Hello, /his/.
First, the link:
https://mega.nz/#F!AE5yjIqB!y7Vdxdb5pbNsi2O3zyq9KQ
Another 20 texts, this time centered mostly around Gnosticism, but we've got a few others. I moved all of my Yezidi material, questionable or not, into it's own folder. We're almost up to 4500 texts (4481).
>Beginners
Dictionary of Gnosticism and Esotericism. It's a great starter or generalist reference. Thumbed through it and was impressed enough with the comprehensiveness and neutrality that I figure I should toss it in the beginner's folder.
>Gnosticism
Coptic Gnostic Chrestomathy, which is instruction through literature. Gnosis: Study and Commentary on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy. Gnostic Religion in Antiquity, which appears to be a pretty basic intro, more basic than Rudolph's text. Gnosticism and Late Platonism: Themes, Figures, and Texts. Another Seed: Studies in Gnostic Mythology. Astrological Medicine in Gnosticism, Mystery of the Five Seals, Gnostic Initiation Reconsidered, which argues for initiatic mystery traditions inside of the Gnostic emanations. Studies in Gnostic Mythology. The Alphabet in Mandean and Jewish Gnosticism, which has some great contemplative methods and a few prayers intended to tie the body and mental processes to the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet, it draws greatly from Sefer Yetizirah, and could probably be integrated into modern praxis with little or no trouble. And, finally, the Present State of Gnostic Studies, an article that gives an overview of where we are and how far we've come in academic study.
>Kabbalah
Jewish Gnosticism by Scholem. It's in the Kabbalah folder as I imagine GS goes into more Kabbalistic avenues than not, though I can swich folders if I thumb through it and he doesn't do his usual bit of referencing REALLY obscure bits of Kabbalistic thought.
>>470725
>Psychological Model>Jung
Added “The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of the Dead”, an analysis of said sermons and their relation to Gnostic thought.
>Samuel Aun Weor
Added his text Revolution of the Dialectic, which delves into the Greek Sacred Psychiatry as reckoned by the academic material in my Euro folder. Both concepts are rooted in Plato: Plat. Rep. 7.533, c&d, and the comment on dialectic's ability to raise the soul through the slime of Orphic myth.
>Yezidi
Yezidism: Its Background, Observances, and Texts. Intro to thought and a goodly chunk of hymns in the second portion of the book. Given the concepts that Cultus Sabbati borrows, I'd be willing to hedge a bet that this is one of the primary sources for their bits of Yezidi thought. That said, most of these ideas could also be ascribed to Kaula, like crystaline time flows and possession by entities, and it might be worthwhile in academia/comparative religion to make a study of Yezidi/Tantra relations as have been done with Kabbalah/Tantra.
>Zoroastrianism
Avesta Eschatology, or how these cats viewed the End of Days. Avesta, Pahlavi, and Ancient Persian Studies. Chattamanavaka Gatha, a very short text. Contradictions and Vile Utterances: Zoroastrian Critique of Judaism. This thing is fuckin' hilarious. Between Gnosticism and the rise of Kabbalah, a Zoroastrian writes a fuckhuge shitpost about how Judaism (and Christianity and Islam) have screwed the pooch. This is an analysis and extracts of that text. Zoroastrian Diaspora Religion, and The Daeva Cult in the Gathas.
Hi Thoth, I would like to know your opinion on Simon's Necronomicon.
I'm going to post two busts of Tutankhamun that were found in his tomb.
As you can see these busts obviously aim for accuracy. The shape of the nose, the arch of the brow, the detail of the ears, and so on, are all realistic and consistent.
My question is: why then doubt that the color of the skin isn't also meant to be accurate? Even the lips are given a different shade.
>>468781
didn't they already genetically link him to Mediterraneans/Greeks
It's pretty hard to not be at least tan living in a desert.
Why are samurais so cool?
Were their armour and clothing specifically designed to be as aesthetically pleasing as possible or is it just a coincidence?
Not even weeaboo, just curious
>>460739
You're better off answering that question yourself.
I happen to think that the general samurai demon helmet is godawful.
>>460739
Why are samurais so cool?
That's objective
>Were their armour and clothing specifically designed to be as aesthetically pleasing as possible or is it just a coincidence?
Somewhat, but not really. The demonic helmets were made to be as scary as possible. The bodypart was designed to protect against the climate and weather too, which is why they wore alot of clothing under the armor.
Japanese didnt have alot of natural iron so most of the armors were made from leather, cloth and even wood, which is why they have that unique look.
What are your favorite outnumbered battles?
>>457794
>and than they attacked an army more than 10 times their size
JUST
>Look up your family tree.
>Your granddad was a mass murderer.
>>451453
>be me
>12 years old
>I loved Hitler so much
>I read Mein Kampf and listened to all of his speeches
>ACHTUNG JUDEN, I would say
>attempt to remove all Jews from my hometown for Lebensraum
>get in trouble, call police filthy red menace-puppets of the Jew
>one night I am reciting the SS oath
>dad hears and calls me a nazi faggot
>call him untermensch
>he slaps me and threatens to partition Germany
>I'm in bed now, my face hurts
>suddenly it smells of beer and Arbeit
>I'm in a beerhall, in front of me is Hitler in his glory
>DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES he says as he penetrates my asshole
>dad hears and storms my room like Normandy
>Hitler looks at him and calls him Amerikaner schweinhund
>fills my ass with his love
>hops out the window to restore the Fatherland
>auf Wiedersehen, mein Junge
>Hitler is love
>Hitler is life
>Look up family tree
>Great grandfather was Irish
JUST
>Look up family tree
>turns out you're related to the second signer of the Declaration of Independence
feels pretty good man
Christians and Jews and Muslims believe in miracles. Hindus and Buddhists believe in siddhis.
>Siddhis (Sanskrit and Pali; Devanagari सिद्धि; Tibetan: དངོས་གྲུབ, THL: ngödrup,[web 1] Chinese: 悉地, 成就) are spiritual, paranormal, supernatural, or otherwise magical powers, abilities, and attainments that are the products of spiritual advancement through sādhanās such as meditation and yoga.[1] The term ṛddhi (Pali: iddhi, "psychic powers") is often used interchangeably in Buddhism.
Do you believe in magic? Have you ever experienced it? Have there been any true magicians in history?
>>449960
Christians also believe god can although very rarely does grant "magic powers".
>>449960
Yes. Yes. In history? Popularly known as a magician, not as an illusionist? Maybe a few ones. Jesus, indeed, had siddhis. But I think He was beyond the whole magician thing.
>>449960
I'm reluctant to make a new thread with this thing up.
If you're interested in Siddhis, there's a whole list of 'em in the Kaulajnananirnaya in the library, and the contemplative means of attaining them.
Why is there no contemporary music that could even be compared to the classic masterpieces of Bach, Mozart, Bethoween etc.
Have we degraded culturally?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHqtJH2f1Yk
Because you were born in le wrong generation.
There's plenty of great modern classical and non-classical music.
>>447745
Wait 100-200 years from now and you'll find the answer.
>>447745
Oh and btw, there's more people making AND recording music now than before, with modern technologies enabling the public to listen to all sorts of shit. So it wasn't like back then you'd get really good cunts being the only ones who'd get a massive aduience.
Germany has always had some pretty based uniforms imo.
>>446560
Only two Words.. Hugo Boss..
Srsly - there has never been a more stylish design.
>>446574
Ww1 france looks better tbqh
>>446581
> Bright red pants
> Might as well have had targets painted on their backs
I can't imagine how many casualties alone the must have had before they changed it.
Are there any posters here who don't consider human life innately precious?
Life isn't really important. All we are is energy established into a "physical" form. When we die, our energy will go else where for other uses.
Honestly, not if they're African, Chinese or Indian
In a manner of speaking.
It's normal for people to consider human lives more valuable than non-human lives, if only as a consequence of genetics and socialization.
Practically speaking, though, life is cheap. People die all the time for stupid as shit reasons. People can be convinced to kill other people very easily, and we're always three missed meals away from that "innate preciousness" vanishing.
Still, yeah, I think we have an in-born as well as social predisposition to consider human life more valuable than other life.
Are Humans naturally good or evil ? Some agreed that humans were born good, others said the opposite, your thought ?
>>487724
>naturally
please stop shit posting.
>>487731
>nothing is anything maymay :^)
The answer is a little bit of both OP
>>487764
We haven't even gotten to the spuriousness of "good" and "evil."
So what would have changed if the Normandy landings failed? i.e. Germany was able to find out where the real landings were to be somehow or something.
keep in mind that everything else about WWII up to this point is completely the same and events that were to happen independent of D-Day will still happen uninterrupted.
Eisenhower resigns.
U.S.S.R. still wins.
>>478185
the Eastern Bloc becomes Continental Bloc and the line between east vs. west becomes more defined by the Pyrenees and Alps rather than east and west germany
>>478219
USSR fights to the Rhine.
Doesn't give PCF and PCd'I and KKE "go" orders.
ffs.
Let's talk about norse civilization
>no military feats
>no universities
>no philosophers
>no great works of art (sagas were written AFTER viking age)
>no beautiful architecture
wow what a great pagan nation Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, Chinese could really learn a lot from them just look at this masterfully builded hut
I'm in awe.
This is going to be a great thread with impartial, educated discussion.
>>486448
But anon, don't you want to btfo /pol/ by comparing Nord huts to Africans?
>>486443
Who gives a shit honestly, now we're on top and you shitholes with muh history and muh houses are indeed shitholes.
Reminder that religion was BTFO by Russel's Teapot, and Betrand Russel in general
> The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
>here are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."
>Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
>The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.
>The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress without which human society would stand still or retrogre
Religion was never BTFI in the first place. It has always been the refuge of second rate thinkers and their terrible ideas.
The fact that it's now dying (at least the literalist version of it) shows that the last centuries merely slowed down the inevitable collapse
>Neitzsche in a trenchcoat
>>483587
This is by far the cringiest picture I have ever seen. And I am not religious people.
The addition of a fucking comedian and a shitposting demagogue among a bevy of scientists is cream of the cringe.
Was he the most evil man in history?
>>479471
Not anymore since OP
only to Americans, to my people he is a hero that made Russia great and turned it into a superpower that the world trembles before even today.
>>479471
Maybe not the most evil, that's hard thing to define. There might have been more evil people not wielding as much power as he did.
But as far as might goes, let's put it this way;
Stalin's tendencies for wickedness most likely affected more people living in his world at the same time as him than any other despot before or after him. He was irresponsible with his power in regards to the suffering of others. In the end, it's what caused his pre-mature death.
Mao, Hitler and maybe even Bush are other candidates of course. But Mao, while he killed many, did not do so for the express purpose of murdering. Hitler did not kill as many and Bush just isn't in the same league but he wielded more power.
Bow your head to the Sultan, infidel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWyTTa_IkzY
The King of Kings, the great Osman, the ruler of three continents, the one who only bows to Allah himself. His lands are endless. His armies are inexhaustible. His Janisarries are fearless. His guns are without number. Bow your head to the Sultan! Or face the full strength of the one true faith.
>Be WASP American
>Study Ottomans
>Can't stand how big of pussies ISIS are compared with the Ottomans
>Feel nostalgic for a time 450+ years before I existed, when the West faced the real existential threat of a united Islamic front
Why aren't the Turks showing their dominance in the Levant and Iraq? Why doesn't the most modernized, historically significant Muslim state come out and crush these pretenders?
What say the Euros? Would you support a militarized Turkey? Would you support the Anatolians exerting more influence in the mid East?
Also post pictures of Ottoman stuff. Artwork, weapons, armor, architecture.
Ottoman music as well. The Ottoman marching band was one of the most important tools of the Sultan. With his awesome band and his mighty artillery, he could reduce the enemy defenses to the rubble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w1bUpaOf7E
we'll never bow down to filthy t*rks
