Storytime: Reading the Solomonic Hygromanteia, Part III
In our final episode on the Solomonic Hygromanteia we get to where the action is: it's time to conjure up a demonic host. Featuring an unexpected cameo appearance from the kabbalistic sephirot!
Podcast Episodes Themed "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola"
Episode 211: Introducing the Apocalypse of the Pseudo-Methodios, with Christopher Bonura
Christopher Bonura introduces us to the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodios, a seventh-century Syriac prophetic universal history. Come for the Arab conquests reflected in Christian revelation, stay for the apocalyptic Roman emperor.
Episode 186: The Esoteric Proclus, Part I: The Life and Thought of an Esoteric Sage
We look further into Proclus' esoteric doings, as a sage whose privileged status is marked by inspirations and epiphanies, omens and miracles. We then attempt a (shamefully oversimplified) summary of some important aspects of his (meta)physics.
Episode 3: Wouter Hanegraaff on Western Esotericism
Professor Wouter J. Hanegraaff, head of the Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, on researching western esotericism, the history of the field, and ‘rejecting the rejection of rejected knowledge’.
