Среди обычныхъ возможныхъ цѣлей вопрошанія (я назову его здесь “философскимъ”) можно назвать освѣдомленіе и испытаніе. По контрасту, вопрошаніе, которое я назову герметическимъ, не подразумѣваетъ этихъ функцій: узнать ничего нельзя, можно развѣ только стать знающимъ; далѣе,…
Tag: dialectics
It’s happening again
Что, если видовая дивергенція уже происходитъ, и не (только) на уровнѣ элитъ? Все, начинающееся либо перефразируемое съ “трансъ-” – трансгуманизмъ, трансгендерность, добываемыя при помощи психоактивныхъ веществъ и оккультныхъ, напримѣръ неоязыческихъ, практикъ трансовыя состоянія, видовая /…
David V. Barrett on contradictions
One of the most important aspects of any esoteric teaching is that the same statement may have two or more quite different meanings – factual and allegorical, exoteric and esoteric – and may reveal different…
Eric Voegelin on Phänomenologie des Geistes as a “masterpiece of rigorous magical speculation”
The nature of the order of being as it is given, together with man’s place in it, is obliterated: the being of world and ego is restricted to the knowledge of the immediate or existent;…
Glenn Magee on Hegel’s views on magic
On the surface, it appears that all Hegel has in mind by “magic,” and by the “magic” of magnetism, is simply psychological control. As we have seen, he speaks about magnetism being made possible by…
Glenn Magee on the philosopher as an automatic writer
Hegel believes that through the “purificatory initiation” of the Phenomenology, he has, in effect, put himself in an altered state of consciousness, beyond thhe distinction between subject and object, whereupon the dialectic of the Logic…
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Glenn Magee (& Alexandre Kojève) on Begierde
By introducing “Self-Consciousness,” Hegel introduced the term Desire (Begierde) to describe the primal urge for the cancellation of otherness and the individuation-absolutization of subject.* – Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition (2001), p. 141-2 * Kojève…
Glenn Magee: another summary
Like Moses (according to legend), Hegel is the recipient of Kabbalistic wisdom, only it is a Christian Kabbalah, and it is received not directly from God but from Böhme, Oetinger, and the tradition of speculative…
Glenn Magee: more on complete speech & Hegel vs. propositional / predicative philosophy
Unlike “picture-thinking” – myth, art, etc. — Hegel’s speculation involves the use of concepts, ideas, or universals. Here, however, the dissimilarity ends, for although the matter of Hegel’s philosophy — its employment of concepts rather…
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Glenn Magee on the divisions of Hegel’s philosophy
The final “Hermetic” period of Hegel’s life is his time in Berlin, from 1818 until his death on November 14, 1831. This is contrary to what one might expect. It might be assumed that Hegel’s…
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