the next ideology isn't what you think.

The way I structure these videos is I release some that are more normiecoded

like the ones on current American politics and society while some more

niche ones like the one on me civilization. This video doesn't really

fit into an easy category and you'll see why. In a lot of my videos, I point out

a trend which I think will happen whether or not I want it to. In this

video, I've found something that could work. Whether or not you guys find this

useful is your choice, but I'm at least offering it as an option. Our society is

going through a very brutal period, and I think anyone on every side of the

political octagon can agree to that. One of the core issues is that the lack of

meaning or any sense of shared reality. In a psychological sense, we live in a

world that's like shattered glass. As was foretold in the 19th century by

Nietz, the death of God had consequences that utterly destroyed the old world.

Things that we used to take completely for granted are just gone now. There's

no shared concept that human life has any value. That there even is a soul.

How the universe works, should the nation exist, what reality even is, or

what a man and a woman are. We've already gone insane. were just wealthy

enough to mask the consequences. I could pick up on this void intuitively in high

school where I realized adults didn't actually understand the things they were

saying. There was nothing behind the bluff that was our society and I knew it

would come tumbling down sooner or later. Sadly, I turned out to be right.

Since then, I've been trying to piece things together to make sense of what

will and won't work here. I cross- referenced a variety of things until I

found what I'm about to tell you in this video.

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Part one, a paradox. I think once humanity's power grew great enough and

we were no longer dependent on nature, very strange things started to happen.

Wait, I don't think that. I know it to be true. The modern world shows such

staggering intensity between a society which grew so wealthy it committed

suicide. Progressives who in their drive for progress collapsed their societies.

The atom bomb which both ended war while causing the potential for the end of

civilization in a bad morning. The Japanese Empire rising to conquer

everything from Alaska to New Guinea overnight. or Hitler emerging from being

an unemployed vagrant to Germany's furer, conquering an empire stretching

from the Atlantic to Kazakhstan, which lasted a very mythic 12 years. You

wouldn't think the world today was real if we didn't have to live in it. There's

some both beautiful and horrible things in it. It's crazy that modern

populations see the most remarkable things, but their humanity has been so

crushed that they can't appreciate its intensity. There's another paradox

there. Life today is so insane by historic standards, but nothing ever

happens and the end of history has already been reached. So, we have a

worldview that says that the world can't change, which is not going to work. I

think the reason that paradox is so built into modernity is that broken

people are the most paradoxical. I don't really agree with this, but Toltoy said

all happy families are similar and that unhappy people are different. It speaks

to a point that broken people have lots of disintegrated stuff which jostles

against others. Healthy people have come to terms with their own complexity.

Modern society is incredibly immature since it's the first time that humanity

has gotten enough power to not be totally reliant on the earth's bounty.

For almost all of our ancestors, they were farmers, herders, hunter gatherers,

or whatever. And those who weren't were people like lords or church or

bourgeoisi who were a small minority totally dependent on the people who were

getting food from the land. With the industrial revolution we unlocked

enormous power that we had no experience with. It's like giving a child a power

tool with no training. It's frankly painful to watch if you're the sort of

person who knows where this is going to end. The other thing is that we became

so wealthy so fast that people became insulated from the costs of their

decisions. People could believe utterly insane things like that reality didn't

exist or that everyone was equal since they bore no costs for saying crazy

stuff. This is a highly dangerous situation and the general public is far

too comfortable to deal with it in a responsible way. The sheer degree of

denial I see in the world today is something I could not have predicted in

advance. But I don't blame myself since this is just utter madness. Faced with

enormous intractable issues, whether the new technologies we do not yet

understand such as genetic engineering, AI, space, or even older stuff like

nuclear weapons or shoving chemicals into everything. We have a public that

has zero interest in even thinking about the consequences. Throw on top of this a

complete societal and cultural collapse paralleled either by the earlier fall of

civilizations like Rome, Persia or Greece or with the horrifying mouse

utopia experiments which again the public ignores all of this. This is just

the tip of a spear between the culture or innovation grinding to an utter halt,

the rise of external powers like China, an utterly collapsing birth rate,

political polarization, the average person sliding into degrading poverty,

and the West being controlled by a death cult bent on the destruction of its own

civilization. I'm not even giving everything that deserves credit here.

Like, credit. The world is going on the most insane financial money printing

event ever in human history or potential climactic issues. As I like to say, this

all sounds quite intimidating because it is. However, life is a [ __ ] test and you

have nothing better to do than to deal with it. I know none of you have lives

that are more interesting or compelling than fixing this. A lot of you are

normies, have financial liabilities or families, but a lot of you don't either.

We're going to have to solve this. And if we don't, we will lose absolutely

everything. People are too coddled today to realize how bad life can get and how

stopping that requires effort and courage. One of my good friends used to

work for an agriculture company in India and Thailand and Indonesia. And he said,

"In those countries, there is levels of poverty which we would only see in

post-apocalyptic movies. We are going to fix this so that our children can live

in a better country because that is the only acceptable outcome we should choose

to live with. What I did not expect was that the whole world's reaction to this

would just be denial. I didn't think lying to yourself for this long was even

in the phone book of options. I assumed over time that the nagging worries would

become too intrusive, that the streets would get too dirty and people would get

too poor. But psych, no. Welcome to governance by the baby boomers where

issues are not solved and we all collectively agree to pretend it's still

the 20th century while having none of the positives of that society. You'd

think people would realize after a certain point that it's inside their

self-interest to defect from the system. But I think a combination of economic

misery, being so isolated, beaten down by the left's psychological warfare, and

the collective slide into madness that people don't have the life force to

stand upright. However, this will change and it's a matter of when, not if, since

situations like this are innately deeply unstable. We see a sort of stable

equilibrium now since it looks like the world we thought we knew. However, the

current world around us is an illusion kept together by too many people being

utterly terrified of losing their worldly things. They don't seem to

realize that they're going to lose their things anyway if they don't stand up. I

partly blame aging since we are the first old society ever in human history

with America being one of the younger countries in the industrial world, but

our average age is still 40. Modernity is weird for both keeping a lot of

consistency with earlier eras of history, but also having its own weird

new stuff. You can't call which will be which in advanced. This world will come

crashing down. In fact, it already has in nearly every conceivable way.

However, we're too set on maintaining the illusion of the old world. No matter

how hard we try, we are not strong enough to stop this since elites do not

in fact control the world. The world has its own plans and history shows that

elites who don't keep up with them get crushed. The current order has nothing

holding it together except entropy. No one believes in the current order, even

the elites. No one wants this to be our world. Both the right and the left hate

modernity. And the current regime is incapable of generating anything.

Regimes that don't generate things die and get crushed by those who do as part

of a natural Darwinistic process. Modernity is so fast that trends which

may have taken centuries 2,000 years ago can occur in decades. The reason you

haven't realized that the old world is dead is that there has been an active

conspiracy on the part of the entire world's social authorities to not show

it. This sounds like a centrally orchestrated thing, but rather it's just

from the individual self-interest of various world leaders and elites who

don't understand the new world or how to deal with it and so can't make new

stories about the current society that don't end up invalidating their own

rule. It's a tale as old as time. Corrupt elites trying to hold on to

power at all costs. We try to maintain the outward forms of the comfortable and

stable John Hughes Simpsons America of the last century. While for most younger

people, their lives have practically nothing in common with it. As I've read

more books from the 20th century, it's really struck me how much we've changed

since then in so many ways. Even with authors in the 1990s, this is a lot for

someone my age to hold on their plate. It would be a lie to say that knowing

this hasn't eaten at me a little. My eyes are already open and I couldn't

close them, even if I wanted to. There's not enough space to live in the older

version of me who believe these lies as a child for me to grow today. As of now,

I just have to watch my world fall apart before my own eyes. And the vast

majority of people are too medicated, depressed, and/or are in denial to

acknowledge it. I guess this is my fate. There are worse things in the big

picture and I'll make sure it works. I have plenty of good stuff. I am from a

culture where people speak bluntly, where I'm an Irish guy from Philly,

where people don't really have filters back home. So, don't read between the

lines too much of what I'm saying here. I started to intuitit all of these

things as a teenager. As I said before, I'm from Philly, which is probably the

most downwardly mobile city in America over the last century. So, a lot of

these conclusions were utterly unavoidable. However, I was intimidated

by these things. I'm not anymore. The reason is that as a teen, I could tell

adults didn't know what they were really saying about the world. The things they

said felt empty and bol like styrofoam. Real things are messy and living.

Nihilism is killing us. Growing up, my father would tell me about how the most

core causal variable for the issues I saw in the world around me was the death

of God. My father said that without a shared sense of God or meaning that

people did not have the reason to live. He said that Marxism was the envious who

were trying to tear down the world to take revenge for the loss of heaven or

an afterlife. that the reason the west was too weak to either have an effective

foreign policy or let children play outside is that without God there was no

reason to face suffering or believe in yourself. He said that the story of the

20th century was when our human sciences did not progress as fast as our

technological sciences which created evil regimes based off pseudocience.

that the human sciences of the 20th century were just stuff we made up and

instead we would have to pull in religion or preodern social ideas to

make a correct system. This is where I started intellectually. I spent years

trying to figure out how the world really worked. I compared the different

philosophies of the world from both the preodern and modern eras. I then did my

own reading and studied the scientific or intellectual work we have now to run

a sort of reality filter on which philosophies and worldviews aligned with

both reality and the functionality of a human society the most. I continually

found that Marxists were the most obnoxious liars and our society had been

way too soft on them. Secondly, that preodern societies often understood

highly complex and deep things but explained them in a format that was

totally unrelatable to modern people or with religions and myths which left out

very important sort of tools for modern people to understand them or things we

know now. However, I found something that could work. I found a corpus of

ideas which can resolve all of the major issues with what I've articulated here.

Let me show them to you. Part two, which worldview is accurate. The video I most

recently made was about how the vast majority of our worldview today is

inaccurate. That on some level every academic discipline had been colored by

incorrect framings to a degree in which you can't trust our entire worldview.

That's a very deep and heavy topic which I won't get as much into this video.

However, that's a framework you are going to need to understand this video.

It also plays into what I just said that the current mental and worldview

framework we have for the world is not able to deal with the dangerous

realities of life today. There's a sort of disjoint here in trying to cross

reference which theories of the world can explain the world today. Modernist

thinkers have a tendency to be really bad at understanding systems thinking,

human nature, or the big picture. This is a way bigger issue than a lot of you

probably realize since those things inform every element of how you perceive

the world. For example, communism was seen as a moral evil for the vast

majority of human history since they had a better comprehension of human nature

that humans have souls pointed towards heaven and their own animal motivations.

This makes Marxism slavery to the state not seen as empowering a world without

conflict or poverty which it does not actually achieve but rather the crushing

of human soul and character. Alternately, preodern thinkers would see

stuff like cold rationalism or social engineering as evil since neither

respected the interconnected and divine nature of reality itself. Where you

can't just rip reality up without thinking you're going to generate more

issues than you solve. This is what preodern thinkers were really good at

and moderns are terrible at. Modern people are way better at knowing the how

and very bad at knowing the why or should. Just look at wokeness where the

left so blindly pushed for racial stats for various industries to match their

quotas. This leaves out very important details like how cultures and genetics

are actually quite different where you'll see on top of that a radical

neutering of innovation which is largely done by white men that using national

racial stats over America is just utter madness given how much America's racial

demographics fluctuate by region. And that's leaving out a dozen other very

important variables they did not in fact consider. This is just one example of

one of modernity's logical fallacies, but there are very many. However, at the

same time, there's a sort of unbridgegable gulf between ancient

wisdom and modern science. For a brief example, which will make the rest of the

video more comprehensible, alchemy has a very distinct grammar for how the world

works. If you don't know the grammar, alchemy comes across as gibberish.

However, if you do, it's absolutely brilliant. For example, in alchemy,

there are four states. Albo, rubdo, negrado, or citronus. For examples in

history, Albo is a period of high intellectual depth and cultivation.

Examples would include classical Athens, 18th century France, or the Italian

Renaissance. The white or albbo must come out of chaos and disorder though

which all of these historic periods did and it must evolve into yellow or

citronus. This is when a sort of idea of a society evolves into material form or

how those intellectual principles from those breakthroughs were applied across

the whole world. This is a stage of decadence where these ideas mix with the

world and get watered down. That would be the helenistic period, modernity or

broke decadence which followed all of those time periods. However, decadence

is necessary to this process since it burns away the unnecessary parts of the

older society and allows these ideas to sink in with the society. Negrado, get

your laughs out now guys. This isn't about black people is a term for the raw

darkness and horror of your worst points. In alchemy, suffering is

required to burn away weakness. You can see this is totally true in that

Darwinism is built off survival of the fittest. Ancient historians like

Herododus or Iben Calun agreed that weakness destroyed nations and science,

rule of law, capitalism or democracy are so valuable since they create internal

rules to mediate productive competition. Negrado is the least favorite, but it's

also necessary to keep things real, and good things only come out of how

suffering makes people stronger. Think of how the vast majority of scientific

innovations are from war. This is a principle that people in modernity

really have a hard time stomaching since we live in such comfortable times. We

don't want to believe that suffering is necessary to growth. Finally is rubdo

which is the lion's roar of red. This is the period when history just explodes

like how Alexander the Great or Genghask Khan broke entire continents under their

will. The French Revolution exploding across Europe or the Spanish bloody

taking down two continents. This is necessary but again modernity doesn't

like this since genuine innovation is always disruptive. It's so spoiled and

immature of us to hate on the age of European exploration, industrialization,

and colonialism since we all live in the world they made. The only reason we have

the science, hygiene, food, technology, or often countries or continents that we

do is because of the rubo of that era. We're now sliding into yellow or black

so that we can have another era of white or red. Finally, you have the blue,

which I haven't studied as much, but I believe is the creative font of new

innovation that comes from the shadows or the night. Think of how the European

dark ages after the fall of Rome set the foundations for the most successful

civilization in history or how colonial America did the same for our nation. How

the forests and myths of ancient Greece set the foundations for the albdo of

their classical civilization and the rubo of Alexander. The thing is that I

applied this framework to history since that's my area of study, but you could

do this for any other discipline. Keep in mind, alchemy was in a lot of ways

the origin of science, as we'll talk about later in this video, where every

major thinker and the foundation of modern science had some background in

alchemy. Alchemy exists in parallel to science in that it's a set of way to

look at symptoms which mirror across realms of existence. So you could use

these colors to look at human nature, psychology, smelting in a smithy, which

is where alchemy started for spirituality, history, evolution, or

other disciplines. An interesting element of the psychology of alchemy is

when you're talking about these colors, you're breaking out of the idea that

this trauma is caused by your parents or this is caused by your employer. You're

just saying you are in negrado and you are suffering. You should deal with it.

And I see these as useful tools which you can apply to a wide variety of

disciplines, as a certain type of lens, but not the sole lens you should use. I

see this video as a challenge. If it kind of comes off strange, you don't

like it. The reason is I'm trying to get to the edges of what I can do with my

current skill level to see if it works. One of the tests here is can I get a

modernist audience to respect something which their neurology will absolutely

not like? We don't think about this, but the way modern societies wire their

neurology is in fact not rational or scientific. Science is just a testing

method and you don't need the machine-like aesthetic or to apply

science as the sole ruling principle of your society. We agreed to that since it

fit a certain vibe, not because it actually made rational sense. Since no

major philosopher ever argued for this, as I explained in this text wall, if I

fail this test, oh well, things happen sometimes. The way I think, and I

believe this is valuable to articulate since it's alien to a lot of people, is

that I say things as a way to think out the implications of it in a process of

curiosity with my audience. I put on various perspectives or intellectual

masks, try them on, and if they stick, I keep them. This is how I see stuff like

this. The reason I state this is that people seem to get very worked up about

intellectual or social ideas as they form their identity. But this totally

removes thinking about them critically and sort of fossilizes people's

worldviews. Once you fossilize a worldview, it's going to end up being

wrong because it won't be able to adjust to the world. I try to keep a core set

of moral values I hold true to and then adapt my worldview by context or

whatever new data I pull in tells me. I am frequently wrong and will happily

admit when I am. That being said, I think there's something profoundly

valuable in the pre-industrial world's perception. I think not even being

interested in studying any of the elements for how people in earlier

societies understood the world is insanely arrogant and deranged for

modernity even to try this. It's pretty insane that we have total confidence on

a 200-year trajectory since the French Revolution which has been marred by

constant wars and disturbances. one where the scientific consensus on a

variety of topics changes every generation and where social authorities

are totally unwilling to admit fault. At the same time, where they push ideas

which are overtly wrong, like that men and women are the same or that you can

print infinite money with no consequences and having a coherent

functioning society is racism. Looking to the past to figure out principles is

just common sense. And the question is which principles from the past fit with

our current context and appear to match up with the trustworthy scientific data

we have now. I need you to watch this video until the end, although I know

it's long before you judge since I think there will be an immediate knee-jerk no

reaction, but I've spent years trying to translate alchemical principles into

modern scientific terminology and it does actually work. surprising. If you

actually understand what alchemy is trying to convey behind all the obtuse

symbols and weird language, you'll find it has a pre-established moral code in

worldview, which already knows how to handle the enormous power of modern

technology that we have now, as well as how to cultivate a society which is

responsible enough to handle it. The good news is that all of these questions

we worry about now have already been thought through for thousands of years.

I have lots of friends in the tech industry and it's funny they'll mention

some problem and so often the alchemists already wrote on that and I can just

immediately tell them what the alchemical teaching is. I've checked

this for a while and it's consistently held up. that since the philosophy of

alchemy is a question of how to attain greater and greater amounts of power

without growing corrupted. This was an issue philosophers have been aware of

for millennia. You know man, sometimes the sorcery is just too strong and you

got to roll with that. Another very valuable thing is that the alchemical

worldview is not in contradiction with Christianity at all. Every major

Christian church has endorsed it and funded it at one point or another. The

Catholic Church funded research on the topic and in the 16th century every

major royal court in Europe hired alchemists. The philosophy of alchemy

influenced the early church with the fathers of the church like St. Augustine

or origin not being totally opposed seeing the founder of this tradition

Hermes tismagist as a precursor to Christ and a pagan figure in the

Christian tradition like senica Plato or Aristotle. Hermeticism or another name

for the philosophy of alchemy has already had an enormous impact on

western history between the Italian Renaissance which it heavily inspired

the founding fathers that were deeply steeped in it as were almost all of the

founders of science. We're going to talk about this more so at the end of the

video. The reason we don't hear about it is since this stuff is coded in a

certain way that it's not generally accessible and it was heavily

concentrated among the upper classes or intellectuals who were the people making

leadership decisions but didn't percolate through the general public so

it didn't transfer to democracy very easily. I will say that this tradition

is deeply complex. I've kind of stumbled into it and after reading like 50 books

on mysticism, I still don't consider myself a master. I learn something new

every time I open a book on this topic and my skills here aren't anywhere as

good as what they are in history or anthropology. However, I know

practically no one else knows anything on these topics, so I'm going to go

ahead. Another element is that alchemy deals with how to advance on a

consciousness level as your material conditions improve. Which means they are

writing for people at different tiers of consciousness at once. If you're not

aware enough to understand something in alchemy, that's on purpose since that

information is only meant to be known by someone who is aware enough to take it.

It's overly complex and weird on purpose for that reason. If you don't like it,

that's fine. It's not made for most people. It's designed to be the exact

opposite of convenient or comprehensible, which makes it utterly

incomprehensible to the modern mind. Part three, the hermetic worldview. The

reason I think that alchemy, alternately called the hermetica, can explain the

scientific world very well is it allows you to switch your framing on how the

world works by perceiving the material realities of science through a different

worldview where they actually make sense inside a bigger frame. There's two ways

that I would recommend that people who are trying to get into the hermetica

start. One is with the cabalonian or a guide written on the underlying implicit

principles of hermeticism. Alongside there's a lot of good secondary sources

on the topic which do a much better job of explaining how the general worldview

works which is what I found the most valuable. The top five I'd recommend are

the secret history of the world, forbidden universe, the hermetic link,

the hermetica and creative alchemy alongside Eliata's book on alchemy. If

you want to understand how these fit into a broader modern worldview, read

Ken Wilbur's book, Sex, Ecology, and Spirituality, alongside Jordan

Peterson's maps of meaning. Then there's the Corpus Hermeticum, Esleius, and the

Emerald Tablet, which are other really useful primary sources on this topic.

All of those primary sources are less than like 400 pages total, so it's not a

big deal to read all. A point Elellata makes is that the hermetica or all forms

of alchemy which you also have in China or India come from smelting in furnaces

and iron working. These were ideas that were first developed with blacksmiths

trying to understand the miracle of metal working. A lot of this mutated

into cooking or chemistry where the hermetica loves symbolism of let him

cook or front and back burner. The hammer is the masculine element. The

iron is the feminine. The final produced good is the synthesis. The way hermetics

frame this is by working through metals to reach gold. These were symbolic

understandings of the gold. So gold was spiritual enlightenment. However, this

is also so philosophically complicated and incestuous that you should read this

textual to understand it better. The philosopher stone was a symbol for

something in the far future that was powerful enough to understand all things

and transmute one material to another by being so advanced. The stone was not

actually a stone, but more so a waxy tablet that you should see as some

advanced piece of technology in the far future that they were aiming towards

over the course of centuries. This is the weirdest intro into hermeticism and

I promise I can explain why this framework exists in a sane way going

forward. This is a funny way of phrasing it, but a way to see the Hermetica is

much like communism or some insane anime fandom. For example, I've never watched

the One Piece show since I see the thousand episodes or whatever and I

think, Jesus, I don't have enough free time for this. Keep in mind that nerds

in the preodern world needed hobbies, too. The Hermetica is designed to be

coded only for the types of people who are mature enough for it, and there are

multiple entry points you can choose. There is a truly huge amount of hermetic

lore, and you can start in a variety of ways. When you encounter another person

who has studied the hermetica, you'll almost always find that their study of

the topic is coded for their own personal experience. And so you'll share

your journey. This is a structured part of the hermetic process where it's

supposed to be tailored to you as an individual. It's an open-source toolkit

which you can use for a variety of things. It builds your identity around

you as you use these tools to further your life journey to reach your destiny.

It's less valuable to see it as a religion like the Abrahamics than it is

a philosophy with lots of tools you can use to understand the world. You can

pick or choose tools by context. However, this is also why I never think

the hermetica can or should be a society's majority religion since it

isn't made to serve the needs of ordinary people or a society. You see,

most religions operate like a sort of psychic force field for a society.

Christianity, Hinduism or Islam create psychological worlds which create space

for entire civilizations to develop. These create worldviews which can't

really interface with others and thus have rules which often end up collapsing

into totalitarianism since their rules can't update in all

contexts. What the Hermetica is designed to be is a toolkit for those who wander

outside those religious force fields. That's why it's called the belief system

of travelers, rogues, and kings. It's for the self-employed or those who exist

outside normal structures since either the king must deal above his nation in

order to fight others and deal with international diplomacy or the traveler

who must wander between worlds. You can see why I'm sort of comparing it to

communism as a vaguely secular ideology which you can use as a mental framework

to understand the world but doesn't operate as a traditional religion. This

provides a very valuable service in a globalized economy where the old

civilizations can't fully adapt to a new world. In the same way that at the time

of Herododus, religion declined since the Greeks could see the gods of many

other nations, which made it hard to believe in their own religions or

cultures today are forced to cooperate against both the globalized world and

the changes with new science and technology. However, religion is a

society's worldview or operating system and so it must exist and not doing so

will kill a society. What the Hermetica and other forms of alchemy like the

Indian or Dowist do is make a list of tools which can allow the cross-section

of science and religion. So you can take off certain moral values based on

context or good sense. The hermetica is difficult to categorize since it was

made before modern people established clear principles on what constituted

certain academic disciplines. Hermeticism is a way of looking at the

world holistically and then seeing patterns across disciplines. There were

hermetic styles of magic, astrology, physics, biology, art, politics,

religion, philosophy, and so many other things given the hermetica as a system.

It's not a given thing. This makes it difficult for modern people. But it also

makes it very useful in classic fashion where often the thing you don't want is

what you actually need. Modern people need logical systems like the hermetica

so that we can logic our way out of our own civilizational autism, schizophrenia

or mental illness back into having a meaningful profound worldview like our

ancestors did. The hermetica is how you explain religion to smart intellectual

people. The Hermetica isn't like other girls or other religions in that it's

not a list of dogma, but rather a framework for how to evolve as a person

or a thing and build your own morality based on context. The way to see it is

less than competing with Christianity or other world religions, rather worldviews

like Marxism. The hermetica is the direct inverse of Marxism in which both

our worldviews about how things should evolve over the course of time where

Marx's idea of the historic dialectic actually stems from the hermetica for

reasons explained in this text wall through Hegel. The hermetica establishes

a framework for how to find chaos, subdue or master it, and then turn it

into your property and in the process grow as a person. When communism values

slavery, immaturity, and machine-like thinking, the hermetica values freedom,

maturity, human consciousness, and manhood. In our current worldview,

Marxism has de facto filled the frame of our global worldview in that the first

reaction to a globalized world of many religions was to negate all of them in

default onto the lowest trust and most cynical worldview possible as a way to

not have to maintain the global commons which would be quite difficult. What

this means is that Christians today, without even realizing it, have been

operating within a Marxist frame, since they've made the decision that pushing

social justice, killing the West, and Marxist oppression narratives trumps

actually following the Bible for lots of Western churches. People really

underestimate how Marxism has colored our entire worldview. and it goes

through academia, value systems, sexual relations,

human nature, and a variety of things. What I'm recommending here is using the

hermetica to replace the things Marxism does in our current society, which would

then allow the major world religions to flower. Keep in mind that Marxism

teaches that the spiritual simply does not exist. that the divine spark does

not exist in humans, that humans don't have a soul, that the chaos God uses to

test humanity should be destroyed. The major world religions cannot survive in

a Marxist frame, which is a big reason why global religiosity is collapsing so

precipitously. However, in the Hermetica, you have an open-source

toolkit which creates a framework for different world religions to interface

with the divine. So, you've suddenly opened up global cultures to be able to

talk to God. Again, hermeticism allows everyone to access the tree of human

life and consciousness. I can't overstate how easy and how important a

historic shift this would be. We would just have to do it. to return to topic

as a way to sort of go through the hermetic principles. Let's go through

the cabalians principles to understand the topic more deeply. You have

mentalism or that the universe is a dream by God. Correspondence or as above

so below. Vibration that nothing stays the same. Polarity or that everything

which exists also has its opposite. Rhythm or that everything flows in

cycles. cause and effect, which is every cause has an effect, and gender, which

is that everything has masculine or feminine principles. These are fairly

bare bones, but these are all very necessary things you need to understand,

the world, which modernity does not have. They provide frameworks for things

we don't think about today, but we need to know about. Another really

interesting hermetic principle, which I find quite valuable, is microcosmos

equals macrocosmos. And what that means is that large very complex things have

small symbolic forms which guide the larger thing. As an example, I've spoken

about in previous videos how society's family structures dictate their

political structures through creating intuitive notions about how power should

be used. So if you change a society's family structure, you're also going to

change their political structure. Similarly, nations or religions use

certain symbols like capitals or religious symbolism where if you attack

the Vatican, you're attacking the entire global Catholic Church. Washington DC is

a microcosmos of America where these leaders in rooms are making decisions

which impact the entirety of humanity. So the course of human history exists in

a microcosmic form being determined in negotiating rooms by world leadership.

Microcosmos versus macrocosmos also explains a lot of religious symbolism

where you have to think to yourself how come a cross is symbolic for an entire

religion or a half moon for another religion. Another example of hermetic

principles that are highly useful is the polarity of the masculine and feminine,

which is very real to society, but is something that people just ignore. Men

and women need different things out of life, but we can't admit that. The

reason social engineering doesn't work is that the world is constantly moving

and operating in rhythms, which means that overly rigid structures can't

accurately model reality. If you look enough at physics or just human life in

general, you find that they do generally follow principles like this. For

example, over history, people tend to not operate rationally, but do the

opposite of the recent trend. The enormous wealth and growth of the

industrial revolution created populations which had suicidal misery

since all that wealth needed psychic balance. The French Revolution was a

reaction to the failings of the aristocratic revolution. romanticism to

the over rigidity of the enlightenment. Meanwhile, in Britain, where the elites

were less repressive than France, there was no equivalent reaction like the

French Revolution. Once you create a very stark polarity like the Roman or

Chinese empires, you also create barbarians like the Germans or Mongols

who become strong enough to destroy them. You see anti-ivilization develop

in polarity to civilization. The core idea which modern people will have the

hardest time comprehending here is the concept that the whole world is mental.

Explaining all of this would be a distinct video in its own right which

would take a while as a rabbit hole. But there is physics evidence which has

become stronger over time that reality does indeed not exist without

consciousness. The big physics journals say that reality is not locally real or

it does not exist distinct from our perception of it, which is really trippy

for modern people. Alternately, the research that our perception of

particles colors their actual composition. Some people say that this

means we're in a simulation, others that God runs the universe, but both are

functionally the same once you take away the labels. Beyond this, the research we

found pretty consistently that plants know what you're thinking about and

their vital statistics change around the thoughts of the humans around them.

Another element the hermetica does really well here is its ability to

balance how bad modern people are at understanding chaos or the unknown.

Modernity likes to say that anything we can't measure scientifically doesn't

exist. However, the universe is infinitely large. And so that opens you

up to a very dangerous place where you just use things that you can measure as

a way to live in denial about things you don't want to know about. This is how

our elite backs insane stuff. And realistically, we just need to have

another filter for common sense and things we've known for thousands of

years to balance simply science as our society's dominant moral code. The

hermetica operates by archetypes like the masculine and the feminine, chaos

and order, or higher and lower forms. Jordan Peterson's maps of meaning was

super groundbreaking in that he used a holistic look at the human condition

between neurology, history, mythology, art, or anthropology to say that these

archetypes do in fact totally exist. And just because we can't see them in the

lab doesn't mean they're not valid. Humans very much do process chaos and

build our lives to avoid it. Chaos is real. Evil is real if you've had to live

through it. Saying otherwise is just childishly keeping your fingers in your

ears and going law. If evil and chaos must exist, by definition, so must good

and order. Once you acknowledge that these archetypes can manifest over

reality, you are quite close to saying that God exists. For an example of

hermetic archetypes, we've spoken before about the masculine and the feminine.

The masculine is doing and the feminine is being. For a great example of this,

let's look at the US currency and state buildings which were built by hermetics

during the American Revolution. In the National Mall, you have the obelisk

which was taken from an Egyptian concept for the earth penis impregnating the

sky. The hermetica is from Egypt. Then you have the National Mall or the

feminine. On the $1 bill is the pyramid in the circle which is upward or

masculine spiritual momentum and the circle or feminine downward spiritual

momentum. This is the ying and yang concept which exists in all cultures.

Men are attractive for their ability to do and their energy. Women for their

being and calmness. When you screw this up, people just stop mating as you can

see in our current society. Without following these hermetic principles

intuitively, a society cannot procreate. However, inside the hermetica is a very

useful concept that we are all building reality together. This doesn't make

sense to modernity, but it's obviously true. It's most obvious with the

greatest historic figures like Christ or Napoleon, but they did very much write

the world around them. Everything that humans built around us is something that

came out of someone's mind and then became a material reality. The ideal is

trying to use the material to reach its own aims. Which is often why certain

religions like communism or Islam can possess a certain nation, drive them

crazy, and then attack their neighbors. On the smaller level, people will create

the future by procreating and building their own households or families. On the

greater scale, national leaders or prophets build entire civilizations. In

the Hermetica, your social status should be dictated by how much of reality

you're responsible for writing. This is why kings make more than peasants since

the king needs to mentally model the entire nation in geopolitics. And if he

doesn't, he suffers for it. Inequality is a built-in part of the hermetica

since the purpose of life is to face suffering and grow to evolve to a higher

level. Inequality is needed to motivate men to face chaos. The more chaos a man

conquers and integrates, the more he is rewarded. The core values of the

hermetica are courage, discipline, and imagination. for an example in physics

about why it's impossible to measure particletoarticle interactions is that

the future is actively being weaved and carved out by billions of people in real

time. The reason modernity is so rich but is so miserable is partly that it

gives humans so little agency which is a core part of being human in the hermetic

philosophy. It's often as if a particle in physics is making a choice in real

time given the future has not yet been determined. In the Hermetica, there are

variables outside our control. You should accept, but you have to choose

between different timelines and use the force of will or imagination to hold

onto the future you want as much as possible. We're all radio towers

competing with one another to have the strongest mental wave so that our light

can grow. This is so obvious in the internet today. People rub off their

essence or vibration, which is an actual hermetic concept in which you gradually

take on the character of the people and the places you've been. If you want to

help the world, you should behave correctly. And according to this

philosophy, what you do to others is what you become. Your intentions as you

deal with the world rub off on the things you do, as you can see with great

leaders where as their hubris grows, their empire collapses. We see these

trends in that high trust governments become radically wealthier than lowrust

ones. as you can see with the Spanish versus the British North America is

showing the hermetic principle that intentions do in fact ripple across very

long periods of time. The reasons that the left's fantasies about using

bureaucracy to replace leadership are always utter failures is that a group

needs to have the mental humanizing element in order to function as a unique

whole in that humanizing something is an active process in the hermetica

dependent on projecting higher quality consciousness into the unconscious. It

is against nature for those with lower levels of consciousness to rule those

higher in these societies collapse into barbarism or decadence. With a

scientific discovery, the scientist is shining the conscious mind into

something they didn't know before to master it. The first step to gaining

power over something is to see that it's there, often through intuition. Then

gain knowledge of it. Figure out how it works. take control of it and integrate

it into your worldview. It's no wonder that practically all of the founders of

early science were familiar with the hermetica since this is just a

scientific method. The reason Bruno, followed by Galileo, thought that the

Earth circled the sun wasn't since science told them so, since telescopes

weren't advanced enough at that time for that. it since the hermetica said that

this sun was just one of nearly infinite worlds circling their own sun in the

vastness of space. Life stemmed from the energy of the sun crushing matter and

the earth was nearly infinitely old while the universe was even older. To go

through other hermetic doctrines that are thousands of years old. Another is

evolution. Evolution is called the transmutation of forms. This is how one

form progresses to another like how Homo erectus evolved into modern humans. In

each case, you use suffering to burn away weakness and then as you calcify to

your core which allows you to transmute to a higher level. This is almost

identical to Darwin's theory of the survival of the fittest in which the

struggle for survival promotes good genes. I don't have evidence Darwin was

influenced by the hermetica, but these sort of ideas were in wide circulation

in 19th century Europe, so it's not unimaginable. However, hermeticism does

have an element missing in current evolutionary theory. There have been

doubts among many authors for centuries how in Darwin's worldview, there is

space for the selecting of genes, but not how the mutations themselves are

generated. Furthermore, how life seems to have very clear archetypal patterns

where societies on the other side of the world have so many cultural

similarities. How crabs have evolved from convergent evolution many times

over or how insects, mammals, reptiles, and birds have all independently evolved

to fly. Furthermore, how anyone evolves to fly seems pretty difficult just by

chance. Modern science cannot deal with how staggeringly improbable life in the

universe itself is. How all the coincidences line up for the Earth

having the exact right amount of oxygen or temperature or gravity where the

slightest deviation in any of these would mean life never evolved. But it

did and we humans are here. Why does the universe even exist at all? At its core,

the hermetica is a way to integrate the evolutionary process into the divine. In

it, it's our moral duty to learn and grow in order to be able to become more

like God. The Hermetica is focused on increasing life charge or the power of

evolution, and it needs another religion to counterbalance it in other elements

like social life or moral values. Those who don't grow get crushed by those who

do since life itself is trying to grow. Life uses consciousness to expedite the

speed of its growth faster than would occur otherwise. Thus, the growth of

consciousness will prioritize your position in evolution. Which is why high

consciousness peoples like humans can beat other apes or mammals. Alternately,

how the Europeans conquered the world with science and Christianity. In the

hermetica, the earth is a living breathing organism called the anamundi,

which is the collective unconscious of life. What the anamundi does is its

ultimate goal is growth. But in order to do that, it has to burn away weakness.

So, it creates competition. And life is a game where the goal is to grow and

evolve. And we know this to be true because the level of complexity for life

has been predicated upon the level of evolutionary advancement. So when we

were at cellular life forms, we were competing against other cellular life

forms. Then we were competing reptiles against other reptiles, then mammals.

And now when we see the breakthrough of the last thousand years, every time

humanity gets more advanced, you find that the game gets more complicated. And

what the hermetics believe is that the spirit world is fundamentally boring.

And life is a place where souls go to get challenged and to suffer, to have

life with real stakes. Because life does not have value unless the end points are

difficult enough to give you emotional value in them. And with the hermetica,

you're seeing that as life gets more advanced, the stage literally gets

bigger. So millions of years ago, there was a point when life's biggest

challenge was moving from the sea into the land as amphibians, and it's just

gotten crazier ever since. In the hermetica, there's both upwards and

downwards evolution in that you can either evolve to higher levels by

dealing with dark things like war or chaos or competition to burn away

suffering. At the same time, people have also been able to reach above to the

divine where you can see with figures like Socrates, Buddha or Martin Luther.

The divine means the pure and transcendent. So I don't mean this in a

purely religious level. Although other societies in history would interpret it

this way. An example of the transcendent could be the technological advancement

of modernity as compared to the earlier society where we brought something new

into the world that did not exist before. In the hermetica there is no

barrier between science, religion and mysticism. This was the culture that

early science was developed in. All of whose founders were religious and

steeped in the occult. Back then they had a concept called natural science in

which you would use physical science in the study of the outside world to level

up your consciousness towards God. Natural science was a hermetic concept

that died in the 70th century and the division between science and religion

that occurred since has become a civilizational disaster. What this means

is that downwards evolution is survival of the fittest. Upwards is a nation

having a genius which causes a breakthrough. Then their people if

sufficiently respectful try to follow their teachings which then degenerate

over time. This is why empires are their strongest on their rise or religions

degenerate centuries after their original profit requiring future

reformations to stay vigorous. The hermetica is the manliest philosophy in

this regard since morality requires constant struggle and overcoming of

chaos. Let's look more at the hermetic evolutionary process since I think

inside it is something very important. Part four, follow the process. I know

this video is already too long, but I think it's worthwhile given the

complexity and depth of the topic. A crazy element is I'm not even doing the

Hermetica justice here. I'm not talking about the seven planetary gods which we

can still see in our days of the week. Now stemming from the Norse pagan

versions of the hermetica since Odin is another name for Hermes tismagistice to

go through the week you have Sunday or the sun, Monday or the moon, Tuesday for

tier, the Norse version of Mars, the god of war, followed by Wednesday for

Waldon, also known by Odin, king of the gods, who was a form of Mercury. Then

Thursday for Thor, the thunder god. Friday for Freya, the Norse Isis or

fertility goddess. And then Saturday for Saturn, the god of entropy and

boundaries. For a hermetic, these all have symbolic meanings as underlying

principles which operate across reality. The reason that our days of the week are

named after them is they were seen as a very fundamental part of the world and

culture by our ancestors. Another thing to keep in mind is that Germans under

Odin and the Kelts who are ruled by a variation of the same god named Lug are

the only peoples on Earth which made Hermes Tis Majestice their king since

that archetype also combines warrior or king roles with Hermes's sage elements.

This was also in pagan times before real contact with classical civilization

which suggests something or archetypal to the hermetica behind this in human

nature. Is it any wonder as well that the peoples who made their chief god,

the one of consciousness and evolution were the ones who launched the

industrial or scientific revolutions? Keep in mind over the course of

thousands of years, culture and genetics mix. As Harvard anthropology professor

Joseph Heinrich has spoken of very cogently, this northwest European

creativity and openness are traits they have cultivated for thousands of years.

You also have three sorts of archetypes of hermeticism which I split into

Catholic, shamanic and gnostic. Catholic is the form of hermeticism which has

totally integrated with Christianity which has been dominant over western

history. This values modesty and love more than other sects. For these

different categories, the second would be the shamanic, which is more so the

kind of stuff Odin would do with facing overt chaos or savagery to use horror to

grow. Like how Odin nearly killed himself multiple times to attain wisdom.

Finally, the Gnostic element that got pretty big at certain segments. And

there's a confusion that Gnostic hermetics wrote one of the most

important hermetic primary sources, the Corpus Hermeticum. For a frame of

reference, and this is its own rabbit hole, Gnostics were a religion from the

Middle East in the same era which penetrated other religions like the

Christians, Jews or classical civilization. Their deal is they flipped

the devil in the Old Testament God. The earth is bad. The serpent in the garden

was the good guy who is trying to liberate us. and Jesus followed the

serpent. You can see how there's an insidious element here. The way to spot

the difference is that normal hermetics don't dislike the physical body and see

it as something to love while gnostic hermetics see the physical body as

disgusting. In the hermetica, you have to maintain balance between mind, body,

and soul. This is why in the Renaissance probably the single historic event most

colored by the hermetica the Renaissance man was a soant in many disciplines that

since in the hermetica if you're too stuck in your head you should lift more

to create balance and if your soul is degenerate you should use your mind to

try to become more holy. If you have an issue find a balance for it. This is

also why the nude was so common in Renaissance art since the ability to

strip something to a nude form showed things at their very core. The hermetica

radically prizes authenticity and rejects a life without it since

authenticity is a way to connect with God. In most cases, the hermetica is not

an anti-ex religion, which I think is necessary in a society where the birth

rate is crashing to zero, but traditional religious authorities are

unable to deal with that. At the same time, keep in mind the hermetica

balances sex or authenticity with responsibility. You should only have sex

if you're mature enough for the consequences and you should have as much

power to be authentic as you can responsibly manage. In the hermetica,

it's a moral duty to try to pair up your sort of masculine or feminine energy

with the best possible combination to make the best possible child. And so

part of the sexual duality is seen as this divine process of evolution towards

higher forms. Then you have the four elements of earth, fire, wind, and air

alongside so much other stuff I'm not going to get into. You also have

minerals. And there's an entire hermetic theory of history that you can read with

the good book, A Secret History of the World. And I leave my sources in the

description here as always. However, the core theme which I think the Hermetica

does really well is the evolutionary process which was ported into modern

science and the West's institutions like democracy, capitalism or science were

created since upper class Europeans in the early modern period were very

familiar with the hermetica. For example, for all of these institutions,

you see two opposing forces like masculine and feminine competing through

this process. One subjugates the other, takes their best elements and then makes

a child. This also relates to Hegel who we know was very influenced by the

hermetica with the thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis. For science, this is the

iron law of empirical testing between two hypotheses. For democracy, the

two-party system, and capitalism, it's the competition of the free market. As I

like to say, follow the Dao to wealth and wisdom. A great irony is that we

live in a world made by the hermetica in which before the hermetica went out of

fashion with the rise of modernity institutions were already set up which

followed these principles. The hermetica teaches that when you set up these

triangles you will get an exponential result like the sheer rapid growth of

the modern world. The reason for this is that these hermetically derived testing

methods is what catapulted Europe to global predominance. The transcendent is

that which exists beyond the earlier stage of development and modernity

transcended the older order. The reason Europe conquered the world is because it

established institutions based off structured competition which allowed

Europe to advance faster than other civilizations. In the hermetica, you're

always going to have problems in your life since that's just how the world

tests you so you can keep growing. But at least you can choose whether you want

to have interesting or uninteresting problems. A very serious concern is that

these hermetic processes are in place without the religious wisdom which would

allow us to spot them or their effects which creates a enormously powerful

soulless Frankenstein which is taking over society. In fact, it already took

it over. We need to integrate wisdom into science just to survive at this

point as an existential threat. Even as science will grow more powerful in the

future. In the hermetica, if you do not take responsibility for the things you

bring into the world, the natural order will punish you for your arrogance and

foolishness. Think of Victor Frankenstein himself, who was an

alchemist, who was incapable of controlling his creation. This is why I

think this is a valuable concept for the philosophy of science going forward with

the godlike technology we have now since it forces responsibility and wisdom

while also offering space for struggle and growth or reward for courage and

innovation. It's a philosophy of chaos and order. You can't put the genie back

in the bottle with these modern technologies, but you can rise to the

occasion to master it. At its core, the hermetic worldview is that of accepting

reality. It's your moral duty to find the unpleasant things you want to ignore

or the shadow and then grab it by its tongue. There's a sort of organic unity

in the hermetica, which forces you to see the big picture. In a lot of ways,

it's more useful to see the hermetica as an aid to your own imagination or

thought process through using these symbols. For example, if you've already

experienced true horror, that just seems too wrong. The balance is that it will

harden you exponentially more than you ever thought possible, allowing you to

transcend to a wonderful life. If a situation doesn't feel right to you,

intuitively, the Hermetica would encourage you to zoom out to find a way

that it does reach balance. All things do have balance. You just need to know

where to look. As an example, the orderly Germans can only exist well

balanced with their warrior insanity. Snoop Dogg cannot exist without the

duality of weed. I'm sorry, but I had to. I have developed my own hermetic

theory that a world view is sort of a stage and that stage is a

self-irculating system where you can look out upon it to

sort of understand how your life is. You can walk around. What you do is you go

to the back door or the factual elements that don't make sense in your current

paradigm where for the theory of evolution it was developed because the

fossils didn't make sense in the old idea that God made the earth 6,000 years

ago. So you go to the back door where the things that don't make sense in your

worldview are the shadow. You climb up and down the hermetic double helix and

then you can pull the back door to gradually shuttle up and down to change

the stage itself. And this is how worldviews alternate over the course of

history. This would be an important time to talk about spiral dynamics. The

system that Homemath loves and which I will make a video soon about pulls

enormously from hermetic roots. The idea that you follow a double helix, one of

the most important hermetic symbols, in order to transcend to a new tier of

consciousness, can only come from the hermetica. If you're interested, check

it out and try to guess what tier of consciousness you're on. Keep in mind,

lower tiers cannot understand higher tiers by design. I've heard some people

questioning spiral dynamics, but as an anthropologist, they 100% do exist. You

could move around or argue about the definitions for each tier, but the world

does not make sense without spiral dynamics and it explains why you see so

many issues between conservatives and progressives or immigrants trying to

move into more advanced western countries. To see this sort of

evolutionary process, let's look at the US dollar. The eye of perception is the

first step which comes from intuition and facing things you don't understand.

For me, it was the realization that the things the regime said did not match up

with the reality I saw before me or the things I read in books. Alternately, an

explorer noticing that there must be a lands to the west due to seeing so many

logs or birds in the open ocean. This person then decides to enter into chaos

and try to understand the thing he doesn't. This is the point where

Peterson got really influenced by the hermetica, which he definitely did,

where he was the person who actually introduced me to the hermetica. The

clean your room being a very tamed down version of this ethic. Scientific

innovations and cultural breakthroughs are almost always generated by a flash

of intuition that occurs in a second after exploring some new topic or

drawing connections you didn't notice before. It doesn't occur through sort of

rationally trying to figure something out to force yourself to be creative

where creativity comes when you slow down and allow the sort of muses as the

Greeks said to flow through you. It's pulling from higher levels of

consciousness than you are now. And very few people in a given society are

operating at the edges of consciousness in a useful way. Where the deeper you go

into human nature, the greater the degree of profoundity where only a

handful of people in a society are capable of developing things that can

relate to the entire human or living condition. Some people can make art or

culture that reflects a nation. Others just people in their vicinity. And you

need to go to the edges of human consciousness to find this stuff. And

that can come through physical suffering, through heightened spiritual

states, through understanding philosophy, whatever. We all have our

ways to reach the divine or the font of creativity. After this, you have

downwards momentum or the circle. This is the yungian shadow or the major

issues you have to fix to improve. People's shadows vary by context. And an

incredibly important thing with the hermetica is that it's very

contextdriven. Unlike modern ideologies which try to impose a frame like race or

class onto everything else, in the hermetica you have to figure out the

context of a situation yourself and fix it. Your shadow is the thing you're

hiding from and you don't want to fix. For example, if you're scared of talking

to girls or your country has a huge national debt, Yian psychology is

dependent on grabbing your shadow, coming to comfort with your repressed

side, mastering it, and then allowing that to transcend to grow. I have done

this many times in my life, and I can personally attest that it really works.

Of course, Jung was very heavily influenced by the hermetica with it

probably being the biggest source for his psychological system. Upwards

momentum is using spirituality or intellectual ideas to reach levels of

development above what you have now. Think of historic visionaries which can

see centuries ahead of everyone else in their society. Similarly to how you need

to balance chaos and order or mind, body and soul, you also have upwards and

downwards spiritual momentum which are tied together with the masculine and the

feminine. This is why I say the hermetica is an open source toolkit more

than a straightup religion. You have to be smart or wise enough or use the eye

of perception to figure out which of these tools to toggle at any given time.

Also, as you transcend and learn your own life, the quality of your toolkit

and stats increase over time. Your worldview in general should totally

change. So, to summarize the process, step one, spot a pattern, then study the

things you don't know. Afterwards, figure them out, then fix the problems,

set up two opposing systems to check if you're right, and then watch the system

work. Now, isn't that simple? This is what Peterson talks about when he says,

"Slay the dragon of chaos since you will be rewarded by how much chaos you

conquer." This is why industrial tycoons are so rich. Since they've

single-handedly brought out economic revolutions that change the world.

Everyone complains at how rich Steve Jobs is, but they don't think about how

much Microsoft has added to the world's global GDP. The myths of the dragon

slayer have profound hermetic symbolism where these exist across cultures

between Marduk slaying Tiiamat in Mesopotamian mythology, St. George and

the dragon in Christian Europe, Thor and Yorman Gandonder in the Norse tradition,

Apollo with Python in the Greek, Thesus with the dragon of Culus among so many

others. And the symbolism is that the masculine goes out into the world,

conquers nature or mother nature, which is feminine in the hermetica with mother

nature's greatest monster being the dragon. And then after he slays the

dragon, he earns the ability to [ __ ] the princess and pass on his lines. This

means you go out into nature, kill the dragon, win, bring it back, reap the

reward, and your gene survive. In the hermetica, innovation occurs in small

circles or by individuals informed by certain contexts and then dependent on

how applicable it is across human nature, you can vault it across the

world through rubo. Freedom and individualism are core values of the

hermetica, given it's made by hermits, which is where the name is from, who

want to be left alone. Freedom allows diversity and thus innovation. Try to

find the deepest thing you can for the further you go down the further you may

also go up. As above so below. In the hermetica the prima materia is the first

material thing that you start working with towards reaching the higher form.

The prima materia for a human is a child and for a land it's the geography. And

Spangler was a very hardcore hermetic where his worldview only makes sense to

the perspective of hermeticism. And so what he was talking about is how the

soul of civilizations stem from their primma materia or their geography which

they then had to work from. Part five, as it always was. There's this meme with

two spacemen where one says, "Blank thing is blank." And then the other

spaceman with a gun behind him says, "As it always was." I'm going to get that

wrong, but it doesn't matter. I'm going to show you how this arcane philosophy

you've never heard of has always been an undercurrent to Western history, often

to an enormous degree. You'll possibly be surprised. And it really shows how

often we miss the true character or nature of the past as we try to study

it. The origins of the hermetica initially lie in Egypt. This was part of

the reason for the enormous interest in Egyptology in 19th century Europe as

European intellectuals were trying to find more hermetic documents. The

hermetica was built around the Egyptian god Thoth, who was the Egyptian version

of the Greek god Hermes. Hermes, Tismagist, and the Hermetica match older

Egyptian belief structures more than they do anything the Greeks had

beforehand. So all the evidence points to this being a very ancient worldview,

one stemming back to perhaps the pyramids. Feronic Egyptian art is

covered in hermetic symbolism as this book talks about. What happened after

Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt was that the Greeks tried to rationally

integrate lots of oriental traditions a lot older or deeper than what the Greeks

themselves had a few centuries earlier. A lot of Plato's philosophy as he

himself said came from the Egyptian royal teachings or a predecessor to the

Hermetica which he got when he visited Egypt. The Greeks tried to explain the

Egyptian religious teachings in a rational manner. This was a period of a

lot of religious diversity and synratism with the hermetica just being one thread

of many which included Christianity another oriental Greek mix alongside

Plleonism, Mithraism, Isis, Cibili, Gnosticism or so many others. This is

why the hermetica has so many similarities with other beliefs in that

area or that time. I found there's a very palpable East Mediterranean

religious vibe that they all share in this hellenistic stew with many

different worldviews and religions clashing. The hermetica mixed a lot with

early Christianity as it took over the Roman Empire. Lots of elements of the

Christian cosmology have hermetic origins and the majority of the fathers

of the early church. People far more Christian than anyone today saw the

hermetica as a valid intellectual tradition. Much like the rest of Greco

Roman classical civilization, they onboarded into early Christianity like

Plato and Aristotle. An important thing to keep in mind is that these people saw

Christianity as a spiritual path to reach the kingdom of heaven, which is

how I see it too. One of the side effects of modernity was Christianity

removing God or the mystic from its religion and then making Christianity a

social or ethical code. The thing is that wasn't the intention and is why

Christian regimes in the past didn't love thy neighbor to their geopolitical

rivals or why equality before God did not extend to a world where kings and

nobility ruled the peasantry. For Christian thinkers of this era, the

Hermetica didn't contradict Christ since they had different goals. Christianity

was to reach the kingdom of heaven through the cross and the hermetica was

for those weirdos at the edge of consciousness. The problem now is that

due to science that consciousness evolution has become part of the

society's operating system to deal with the sheer speed of social change, which

was not necessary a thousand years ago. The dark ages saw a decrease in interest

of the hermetica since education got worse enough across the board in Europe

that there wasn't as much interest in consciousness development. However, the

period of world history where the hermetica was most influential was the

Islamic Golden Ages which ended around the time of the crusades. Alchemy is an

Arabic word and Europe reintegrated these teachings from the Arabs or

Byzantines during the Crusades. Much like lots of other exotic religious

ideas or classical authors went back to Europe. Several cities in Iraq and Syria

declared hermeticism as their official religion during the collapse of the

Abbisid caliphate around a thousand years ago. Hermeticism then started to

ramp up over the high middle ages and reached a new peak of popularity in

western civilization during the Renaissance in 16th century. As said

before, the Renaissance is the single era of history most colored by

hermeticism where I might even argue hermeticism was the biggest component in

the Renaissance. It explains the emphasis on humanism, a hermetic ideal,

the nude, the beauty of art, which hermetics use to spot spiritual

intuitions, studying the classics to gain wisdom, and promoting the chaotic

beauty of the Renaissance. If there's any given society where lots of people

used their will to powers to try to transcend through constant bloody

competition, it's the Italian Renaissance. Artistic beauty in the

hermetica is an external sign of integration on a variety of levels

either for people, art or a species. Cosmo de Medici, one of the most

important Renaissance men, was absolutely obsessed with the hermetica,

as was Leonardo da Vinci. The Vuvian man by Da Vinci is one of the most overtly

hermetic things you will ever see. We've spoken before about how almost all of

the thinkers in early science were hermetics between Isaac Newton who drew

most of the laws of physics from the hermetica and onethird of his library

was on the topic. Galileo Capernicus and especially Bruno all developed their

theories from hermetic concepts. John D, Queen Elizabeth's top adviser for

periods of her reign was obsessed with the hermetica. He made the Enochian

language to commune with angels, predicted that the core of Anglo-Saxon

culture would end up in North America, formed the British secret police and the

idea of the British Empire, alongside being one of the pioneers of science.

The loss of the Renaissance man to the world has been a true tragedy. By the

16th century, every major royal court in Europe had hired a department in

hermetic experts. These were ideas that were widely entrenched among the upper

classes in sort of wandering philosopher types which the general public wasn't

aware of. The papacy even funded widescale research of the hermetica and

it was canon in the Catholic Church that Hermes tismagist was a progenitor of

Jesus while being widely used in papal art. However, something happened in the

17th century that killed the hermetica as a powerful cultural current in

Western civilization. The West went through an enormous intellectual shift

in the mid to late 17th century, which took a few hundred years to really set

in among the general public. But when it did, it amounted to a new civilization,

that being modernity. Tarnis has called this the Galileo Spininoza Daycart axis.

What these thinkers did was separate the scientific from the divine. Before this,

science fit into being part of a religious worldview where the search for

science was part of understanding God's plan. That as you discovered the world,

you discovered yourself and God, which is a very hermetic concept. In the

hermetic worldview, nature is a book that we must learn to read from. This

deserves to be a video in its own right. But what happened in the 17th century

was that science and religion were totally divorced as obviously seen in

the Daycart mind body distinction which doesn't fit in with any of the science

now which is closer to the older hermetic mind body soul holistic

relationship. Daycart said that God and spirituality existed purely in our minds

and the only way to understand the outside world was through material

science. This became the dominant philosophic school ever since in Western

civilization since the governments of that era were tired of waging centuries

of religious wars and so made a deal with the churches to shut off mysticism

in order to maintain control. The death of the mystic in the long term poisoned

both religion and science without an appeal to genuine in-person connection

with God under which both Protestantism and Catholicism were founded. Religion

just became a series of rules, not a living, breathing connection to the

divine. The removal of the hermetic framework also turned off the very

intelligent from religion since it felt like they were being condescended to

told to just believe it because that's the rules. Over time, this added up as

most of the geniuses were doubting of Christianity for several centuries.

However, you saw a parallel dynamic where science became totally divorced

from humanity, turning into a soulless Frankenstein monster with no ability to

interface with values, the divine or humanity. This is what created the

soulless, dehumanizing, sterile world we live in now. Hermeticism did survive

after this point, but by retreating into secret associations. The elites knew

these concepts and kept to themselves, but you can still see these principles

applied. The Rosacrruian in Germany were overt hermetics as were the Freemasons,

which is how these ideas were spread around the time of the American

Revolution. As we talked about before, I think the founding fathers put up these

monuments or symbols in our currency as a wink and nod to future generations to

check these ideas out when things got bad. Alternately, look at the popularity

of obelisks or Egyptology in Napoleonic Europe alongside Napoleon and Josephine

being called Mars and Isis, which was just common parliament at the time, but

also part of the hermetic lore. There's a whole trajectory of crypto hermetic

philosophers over this time period. Hermetics often speak in code which I

didn't do for this video but you can see it in a bunch of other hermetic

philosophers. Hegel, Schilling, Nichze, Carile, Gustav Labon, Enley Belson and

later or Peterson were all philosophers who manifested worldviews that had to be

based off the hermetica. Read this text well for more info. They knew these

ideas had value. Just look at NZA for example who talks about life

affirmation, overcoming higher and lower forms, magi, building your own value

system rather than relying on others and so many things that only make sense in

the hermetic paradigm. When he talks about the uber mench and the

transmutation of morality, he's literally using a German word from the

hermetica for the transmutation of forms. He's recommending using the

hermetic framework of developing your own moral code. Once this clicked, I

couldn't unsee it. With all of this being said, the rise of the industrial

revolution and with democracy, the hermetica just didn't make it. In the

20th century, the mass society of consumerism and doing what was popular

to the average voter simply had no place for the hermetica. It was too

complicated, hard, and not directly scientific in the way they understood

that word. Only a few utter schizos like Avola or Bergson kept the torch going.

Carl Jung was the singular figure most responsible for keeping the hermetica

alive in recent times through framing it brilliantly so through psychological

terms. Peterson got it from Young and repopularized it to a certain degree

today. That's why I know about it. However, at the very same time, we

constructed a society which needed the Hermetica more than ever. with the title

of this video. Will the Hermetica become the next ideology in the West? The short

answer is I don't know. Probably not at the current trajectory in that this is

as of now a dead nerd religion totally unpalatable to moderns. That being said,

we do have genuine agency here. The reason I gave this video the clickbait

title is that I think this could work. I started my journey looking for ideas

that could give us the will to live. The Hermetica puts growth and progress as a

moral good, but does so through responsibility in humanity. The

Hermetica has a framework to get people to make babies again without being cruel

by increasing masculine charge. The hermetica also has a framework on how to

deal with the godlike technology we're developing like AI, genetic engineering,

the blockchain, the internet, and so many others. The Hermetica has also been

integral to Western civilization already for thousands of years and is approved

of by Christianity. If we just removed the elements in our worldview that are

Marxist now and replaced them with the hermetica, we could keep the rest of our

culture. In fact, we would become more western. The reason we're dying is that

we're doing the exact opposite type of things the hermetica would say in that

we don't discover new things. We don't challenge ourselves. We don't take

responsibility or think outside the box. Maybe this is very weird, but our

situation itself is very weird. We're going to have to think outside the box

to survive. And I don't think you guys will get how bad things will be. Well,

when everything's said and done, I'm just here. Peace. Follow your dreams.

Bye.