Hi, I'm Chris. I'm an archaeologist with a focus on Late Antique religion and Philosophy. I'm currently pursuing a Masters in Egyptology & Middle Eastern Heritage at UCL. My research interests are around the archaeology of magic, Mediterranean religion and the antiquities trade in the Middle East, especially the reception & exchange of religious texts.
Welcome to my RU-vid channel. I talk about archaeological theory and practice, and ways of approaching magic in the material record. I am also prone to discuss Iamblichean theurgy & philosophy as well as theoretical approaches to the study of esotericism. I take special notice of Neoplatonism & Hermetism and make content relating to these currents using academic material.
I hope to make education on these topics accessible and informative to help give people a sense of structure and depth in their spiritual practice.
Read about my work & studies on my substack: chrislyon.substack.com
Fascinating stuff altogether.. English Theosophist G.A. Farthing elucidates a lot of this material in his book Deity, Cosmos and Man which I totally recommend. I think there's a whole world of experience that folk can encounter when using these materials in a sort of 'theurgic' context. Receiving guidance from Masters of Wisdom on the inner planes is a practice I'd like to master..
42:49 I’ve heard that when people start to doubt their own identity they start to get very territorial and authoritarian. It would be very helpful to know how to prevent this and to get rid of it when it shows up because it showing up all over the goddamn place.
If I understand your question correctly... I think it's natural that Human beings want to control, and the less in control they feel the more they try to exert control. That can often manifest as authoritarianism. In terms of cultural appropriation, there's a difference between territorialism and being a gatekeeper. Gatekeeping spiritual traditions to being only accesible to the trained is not a bad bad thing, because often times ons develop in such a way that the core teachings are maintained by specialists who have the deep training and initiation to safely handle them. Electricians are trained to have the knowledge how to hold and work with electrical current, untrained people often die because they don't know what they're doing. The same thing is true for spiritual traditions... the spiritual specialists are trained to be able to handle spirituyal currents that could fuck someone up who doesn't know what they're doing. The answer to that isn't teaching everyone these specialized skills because we all don't need to know how to be an electrician, we just need it to run our everyday lives. Where people become territorial is when they don't have the knowledge in the first place but want people to think they do... which leads us down different rabbit holes.
I actually think it’s important to put the planet on the AC or MC but the day and hour are less important. The aspects and overall chart are way more important and all planets need to be taken in consideration. The moon should also be waxing for hood works and waning for things to be removed or evil works. Looking only at day and hour is for those people who are too lazy to learn astrology bc it’s very complex. The part of fortune is equally important when choosing a date
Happy I found your channel. You explain many things I have perceived myself and you explain them in a way that it’s easily understood. Yes, the universe is a living being but it also oppresses higher consciousness in a need to survive. Many aren’t aware of that but if you step out of line here and become a so-called Jesus figure or enlightened, it will attack you. This is literally because you threaten the natural order which is based on birth, destruction and decay.
This is absolutely brilliant! 👏🏼 I had an interesting thought, a blind person, even though they can't physically see the room around them, creates a mental map of the room in their mind, so there is an 'egregore' of the room existing in the non-material realm of their thoughts.... it makes me wonder, what could it possibly look like? 🤔
Black Athena 😅😅😅😂 yet we know sumeria, vinca varna, gobekli tepe , and the Scythians are older than Egypt… not to mention the Venus statues , the first gold burial, domesticated cows and horses , and the chariots to utalize them all found by the Black Sea in Europe! Herecles is a son of zues and a Scythian woman! … it’s literally all over their vases! Civilization came into Africa from Europe and humans came out of Africa … hence Ethiopia is the mother land and Germany/the steppe of Ukraine and Russia are considered the father land … only reason there aren’t building left is because they were either made out of wood or temporary structures and mostly lived in caravans similar to Bedouins of the desert… except Scythians were aryans (original caucadians) who the original Jews split off from at the Black Sea and came down as Sumerians at first (southern aryans) Abraham came from sumeria and sumeria said civilization flowed down the Tigris and eurohretes from the Black Sea of Europe.. not Africa my friends
the Greeks owe a lot to the Phoenicians. i'm currently reading "Phoenicians: The Quickening Of Western Civilization" by John C Scott and their influence over Greek culture is immense. recommended read
@@patilbalian938 Believe what you want. Don't make you right. The Moabite stone has PHOENICIAN HELLENIC INSCRIOTIONS. The Emerald Tablets of Thoth aka Hermes Tresmegistus are Written in Phoenician Hellenic . The AMARNA LETTERS are Written in AKKADIAN. Who can build like the Phoenicians. 1Kings 5. Only GerkoRoman can.
@@patilbalian938 On I done a DNA Test. I am Greek cypriot. My results were 50per cent Greek South Italian, The rest is so called Middle East Mizrahi Jew, From the levant aka Land of KANAAN to Egypt
@@Kikap6001 there are genetic studies about the origin of phoenicians. go read please. theft of other peoples culture and heritage is not ok. the phoenicians inspired the greeks and vice versa but they were definitely not a hellenistic culture. inspired by it? most probably.
For those that wish to meet a god in person, there is a life potion to do so. Ayahuasca is a gate way to the spiritual realm. It is a potion. You can literally meet Mother Earth (they call her Mother Ayahuasca but its the spirit of the earth). A formless female presence. Highly recommended for those wishing to expand their practice. I met two of the gods mentioned in the Emerald tablets (noting so after having read the books many years after the experience.)
Surely any linguistically-related group can be identified as a coherent unit deserving a common name? Mother-tongue is a powerful unifier, as is religion and written script. Allowance can be made for a degree of fuzziness around these central concepts. Cluster analysis as a statistical tool should be useful
@CONNELL19511216 Cluster analysis is usually done, yes, which is largely the grounds on which we can say that Phoenicia designated the Levantine coastal communities. But those communities never referred to the landscape collectively or cohesively and chose only to identify with specific cities which held their own origin, culture, customs, and dialect. So, we can talk about etic perspectives/second order terms, which are useful for general analysis, but they're not for individual cities or localised communities or how they interacted.
@danlhendl Cultural and genetic studies of Phoenica and its culture has unquestionable relevance to modern day levantine descendant populations, their identity, culture and politics :)
The interesting aspect of “defining” the Phoenicians involves the rather sudden, Mediterranean-wide “Jewish diaspora” and Christian Movement. Do the Levantine colonists come to identify with the “Children of Abraham” myths as “Levantine” or “Phoenician”? Imagine the impact of the destruction of Carthage on the City of Alexandria. This is a generally considered post-Phoenician era. Take those 3 centuries till the Roman Empire’s complete dominance, and a Hellenized Semitic cultural legacy (Christianity) and anti-Hellenic elite movement (National identity Judaism) and ask the question, why is it suddenly everywhere in the Mediterranean? Phoenician legacy?
@wailinburnin They definitely seem to have grown out of the Canaanite diaspora. Whether they collectively identified with the Children of Abraham mythical lineage is questionable, since they don't seem to be identifying as Jewish/Israelite. Phoenician is a Semitic Levantine language, and other than city based identifications, they seem to have referred to themselves as Kena'ani, so Canaanite. There's been quite a few genetic studies that show places like Lebanon and the northern levant as the origin zone for their genetic halpogroups, though. So, there's definitely a shared mythos and cultural mileu with the Israelites, and Israelites probably made up a portion of the people identifying as Canaanite.
Neo-pagans are often solitary. It would seem most people don’t want the commitment of community involvement and to go about their lives beyond solitary learning and practices, but those who are looking for community might do that.
The word ‘tyrant’ is derived from tyrannos, which in turn has a pre-Greek origin, likely of Phrygian or Lydian origin, probably derived from Lydian tûran, “lord”, and simply means “sole ruler”. The oldest known use of the word tyrannos is associated with king Gyges of Lydia. Gyges, whom Plato uses as a disparaging example of moral depravity and wickedness (Republic 359a-360d), was the first to be known to the Greeks as a tyrant and the one who introduced the institution of tyranny to the Greeks. The Greeks understood the word tyrannos as having the meaning of military leader, specifically of leader of hoplite troops. It was Gyges who made the first use of hoplites; the hoplite bodyguard was one of the particular features of Lydian kingship. That Gyges owed his power to mercenaries is certain: Herodotos relates that the Lydians resented the murder of their king and took up arms against Gyges, but Gyges was able to force the revolting Lydians into submission with his “partisans” or mercenary hoplites (Herodotus, Histories, 1.13). The Greek terminology applying to rulers reveals that archagetes (‘the first leader’, ‘founder’, but also a word that stresses the concept of leadership especially in war, a title used of the kings of Sparta) is the word nearest in meaning to tyrannos. Archagetes has the meaning of “furtherer” and is applied both to divinities and to military leaders. In its second use it can be compared with words such as strategetes (military general, army leader) or strategos (military commander, the official title of Sicilian tyrants). The idea behind the word tyrannos is that of leading some militarily organized formation of people. In other words, the tyrant was a person who had managed to become commander of a body of mercenary troops owing allegiance to him personally and which he could use as a military/police force to control the state politically, using the state itself to collect the money with which to buy his soldiers. For example, Peisistratus, tyrant of Athens, was supported by a very considerable part of the growing population of Athens. Though forced from power, he returned to Athens again by gaining the support of foreign assistance, maintaining power with a mercenary bodyguard.
