The Mysterious History Of Magic (What the Ancients Knew & We Lost) - Agrippa's Diary 

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Is saruman narrating lol?

As the book of Daniel says "in the latter days knowledge will increase" I've learned more in the past 10 years than the prior 58. Glad to be alive in these times.

The comic book writer Alan Moore has the belief that art is a form of magic, he speaks about how both art and magic involve the manipulation of symbols to alter consciousness, to Moore art is a transformative power, it creates new realities in the minds of its audience. He has one of my favourite quotes. "There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness. The very language about magic seems to be talking as much about writing or art as it is about supernatural events. A grimmoir for example, the book of spells is simply a fancy way of saying grammar. Indeed, to cast a spell, is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people's consciousness. And I believe that this is why an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world that you are likely to see to a Shaman. I believe that all culture must have arisen from cult. Originally, all of the faucets of our culture, whether they be in the arts or sciences were the province of the Shaman. The fact that in present times, this magical power has degenerated to the level of cheap entertainment and manipulation, is, I think a tragedy. At the moment the people who are using Shamanism and magic to shape our culture are advertisers. Rather than try to wake people up, their Shamanism is used as an opiate to tranquilize people, to make people more manipulable. Their magic box of television, and by their magic words, their jingles can cause everyone in the country to be thinking the same words and have the same banal thoughts all at exactly the same moment. In all of magic there is an incredibly large linguistic component. The Bardic tradition of magic would place a bard as being much higher and more fearsome than a magician. A magician might curse you. That might make your hands lay funny or you might have a child born with a club foot. If a Bard were to place not a curse upon you, but a satire, then that could destroy you. If it was a clever satire, it might not just destroy you in the eyes of your associates; it would destroy you in the eyes of your family. It would destroy you in your own eyes. And if it was a finely worded and clever satire that might survive and be remembered for decades, even centuries. Then years after you were dead people still might be reading it and laughing at you and your wretchedness and your absurdity. Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being; that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment; things with which we can fill 20 minutes, half an hour, while we’re waiting to die. It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need." - Alan Moore

Thanks to both Agrippa's Diary and Afterskool. This was wonderfully presented.

Hell yeah some Count Dooku on a tuesday

The artwork in this episode is especially magical!

I needed some Hermeticism today. When the Student is ready, the Master appears.. Thanks so much! As Above, So Below

I don’t have a lot of personal experience with words or hand gestures, but my experience with Mushrooms and Acid confirms magic is indeed real

@1:50 I am so relieved the venerable Dr. Watts was able to provide a cameo. I love the After Skool channel. Esoteric knowledge with cartoons...everyone's safe place to learn.

Wow. A Christopher Lee like narration. Perfect.

Words cannot describe how grateful I am for this post, along with the discourse within. Thank you. ♥️

I love Agrippa’s diary thank you for presenting this 🔥

The Emerald Tablets Of Thoth is one of my favorite works. Some believe Enoch and Thoth were the same person. Enoch was what the Hebrews called him. When you make the connection between the Noah’s flood story, the sinking of Atlantis, and the Younger Dryas extinction event from ~12,000 years ago, it becomes easy to see. The Book Of Enoch entails many of the same concepts the Emerald Tablets does.

This is what I love about your channel.Even when it's a little bullshit it's still awesome to watch

An Inspiring episode tapping into primal DNA and 3rd eye re-awakening, the artistry within this one is one of my all time faves. Much Gratitude for combining your gifted heARTistry with thought provoking content...now I'll go back to practicing my sacred creative flow...Keep Shining Brightly!!!

By and large, nicely done. Little off stating that Christians based their avoidance of magic from Greek influence, considering the Old Testament also condemned the practice since 1000 bc at the latest Exodus 22:18 Deuteronomy 18:10-12 Leviticus 19:31

Just realized RU-vid had unsubscribed me from this channel. No idea how long it’s been, but I just re-subscribed. Great content. I love both of these channels and was happy to see the collaboration. The Christopher Lee AI voice doesn’t bother me like some others do.

Two of the best channels on RU-vid coming together to tell it like it really is!!

Thank you for sharing this information!!!

Almost all of it still just sounds like science that we are rediscovering today.

00:07🌌 Magic is real, serving as a powerful tool with both benevolent and malevolent applications. 01:13🔮 Magic played a vital role in prehistoric societies, acting as an early form of spirituality and mediation with the supernatural. 05:31🔥 The asipu in Mesopotamia were revered figures who acted as healers and sages, using rituals to maintain cosmic balance. 08:10🌟 Egypt reached the pinnacle of magical arts, where the use of sacred words and gestures had the power to manipulate cosmic forces. 12:42⛓ The negative perception of magic grew with Greek, Roman, and Christian influences, leading to its marginalization and concealment in Western history. 16:38🔑 Fragments of this magical knowledge have been preserved by secret societies, promising a resurgence and deeper understanding in the future.

It’s actually very hard to wrap your head around the fact that indeed magic has not disappeared. We are so used of finding the explanation to everything, that we have forgot that fact that maybe there’s none now, or never has been. I mean, all that is ”stuff that even kids should know” might actually be totally unexplainable, as where do we draw the line where explainable science ends and unexplainable magic begins (and vice versa) or is there even one?

That is the coolest looking picture of Thoth I have seen 😊😊😊

This is seriously THE BEST thing I have watched on RU-vid in ages. Thankyou 🙏🏾 will share around

Love learning about ancient history #music #mystery #magic

It wasn't until around the 3rd century that christians considered magic an evil. This is illustrated correctly quoting Augustine. During this time Christianity changed drastically from what it was in its infancy during the Great Persecution. During the early years, it was a much more mystical practice incorporating many elements that could be quantified as magical. It wasn't until the church became an organized religion that magic was demonized. This is also when the Book of Enoch and many other holy texts were declared unfit for the Bible by a group of men at the council of Nicaea. Constantine wanted to make the Word of God more accessable since he made Christianity the state religion, but the consequences were incredibly unfortunate because of these things and the faith turned into a hierarchy of men who edited, removed parts and added other parts to the scripture that remained for their rendition of the Bible. This is just a very brief picture but I want people to know that the true faith of Christ and the church that ensued 300 years after the Faith began, are two Very different things.

What a wonderful presentation… thank you for sharing knowledge in such a magical way ❤️

Adding this to our History of Magic playlist. Well done

Love this dang channel!! What a gift this channel and its education is

Aggripa's diary is an amazing channel for esoteric knowledge and lost knowledge thought to be useless to us in the modern era

This is definitely a platform open for all sorts of ideas. Glad to have it!

You are an incredible artist. 🙌🏻

Remembrance ❤️‍🔥 What a place to be ~ Magic in Everything we See 👀 What a time to be Alive.

I don’t like the AI. I come here for the cool dry eraser art.

This was... Delightful. I leveled up like 5 times listening to this.

Magical video!

This was beautiful! I cant express how muvh this content means to us. Thank you!

I just want to say a big thank you to this glorious collaboration. God bless you both.

Oh wicked such a perfect collaboration, I’ve got big respect for these two channels ❤️❤️💪🏼🙏🏼

I don’t know if anyone has commented this but Magic (curses and love spells, with voodoo dolls, needles etc is alive and well in so many modern cultures. I’m Australian with an Indonesian husband and have had so many scary and strange experiences over there, but not really here in Oz! Or maybe, as discussed, I just don’t even see my own culture’s magic. I’m swimming in it. ❤

Thank you for honoring the Mystery Schools 🙏💚🗝️🌹

I love Agrippa’s diary. A great channel just like this one.

This is the crossover episode I was waiting for 🙏🏽

Great vid!! very informative. keep up the great work.

Look for the Golden Thread in history and you'll be sure to find it. To those who seek, much is given and with that great power and knowledge, comes great responsibility.

Eternally Grateful for the dedication of those of us who are undergoing the Great Work and following their Life Purpose utilising their Life Force for the ultimate benefit of All. Namaste.

Love. Love this. Keep it coming. An invitation and a thanks. 🌀✨️👏

Can we get a video specifically of the acacia "tree of life" of ancient Egypt please?

Magic... the Gathering? 🌌

These videos are so well made and thought out. Thank you and never stop!

I was introduced to these Teaching By 4BiddenKnowledgeTV 3 years ago! Thank you For your educational illustrations they’re amazing

I believe in these teachings, so I'm not attempting to troll here. But I have a genuine question if anyone knows the answer... My only question is this: How did people WITH the power of magic get dominated by people who did NOT have or use, or even believe in magic? I just don't get how a civilization could utilize the power of the universe, until some foul minded humans come along and just completely shut them down..? How was magic not powerful enough to protect itself from damnation?

So it was right to burn witches?

The placebo effect is scientific proof that magic is real.

And yet magic returns, as strong as it always has been for all we needed was faith in our own heart

Why were Vedas, Upanishads, Yoga, the indian traditional science of spirituality not mentioned? It was active until the early seveties, then shut down there too, but as a consequence of its recent setting, it's still very much alive...the hippies, western wizards, knew it, but now?

Simply brilliant.

Magic is misunderstood. Like alchemy (turn lead into gold) which is more a metaphor for stupidity to intelligence, magics principals are also metaphor. It's about "influence" over self and others 🤲

So AWESOME. 🙉🙊🙈 Spread joy. ♥️🌏⭐💚

Hello HG Tudor!!! Fancy meeting you here!!!

First, say what magic is, or at least if you can't define it, say what it can do. Not just some mystical nonsense, e.g., in Egypt, there was magic! If that was real and could do some extraordinary things, why didn't it persist? Why did we forget it?

Agrippas diary is such a great channel

Yesterday’s magic is today’s science. That’s what happened.

Tragically short sighted yet subtle take on Christianity. With rather rose colored glasses on the ancient religions. Nevertheless, a wonderful historical telling of magic and it's roots. Will make a copy of this video, very well done.

💟Love Agrippa's Diary, thank you!!

Wonderful thank you

Hay Rocky watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat

I manipulate "magic" on a daily basis with electricity and radio waves. I understand some of the science and mathematics that this involves but I don't completely understand it all. I love to hunt and fish. A lot of times I just observe nature while I'm hunting. I think there is so much that we can't understand whether you are on the nature or scientific side. My world is "1" and "0" but I'm more interested in the nature side. I appreciate this video and hope that the international accredited place that gives me my certificate doesn't see my comment. Thank you for what you put out. I watch it normally.🙂

00:07:15 - Magic and science once intertwined, shaping reality through sacred rituals and divine wisdom. 00:13:21 - Ancient Egyptians used spells and gestures to harness divine powers and manipulate supernatural forces. 00:18:53 - Magic's ancient roots were demonized and erased by early Christians, but fragments of this knowledge have survived in secret societies and now it's time to unearth and understand them.

Thank you. Are you also going to include Kabbalah , Vedic and Orisha magic?!?

yeh nuh you've ruined it. Magic is nothing more than a weapon of charlatans

Absolutely incredible video. I was just recently thinking perhaps it's about time to learn some magic myself. Since what is measured comes into existence.

Profound, profound.

idk about this one

If man wants to continue to evolve then Magick must be known

The entire Pantheon of all the ancient false deities have come to nothing, as they are nothing. Just like "magic" is. Divination is real as are Mediums & Spiritual Forces. "Magic" is an abomination, all trust and Faith is to be in alone in God. And God alone is the Greatest of All Spiritual Forces.

This speech would be a perfect beginning to a movie

Remember, if you see someone mention Crowley in any serious capacity you're about to be fed some bs. Best case scenario, you get some misguided half-truth.

The narrator sounds a lot like Christopher Lee (count Dooku/ Saruman) 😎 THAT would’ve been one hell of a collaboration 🤘🔥😎

Excellent! Fascinating! Superinteresting! I want more, more! And an unusually beautiful voice also! I subscribe now so thanks and God bless!

What a time to be alive … ☺️

"... were BELIEVED to hold ..." It's all in the want to BELIEVE. The success, the failure and the recognition of each. If you don't want to fall, don't look down. Without learning, we follow a recognized path. With learning, we come upon a fork in the road. Take great care in choosing. Evil and good are both influences. We need not be authorities to anyone but ourselves.

Snake oil. Doesn't say how magic is created.

How absolutely magical

Amazing artwork! Keep up the great work

Remember folks moses and jesus always beats the The dark magicians✝️

I have to believe the Younger Dryas cataclysm also played a role in the forgetting of ancient magic.. which corresponds into the “great flood” in many ancient cultures across the globe. Hypothetically, the Younger Dryas period matches the curve chart timeline shown with the steepest decline of magic use.

This is dangerous teaching guys. Don‘t EVER listen to people like Aleister Crowley if you don‘t even know what kind of a man he was. Wrong teachings will ruin, Yes i said RUIN your life And in the worst case, even your SOUL So be careful and ALWAYS CHECK the people that are teaching these philosophies and writing these books BE VERY CAREFUL

really really great video, thank you so much for creating and sharing an amazing presentation!

what a load of crap

Glad they got a Wizard to narrate this one

This is sorcery mixed with ignorance.

Stars rule man but a wise man rules the stars. Meaning if Man soul is Free he rule the stars which is his Destiny. And that’s reason of Man soul

@after skool, this is a disgrace for your channel. other videos are well researched, this is unscientific, embarrassing and frankly dangerous

As we filled the gaps in our knowledge we consistently found that it was not magic, nor did god do it. Whilst there are still gaps in our knowledge, as each discovery poses more unanswered questions, i think we can be fairly certain that when those gaps are filled the answers won't be magic or god did it either. And that understanding in its own way is magical.

Are we pretending magic is real right now?

"To not believe in it, is to be defenseless against it..." Not entirely, in fact I think that non belief in the preternatural is a defense mechanism. It insulates the person from lending their energies to something that may be destructive. If you do not believe in something you do not add your own mental energies to it's creation.

You do know magic is fantasy, right? At best, it's the placebo effect. If it is real, can you cite a double-blind study? Also, nice touch on the narrator.

The script is really good and this art is beautiful!!! Someone knows if it's his own art or some software?