/lit/ - Literature

Highly recommend

Study the corpus hermeticum, the neoplatonists, Plotinus, proclus and Iamblichus and then study Boehme (he’s the key to hermetic alchemy, he’ll explain the symbolism best.) beginning with Clavis, from here you should read Agrippa and Paracelsus and Trithemius then you’re good to go, you could study any alchemical text you want from this point forward.

Daily reminder to newfags/atheists/m*rxists
Delve into:
Platonism,neo-platonism,metaphysics,gnosticism,Thomas Aquina,hermeticism,western esotericism,occultism,alchemy,goetia,theurgy,jewish kabbalism and mysticism,ceremonial magic,tarot,sigil magic,paganism,Carl Jung(best author I will mention),after Jung read Evola and Crowley,Crowley is extremely autistic and larpy but it filters the redditors,put Evola later into the reading list,and as fantastic as he is don't end up worshiping him,he isn't perfect.
Start with the Bible if you haven't already


Marx had to write a long reddit post about Stirner and it's shit,I don't relate to Stirner anymore since I delved to deep into what I mentioned above.

One common point Marxists use is that porky created identity politics as a distraction
>150. As we mentioned in paragraph 134, industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems. And a considerable proportion of the system’s economic and environmental problems result from the way human beings behave. Alienation, low self-esteem, depression, hostility, rebellion; children who won’t study, youth gangs, illegal drug use, rape, child abuse, other crimes, unsafe sex, teen pregnancy, population growth, political corruption, race hatred, ethnic rivalry, bitter ideological conflict (e.g., pro-choice vs. pro- life), political extremism, terrorism, sabotage, anti-government groups, hate groups. All these threaten the very survival of the system. The system will therefore be FORCED to use every practical means of controlling human behavior.
-Ted Kaczynski

>>20207891
Start with Ficino or read the Corpus Hermeticum, or Yates on it, as long as you don't turn it into a gnostic version of a video game lore wiki. Or read Versluis or Faivre on theosophy as an introduction to Bohme. Versluis' anthology Wisdom's Book is a nice introduction.

It's always hard to recommend these things because of the aforementioned pitfalls. Look at the Christian threads where people are arguing about the toll houses like it's an argument about how many powers Superman has in the comics. Missing the forest for the trees. Better to gain an understanding of the method before trying to autistically memorize the symbols.

How is this collection of Ficino's letters? I would like to find a table of contents for it but I can't. Why isn't Ficino better published?