Ep219: Cycles of the Occult - Ramsey Dukes 2
Lionel Snell is a contemporary English magician, publisher, and, under various pen names such as Ramsey Dukes, a renowned author on magic and philosophy.
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Lionel explores the idea that people, societies, and even cultures cycle through 4 distinct phases with profound affects. Lionel traces the history of the last hundreds and even thousands of years and identifies the emergence of these phases with periods of religious fervour, scientific progress, magickal revivals, and artistic eruption.
Lionel explains the similarities and differences between magick and art, the archetypes of the feminine, and the fear of the free woman.
Lionel also provides analysis of our current time, reveals how finding the Trickster can unravel polarised and dualistic thinking, and how a deep understanding of the occult can be noted in leading political and cultural figures.
00:00 - Intro
01:08 - Cycles and modes of thought and culture
03:52 - Cycles vs linear time
05:38 - Suspicion of thinking in cycles
07:01 - Time of magickal revival
08:47 - The art movements of the 1920s and the 1980s
11:31 - Cycles of Ramsey’s life
12:40 - Why magick emerges from science and religion
14:55 - Magick vs art
16:52 - The miracle of the axial age
18:29 - Magickal revival in the early ADs and the rise of alchemy
20:34 - The silent art of Greek medicine (ἰατρική)
22:40 - Ramsey on astrology
23:41 - Process of Pluto into Capricorn
26:01- Pluto into Aquarius and corrosion of democracy
27:24 - Danger of the free female
29:01 - Shadow projection onto the individual
31:50 - Social media, war, and the shadows of Aquarius
36:42 - Egregores and the power of othering
41:50 - God, Devil, Trickster
43:14 - Archetypes of the feminine
46:04 - Transcending duality
47:00 - The rich-poor cycle
51:49 - Political polarisation and spotting the trick
56:38 - Using polarity to act on the world
01:00:08 - The terror of the linear view
01:06:44 - Do politicians use magick to influence world events?
01:11:44 - Did Trump study the occult?
01:12:36 - Ramsey on the Illuminati
01:14:41 - Rosicrucianism, fact of fiction?
01:18:23 - Interactions between personal and societal cycles
01:27:09 - The skeptical movement and chaos magick
01:30:08 - Using cycles to inspire and infuriate
01:38:18 - How to work with cycles as an individual
01:44:00 - Addendum: What might the future hold?
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