a full collection of the Nag along with a more accurate collection of the complete Apocrypha (nobody ever includes the full collection of Enoch).

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@Dank-gb6jn at least as someone with autism amongst other issues, ive found it best to look at things as being inter-subjective, human level experiences. but yes, as much as quantitative statistics are valued by your modern sort of mind, its important to afford at least some space to qualitative experiences. sometimes its about the journey, not about arriving instantaneously at the destination.

  • @CatMcCarthy7
    @CatMcCarthy7 10 месяцев назад +3

    I’ve just read Thunder: Perfect Mind, from the Nag Hammadi, and I am struck that it reminds me of the writings of Rumi…
    And also, that unlike Rumi, which comes across in a very loving, compassionate and uplifting tone, this writing feels as though it’s carrying a warning to pay attention. Although, that could be the way it was translated, I suppose. i’ve had the nog Hammadi for years I must confess have not read the entire thing, but many of the pieces that I have read really speak to me of the eternal nature of our existence. I also love how the feminine is so prominent in these writings.
    Thank you for this very stimulating channel!

  • @allangardiner2515
    @allangardiner2515 10 месяцев назад +2

    This lecture is a tour de force of erudition, analysis and communication.

  • @Bildgesmythe
    @Bildgesmythe 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thunder Perfect Mind has fascinated me since i heard it on a commercial. I was floored when I found out how old it was . It hurts to think of all the treasures that turned to dust or ash. One reason book burning makes me sick. Everyone should get a lead tablet and write their favorite sayings on it , then bury it. I do fear we will only be known for Internet memes

  • @jasonmitchell5219
    @jasonmitchell5219 10 месяцев назад +11

    Wow, the hits just keep coming with this channel. I love the balance, smarts and humour Justin invokes to bring these ancient texts alive. Tbh, I doubt I would 'spend' my time indulging in these obscure, though often mesmerising and thoroughly stimulating videos if it wasn't for this mans verve. No blowing of smoke up the ass intended. My regards as always.

  • @GnosticInformant
    @GnosticInformant 10 месяцев назад +9

    Esoterica at his finest!

  • @RugMerchant
    @RugMerchant 10 месяцев назад +11

    Noticed you briefly mentioned Manicheanism in the video regard 1468 years being a Manichean number. Will we ever see the Cologne Mani-Codex or the subject of Manicheanism covered more broadly on this channel in the future?

  • @patrickcrowley5258
    @patrickcrowley5258 10 месяцев назад +3

    I think you’d love the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz if you haven’t already read it. It deals directly with a lot of the topics about why we copy and how do we assign value to what we copy. 16:42

  • @joshuapoland3862
    @joshuapoland3862 10 месяцев назад +2

    My goodness, this makes me worry about an electronic failure being worse than the burning of The Great Library.

  • @Saffron-sugar
    @Saffron-sugar 10 месяцев назад +6

    So excited for this

  • @project.anubis
    @project.anubis 10 месяцев назад +2

    I could hear you talking about Nag Hammadi library for hours... I'm really glad you made an other great video on this topic !

  • @theeccentrictripper3863
    @theeccentrictripper3863 10 месяцев назад +7

    Excellent as always, I may have to take you up on that challenge to read Codex VI with a beginner's mind, sounds like an intriguing endeavor. Gotta say though the Julian comment seems anachronistic, in contrast to his predecessors he made a point of never violently suppressing Christians or banning their books, he just banned them from teaching Christian theology using classical works, which might've made them reeeeeee but it certainly wouldn't have caused a Nero or Antiochus-like loathing found in earlier works. Julian employed Christians and took them on campaign with him, he had contemporary shade thrown on him for his apostasy specifically and for his perceived barbarity in reinstituting sacrifices but on the whole he was remarkably tolerant to Christianity given his pet project of undermining their influence in the Empire.

  • @davidgomez-wt7pn
    @davidgomez-wt7pn 10 месяцев назад +13

    Wow. I've watched and enjoyed hours of this channel. This episode feels like a treat for having grappled with all the various schools and forms of thought about the mind and the soul that have been presented. The context, the richness of imagination across space and time, the painstaking labor of transmitting these thoughts; all of this filtered through the vicissitudes and sheer madness of human history. Exciting, invigorating, exquisite!

    • @Super1d3go
      @Super1d3go 10 месяцев назад +1

      Brilliantly stated

  • @BearsArms45
    @BearsArms45 10 месяцев назад +2

    He should definitely form a black metal band called vendetta cannibalism.
    Blast beats and guttural vocals over hava nagila.
    Awesome.

  • @ZBott
    @ZBott 10 месяцев назад +1

    Keep thinking about the codex's name like a Mel Brooks bit. "Nag Hammadi? What's Nag Hammadi?" "Nothing's Nag Hammadi with me."

  • @marksingleton7199
    @marksingleton7199 10 месяцев назад +3

    You can see your passion come out when talking about the codex.
    Excellent.
    It is as if they have all the information but struggle to make sence of it and so disagree about how the mind, body, soul connect.
    Excellent.

  • @CiceroHilo
    @CiceroHilo Месяц назад

    He is very interesting. I have stepped through the veil of this knowing and found my spirit resting there.

  • @cheri238
    @cheri238 10 месяцев назад +6

    Thank you, Dr. Sledge for your wisdom and knowledge and for your videos. ❤
    Awesome!!!!

  • @Aedward
    @Aedward 10 месяцев назад +2

    thank you good doctor.

  • @ipos1070
    @ipos1070 10 месяцев назад +3

    Great video.
    I know they found a Buddhist statue in Egypt.
    Some people claim Jesus went to Tibet and became a Buddhist convert.
    The story of escaping the material world is also Buddhist.
    Did you know that some cultures pronounced Jupiter like Zupiter. Jesus, like Zeus. Interesting at least isn't that?

  • @boostkash2640
    @boostkash2640 10 месяцев назад +1

    I like the way this guy narrates everything.

  • @TheTarotDJ333
    @TheTarotDJ333 10 месяцев назад +4

    Awesome teaching today!!! Thanks, Justin! ✌️🦄

  • @LuciferAyanami
    @LuciferAyanami 3 месяца назад +1

    The Nag Hammadi texts were originally in Latin, Translated to Coptic later on. They resonate with me strongly because they were discovered in 1945, the same year Hiroshima and Nagasaki hit my favourite spiritual country, Japan. 🗾 FYI. Thanks for your expose, Jewish Gentleman. :)

  • @ryank2434
    @ryank2434 8 месяцев назад +1

    Fascinating, I always appreciate when you touch on gnostic themes. Thanks as always.

  • @PicseaMuse
    @PicseaMuse 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks! You’re awesome!!

  • @jordansheen2571
    @jordansheen2571 10 месяцев назад +1

    Wow, when you spoke of Plato's lion, multiheaded beast, and human it sounded a whole lot like Freud's super ego, id, and ego.

  • @StoneInMySandal
    @StoneInMySandal 10 месяцев назад +6

    I always learn something from every one of your episodes. That vendetta cannibalism was one of today’s takeaways is surprising, and strangely satisfying.

    • @beepboop204
      @beepboop204 10 месяцев назад +1

      delicious snacks for food for thought

    • @dbarker7794
      @dbarker7794 10 месяцев назад

      How did the murderer describe the heart he ate? "strangely satisfying."

    • @melissamoore521
      @melissamoore521 10 месяцев назад

      Actually, living in 3D requires that a spirit/soul consume something in order to live long enough to experience the separation from Divine. So when the last supper offer was "Eat this bread, for it is my flesh... Drink this wine, for it is my blood" is true for us all...

  • @Cross-Carrier
    @Cross-Carrier 10 месяцев назад +2

    My favourite Dr/ Rabbi / wizard / 👍🏻 Always love to see a new video.

  • @MrSomethingElse
    @MrSomethingElse 10 месяцев назад +2

    Dr., dude, thanks.

  • @mamayoda123
    @mamayoda123 9 месяцев назад +1

    I always appreciate your clear explanations and insights on complex topics. Thank you so much, Dr. Sledge.

  • @Louise1107
    @Louise1107 10 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for this, totally love this episode ❤😊 had a couple of good giggles too 😂😅

  • @BoozewithNick
    @BoozewithNick 10 месяцев назад +2

    We need a drinking game where we do a shot each time Justin says “vendetta cannibalism”.

  • @neverplus_pbb321
    @neverplus_pbb321 10 месяцев назад +4

    Thank you for this set of summaries in particular and for this channel in general.

  • @b.w.2849
    @b.w.2849 10 месяцев назад +3

    Another amazing video! Thank you Dr. Sledge!

  • @virkots
    @virkots 10 месяцев назад +1

    Needed this today, thank you!

  • @Alritealritealrite
    @Alritealritealrite 10 месяцев назад +2

    Ive been enjoying this channel for about a week and your work is very much appreciated ! Amazing channel

  • @elizabeth2621
    @elizabeth2621 10 месяцев назад +5

    Love everything you do Dr!! Your channel is my favorite :)

  • @fernandovortex
    @fernandovortex 10 месяцев назад +3

    Thanks!

  • @osvaldoolmeda3773
    @osvaldoolmeda3773 10 месяцев назад +2

    It was a great deep dive into the historical records! Great video!

  • @melissamoore521
    @melissamoore521 10 месяцев назад +1

    Petitioning The Divine to bless you beyond reason. Namaste, and a deeply sincere 'Thank you" for all of your work. I am particularly happy that I worked out the correct pronunciation of 'Nag Hammadi' before internet/youtube could help us. Continue as you are, soldier. =.D

  • @sagenerd419
    @sagenerd419 4 месяца назад

    Freaky line up with dreams I've been exploring. Thank you for your upload 🖖🏽❤️

  • @geraldmeehan8942
    @geraldmeehan8942 10 месяцев назад +5

    Thank you Dr Sledge for yet another informative and entertaining episode. Keep up the good work!

  • @MichaelYoder1961
    @MichaelYoder1961 10 месяцев назад +5

    As always, I learn something from these videos. Thanks, Dr. Justin! I'd be interested in seeing you do something on Paracelsus as a physic more than his alchemy - a little I know is that he was fairly "holistic" in his approach and supported the idea of specialization for physics.

  • @crispincain5373
    @crispincain5373 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you. I appreciate your perspectives

  • @thescoobymike
    @thescoobymike 10 месяцев назад +3

    3:35 sounds like a scene from Indiana Jones

  • @vrmartin202
    @vrmartin202 10 месяцев назад

    Excellent and interesting presentation as always!

  • @user-gr7wd4kg3e
    @user-gr7wd4kg3e 10 месяцев назад +2

    Fascinating discussion... Don't know I'd ever considered the editing & collection of the texts before, thank you for bringing it up.

  • @g.nolandehart501
    @g.nolandehart501 8 месяцев назад +2

    I just really love what you do bro. Grateful for all your hard work. 🤙

  • @JordanVincent
    @JordanVincent 10 месяцев назад +1

    You're on fire in this one. Fantastic work

  • @cadmusravenstag4403
    @cadmusravenstag4403 10 месяцев назад +1

    Love your videos!

  • @osonhodeleon
    @osonhodeleon 7 месяцев назад

    A fascinating subject and great video. Thank you for posting.

  • @stephclark4715
    @stephclark4715 10 месяцев назад +16

    Gender is a grift 😂😂😂 I simply love your commentary. So educational and so entertaining!

  • @erinpilla
    @erinpilla 2 месяца назад +1

    Athanasius "look at me I am orthodoxy now" made me laugh 😂😂😂😂

  • @tawan20082008
    @tawan20082008 10 месяцев назад +1

    thanks , nice video and the narration and presentation was goid

  • @donseesyourshaydim7529
    @donseesyourshaydim7529 10 месяцев назад +7

    Man, you're recent vids are great. Your past ones are fantastic too,but this last batch is packed with inspiring info. I am on vacation. I went to the Jewish quarter of Gerona. And the "Kabbalah Garden" these. Amazing history there.Your channel got me into all of this!

  • @VIP-ry6vv
    @VIP-ry6vv 10 месяцев назад +1

    Reading thunder perfect mind was a profound experience that would not have been mine without you making it accessible to me. I agree on your statement of reading it aloud and would go one further to implore one to sing it as a hymn. Thank you!

  • @ChrisWizzerd
    @ChrisWizzerd 10 месяцев назад +1

    This was such a good vid. I share all content, thank you Dr.

  • @ryank2434
    @ryank2434 8 месяцев назад

    Thank you for your work

  • @cyntheticgaming
    @cyntheticgaming 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you for introducing me to this, so interesting!!!

  • @jesseglass5674
    @jesseglass5674 10 месяцев назад +1

    Love the metaphor of the gravity well to model the range of concerns documented in the codices.
    .

  • @caradianne
    @caradianne 10 месяцев назад +2

    Great video, as always, the poem recommendation was spot on.
    But I can't help hearing "as one does" in the John Mulaney voice, and now I just want to hear him read "and he later revealed himself to be Jesus, you know, *as one does*"

  • @spacecowboy3063
    @spacecowboy3063 10 месяцев назад

    That was amazing as always and thanks to watching this channel for a while i do have the texts of Codex VI laying around here somewhere so i know what im doing this afternoon.

  • @Animalis_Mundana
    @Animalis_Mundana 10 месяцев назад +1

    Well done!

  • @adamwells9352
    @adamwells9352 10 месяцев назад +5

    I know the saying is that the _winners_ write the history, but has anyone considered that it's probably the winners' _editors_?

  • @bobliminal2664
    @bobliminal2664 10 месяцев назад

    Best episode yet!!

  • @marmorgo5021
    @marmorgo5021 10 месяцев назад

    Hello Justin! May all go your way.

  • @Duocaster
    @Duocaster 10 месяцев назад

    a very nice little change of pace in the intro! pleasant

  • @ThisTrainIsLost
    @ThisTrainIsLost 10 месяцев назад +1

    These esoteric videos are tantalising indeed. I have been watching them for quite some time in hopes of finding clarification on the relationship between knowledge, belief and faith, having reached one conclusion to date: faith is choosing to believe in the absence of knowledge. I believe a re-examination of your older videos is in order. Something fruitful to pursue while awaiting your next video. Thank you for doing the heavy lifting!
    (And a look at your Patreon page is overdue.)

  • @lucyalicenox5871
    @lucyalicenox5871 10 месяцев назад +6

    The section on Plato’s Republic immediately set off tarot alarm bells in my head which I totally was not expecting. The cards the chariot and strength both deal with using will to guide passions, but it has a slightly different take. Instead of both being controlled like a chariot, it seems that the lower passions are controlled, and the higher passions are tamed with patience ( the woman either taming or riding a lion depicted in the strength card). Very interesting stuff

  • @TheMysticPete
    @TheMysticPete 10 месяцев назад

    Always brilliant!

  • @fattail01
    @fattail01 10 месяцев назад +4

    Greetings goodman,
    It has been a pleasure to watch your content. I feel like I am engaging in a conscious deliberation, both with you and myself. It presents both challenge and intrigue. So I thank you kindly for sharing.
    There is a topic of history which I am very interested in; the creation and use of palimpsests. I wondered if you might ever consider doing a video on such things?
    Are there ancient forms of such things? And what are some of the most significant or lesser known? Very interested to hear your perspective on these documents.
    Thanks again for the content, see you on the next one!
    Regards and Good Health.

  • @Iamiamiamiamthatiam
    @Iamiamiamiamthatiam 10 месяцев назад +2

    Of course the people didn’t deserve to know, even though we have ears! I love to sit down with you and talk about this stuff. Nobody talks about it in the manner you do not really. You are right when you say miracle. Those books are ours and they were put here for us and I hit them away so me and you have to make sure the people that have ears here and I use ears referring to intuition of course because that’s all that there is is the inside.

  • @andreatolchinsky7698
    @andreatolchinsky7698 10 месяцев назад

    Fascinating video ❤

  • @davidb1565
    @davidb1565 10 месяцев назад +1

    "Bound together sometime around 3.39-3.42"...I was so hoping you'd end that with "certainly around tea time anyway" 😂.

    • @TheEsotericaChannel
      @TheEsotericaChannel  10 месяцев назад +1

      American here ;)

    • @davidb1565
      @davidb1565 10 месяцев назад +1

      @TheEsotericaChannel That's hardly an excuse 🧐😉. A little surprised you didn't recognise a Life of Brian reference though.

  • @kimberlyrogers9953
    @kimberlyrogers9953 10 месяцев назад

    I thoroughly enjoy your sense of humour 😊

  • @jdewit8148
    @jdewit8148 10 месяцев назад

    Another great one on your behalf, I am lapping it up.
    Please give us more of the same calibre 👍.