Hermetic Philosophy - Earliest European Hermeticism - Crater Hermetis - Ludovico Lazzarelli 

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I'm a historical archaeologist mostly researching Early Modern Scandinavia and I'm learning So Many Things relevant to this period - and there is certainly an archaeological = material culture aspect to much of this. Thank you for teaching me things I didn't know I was interested in!

What a _ko-wink-e-dink_ ! I heard of Lazzarelli and the Crater Hermetis for the first time about four days ago while listening to a lecture by Dr. Pierre Grimes ( _The Sacred Myths of Plato: Phaedo_ ). And here you are now doing a full show on him. You da man, Sledge...(ahem)...Dr. Sledge. By the way...love the "mugshots," "hermetic ducks," and I had to stop the video because I was laughing so hard at the simpatico patron _struggle_ you and Lazzarelli share.

Yes! First time I've seen my name in the end credits. And quite well worth it. I miss being at a university and getting this kind of detailed knowledge; thank you truly.

I now have formed a habit of sitting down on a Friday afternoon or evening and having an absinthe while listening to Dr Sledge.

Got a copy of this bad boy back when it cost a normal academic book price. 900$!!! What a return!

I've read a lot of books on occult philosophy and hermeticism, but I'd never heard of Lazzarelli. Thank you for continuing to enlighten me on esoteric topics. You truly are a wealth of knowledge. If you ever cover the role mathematics has to the occult that would be really cool, as I know that nearly every major player in the development of mathematics and every major branch of mathematics created before 1700 also has very strong links to the occult.

Excellent work on a sadly unknown aspect of Hermeticism. I learned a lot. Thank you.

I like the Kybalion, but I never thought it was a real Hermetic work, pretty clearly a modern Theosophical interpretation... and yet in the past few years it seems on youtube at least, people take it all at face value... well anyways, great video, hopefully a new edition of the Crater comes out

It is so nice to see and hear someone talk about History from a philosophical perspective. It is so hard and frustrating to watch the Humanities being attack by modernism, but it is great to see a few fighting back for the importance. It is depressing that intellectualism and channels like Esoterica are seen as psychotic or enemies by the vast majority. Thank you so much for not leaving and sticking around. The world needs Humanities, especially Philosophy.

Superb presentation Dr S!!! When you put these subjects in their context and bring forth the humanity behind the names and events related to them I feel I am really beginning to appreciate how important esoteric thought has been in shaping so much of the underpinning of our cultural outlooks as they've developed over the centuries. Thanks so much.

Thank you Dr Sledge for another wonderful academic teaching. And welcome to all the new Patreons it was great to see so many new people and subscribers.

Well done as usual, thank you! Very useful.

Just utterly fascinating! Thank you for this piece of our magical heritage! Once again you have out done yourself!

You and Dan Atrell are absolutely amazing and I find myself looking through your videos in awe and find inspiration to continue studies.

Thank you for another great video!!

I had read some analysis by Lance Owens about the Hermetic roots of my heretical Christian faith (LDS), and this is providing a deeper understanding. Speaking of Owens: Tolkien as a transmitter of Hermetic ideas? "Man, sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in _living shapes_ that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we fill'd with elves and goblins, though we _dared to build_ _gods and their houses_ out of dark and light and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). That light has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made."

yet another banger video by dr. sledge. all your work puts so many fleeting ideas into my mind that it's hard to formulate any sensible feedback/share any concrete thoughts, but in short: i love the channel

Great content as usual Justin

What an outstanding lecture! Todah Rabah Dr. Sledge, keep up with the amazing work ✌🏻( greetings from Brazil)

HERMETIC MUGSHOTS, OMG. From all the jokes about that page in ‘A true and faithful relation...’ that is by. far. the best!!

Another great one. Thank you ❤️

Another gem, thank you so much

To know thyself is to know your devine essence!

31:00 🤣. Please do a video explaining why The Kybalion is a sudo Hermetic text. I would love to learn more about it.

Great lesson as always! Thank you!

Another great lecture.

Simply Brilliant, especially the production of spirit, something AC alluded to many times. The darkness full of light.

thankyou.... very cool info

What a great episode and Man! you are funny. (silence) Kybalion (silence) I could not stop laughing.

Great stuff. Just in time for doing the washing up.

I learn so much from you! By far my favorite channel on RU-vid! Thank you so much for your teachings 🙏🏽. May I ask where can I find the actual angelic script written by Agrippa? Thank you once again!!!

Intriguing, new subscriber.

"Hermetic Mugshots" - best line ever. :) Thank your for this video, great job!

Much obliged Dr. Sledge. You really are a fountain of knowledge. Slowly moving through your content has connected an immense number of dots in my knowledge. I've been wondering when I might run across the name Edgar Cayce. Upon hearing the views of Lazzarelli I thought it was time to ask. The information that came through him sounds remarkably similar and various 'readings' of his specifically named Hermes, though I can't recall in which context. I'd be curious to know whether you hold an opinion about him, as a source of information. He certainly has his critics but in that 'field'... who doesn't? Keep up the great work.

Fascinating stuff, Doctor Sledge! I'm curious, will you be covering any if the mystical experiences and transcendent visions of Emanuel Swedenborg? I'd be very curious to hear your opinions and analysis of them.

great video thanks for the latin text link will read it soon good work on the channel be safe, be happy, work hard peace \m/

Thank you

Another fascinating episode, thank you Dr Sledge! Can you give any background detail about the artwork at 23:00?

sir , please tell me when will you be making a video about the alchemical study of robert boyle and isaac newton ?

This channel feels like home by simply being 🥀🐝🐝 : .

Hey what's the origin of the piano music clip you use for your intro? I find it haunting and I want to hear the whole piece.

Thanks for another fantastic video! Admittedly, it's unrelated to Hermeticism, but have you talked about The Cloud of Unknowing on this channel before? It's more relevant to mysticism than magic, but I'd love to hear your analysis of it and (maybe?) how it fits into the larger picture of Christian mysticism

Really interesting stuff!! I know you're not a fan of The Kybalion, but were there any other works prior to it that expounded on the concept of psychic or spiritual vibrations? That's pretty fundamental to western esotericism.

Are you gonna take on the alchemical symbology in the lore of King Arthur? Or have you already...? Thanks for sharing!

For years I've been coming to that conclusion. If I would have waited, it would have been easier just listening to you..lol

Please do one (or more) on Giordano Bruno

I'm very glad I watched this again, and rewound and paused a bunch, so that I can appreciate the importance of this work. Now, if I could just learn Latin... 🤔

That moment when you realize not paying attention in latin class all those years ago was a pretty bad idea.

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Is there a link between Dattatreya and Hermes Trismegistus? Google search seems to think there is...but it has been wrong before...

I would love to get a copy of this hymm - would you be able to give me a publishing link? Daniel Morrell

Hermy Tee aka Tristy Gee made me cackle! Don't understand why Renaissance era videos perform poorly in comparison, this is fascinating

Hello , Question to Dr.Sledge : Did you ever contacted a spirit or a "god" by using rituals or magic ? Just being curious.

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in LVX

The concept of a "localized god" like aspect within humans feels very similar to Hinduism.

When will we get a video about the Kybalion by the way?

How can one obtain a copy of Crater Hermetis?…

Have u any lecture on Islamic philosophers like Ibn Sina and hermeticism?

I'd like to know more about "Credgio" but can't find any sources, is there somewhere to read about this person?

The book is now available on Amazon for A THOUSAND FREAKING DOLLARS

Hello, when is the next live stream? Thank you!

I'm still searching for this book hoping for a human price... Can you explain to me why the Kybalion is considered Sudo Hermetic? i'm very interested.

MC Trimmy

Creating thought forms to merge with egregores….that’s the ticket

I am watching this video as a mystic. I suspect the host is kabbalist, though not sure. I want to make some points about mystics, esotericism and oracular nature of mystics. An esoteric mystic is someone who understands the esoteric neccesity of mystics. The used of the words arcane, magic, monad, etc tend to really define mystics in terms of things. For example magical words, magical numbers, magical, hidden secret knowledge, hidden links between legendary figures of the past. But the thing is, I know other mystics, mystics seldomly discuss any of these things. They dont run out and join wiccan, pagan, or neo druid cults. Many of them are rather shy about discussing mysticism in public because they think something is wrong with their brain, and they are probably right. I believe there is something deeper, I just dont label it. First off, Im not going to discuss my personal experiences and why I believe the way I do, not out of shyness but out of revelation. The closest analogy I can give is that one imagine oneself are walking down what you think is a public road, but is a private place were two lovers embrace, do you then reveal to everyone what you saw the lovers doing?. In the same way mystics tend to see those that have passed, they often stray into visions that are not meant for others. There is the assumption that the vision is of greater knowledge than the recipent, that these are divine revelations. Think of how many revelations in the hebrew bible are just wrong or misinformed. When a mystic has a unforced mystical experience that is a rather private thing, and unless the revelation is tell everyone you know (which almost never happens) people who are revealing their visions are either doing so out of vanity, delusions or more likely, now-a-days, public theatre (e.g Katt Kerr). The second point concerning masonic secrets, numiscology, secret words, phrases or double entendre, etc. As insulting as this may sound, any attachment of mystical visions with preeixting myth, psuedoscience, logos, cosmogony (ancient or nascent), geographical places (e.g. the wailing wall, shrines were dead people appear, mountains in the southern sinai, the caba, a mountain shelter between three holy sites near kyoto) are just variations on idolatry. And i know the word idolatry has lost favor with academics, but with mysticism when you see people attaching to levels of heaven or hell, dharma, thrones on clounds surrounded by light, they are simply replacing a polished stone god on a sumerian ziggurat with a fetish of their subconscious. BTW, my father was in the masons, the secrets are not about the substance but about the oath of keeping. People who look for deeper meaning in esoteric ploys are as misguided as people who seek truth from palm readers. What is the nature of mystic visions, are they waking dreams, are they miswiring in the brain, information screaming to get out of the mind? I have visual manifestations, as I have tyramine sensitivity and if a stray even a little bit off my diet, i can be stepping off in a min-d-field of brain malfunction, that among other health problems, I can very much see were others are seeing certain types of visions (e,g. the depiction of Paul's vision in acts). A proper meditative stance can subdue the minor manifestations. I know others, particularly women, who have similar issues that appear to be more hormonal than diet. Similar types of hallucinations can be driven by dimethyl tryptamine, and other forms of tyramine. Tyramine sensitivity is simply an inadequate level of monoamine oxidase near important signalling pathways. There are a large number of chemicals either coincidentally encountered or purposefully taken that can generate these types of hallucinations. I am not going to discuss good or bad meditation practices, but if the meditative practice is resulting in ecstatic visions that indistinguishable from a chemical induced hallucination then its like something not going right in the body (e.g. is naval staring good for the human bowel and viscera?) When one scrapes all the mytic "props" off of mysticism one can separate mystics into two essential camps, those who rarely if ever have mystical experiences and those who more commonly have them outside of circumstance like bereavement hallucinations. Often there is a common feature, a relative, an old friend of the family, etc as the object of the vision. Typically mystical experience around those that have recently died, but they can concern those that are living. The peace were the vision occurs often has a structure (e.g. a broad open plain with a chasm separating a mystic goal on the other side). There may be substructure, buildings, churches, domes. In and around the structure may be people (usually familar faces of the past), inside might be generally regarded as heaven, hell, sheol. Within such structures there maybe structures of brightness and darkness, whiteness, redness (blood) and blackness. The mystic may associate with preexisting believes, like levels of heaven. The actual transition into the experience may take on religious meaning, like nervana. These structures and embodiments in the visions are trapping of the human mind, they are almost always interpretations based on the lack of logical precedences. The minds desire to find agency. If the seekers focuses on these embodiments they are wandering to what has been described as profanity and delusions. So basically I have described all the flaws of mysticism and why one has to be careful of articulate notions and sophistries associated with mysticism. And yet i am a mystic, my justifications for my sense of divinity are just that, mine. The body is the temple of the spirit, to respect ones body prepares the road, but to resist the urges of the ego prepares the traveler. Seek not heaven, it will betray the mind, nor hell as the body betrays the seeker. Rather seek only that which is offered and take nothing that is hidden. The treasure of the mystic realm are miniscule and fleeting in nature, except when they are not.

So, there is no English translation of Lazzarelli ?

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Doesn't Maimonides mention a group of Moorish Hermetists? Spanish Moors don't count as European?