Heliotroph☀️🍇

I play Pontus. I play the Seleucids. I prefer the Scipii to the Julii. I like it when Romans are blue instead of red. Ever heard of the Galatians?

Well, I think abrahamic/mosaic hostility is a much, much bigger problem than foreignness but it is still preferable to use techniques within your own lineage wherever possible. Not necessarily that it's objectionable to do otherwise but that there's a certain sympathetic resonance to using indigenous techniques. That is something which can theoretically be tested which I think would be very interesting

@Heliotrophy I feel the sentiment here conflates "gentile" with "european". There is a lot of workable magical material from egypt and the semitic empires which is more than suitable for causing practical change, assuming one does not find the ethnic difference objectionable

Ceremonial/practical magic in the West is thoroughly suffused by hebraic influences thanks in part to christianity spreading hebraic cosmology and in part thanks to iewish diaspora successfully preserving their own esoterica in the face of crackdowns that more thoroughly purged gentile esoterica. I am of the mind that this is a more real problem for pagan revivalism than any of the other things we are supposedly missing. We do indeed have perfectly adequate records of how to carry out offerings, various possible liturgical calendars depending on tradition, and more theology than laymen will ever need. Building on these for lay and communal purposes is a matter of common sense and personal relationships, it is not at all a lack of knowledge and sources anymore. But what we can't escape or ignore is that our forebears practiced as they did in large part to secure tangible outcomes. And in the modern imaginary, this maps onto "magic" more than onto contemporary definitions of religion, which neuter faith into the shape of mere ideology and creedalism which is only concerned with moral babysitting and, at its most ambitious, the next life. As best as I can tell, Astrology is the single most intact and comprehensive pre-abrahamic divinatory science to survive until our time. And even then, surviving ceremonial applications are still strongly influenced by hebraic esoterica thanks to the renaissance, when esotericists of that surviving Hebraic vein created a new ritual appendage to replace the original gentile polytheist one that was lost in the dark ages. There's something to be said for the perspective that "well it's there and by all accounts it works, so why not suck it up and use it." And certainly there's no reason to hate hebraic symbology and esoterica inherently, IF you can successfully mentally compartmentalize it away from the broader para-political forces that have imposed it upon us at the expense of our more direct inheritance. But that is a big 'if' and it should not be a prerequisite to achieving "Change in accordance with Will." And indeed if you already identify deeply with your true lineage then that cognitive dissonance becomes an obstacle to the work. There is another decent argument for sucking it up and sticking with hebraicized Western (at this point better called early modern christendom) esotericism, which is that its renaissance codifiers just saw all of it as proceeding from a singular universal sophia perennis and so there isn't really any ethnic or political significance in using what has survived among the iews because it's ultimately the same as what was known by the Egyptians, Chaldeans, Druids, and Rishis. I do believe there is a universal "truth" simply because we live in a unitary cosmos with a unifying principle, the Good; I don't agree that different ethnic or civilizational traditions disagree only superficially. In fact, I even think that some indeterminate but not insignificant portion of their disagreement is not just due to ignorance but is due to real and consequential differences in racial spiritual characters and that different nations are presided over by different deities and spirits, shepherded towards unique ways of life, and possibly even possess distinct "regions" of the afterlife or spiritual space. Could these distinctions extend to what practices and conceptual scaffoldings are most effective in perceiving and directing life force? I think that is also possible. But if that is the case, it is necessary not just to embrace the points of continuity with our ancestral ways and spirits but to consider that just as time has changed us outwardly in our manners and ways of life it has also changed us in our ways of perceiving and our ways of relating to ourselves. This is the silver lining of the sad, incomplete state of the Gentile magical tradition. There is tremendous room to build something suited to our present condition, just as the Renaissance magi used the fractured and decayed materials at hand to build something suited to their own condition. And what's more, this process has already begun and proceeds of its own accord even absent our self-awareness of its significance. Firstly and most importantly, astrology has enjoyed a massive revival. More under the radar but also much more explicitly, Germanic pagans have for over a century now been involved in working out a divination system based on runes. (The earliest runologists were in the 1500s, but of course they were renaissance men who wanted to cram them into cabala). What is of interest to me about the runes is that the archaeology pretty firmly shows that the way the ancient germanics used runes to write charms is not the way modern practitioners ascribe specific symbolism to each rune. This process has of course been fraught with dead ends and grifting, but there are many practitioners for whom it simply works, and that is perhaps what's most important. But divination tools already abound. What is lacking is ceremonial theurgy and (heavily tentatively and conditionally) thaumaturgy. I can easily envision a practice involving astrology, runology, Orphic and Chaldean elements, and if gaps remain to be filled then elements can be borrowed from Chinese or Indian practices whose cosmologies and moralities are more akin to us than the hebraic.

@chillbert32 @_SatanWatch I have roots there and pass through every few years. 2020s shitworld hit there pretty hard and the difference within just a few years is palpable

@Heliotrophy @_SatanWatch How did you find this out?

Okay we've had a Bigfoot migration, a dust storm, and a 7-ton asteroid in Ohio in like a week's span, why has the state suddenly become a dimensional vortex, what's going on? I need to get Ohiopilled fast.

@_SatanWatch I.E. it got to be a frontier territory longer than it was actually the frontier, representing america as a whole

@Heliotrophy It wasn't even technically part of the Union until the 1950s because they forgot to finish the paperwork in 1803; it just existed in a state of limbo for 100 years, ghost-like. This seems highly significant as well.

@Vathek64 Avast, this is nothing compared to what's brewing

@Agicelaos @Trad_West_Art I was initially thinking to do Odin next but that was when I thought I might get a second one out in time for Yule. Apollo might be good for the summer solstice

@Heliotrophy I request Apollo, Vesta and Hercules next. We urgently need an @Trad_West_Art take on Apollo.

4 sold so far! Which means only 16 left. Huge thanks everyone. If you are in the USA, today is the last day to order if you hope to get it in time for the Solstice on the 20th, so long as you pick a fast enough shipping option. All orders from this weekend are going out as soon as the post office opens tomorrow.

This is what Socrates was saying and they killed him for it

@FaustAugustus Lol apparently not when you post at midnight

@Heliotrophy Apparently because it doesn’t work

There's a reason I don't vaguepost for engagement btw

@Svetisl36976741 It's an oratory gesture signifying to pay attention because the speaker is about to begin. It's coincidentally close to the mudra for Surya, the sun. The ring finger is associated with the sun in palmistry as well

@Heliotrophy What does the sign he shows with his right hand mean?

@Apotheiite They just want to have their cake and eat it to wrt idealism. "We have idealism at home and it still lets us keep our tenures in materialist institutions"

It should just be illegal to entertain simulation theory. That any research goes into this at all is a crime and should be punishable. Pure waste.

It goes far beyond how homo sapiens in particular evolved, our entire primate lineage differentiated itself primarily through frugivory. I think carnivory was a big factor in human intelligence too but it's impossible to understate how nutritionally different in amino acid and mineral profile a nose to tail diet is compared to a farmed muscle meat diet

@Heliotrophy @DionysianAgent I always found it very unbelievable that man was evolved to eat animals alone. The sheer work in hunting all that sh1t down, plus wild game is super lean (I've heard). I don't think any ancient society could get a man eating 1 steak per day, unless he was a king.

this will probably upset a lot of people, but I truly believe that if your body responds and works best on a high carb diet, then it’s because you have peasant genetics nothing wrong with it as such the vast majority of people come from peasantry, so it is expected to be the norm but this incessant need for the peasants to convince everyone that their way is the way, is no different than peasants trying to overthrow aristocrats throughout history high carbs works better FOR YOU because you’re a peasant your ancestors were peasants their gut and body evolved to eat slop through generations and generations of just eating slop their bodies learned to best tolerate slop the mass producible harvest throughout most of history high quality fats and meats were something only the higher castes had access to thus your diet and what your body tolerates is a reflection of your genetics all the fitness and health slop posters who constantly incessantly worship carbs and claim and high protein and fats are bad they’re really just snitching on themselves confessing their peasant genes it’s fine just stop acting like you’re superior or that high carb is the cheat code for nutrition you just discovered what works best according to your own genetics and that’s fine we’re all different we all come from different lineages and bloodlines for some people high protein and fat is what will work better because that’s what their genetics have evolved to best handle it’s about experimenting and discovering what’s best for you there is no universal one size fits all in dieting, there is an objective bounds of thermodynamics and biology sure, but within those bounds there are variations, mutations, tolerances, many different factors

@Hntaigana @DionysianAgent Yes people bounce recklessly between depressive and manic states using whatever interventions they can

@Heliotrophy @DionysianAgent How does keto make you more "cholinergic"? I thought most people were kind of low on acetylcholine, hence the value many find in nicotine, despite its heavy downsides.

@MartinSkold2 You won't have to pay retirement, disability, or pay the family of casualties. Even so, I'm skeptical that humanoid will be the best form factor for an infantry replacement bot

So it costs about the same as training an infantryman, carries less than an infantryman, likely costs more to maintain, and runs on batteries. The thermal shielding is nice though.

I think the main thing is that large scale things work on a substrate of smaller structures, but mass culture has cannibalized those social structures completely. They have to be rebuilt from scratch. Building tribes from likeminded non-relatives was also the game for high imperial mystery religions which is why I fixate on that period and those ideologies

Gud tweet man. Is a topic I think much about as well. It seems to me that so many of the ways we thought such problems might be solved when we contemplated them, say, ten years ago... now seem woefully unrealistic given the extreme individualization you reference... With that said, that same phenomenon of societal atomization also suggests to me that the edifices upon which said problems are built may be far more brittle today than they were 10, 20, 40 years ago... and thus any efforts we make in dismantling them and reversing their effects may prove far more successful than we would have otherwise ever anticipated...

Almost everyone who is very clued in to the large-scale problems of the world needs to spend an afternoon of serious reflection examining their personal relationship to these problems and considering this prompt: Suppose there is no hope of large-scale cooperation and serious authoritative policy to address these problems. Suppose "awareness" and "activism" is completely pointless and futile. How, then, will you address how this problem is affecting or will affect you? Doing so will allow you to discern three general categories of these problems: 1: The unreal or irrelevant. If you are struggling to recognize any paniques-du-jour as belonging to this category, you need to abstain from news and social media. 2: The personally relevant issues that you will be able to face alone and exercise personal agency in addressing. 3: The rarest but most troubling category, relevant and pressing issues that you absolutely cannot handle alone. This is the only category that deserves to have any ink spilled and the only one where social media has any chance of being constructive. If you contemplate these type 3 problems, you will begin to understand the utility of the above prompt: To begin with the assumption that there is no avenue of large-scale coordination and there will be no coherent policy advanced to improve the situation will force you to soberly consider the scale at which you can and must work. All you CAN do - which is what you MUST do - is to find or create a tribe. Which, painfully, means investigating and overcoming how you and I have been shaped into an isolated idiōtēs by the titanic anti-social forces of the age; our aversion to obligation and judgement, our self-reliance which teeters over into self-indulgence, is really the primary obstacle to the cultivation and exercise of power in our own lives and the application of that power to the concrete problems facing us in common.

@EugeneIpavec My apologies to him and your daughter Claudianneleigh

@Heliotrophy My son Flaviyden was very offended by this

Rome #1: Everyone's name is just a number Rome #2: Everyone's name is Flavius Rome #3: Everyone is named after some Biblical figure America #1: Everyone is named from the Old Testament America #2: Everyone is named from the New Testament America #3: Everyone is named (x)-ayden

@Spinglet0n McKaydenleigh

@Heliotrophy Don't forget, some form of -leigh for the women.