As someone who practices yoga and has taken yoga teacher training, it is refreshingly captivating to see parallels and differences between ancient vadic and western mystery traditions on the metaphysics of breath. Excellent content 👌
Sunday has become that much better with your video today. The specifics and purposes of ritual/offerings/sacrifices, and the importance of alter fires, incense and all such aromas has always fascinated me. Every substance and sense perception is imbued with the divine to varying extents as far as I’ve heard/read. It really brightens all of life and existence in a way I never felt before, like finding a light switch that, when turned on, shows a truth in our surroundings. The logos in the otherwise mundane and normal we take for granted in our lives. Edit: The fact you cite Cavafy makes me happy beyond belief, I found his poetry during the end of the pandemic, he was the last book on the second floor corner of my library. His and Fernando Pessoa’s poetry helped me find the person I am today. Such a man ahead of his time ❤
A fellow poetry lover. And Cafafy! One of the greats from Greece. I have read Pessoa's yet but it's on my ever increasing list. During the pandemic I was reading a lot of Yeats, and writing a lot of my own poetry, often with gnostic/alchemical themes. That hasn't dried up (as you can probably tell by my RUclips channel name). Great to meet you!
Holy cow this video got my brain churning. I was thinking of the plot to Orestei by Aeschylus and the concept of Hospitality being upheld and in that moment I was definitely thinking of Odin, to which you flash that you apparently did a video on? Excellent. You know who is also a "Spear-Shaker" divine breather? Odin. Also involved with runes (language), breath, and poetry.
@@j3fr0uk I found this information in Van der Leeuw's "Phenomenology of religion", but you can check any etymological dictionary. Anyway, why do you think it is pig-latin? It's pretty intuitve that ancient people could associate breath with agency. Even English words like "animal" or "animation" suggest that. You breathe = You have soul, It's simply agent detection.
@@j3fr0uk I know what does pig latin mean, but I do not understand why do you think that word "anima" or it's etymology has anything to do with pig latin.
Another fantastic piece of work Abbas. An observation on your commentary on the sun consuming the fog/mist of the morning; when I practice the Empedocles technique using all 5 senses as sacraments a very unusual thing happens. As the procedure takes hold my vision completely fogs out as though I’m enveloped in a mist or morning fog. I become functionally blind in this state which was at first a bit strange. Gradually this fog is burned off which restores a new kind of vision which is impossible to describe. It’s as though reality is lit by a different sun. Hopefully other people out there are practicing the Empedocles techniques!
In the future, I'd love to interview him. I'm soon to start a podcast, going with the other poetry videos I make, which include other areas of interest like psychology, philosophy, the occult, and more.
Seems to suggest a sanctification and ritual offering of even our most common of physical exertions. The spirit in which something is offered would make this more of an offering, certainly.
The Rosicrucians have an interesting practice of inhalation to withdraw the vital forces from the limbs into the heart: “I must decrease, but he (Christ) must increase.” The vital forces are then exhaled back into the limbs: “he (Christ) must increase, but I must decrease.” It is said that, with time, the blood becomes impregnated and transformed.
@@nathanhassallpoetry You can find information about it in Samuel Robinson’s book Alois Mailander: A Rosicrucian Remembered, as well as in Gustav Meyrink’s book The Transformation of the Blood.
@@danawright777 Thank you. What a title for a book, The Transformation of the Blood. I just wrote a poem last week that used blood as a repeated image and refrain during a numinous experience involving a succubus-type energy. Once it's published in a lit mag I'll make a video of it for my RUclips channel. Thank you for your suggestions I've wishlist one book and searching where to source another. 🙏
I shared this and other videos with my group, I have been wondering whether theurgy is the most effective method for previously secular people to become more in-tune with their innate divinity and adopt it into their daily life. Thank you for your hard work, it is not unnoticed. Hægl Woden, Broþor
The more things change the more they stay the same. In order for things to stay the same, they must also change. Just as there are two selves, there are also two worlds. One static and the other dynamic forced together in an unequal but equally necessary combination. The change is brought about by "evil" which is a disharmonic excess of good causing an expansion until a macro limit is reached and everything rebegins anew.
Do you have a list of sources for this video? It is exceptionally interesting and I want to use your research as a starting point for exploring the sources further.
You should check out the books by Jason Read and the books by Nathan Brine, both Daoists though of very different sorts. Much of this video made me think of their work.
@@abbasalchemist I was trying to suss out the etymology of Erinyes/Erinys/the Furies, big speculation rabbit hole. One of the suggested roots was ὀρίνω (orínō, “to stir up, excite”, thought sometimes also associated with anger. Seemed to fit with the theme of Thumos, once again all relating back to Athena, as the Furies are converted to the Eumenides (good-minded (menos) ones) at the court of Athena at Aeropagus. Some attributed Erinys to ἔρις (éris, “strife”), relating back all again to the same concepts. The Erinyes are born of spilt BLOOD upon the earth, which "rise", much like rising up to the pores aka the earth? The Etymologicum Magnum, a text created in the 12th century in Byzantium, has some interesting things to say about the etymology of Erinys. “Furies, vengeful goddesses of paternal transgressions. They pursue the children of those who have committed wrong. The name comes from the fact that they live in the earth [era, reconstructed from the form ἔραζε], which means they live in the earth. Or, something that comes from the earth is called eranus, which becomes erinus. For the Fury is a khthonic goddess. in Hesiod (Works and Days and Theogony), Eris is associated with the earth. The Etymologicum Gudianum (and others) associated Eris with the act of speech: “Eris comes from “speaking” [eirô], which is the same as legô; this is a type of conflict that comes from words…
@@apokalupsishistoria I like this analysis. The Erinyes being protectors of justice, punishing the stain of blood guilt---the chthonic, primordial forces that operated under the old dispensation prior to Athena's ruling. Your reference to "orino", as a "stirring up" and "exciting", brings to mind the notion of "agitation"---agitating the waters. There's a reason why Homer and many poets after him, refer to the "wine-dark sea", the colour of wine is reminiscent of blood, blood is reminiscent of passions and high intensity of emotion. Therefore, the wine-dark sea is more a psychological state of mind experienced by Odysseus and the events that transpire around him, rather than an objective observable phenomenon. After all, it's always mentioned around the moments something catastrophic or upsetting occurs. The Erinyes in my mind, manifest themselves as "gnawing conscience", but are not reducible to it. I've wanted to make a video for some time regarding "mania" and the Furies and Keres. I think a lot of our psychological disturbances are linked to violence upon the human being on a large scale. Thank you for your thought-provoking comments.
It’s my BA IT IS THIS, BUT IT’S ALSO THE FEELING IN YOUR BODY, YOU GET THIS FROM GETTING THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE BA THAT AWAKENS YOUR KA AND MAKES ANKH-then THE MERKABA
what would be then metaphysical/esoteric consequences of a person who has sinusitis or lost its sense of smell due to this or that reason and may find it harder to breathe through the nose than before. feels symbolic no
Interestingly, I was thinking along similar lines the other day. If you burn incense and start to feel an allergic reaction, like a runny nose, the Greeks would also see this as the vital fluids (like the cerebrospinal fluid) escaping to the outside---once again indicating how porous the boundaries between the inside and the outside actually are. This isn't of course a hard and fast rule by any stretch of the imagination---if you're allergic or blocked in some way, there are other fragrances to use, and if the olfactory pathway is not functioning, theurgical practice can allow for other modes of communication.
It may be a sign of loss of psychic abilities. But smelling, as in the jnanendrias, is just one, it doesn't amount to much, unless some kind of spiritual "smelling" or discernment is our aim. In that case, training to develop that particular faculty, indryia, becomes an opportunity for growth, and may even mitigate the physical condition.
Thank you. Having said that, whereas (according to kabbalah) sight (chochmah) implies discernment from afar, like that of an eagle, or knowing without being close to the object, and hearing (Binah), knowing also from distant vibrations, scent (tifetet) implies knowing from proximity to the object, from what it exhudes, like good or bad vibes. But a blockage is just a blockage, its not something definitive or perpetual. In a kabbalistic perspective, that would be a sign of lack of emotional involvement. BUT since the physical and the spiritual aren't always one and the same, I wouldn't be worried more about physical lack of scent than I would be of the spiritual one, despite the obvious discomforts.
@@abbasalchemist the quote you mentioned in the video about Athena breathing fighting fury into Diomedes and ground bleeding red is something i also recently wrote down as one of my favourite parts of the Illiad. Symbolism or coincidence who knows
It’s a feminine spirit, it might be the breath, but it’s the soul that’s the differentiation. This revitalizes you. It’s not confined to the breath because this can also be a demonic force, depending on who’s holding the fire.
Never in my life I clicked on a video faster
Right? Too much mud slinging going on. Making muddy minds
As someone who practices yoga and has taken yoga teacher training, it is refreshingly captivating to see parallels and differences between ancient vadic and western mystery traditions on the metaphysics of breath. Excellent content 👌
Great observation! I also love the poetry invocation (Goethe) at the beginning. The more poetic content out there of high quality, the better.
You would LOVE Taliesin’s map.
Sunday has become that much better with your video today. The specifics and purposes of ritual/offerings/sacrifices, and the importance of alter fires, incense and all such aromas has always fascinated me. Every substance and sense perception is imbued with the divine to varying extents as far as I’ve heard/read. It really brightens all of life and existence in a way I never felt before, like finding a light switch that, when turned on, shows a truth in our surroundings. The logos in the otherwise mundane and normal we take for granted in our lives.
Edit: The fact you cite Cavafy makes me happy beyond belief, I found his poetry during the end of the pandemic, he was the last book on the second floor corner of my library. His and Fernando Pessoa’s poetry helped me find the person I am today. Such a man ahead of his time ❤
A fellow poetry lover. And Cafafy! One of the greats from Greece. I have read Pessoa's yet but it's on my ever increasing list. During the pandemic I was reading a lot of Yeats, and writing a lot of my own poetry, often with gnostic/alchemical themes. That hasn't dried up (as you can probably tell by my RUclips channel name). Great to meet you!
As a woodwind player. A most interesting video! One that will give me added perspective when playing the flute/sax. Thank you!
@@RafikCezanneTV fascinating notion! Makes me think of a potential deeper analysis of Pan and satyrs and their reed pipes and syrinx.
@@abbasalchemist and to Aeolus.
How cool!
Delighted this started with a poem. Can't wait to listen to the rest of this. Thank you.
Honesty thank you for your voice. I almost fell into the abyssssss
@@DolanIre_blackhair Such kind words. Thank you.
Thanks for making these videos brother
Finally another video 👏🏻
Ive been waiting for your vids brother alchemist.,im always blown away by your revelations
Thank you, brother.
My feelings are the exact same, ever since I caught up on all his vids a couple months back!
Holy cow this video got my brain churning.
I was thinking of the plot to Orestei by Aeschylus and the concept of Hospitality being upheld and in that moment I was definitely thinking of Odin, to which you flash that you apparently did a video on? Excellent.
You know who is also a "Spear-Shaker" divine breather? Odin. Also involved with runes (language), breath, and poetry.
Latin - Anima and Hebrew - Ruah, both meaning soul or spirit coresponds etymologically to breath and air. Thank you for another great material.
@@j3fr0uk I found this information in Van der Leeuw's "Phenomenology of religion", but you can check any etymological dictionary. Anyway, why do you think it is pig-latin? It's pretty intuitve that ancient people could associate breath with agency. Even English words like "animal" or "animation" suggest that. You breathe = You have soul, It's simply agent detection.
@@j3fr0uk I know what does pig latin mean, but I do not understand why do you think that word "anima" or it's etymology has anything to do with pig latin.
@@j3fr0uk sorry but I do not get your comments
Another fantastic piece of work Abbas.
An observation on your commentary on the sun consuming the fog/mist of the morning; when I practice the Empedocles technique using all 5 senses as sacraments a very unusual thing happens. As the procedure takes hold my vision completely fogs out as though I’m enveloped in a mist or morning fog. I become functionally blind in this state which was at first a bit strange. Gradually this fog is burned off which restores a new kind of vision which is impossible to describe. It’s as though reality is lit by a different sun.
Hopefully other people out there are practicing the Empedocles techniques!
As a Big Old Qi Head I heartily approve of and enjoyed this video. Gratzi.
Abbas The Alchemist, you need to give us more videos!! I had to wait until I got home to enjoy the video in peace haha..
Have you ever been approached for an interview on another channel? If not you should reach out to a few. Your channel is amazing.
In the future, I'd love to interview him. I'm soon to start a podcast, going with the other poetry videos I make, which include other areas of interest like psychology, philosophy, the occult, and more.
Perhaps your most significant video to date. Excellent stuff.
A burnt offering -
evaporated perspiration
Seems to suggest a sanctification and ritual offering of even our most common of physical exertions. The spirit in which something is offered would make this more of an offering, certainly.
The Rosicrucians have an interesting practice of inhalation to withdraw the vital forces from the limbs into the heart: “I must decrease, but he (Christ) must increase.” The vital forces are then exhaled back into the limbs: “he (Christ) must increase, but I must decrease.” It is said that, with time, the blood becomes impregnated and transformed.
I never knew this. Is this written somewhere? Would love to read more about it.
@@nathanhassallpoetry You can find information about it in Samuel Robinson’s book Alois Mailander: A Rosicrucian Remembered, as well as in Gustav Meyrink’s book The Transformation of the Blood.
@@danawright777 Thank you. What a title for a book, The Transformation of the Blood. I just wrote a poem last week that used blood as a repeated image and refrain during a numinous experience involving a succubus-type energy. Once it's published in a lit mag I'll make a video of it for my RUclips channel. Thank you for your suggestions I've wishlist one book and searching where to source another. 🙏
Wow amazing, ive experienced this...never knew how to put it into word's. Thank you so much 💓
I always smell the glue from kindergarten class 40yrs ago lol good time's
Have you ever made a video about hylics, psychics, and pneumatics?
Keeep going . We need the book of changes after the/this religous apocolypse
Do you I ching??
@@DolanIre_blackhair A magical book!
@@abbasalchemist yea!
I shared this and other videos with my group, I have been wondering whether theurgy is the most effective method for previously secular people to become more in-tune with their innate divinity and adopt it into their daily life. Thank you for your hard work, it is not unnoticed. Hægl Woden, Broþor
Thank you!
The more things change the more they stay the same. In order for things to stay the same, they must also change. Just as there are two selves, there are also two worlds. One static and the other dynamic forced together in an unequal but equally necessary combination.
The change is brought about by "evil" which is a disharmonic excess of good causing an expansion until a macro limit is reached and everything rebegins anew.
Or to express it another way, stillness emerges from constant movement.
Yes. Like you said in one of your previous videos, absolute stillness is not the absence of movement but is its acceleration.
Parmeneides and Heraclitus were both right!
All is stillness that is constantly changing.
you would love the book "Hellenic Tantra" by Gregory Shaw
Thank you! Added to my list!
Do you have a list of sources for this video? It is exceptionally interesting and I want to use your research as a starting point for exploring the sources further.
Love your work. Quick question: do you speak like this irl or is it more of a presentation?
He who smelt it dealt it!
You should check out the books by Jason Read and the books by Nathan Brine, both Daoists though of very different sorts. Much of this video made me think of their work.
Does it cause a out of body experience?
Thank you brother... who lets middle sister know its safe to come out of the cave.... how the book changes
And how it stays the same
Middle brother guides middle sister
Have you ever come across Bendis?
@@jupitersstring2823 In the Republic, yes. In practice, no.
How do you spell the name of the islamic mystic at 21:18
Ibn Umail
25:08 how do you spell the word here for nose/skin? Renon(?) rhino?
"Rhis" in Greek means nose. The particular conjugation takes the form ῥινoν (rhinon), which can translate to either "skin" or "nostrils".
@@abbasalchemist I was trying to suss out the etymology of Erinyes/Erinys/the Furies, big speculation rabbit hole.
One of the suggested roots was ὀρίνω (orínō, “to stir up, excite”, thought sometimes also associated with anger. Seemed to fit with the theme of Thumos, once again all relating back to Athena, as the Furies are converted to the Eumenides (good-minded (menos) ones) at the court of Athena at Aeropagus.
Some attributed Erinys to ἔρις (éris, “strife”), relating back all again to the same concepts. The Erinyes are born of spilt BLOOD upon the earth, which "rise", much like rising up to the pores aka the earth?
The Etymologicum Magnum, a text created in the 12th century in Byzantium, has some interesting things to say about the etymology of Erinys.
“Furies, vengeful goddesses of paternal transgressions. They pursue the children of those who have committed wrong. The name comes from the fact that they live in the earth [era, reconstructed from the form ἔραζε], which means they live in the earth.
Or, something that comes from the earth is called eranus, which becomes erinus. For the Fury is a khthonic goddess.
in Hesiod (Works and Days and Theogony), Eris is associated with the earth. The Etymologicum Gudianum (and others) associated Eris with the act of speech: “Eris comes from “speaking” [eirô], which is the same as legô; this is a type of conflict that comes from words…
@@apokalupsishistoria I like this analysis. The Erinyes being protectors of justice, punishing the stain of blood guilt---the chthonic, primordial forces that operated under the old dispensation prior to Athena's ruling. Your reference to "orino", as a "stirring up" and "exciting", brings to mind the notion of "agitation"---agitating the waters. There's a reason why Homer and many poets after him, refer to the "wine-dark sea", the colour of wine is reminiscent of blood, blood is reminiscent of passions and high intensity of emotion. Therefore, the wine-dark sea is more a psychological state of mind experienced by Odysseus and the events that transpire around him, rather than an objective observable phenomenon. After all, it's always mentioned around the moments something catastrophic or upsetting occurs. The Erinyes in my mind, manifest themselves as "gnawing conscience", but are not reducible to it. I've wanted to make a video for some time regarding "mania" and the Furies and Keres. I think a lot of our psychological disturbances are linked to violence upon the human being on a large scale. Thank you for your thought-provoking comments.
It’s my BA
IT IS THIS, BUT IT’S ALSO THE FEELING IN YOUR BODY, YOU GET THIS FROM GETTING THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE BA THAT AWAKENS YOUR KA AND MAKES ANKH-then THE MERKABA
Suggestion: no need for all caps
what would be then metaphysical/esoteric consequences of a person who has sinusitis or lost its sense of smell due to this or that reason and may find it harder to breathe through the nose than before. feels symbolic no
Interestingly, I was thinking along similar lines the other day. If you burn incense and start to feel an allergic reaction, like a runny nose, the Greeks would also see this as the vital fluids (like the cerebrospinal fluid) escaping to the outside---once again indicating how porous the boundaries between the inside and the outside actually are. This isn't of course a hard and fast rule by any stretch of the imagination---if you're allergic or blocked in some way, there are other fragrances to use, and if the olfactory pathway is not functioning, theurgical practice can allow for other modes of communication.
It may be a sign of loss of psychic abilities. But smelling, as in the jnanendrias, is just one, it doesn't amount to much, unless some kind of spiritual "smelling" or discernment is our aim. In that case, training to develop that particular faculty, indryia, becomes an opportunity for growth, and may even mitigate the physical condition.
Thank you. Having said that, whereas (according to kabbalah) sight (chochmah) implies discernment from afar, like that of an eagle, or knowing without being close to the object, and hearing (Binah), knowing also from distant vibrations, scent (tifetet) implies knowing from proximity to the object, from what it exhudes, like good or bad vibes. But a blockage is just a blockage, its not something definitive or perpetual. In a kabbalistic perspective, that would be a sign of lack of emotional involvement. BUT since the physical and the spiritual aren't always one and the same, I wouldn't be worried more about physical lack of scent than I would be of the spiritual one, despite the obvious discomforts.
@@abbasalchemist the quote you mentioned in the video about Athena breathing fighting fury into Diomedes and ground bleeding red is something i also recently wrote down as one of my favourite parts of the Illiad. Symbolism or coincidence who knows
It’s a feminine spirit, it might be the breath, but it’s the soul that’s the differentiation. This revitalizes you. It’s not confined to the breath because this can also be a demonic force, depending on who’s holding the fire.
What was the guys name at the end. 21:30 you said “. “ alchemical theories and I couldn’t make out the name for the life of me of the theorist lol
@@mildredmelan the alchemist Ibn Umail
@@abbasalchemist thank you 🙏
I wonder if Olympus had public toilets at the top
I wonder if if it’s because mycelium is like dark matter
But my shadow helps me
the nose knows
Audio mixing is trash again ……😢 bro fell off fr
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