On Demons - St. Augustine's City of God (Book IX)

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  • Опубликовано: 11 дек 2024

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  • @TheModernHermeticist
    @TheModernHermeticist  3 года назад +41

    Please like, subscribe, and leave a comment to please the ethereal algorithm demons.

  • @spazzychalk
    @spazzychalk 3 года назад +8

    Thank you so much for having proper closed captions added to this. It's such a rare thing and yet so important when dealing in this subject

  • @elizabethdesousa8290
    @elizabethdesousa8290 3 года назад +9

    a voice I can actually listen to. Great as usual.

  • @Kailspars
    @Kailspars 3 года назад +9

    Thank you for your work, Dan!
    St. Augustine's treatise seems, in a sense, like a logical deduction why the relation of man to non-physical entities has changed since the birth of Christ. This brought me back to Swedenborg's work, claiming that by God being born and reborn as Christ, the law of this realm seems to allow for other human being's to follow suit. As magical practices cannot "pay" for freedom similarly to you cannot pay someone to exercise in your stead. Just like being physically strong is a state you enter by following procedure, it seems rational to assume that spiritual "perfection" is a state you enter and act out daily as well.
    Us having travelled down through all the Planetary layers, assuming the corresponding bodies and capacities of each (willingly or not) seems like a question being asked - "can this sort of life find liberation?" As the Gods cannot give anything above themselves, petitioning them for something that belongs to the One God would be pointless.
    Achieving freedom seems like a fiercely grand ambition. I can only hope to be blessed with understanding even part of the design some day.

    • @ellemnop123
      @ellemnop123 Год назад +1

      This is indeed the philosophy of Orthodox Christianity, to which Saint Augustine converted but Catholicism abandoned. Theosis is the goal. The lives of modern Orthodox saints such as Saint Paisios, Saint Porphyrios, and Saint John of Kronstadt may be of interest to you.

    • @Smoug
      @Smoug Год назад

      @@ellemnop123 could you please elaborate more on why Augustine fits more the orthodox christianity and how catholicism changed that?

  • @Snail_Knight
    @Snail_Knight 3 года назад +9

    Much appreciated, Sir.
    Always happy to see your work!

  • @brown2889
    @brown2889 3 года назад +8

    This is extremely intellectually stimulating Dan. Thank you.
    It reminds me of Origen’s writings. Gregory of Nyssa. It sure would be nice if you could elaborate some of those writings. They are similar.

  • @paulh2468
    @paulh2468 3 года назад +5

    Thank you very much for narrating and uploading this work.

  • @calinmuresan91
    @calinmuresan91 3 года назад +2

    Fantastic words and fantastic ideas, or the spring thereof from which these things and works come. Thank you!

  • @delco2035
    @delco2035 3 года назад +2

    pretty interesting ! i very much like your pace, it is very pleasing to listen to.

  • @roxanavasilakis9435
    @roxanavasilakis9435 3 года назад +4

    Thank so much 💛

  • @drawingdownthestars
    @drawingdownthestars 3 года назад +11

    Interested in your thoughts on God's and demons considering I've heard you describe yourself as an esoteric Christian. Do agree with the ideas presented here?

  • @nadiatereshchenko3607
    @nadiatereshchenko3607 Год назад +2

    Thank you for your work.

  • @OLDEPHAR
    @OLDEPHAR 3 года назад +9

    🇩🇰❤️MUCH love from DENMARK

  • @Itsajourneything
    @Itsajourneything 3 года назад +4

    thanks so much for the upload! would you consider doing Tetrabiblos one day? much appreciated :):)

  • @MurManParKer-l5c
    @MurManParKer-l5c Месяц назад +1

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  • @epic6434
    @epic6434 2 года назад +4

    Demons flee if we're in God's hands and Demons are sent to do the will of God as the Angels they are above yet below the children of God. Miserable is not a everlasting mood they change by company and availability but what is misery to one is nothing but a moment for other's. Happiness comes at moments if one is happy with life daily is blessed with satisfaction but we all encounter many moods and problems even great moments if you're not able to agree feel free to give your own opinion.

  • @spazzychalk
    @spazzychalk 3 года назад +1

    I listened to this whole reading hoping to find the basis of why people say that St Augustine believed that demons were not their own entities, but rather aspects of the human mind, such as the modern concept of inner demons. Could you point me to what I'm looking for

  • @jackdarby2168
    @jackdarby2168 3 года назад +2

    Wow very well narated

  • @Bildgesmythe
    @Bildgesmythe Год назад +2

    Ah, the algorithm demons.

  • @veronicasponchia5838
    @veronicasponchia5838 2 года назад +1

    Demons are forever to paraphrase a song.

  • @eyeofjustice777
    @eyeofjustice777 3 года назад +2

    probably because I was reading some nifty scifi but when i listened to this i wondered if demons lived in black holes and dark matter with the devil trying to cause the universe to contract instead of expand..just something that came to mind

    • @Eblis840
      @Eblis840 3 года назад

      That reminds me of "Maxwells Demon" thought experiment, what where you reading?

    • @eyeofjustice777
      @eyeofjustice777 3 года назад

      @@Eblis840 cool dude i'll have to look that up...just a little frederik pohl "heechee rendezvous"

  • @seppotaalasmaa5171
    @seppotaalasmaa5171 3 года назад +2

    Where ancient Daemons come from? I know seven planetary rulers, but this is mystery to me. Higher self, or maybe personal quardian angels?

  • @BeforeTheCause
    @BeforeTheCause 3 года назад +2

    Chapter 19 though, eh?...heheh. Especially the closing.

  • @z.s.n.
    @z.s.n. 2 года назад +2

    All hail the great algorithm.

  • @TheoWilliams-BT
    @TheoWilliams-BT 3 года назад +1

    Hi Dan, I don't see any atribution of the picture you usde during the reading, would you please post it. I would love to look at the original as well. Who painted it? Thank you for your work

    • @TheoWilliams-BT
      @TheoWilliams-BT 3 года назад +3

      The ceiling of the Room of Constantine by Tommaso Lauretti is an allegorical depiction of the triumph of Christianity over paganism with the classical statue lying broken at the foot of the Crucifix. Found it, thank you.

  • @KamikazethecatII
    @KamikazethecatII 3 года назад +1

    that picture though feels bad man

  • @yieldsfalsehood8863
    @yieldsfalsehood8863 3 года назад +5

    Like his critique of the stoics.

  • @fragiro7350
    @fragiro7350 2 года назад +2

    algo prayer

  • @Cholatemilk1
    @Cholatemilk1 3 года назад +4

    Hell ya dan

  • @peterprochilo4555
    @peterprochilo4555 2 года назад

    Huh, Augustine going in deep on the Platonist views...nice.

    • @peterprochilo4555
      @peterprochilo4555 2 года назад

      Interesting in that Augustine seems to frame Christ's intercessory role within the context of Platonism...

  • @rascalferret
    @rascalferret 3 года назад

    kings of heaven vs princes of hell. eternal 7 on 7 within. princes are the underdog...

  • @araincs
    @araincs Год назад

    Lot of coping from Augustine. Oh these other gods are inferior because they are subject to human emotions but when God is angry (or jealous etc.) its just a metaphor because hes actually isnt subject to emotion and therefore superior to pagan gods.

  • @scifiaudious2
    @scifiaudious2 2 года назад +1

    microbial life that they didnt know about

  • @ollimekatl
    @ollimekatl 2 года назад +1

    What i find interesting is that in the "old world", churches were built as homes/stargates/where one could communicate/reach/reciecve guidance from their imagined god. All of this being borrowed from much more ancient civilizations.
    While in the new world, no single structure prior to Roman Catholic invasion, was built to worship/to communicate with/as home of any god and no gods existed in the cosmology or philosophy of the ancients of this “old world”.
    If someone's confused, I am not surprised, because the institutional definitions of these structures and ideas are imbeded in their mind and they can’t escape it because, they're institutionalized.

    • @epic6434
      @epic6434 2 года назад

      Where do you think the Roman Catholic Vatican was inspired from? What God's purpose for the people? To save if they don't want God then the devil Zeus falls upon them with all thy angels of destruction if you'd rather have their names fitting to the proper group Jupiter Minerva so on.If your confused it's cause you are.

    • @ollimekatl
      @ollimekatl 2 года назад

      @@epic6434 You didn’t understand what I was saying.

    • @Smoug
      @Smoug Год назад

      @@ollimekatl But some American ancient civilizations did buitl temples

    • @ollimekatl
      @ollimekatl Год назад

      @@Smoug Yes, but they were star maps and served as schools and places to gather and trade.
      They were not worship temples.

  • @MurManParKer-l5c
    @MurManParKer-l5c 28 дней назад

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