Religion and Religious Type Concepts Thread

[SargeMaximus]

Teachings of the ages is alright. It helps you get a decent grasp on symbolism and such within some of the open mystery systems. Manly p hall is alright, but I also think he's kinda trumped up on how amazing people think his stuff is.

Yeah so far I'm not seeing any practical uses tbh. It's more novelty.

I got into it because it's supposed to be a must read for anyone wanting to use magick, but I don't see what this has to do with magick at all.

A lot of people treat the occult as a type of information collection game. The more/deeper you know about things supposedly the better occultist you are. Kind of silly.

If you're looking to get into practicing stuff you could try finding things that go along mostly with how you already believe to use that as a bit of reinforcement.

Franz bardons initiation into hermetics is a good system if your looking for the "best" long term development. But it is also very long term and can be boring.

Josephine McCarthy has developed the quaeria system which is visionary based and free if you just want the info.

Advanced magick for beginners is a decent book that'll have you doing stuff quickly. Modern magick is sort of the go to book for ceremonial magick.

As soon as you get a decent basic practice you can work on you can start digging into the symbolism and correspondences that provide deeper meanings.

If you're able to find a way to work with vedic Astrology along with some tantra or yoga paths it'll do most of what western esotericism does with more of a hindu/eastern bent, but a lot of it is closed to outsiders.

Most of the Asian stuff is too hidden behind closed systems to really use.

Thanks man, ill try magick for beginners. Although I am interested in the hindu stuff as I find myself agreeing with that train of thought most. Any good books for that?

learning the ideas and myths of their astrology is a good start to understanding how things work for them. They have some decent tantra paths and intro books, but I'd need to check which ones they are. Mostly anything that helps develop depth of consciousness and interaction with male and female polarities is going to work, but they also have a large amount of nonsense.

This is what I don’t get,how does astrology play into it? And their myths I mean, isn’t magici like electricity in that it should work regardless of beliefs?