Here's an attempt at explaining my whys and wherefores for the "Seven Gates of Set":

One issue I have always taken with Hermetic Qabalah is the way in which it purports to “blend” Jewish mysticism, alchemy, Western astrology, and certain polytheistic religions. There is nothing wrong with blending different religious traditions together, of course; but Qabalists often brand themselves as representing “the original Qabalah,” which is absolutely false. True Kabbalah is not a “free-for-all,” but an intricate cosmology that is entirely unique to Judaism. It is also a closed practice that requires studying the Torah inside and out. Hermetic Qabalah is simply a “Gentile” appropriation of this tradition that really has nothing to do with Judaism or the Torah, or with any of the polytheist gods that are commonly mentioned in Qabalic literature.

For example, Kenneth Grant insisted that Set is linked to Daath, the so-called “eleventh” sephira on the Tree of Life. Other writers have linked Set with Geburah, the sphere of divine judgment and wrath. These associations might appear to make sense on the surface, but I think many Jews and Setians would likely agree they are oversimplifications. Set is far more than just an “emotive attribute” of some monotheist god; He deserves to be understood on His own terms, not in Kabbalic (or Qabalic) terms.

Set is not just the destructive “murderer of Osiris” that Hermetic Qabalists like to pigeonhole Him as being. He is also the Son of Nut, the Savior of Ra, the Friend of the Dead, and an ambassador for the Netjeru to other pantheons. Yes, He can certainly hinder and destroy; but He can also help and protect, as evidenced by His own religious following in ancient times. He can become wrathful and go on the warpath, as He does with Osiris and Horus; but He can also be loving and romantic, as He is with each of His various partners (of both sexes). Hermetic Qabalah is ill-equipped to comprehend or explain such a multifaceted polytheist divinity, since it is predicated on monotheism in the first place.

By the same token, SETIANS—people who revere and emulate Set—are not the “black magicians” or “devil worshipers” of Egyptian polytheism. Most of us are regular people just like everyone else in every other religion on earth. We work jobs, we pay our bills, we take care of our families. We value safety and consistency, we become upset when things go topsy-turvy, and many of us work as educators or caregivers as well. So there is quite a bit more to Setians than whatever Hermetic Qabalists might think about us.

I decided to develop a new way of explaining the Setian “wavelength” with numbers and correspondences that does NOT appropriate anything from either Jewish Kabbalah or Hermetic Qabalah. This meant doing away with the “Tree of Life” and using an entirely different visual model as my starting point. And it seemed to me that there is no better visual model for capturing the Setian experience than the Big Dipper, which the ancient Egyptians called Khepesh or “the Thigh of Set.”

I first learned about Set’s connection to the Big Dipper from reading The Gates of the Necronomicon by “Simon” (who is most likely Peter Levenda writing under a pseudonym). The book recklessly equates Egyptian ideas with bits and pieces of Kabbalah, Daoism, and a “Lovecraftianized” version of pseudo-Sumerian mythology (which actually owes more to August Derleth than to H.P. Lovecraft). Yet the parts about Set being associated with the Dipper are factual at least, and I liked the idea that these particular stars might correspond with certain “astral gateways.” “Simon” claims to be sharing information from a real Sumerian “grimoire” that doesn’t actually exist; so it’s important to understand I am not referring to his work as a credible resource here. Rather, his suggestions inspired me to think about how the stars in the Big Dipper might each relate to Set without needing to appropriate anything from any non-Kemetic or non-Egyptian mystical traditions. I sensed that each of these stars corresponds with a different aspect of Set, a different phase in His myth cycle, a different animal from His divine iconography, and even a different aspect of what it is like to be a Setian.

Please note that this is not a “re-invention” of Kabbalah; nor is it an “initiatory curriculum” that must be followed in sequential order. The numbers I have assigned to each star are simply for convenience. Assuming I am not completely crackers for thinking of the Big Dipper as a series of “Setian gateways” in the first place, I imagine these gates as being “open” all at the same time, with Set reaching down to us and us reaching up to Him through each of them all at once.

#setianism #sutekh #kemetic #egyptian #pagan #polytheist #gates #keys #bigdipper #greatbear #ursamajor #kabbalah #qabalah #hermeticism #kennethgrant #hplovecraft

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The Hermetic Philosophy: Unveiling the Mysteries of the Seven Universal Laws

https://thetaoist.online/the-hermetic-philosophy-unveiling-the-mysteries-of-the-seven-universal-laws-614290ac622d

#Hermeticism
#Philosophy
#Egyptians
#Thoughts
#HermesTrismegistus

https://youtu.be/xvzZ56ZbWy8
This is so interesting to me. It does indeed seem to be surprisingly relevant. I have seen references to #Hermeticism here and there, but knew nothing about it. No one ever mentions Hermes Trismegistus and I never learned anything about #philosophy or #religion in the #Ptolemaic kingdom. "Cleopatra was Greek" was treated as trivia. These ideas have been almost totally underground and maybe they shouldn't be.

#sigil #magick #witchcraft #spells #occult #divination #cartomancy #psychic #pagan #heathen #animist #geomancy #qabalah #hermeticism #gnosis #treeoflife #ceremonialmagic #magick #tarot #witch

I wonder

#illuminati #exposed #truth #postmodern #ritual #hermeticism #gnosticism #jungian https://t.co/g5ubLDp6Y0
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The Hermetic Androgyne

#alchemy #hermeticism #occultism #androgyne #esotericism #occult

The Lure of the Occult

Here's an article in #churchtimes by #RichardYader about #occultism practiced within Anglo-Catholic circles during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though maybe a little snooty in tone, it gives an informed and informative overview of one of the more little known aspects of western esotericism.

#anglocatholic #anglocatholicism #magic #magick #hermeticism #goldendawn #hdogd #historyofoccultism #religionandmagic

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2018/14-december/features/features/on-the-wings-of-the-dawn-the-lure-of-the-occult

"Adocentyn" or "The City and the Stars" by Julian Dourado. Oil on board, 2022

#JulianDourado #art #painting #oilpainting #esotericart #esotericartists #visionaryart #hermeticism #esotericism #adocentyn

Rejected Religion's Stephanie Shea interviews Prof Woulter Hanegraaff about his new book; Hermetic Spirituality and the Historical Imagination: Altered States of Knowledge in Late Antiquity. Prepare to be gobsmacked.
https://www.rejectedreligion.com/podcast/episode/4a3bdce7/rr-pod-e26-profdr-wouter-j-hanegraaff-hermetic-embodiment-interpretation-and-imagination
#hermeticism #religion #esotericism #occultism #books

_Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum ... MCDLXXVIII_ (Hermetic Museum Reformed and Amplified ... 1678) engraving by Matthaeus Merian the Elder at Frankfurt, p 323.

An incredibly complicated engraving including the classical elements, planets, hermetic operations, a king riding a lion, a mer-queen riding a whale, the anima-spirit-corpus trinity, sun, moon, and a variety of other symbols I can't begin to interpret.

#astrology #hermetic #hermeticism #alchemy

_Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum ... MCDLXXVIII_ (Hermetic Museum Reformed and Amplified ... 1678) engraving by Matthaeus Merian the Elder at Frankfurt, p 323.

An incredibly complicated engraving including the classical elements, planets, hermetic operations, a king riding a lion, a mer-queen riding a whale, the anima-spirit-corpus trinity, sun, moon, and a variety of other symbols I can't begin to interpret.

#astrology #hermetic #hermeticism #alchemy

Mutus Liber - the wordless book of Alchemy explained by Dr Justin Sledge of Esoterica https://youtu.be/a4JGXYuCke0
#alchemy #esotericism #magic #hermeticism

Double Ouroboros - the sublimation of matter into spirit and the coagulation of spirit back to matter.

Image from the Clavis Artis.

#ouroboros #alchemy #hermeticism #esotericism #manuscripts #serpents #symbolism #symbols

#occult #esoteric #spirituality #astraltravel #comedy #advmoto #baseball #doggos #memes #retro #cassettetapes #conspiracy #revolution #reggae #gnosticism #hermeticism #antichristian #80s #90s #hiphop #pagan #lotr #lordoftherings #psychedelics #consciousness #nature #mariners #pnw #newjackswing #antigovernmnet #magick

Have you any questions about the history of Western Esoterica? Dr Justin Sledge is the person to ask in his Q&A Livestream
https://youtu.be/dwv7wGrySYg
#esoterica #history #magic #kabbalah #hermeticism #alchemy #gnosticism #neoplatonism

How can we trust our own thinking or rely on our faculties of knowledge and rational judgment, as scholars or just as human beings, if we are not in control of our own minds? The subtitle of this book refers to the unquestionable fact that human consciousness is not stable and reliable but fluid and susceptible to alteration,' so that what we hold to be "true" must depend very much on how and where we are able (or unable) to direct our attention.‘

- Wouter J Hanegraaff #hermeticism #history

manifesting more friends who are into exploring and discussing:
#abolition
#anarchism
#astrophysics
#epistemology
#hermeticism
#meditation
#metaphysics
#mysticism
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if that’s you, hi… 🥹

peter lamborn wilson, spiritual destinations of an anarchist, 24.

Each of us are a part of Nature, it is true, but our value as individuals is not thereby lessened in any way, since it would be equally true to say that Nature is a part of us, individually. Nature's freedom from all abstract “categorical imperatives” does not reduce all biota to a faceless mass; on the contrary, it restores to each thing its own unique face.

#peterlambornwilson
#oncharlesfourier
#imagination
#hermeticism

Blasting Rod released some music in 2022年リリース。
Thank you to all of the wonderful people we worked with this year. 2023 is a blank slate. Here we go! 本年ありがとうございます🙇 新年はまだ余白ですね。描きましょう！

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