The Ruby Tablet

In this episode, we descend from the triumphant proclamation of the Crowned and Conquering Child into the shadowed temple of the Elder Horus, where the Aeon is no longer defined by the victorious Will of the individual but by the ancient, patient gaze of the twin god who watches from the other side of the mirror. We explore how HarWer—the forgotten face of Horus, the day to Set's night, the most misunderstood deity of the Egyptian pantheon—was misidentified by the most influential magician of the modern era, and how that single error sent ripples of confusion through an entire cosmic epoch.In a world that still mistakes the mask for the face, still confuses the symbol for the reality, and still struggles to understand the relationship between the Self and the universe that defines it, do we have the courage to see the Other as it truly is, or will we retreat into the comfortable illusion that we are alone?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: The Other FaceClassification: V2 - A45 - 1 Author: James Lewis IV° Date: September 15, XIX HTML Revision: Dec 08, 1997 CE Subject: HarWer Reading List: 2A, 2E, 2W📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-James Lewis IV, "The Other Face" (The Ruby Tablet Essay Collection) -Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis) -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears Aleister Crowley, The Equinox of the Gods -Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path Don Webb, The Seven Faces of Darkness: Practical Typhonian Magic -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set: History, Philosophy, and Ritual -Stephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand Path: Forbidden Practices and Spiritual Heresies -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians (Volume II) -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead R.T.-Rundle Clark, Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt -Erik Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many -Hermann Kees, Der Götterglaube im alten Ägypten -Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection -Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels (La Révolte des Anges) -Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival (for Typhonian perspective on Horus/Set) -Aleister Crowley, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of -Aleister Crowley The Pyramid Texts The Coffin Texts🏷️ HASHTAGS#HarWer #HorusTheElder #Haroeris #HeruUr #Set #Seth #TwinGods #OtherFace #CosmicInertia #IsolateIntelligence #LeftHandPath #TempleOfSet #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #AncientEgypt #EgyptianMythology #Khem #SetianPhilosophy #Xeper #Becoming #BodyOfLight #MagicalLink #MekhentiEnIrty #MekhentiIrty #EyeOfHorus #AeonOfHarWer #AeonOfSet #AleisterCrowley #Thelema #BookOfTheLaw #LiberAL #CrownedAndConqueringChild #MagickWithoutTears #Magus #DivineMisidentification #SetianTradition #BlackFlame #PrinceOfDarkness #ObjectiveUniverse #SubjectiveUniverse #SelfAndOther #Duality #Complementarity #NightAndDay #SunAndMoon #CosmicLaw #Etymology #LeftAndRight #Sinister #EsotericTradition #OccultHistory #PhilosophicalDepth #SelfCreation #EternalSoul #Ankh #Djed #WasScepter #EgyptianGods #Horus #Ombos #Nubti #Shu #CosmicOrder #SpiritualJourney #PodcastEpisode #DeepDive #LeftHandPathPodcast #SetianPodcast

In this episode, we descend from the comfortable certainties of zoological classification into the unsettling wilderness of the symbolic, where the certainties of the naturalist give way to the mysteries of the extra-dimensional. We explore the Set animal—the most enigmatic and hotly debated icon in the entire Egyptian pantheon—and ask: What happens when a god refuses to be identified, when his very form defies categorization, when the image that stands for him is a creature that has never walked the earth? In a world that still demands we fit into neat categories, still insists that everything must be named and classified, do we have the courage to embrace the alien within ourselves, or will we retreat into the comfortable falsehood that we are merely creatures of the natural order?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Reflections on the Set AnimalClassification: V2 - A41 - 1Author: Stephen E. Flowers II°Date: XIXHTML Revision: Dec 06, 1997 CESubject: Set ImageReading List: #2G📚 RECOMMENDED READING:H. te Velde, Seth, God of Confusion: A Study of His Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion (Reading List #2G) — The definitive scholarly study of Set, including the exhaustive analysis of the Set animal controversy that forms the foundation of this essay.E.A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. II — Essential for understanding the broader Egyptian pantheon and Set's place within it.Ian Taylor, In the Dark Places of Wisdom — Explores the extra-dimensional and the limits of naturalistic explanation in the study of ancient religion.Kenneth Grant, The Nightside of Eden — For those who wish to pursue the Setian current into its deeper, more magical dimensions.Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law — Particularly the commentary on the nature of the Beast and the principle of individual sovereignty.Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set, Volume I — For the foundational documents and philosophical architecture of modern Setian thought.Don Webb, The Seven Faces of Darkness — A practical and theological exploration of the Setian path.Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride (On Isis and Osiris) — Ancient source material on the mythology and symbolism of Set.Alan Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar — For those who wish to understand the hieroglyphic significance of the Set animal and its variations.Iamblichus, De Mysteriis (On the Mysteries) — For the Neoplatonic perspective on theurgy and the reception of divine images.#SetAnimal #Set #EgyptianMythology #Seth #SethGodOfConfusion #Egyptology #Setian #LeftHandPath #TempleOfSet #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #AncientEgypt #ExtraDimensional #MythicalBeast #Iconography #Hieroglyphs #Scepters #Djam #WasScepter #MartialForce #Thunder #ActivePsyche #Xeper #Becoming #Setianism #DarkLord #PrimacyOfThePsyche #NotOfEarth #AlienConsciousness #teVelde #StephenFlowers #MichaelAquino #DonWebb #TheSevenFacesOfDarkness #SetAnimalMystery #ZoologicalIdentification #Aardvark #Fennec #Oryx #Griffin #Axex #EsotericSymbolism #NightsideOfEden #KennethGrant #BlackFlame #IndividualSovereignty #SelfCreation #PsychicPower #ExtraTerrestrial #CosmicConsciousness #AncientWisdom #OccultPodcast #Philosophy #Spirituality #SelfOvercoming)

In this episode, we descend from the heroic individualism of the Aeon of Horus into the solitary, self-created darkness of the Aeon of Set, where spiritual evolution is no longer the discovery of a pre-existing True Will but the relentless, agonizing work of Becoming that which one Wills into Being. We explore how Eulit M. Hinson II°—an Adept navigating the initiatory currents of the Temple of Set—seized the framework of aeonic progression and transformed it into a map of simultaneous consciousness, declaring that the engine of spiritual evolution is not the worship of nature, the obedience to divine law, or the alignment with cosmic order, but the radical assertion of isolated intelligence engaged in the continuous process of self-creation.In a world that still worships nature, still obeys divine law, and still seeks alignment with cosmic order, do we have the courage to Become our own gods, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of those who came before?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: A Thought for the Aeons Author: Eulit M. Hinson II° Date: February, XXVI Publication: The Jormungand Oracle HTML Revision: Dec 10, 1997 CE Subject: Aeonic Progression Reading List: 24J📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set: The First Four Decades -Michael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by Night -Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears -Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible -Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path -Stephen E. Flowers, Fire and Ice: The History, Structure, and Rituals of the Temple of Set -Stephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand Path -Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut -H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (for the cosmic indifference that the Setian confronts) -Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (for the celebration of the individual against the collective) -Plato, The Republic (for the hierarchy of consciousness) -Gerald Gardner, Witchcraft Today (for the Isis aeon in modern form) -Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah (for the Osirian framework in Western occultism) -Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn (for the Osirian initiatory system) -Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival (for the Horus aeon and its implications) -The Pyramid Texts (for the ancient Egyptian roots of Setian thought) -The Egyptian Book of the Dead (for the Osirian framework)🏷️ HASHTAGS#AeonOfIsis #AeonOfOsiris #AeonOfHorus #AeonOfSet #Set #Xeper #Remanifest #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #RightHandPath #Initiation #AeonicProgression #SpiritualEvolution #IsolatedIntelligence #CollectiveEssence #TrueWill #Thelema #Crowley #Aquino #LaVey #BlackFlame #PrinceOfDarkness #Elect #Masses #InertialSystems #DynamicEvolution #SelfCreation #Becoming #EulitMHinson #TheJormungandOracle #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #EsotericWisdom #InitiationPathways #SpiritualHierarchy #IndividualWill #CollectiveEssence #NatureWorship #FatherGod #DyingAndRising #DeathAndResurrection #MysterySchools #GoldenDawn #Freemasonry #Satanism #Setianism #Magick #Will #Consciousness #SelfOvercoming #Nietzsche #Existentialism #ProcessPhilosophy #SimultaneousAeons #SpiritualMapping #XeperAndRemanifest

In this episode, we descend from the crystalline abstractions of higher-dimensional geometry into the messy, liminal space where symbols become doorways and contemplation becomes transformation. We explore how Patty A. Hardy IV°—a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of mathematics, neuroscience, and esoteric tradition—seized upon a single enigmatic emblem and followed its implications into the hidden architecture of consciousness itself, declaring that the engine of magical power is not the incantation of words but the precise, deliberate engagement with geometric form.In a world that still seeks meaning in symbols, still yearns for transformation, and still debates the relationship between consciousness and form, do we have the courage to trace our own angles, or will we retreat into the comfortable flatness of the merely visible?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: KeystoneAuthor: Patty A. Hardy IV° Date: September, XXVII Publication: Runes, X.3 Subject: Seal of Runa Reading List: This article is the result of Sir Setnakt's provocative remarks in the April issue of Runes and the image of the Seal of Runa found on the back cover of that issue among the cryptic glyphs of the Naath-R'unai.📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Aquino, Michael A. Commentary on the Seal of the Nine Angles, RUNES, vol. VI, no. 4 (June XXIII)Aquino, Michael A. Lovecraftian Ritual, NYCTALOPS, #13 (May 1977)Aquino, Michael A. The Ceremony of the Nine Angles in The Satanic Rituals by Anton LaVey, NY: Avon Books, 1972Dawkins, Richard. Memes: The New Replicators, The Selfish Gene, Oxford University Press, 1989 (2nd edition)Denny, J. Peter. Cultural Ecology of Mathematics: Ojibway and Inuit Hunters, Native American Mathematics, ed. by Michael P. Closs, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986Flowers, Stephen. The Nine Angles of the Seal, RUNES, vol. VI, no. 2 (March XXIII)Goldstein, E. Bruce. Sensation and Perception, Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1989 (3rd edition)Hardy, Patty A. Horizonglass, Scroll of Set, vol. XV, no. 2 (April XXIV)Massey, Gerald. The Natural GenesisRucker, Rudy. The Fourth Dimension: Towards a Geometry of Higher Reality, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984Schaefer, Heinrich. Principles of Egyptian Art, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974Wilson, R. A., & Shea, R. The Illuminatus! Trilogy, NY: Dell Publishing Co., 1975🏷️ HASHTAGS#Keystone #SealOfRuna #PattyHardy #Geometry #GoldenRatio #Pentagram #Hyperdimensional #Tesseract #Pentahedroid #Trapezoid #DimensionalGate #NineAngles #OrderOfTheTrapezoid #TempleOfSet #RunesJournal #Lovecraft #Lovecraftian #Neters #Azathoth #YogSothoth #Nyarlathotep #ShubNiggurath #MemeTheory #Dawkins #Illuminatus #RobertAntonWilson #RudyRucker #FourthDimension #Neurotheology #SacredGeometry #OccultSymbols #EsotericTradition #LeftHandPath #Xeper #BlackFlame #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #Symbolism #Consciousness #Transformation #MagicalPractice #Gnosis #EgyptianSymbolism #StarDoorTeach #2001SpaceOdyssey #Monolith #AspectiveRepresentation #Phyllotaxis #GnomonicExpansion #Memetics #Psychohistory #Setnakt #Aquino #Flowers #Massey #Runa #ReynTilRuna

In this episode, we descend from the abstract architecture of metaphysical speculation into the hard, crystalline geometry of magical praxis, where philosophy is no longer the contemplation of transcendent ideals but the precise engineering of consciousness and reality. We explore how Stephen E. Flowers—Grand Master of the Order of the Trapezoid, scholar of runic traditions, and one of the most systematic occult thinkers of the modern era—seized the esoteric inheritance of the Nine Angles and transformed it into a practical technology of self-deification, declaring that the engine of magical transformation is not the passive acceptance of cosmic order but the dynamic interplay of angled and curved space, of non-linear potential and linear manifestation, of Will and Nature.In a world that still seeks to influence events, still debates the relationship between consciousness and nature, and still yearns for transformation, do we have the courage to experiment operatively, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of Neo-Cabalistic mumbo-jumbo?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: V'YN'KHE ROHZ: The Cycle of NineAuthor: Stephen E. Flowers V° Grand Master, Order of the Trapezoid Date: September, XXVII Publication: Runes HTML Revision: October 15, 1998 CE Subject: Seal of Runa📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Stephen E. Flowers, V'YN'KHE ROHZ: The Cycle of Nine (the essay itself)Michael A. Aquino, The Ceremony of the Nine Angles (in Anton LaVey's The Satanic Rituals)Stephen E. Flowers, The Galdrabók: An Icelandic GrimoireStephen E. Flowers, Runes and Magic: Magical Formulaic Elements in the Older Runic TraditionMichael A. Aquino, The Church of SatanMichael A. Aquino, The Temple of SetKurt Rudolph, Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism (for Leviathan and Ophite Gnosticism)Frank Belknap Long, The Hounds of Tindalos (referenced for "angled space")Die Elektrischen Vorspiele (referenced in the essay for "angled space" and "curved space")Anton LaVey, The Satanic Rituals (containing the Ceremony of the Nine Angles)Aleister Crowley, Magick Without TearsThe Nag Hammadi Library (for Ophite and Gnostic traditions)#CycleOfNine #StephenEFlowers #NineAngles #TempleOfSet #OrderOfTheTrapezoid #LeftHandPath #BlackFlame #SealOfRUNA #Leviathan #Ouroboros #AngledSpace #CurvedSpace #Chaos #Order #Understanding #Being #Creation #Death #Rebirth #Perfection #Initiation #MagicalCosmology #OperativeMagic #Runes #Set #Xeper #IsolateIntelligence #Gnosticism #Ophite #Mythology #EsotericPhilosophy #OccultTradition #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #OccultPodcast #Metaphysics #Cosmology #Magic #Will #Nature #TimeManipulation #Retrocausality #BlackMagick #CeremonyOfTheNineAngles #MichaelAquino #AntonLaVey #Trapezoid #Pentagram #SigilOfBaphomet #Hermeticism #Alchemy #CyclicalTime #RunicTradition #Jormungandr #MidgardSerpent #TheSatanicRituals #Gnosis #SelfDeification

n this episode, we descend from the abstract contemplation of philosophical Words into the lived, embodied reality of their internalization. We explore how Ruth Neilson II°—a Setian Adept navigating the currents of the Temple of Set's inner tradition—took the profound, often elusive concept of Remanifest and rendered it not as a mystical pronouncement but as a practical, cyclical psychology of becoming. We ask: What does it truly mean to own a Word? And how does one move from passive reception to active, transformative identificationIn a world that still offers us Words of power, still demands we become something, and still challenges us to risk our very identities for the sake of growth, do we have the courage to own our own becoming, or will we let the seeds of the Aeon simply blow away in the wind?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Remanifestation - The WordAuthor: Ruth Neilson II° Date: December 16, XXIV HTML Revision: Dec 14, 1997 CE Subject: Remanifestation Published: Trail of the Serpent - Jan. XXV Reading List: The Word of Magus James Lewis 📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-James Lewis, The Word of Xeper (Temple of Set publications) The Book of Coming Forth by Day (The Egyptian Book of the Dead), particularly the concept of becoming -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Chapter on Identification and Assumption of God-Forms -Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival (for context on the Typhonian current and the nature of the Word) -Julius Evola, The Yoga of Power (for comparative perspectives on initiation and self-transformation) -Carl Jung, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (for psychological frameworks of identification) -Jacob Taubes, The Political Theology of Paul (for the concept of the Word as transformative event, in a different tradition) -George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society (for the sociological framework of role-taking) -Erik Erikson, Identity and the Life Cycle (for the psychological stages of identity formation) -The Setian texts and essays in the Temple of Set archive (for the wider context of the Aeon of Xeper) -Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity (for the critique of projection and the idea that the divine is the projected Self) F-riedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (for the concept of self-overcoming and the eternal return as a becoming)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Remanifestation #Xeper #TempleOfSet #RuthNeilson #Setian #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #OccultTradition #Magick #Identification #SelfCreation #Becoming #WordOfPower #Aeon #Set #Isis #Horus #EgyptianMythology #PsychologicalAlchemy #Initiation #Adept #RolePlay #IdentityFormation #Internalization #RiskAndConsequence #CyclicalPassage #SpiritualEvolution #SelfMastery #AleisterCrowley #MagickWithoutTears #JamesLewis #BlackFlame #XeperAndRemanifest #PotentialAndActuality #SelfOvercoming #CreativeDestruction #EternalBecoming #TrailOfTheSerpent #TempleOfSetEssays #ModernOccultism #OccultPhilosophy #PodcastEpisode #DeepDive #SpiritualJourney #PersonalTransformation #ConsciousEvolution)

In this episode, we descend from the grand declarations of metaphysical truth into the quiet, painstaking work of symbolic synthesis—where philosophy is no longer the proclamation of universal principles but the careful excavation of meaning hidden within a single Word. We explore how Robert Menschel III°—a Priest of Set, a student of the Symbolique, and a practitioner of the Black Qabalah—took the Word REMANIFESTATION and subjected it to a rigorous, multi-layered analysis that reveals not just what the word means, but how meaning itself is extracted from the depths of the Self. In a world that still chases the next attainment, still fixates on future becoming while neglecting present being, and still struggles to integrate the many levels of its own existence, do we have the courage to Remanifest what we already are, or will we continue to reach for what we have not yet earned?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Remanifestation: A Symbolic SynthesisAuthor: Robert Menschel III° Classification: V2 - A17.36 - 3 Date: March 1, XXII HTML Revision: December 9, 1998 CE Subject: Remanifestation Reading List: 2L, 2V📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Her-Bak and Symbol and the Symbolique (#2L, #2V) On the nature of symbols and their use in transmitting and extracting knowledge -Magus Ronald K. Barrett, The Ruby Tablet of Set -On the formula of Xeper and the structure of Setian initiation Dr. Michael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by Night, XX edition (1985 C.E.) On the formula Xepera Xeper Xeperu- Peter D. Ouspensky, The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution (#19B) On the cycling of consciousness and the nature of self-remembering -Richard Cavendish, The Black Arts (#4C) — Introduction to numerology and esoteric symbolism -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears — On the nature of will and becoming -Don Webb, Seven Faces of Darkness — On the practical application of Setian philosophy -Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival — On the Typhonian current and the reinterpretation of Egyptian symbolism -Stephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand Path — On the history and philosophy of the Left-Hand Path tradition -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set, Volume I — On the foundational principles of Setian philosophy The Scroll of Set, Volume X, No. 1 — On numerology and symbolic synthesis#Remanifestation #Xeper #SymbolicSynthesis #SetianPhilosophy #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #BlackQabalah #Numerology #HerBak #Symbolism #Initiation #Adept #Priest #Magister #Ipsissimus #Recognition #IsolateIntelligence #Becoming #Being #Cycles #Ouspensky #SelfCreation #XeperaXeperXeperu #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultTradition #EsotericWisdom #AncientEgyptianWisdom #Set #BlackFlame #SelfOvercoming #TheScrollOfSet #RobertMenschel #InitiationRites #Pylon #MagicalWork #WillToPower #SelfTransformation #Gnosis #Soul #BeHereNow #PracticalMagic #OccultStudies #Mysticism #MysteryTraditions #Theurgy #SpiritualPractice #ConsciousEvolution #Individuality #SelfActualization #Remanifest

In this episode, we descend from the abstract philosophical heights of Words and Aeons into the concrete, unforgiving terrain of daily existence—where spiritual aspiration meets the cold reality of action, where the grand vision of Xeper must prove itself not in ritual chambers but in boardrooms and kitchens, in conversations with strangers and silences with loved ones. We explore how Robert Menschel III—a Second Degree Adept writing to the Priesthood of the Temple of Set—took the revolutionary concept of Xeper and dragged it down to earth, declaring that the engine of self-directed evolution is not the internal experience of becoming but the repeated, unavoidable, and utterly non-negotiable demonstration of that becoming through action. In a world that rewards intention over action and excuses failure with good intentions, do we have the courage to remanifest ourselves as Xepering Adept Black Magicians, or will we retreat into the comfortable delusion that thinking makes us so?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Remanifestation (Classification: V2 - A17.36 - 2)Author: Robert Menschel III°Date: January 29, XXIIPublished: Flames From Hell — Letter to the Gates of Hell PylonHTML Revision: October 22, 1998 CESubject: RemanifestationReading List: Setian Philosophy & Practice📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Menschel III, Robert. Remanifestation (The Ruby Tablet Archives)Aquino, Michael A. The Book of Coming Forth by Night (The Temple of Set)Aquino, Michael A. The Crystal Tablet of Set (The Temple of Set)Crowley, Aleister. The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis)Crowley, Aleister. Magick Without TearsLaVey, Anton Szandor. The Satanic BibleWebb, Don. Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand PathFlowers, Stephen E. Lords of the Left-Hand PathBarrett, Ronald K. The Book of Opening the Way (The Temple of Set)Crowley, Aleister. The General Principles of Astrology (Tarot commentary on Atu X and Atu VII)Aquino, Michael A. The Temple of Set: History and Philosophy (Volumes I & II)Wendall, Patricia. Various Essays on Xeper and Remanifestation (The Ruby Tablet Archives)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Remanifestation #Xeper #Xem #PerT #RobertMenschelIII #TempleOfSet #Set #SetianPhilosophy #LeftHandPath #AeonOfSet #AeonOfHarWer #AeonOfHorus #Thelema #Crowley #LaVey #Satanism #BlackMagick #Initiation #Adept #Priesthood #IsolateIntelligence #XeperaXeperXeperu #AtuX #AtuVII #TheWheelOfFortune #TheChariot #MindlessChange #IntentionalEvolution #SelfDirectedEvolution #MagicalPractice #MundaneAsSacred #EveryActionWitnessed #LevelOfBeing #ActionAndIdentity #Becoming #TheRubyTablet #RubyTabletPodcast #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #EsotericPhilosophy #Setianism #IndividualSovereignty #WillToPower #FreedomFighters #WarAgainstInertia #DailyPractice #LivingTheMagic #DemonstrationOfBeing #NoSeparation #SacredAndSecular #PracticalMagic #MagickInDailyLife #SelfTransformation

In this episode, we descend from the grand philosophical architectures of the Temple into the crucible of individual existence, where the meaning of life is no longer a matter of doctrine or lineage but of solitary confrontation with a universe that offers nothing—and demands everything. We explore how the Order of Leviathan—the most direct and uncompromising of the Temple's Orders—seizes the philosophical inheritance of the Left-Hand Path and distills it into a single, terrifying directive: Xeper and Remanifest. To Come Into Being, and to act upon the world with the full weight of that being. In a world that still seeks easy answers, still craves external authority, and still recoils from the terrifying freedom of radical self-creation, do we have the courage to drink deeply of the consecrated waters, or will we retreat into the comfortable illusions of the cave?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: The Prime DirectiveAuthor: James Lewis IV° Date: January XXVIII Publication: The Trail of the Serpent HTML Revision: Dec 19, 1998 CE Subject: Purpose, Xeper Reading List: The Rules of Claw, Section 16📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-James Lewis IV, The Prime Directive (The Trail of the Serpent) -The Rules of Claw, Section 16 (Temple of Set) -Plato, The Republic (Allegory of the Cave) -Dante Alighieri, Inferno (Canto XXXIV: Judecca) -H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories -H.P. Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Reuben -Swinburne Clymer, The Philosophy of Fire -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears -Stephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand Path -Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left-Hand Path -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set (various essays) -Kenneth Grant, Nightside of Eden -John L. Heilbron, The Sun in the Church (for context on cosmic indifference) -Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (for the mindless universe concept) -Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (for existential confrontation with meaninglessness) -Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (for the will to self-creation) -Plutarch, Isis and Osiris (for Egyptian concepts of Xeper) -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead (for the origins of Xeper) -Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy (for magical practice context) -Eliphas Levi, Transcendental Magic (for magical theory context)🏷️ HASHTAGS#PrimeDirective #Xeper #Remanifest #Leviathan #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #SelfCreation #WillToPower #Plato #CaveAllegory #Lovecraft #CosmicIndifference #Ouroboros #EternalReturn #Dante #Inferno #Judecca #Existentialism #IndividualSovereignty #MagicalPractice #OccultTradition #Set #BlackFlame #EgyptianPhilosophy #Mortality #Immortality #SelfOvercoming #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #WisdomTraditions #Esoteric #Hermeticism #DarkPhilosophy #Nietzsche #Camus #Crowley #MagickWithoutTears #OrderOfLeviathan #RulesOfClaw #TheTrailOfTheSerpent #PracticalPhilosophy #RadicalSelfCreation #Consciousness #Will #TheMindlessUniverse #ConsecratedWaters #TheIdleMind #PhilosophicalCourage #Individualism #ExistentialPhilosophy

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical abstractions of the Academy into the intimate, fire-lit chamber of the Temple of Set Conclave, where magical Words are not relics of antiquity but living forces—weapons of self-creation forged in the crucible of conscious Will. We explore how Ipsissimus James Lewis VI°—the Æon-enhancing Magus, the student of Shakespeare and Doctor Who, the most approachably profound thinker of the Setian tradition—took the reigning Word of the Aeon, Xeper, and did not replace it but deepened it, declaring that the engine of Initiation is not merely the act of Coming Into Being but the continuous process of Remanifesting that being back into the world.From the Utterance of the Word and the resolution of the Xeper paradox to the question of post-mortem survival, from the ripple effects of our actions and the alchemy of dialogue to the oceanic metaphor of continuous becoming, from the fragility of cognitive identity and the warning against pat definitions to the final image of the Doctor plunging into the galaxy and getting involved—we trace the monumental, deeply personal, and astonishingly practical legacy of the Word Remanifest and ask: In a world that still seeks certainty, still craves final answers, and still fears the relentless process of change, do we have the courage to remain in the process, or will we retreat into the comfortable illusion of completion?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LISTEssay: The Æon-Enhancing Word RemanifestClassification: V2 - A17.3 - 3Author: James Lewis VI°Date: September 25, XXVIII — Set-XIV(1)HTML Revision: December 19, 1998 CESubject: RemanifestReading List: A Discussion of the Process of the Æon-enhancing Word, Remanifest📚 RECOMMENDED READINGJames Lewis VI°, "The Æon-Enhancing Word Remanifest" (Conclave Transcript, Year XXVIII)James Lewis VI°, "The Power of a Word" (1987)Michael A. Aquino VI°, Xeper: The Eternal Word of SetMichael A. Aquino VI°, The Temple of Set: A History and AnalysisAleister Crowley, Magick Without TearsAleister Crowley, One Star in SightWilliam Shakespeare, OthelloDiogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent PhilosophersAnton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic BibleRené Descartes, Meditations on First PhilosophyDoctor Who, "The War Games" (Patrick Troughton, 1969)The Trail of the Serpent, Issues 1-99+ (Temple of Set Publications)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Remanifest #Xeper #Set #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #AeonicWords #Initiation #SelfEvolution #MagicalWords #XeperAndRemanifest #JamesLewis #MichaelAquino #AleisterCrowley #DoctorWho #PatrickTroughton #Shakespeare #Othello #Thelema #Indulgence #LaVey #Conclave #SetianPhilosophy #BlackFlame #Identity #Change #Paradox #CognitiveIdentity #Survival #PostMortem #RippleEffect #Dialogue #Alchemy #OceanMetaphor #Waves #Beach #TimeAndChange #PatDefinitions #ExploratoryStage #CogitoErgoSum #Descartes #SensoryDeprivation #DoctorWhoReference #GettingInvolved #GalaxyExploration #TrailOfTheSerpent #OrderOfSet #SetianTradition #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultWisdom #Setianism #BlackMagic #InitiationJourney

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical abstractions of eternal Becoming into the concrete, grinding machinery of how that Becoming actually happens—where the Word is no longer a distant proclamation but a living pattern that must be decoded, applied, and lived. We explore how James Lewis—the skeptic who became a Magus, the twelfth such figure in thousands of years of recorded history, the most systematic expositor of the Setian tradition—seized the revelation of Xeper and dragged it down into the realm of practical application, declaring that the engine of immortality is not the static achievement of Being but the dynamic, From the definition of a Word as an unnatural force that acts and grows by its own laws to the distinction between the two types of Magus, from the sequence of Thelema, Indulgence, Xeper, and Remanifestation to the controversial fate of the Word Xem, from the expansion of the Formula of the Aeon to the practical process of self-examination and reorganization, from the rejection of the "enlightened society" in favor of "unique and extraordinary individuals" to the assertion that no single object, being, or thought is immortal in its present form—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of Remanifestation and ask: In a world that still drifts through life without direction, still confuses compulsion with indulgence, and still seeks comfort over transformation, do we have the courage to take the hard path of constant Becoming, or will we retreat into the comfortable security of the old and the static?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: To Find a Pattern (V2 - A17.3 - 2)Author: James Lewis V° Date: April 3, XXII HTML Revision: October 8, 1998 CE Subject: Remanifestation Reading List: 2H, 2M, 4A, 6D, 6K, 6N, 9C, 9D, 9K, 12C, 16A, 17A, 17D, 19G📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-James Lewis, To Find a Pattern (The Ruby Tablet) -H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror -Aleister Crowley, One Star in Sight (from Magick in Theory and Practice) -Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis) -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears -Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible (for context on Indulgence) -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set: A Brief History -Plato, Phaedo (on the immortality of the soul) -Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (on dialectical process) -Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival (on the role of the Kingly man) -H.G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future (on the infinite horizon of human progress) -The Koran, Surah 74:24-25 (on the rejection of the Magus) -Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (on the ancient tradition of wisdom)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Remanifestation #Xeper #Set #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #Magus #JamesLewis #Word #Thelema #Indulgence #Xem #AleisterCrowley #AntonLaVey #MichaelAquino #HPLovecraft #Plato #Aristotle #Hegel #KennethGrant #HGWells #Immortality #Soul #Consciousness #Becoming #ComingIntoBeing #Potentiality #Actuality #IndulgenceVsCompulsion #GoldenMean #Kheft #EternalQuest #Philosophy #Occult #Magic #Ritual #SelfExamination #SelfCreation #IndividualSovereignty #AeonOfSet #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #LeftHandPathPodcast #Setian #Initiation #GradeSystem #MagusV #FifthDegree #RubyTablet #XeperAndRemanifest #BlackFlame #PrinceOfDarkness

The Ruby Tablet is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day . Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame .The show is anchored in the ancient Egyptian concept of Xeper—a term meaning "I have come into being"—which is understood as the conscious, deliberate process of self-creation and becoming . Unlike paths that seek external validation or union with a higher power, The Ruby Tabletposits that the individual is the ultimate author of their own divinity, a principle central to the Left-Hand Path .This is not a podcast about finding yourself; it is a podcast about inventing yourself, moment by moment . Each episode strips away societal programming, challenging listeners to reject herd mentality and external validation, dissecting the philosophy of the Isolate Intelligence—the conscious will that separates humanity from the animal

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical heights of immortality theories into the crucible of the subjective universe, where the question of survival is no longer a matter of abstract speculation but of will, work, and the construction of a self that refuses to dissolve. We explore how James Lewis IV°—the Setian Magister, the chronicler of the Great House, the most unflinching examiner of the soul's endurance in the contemporary occult tradition—seized the philosophical inheritance of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Crowley and forged it into a doctrine of active, willful continuation, declaring that the engine of immortality is not the passive survival of an immortal soul nor the reconstitution of a physical body but the dynamic, ongoing process of Coming Into Being through the construction of a House within the subjective universe.From the paradox of not-being and the rejection of passive immortality doctrines to the construction of the Great House of the Being, from the rejection of the "We are one; we are none" trap and the embrace of mental separateness from the inertia of Nuit to the concept of Setamorphosis and the endless ways of existence, from the cultivation of the "one I" in Ouspensky's third category to the final, stark choice between Work and oblivion—we trace the monumental, deeply challenging, and astonishingly empowering legacy of Setian thought on immortality and ask: In a world that still fears death, still seeks comfort in passive beliefs, and still debates the possibility of conscious continuation, do we have the courage to build our own Houses, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of those who promise salvation without work?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: "Remanifestation" (V2 - A17.3 - 1) Author: James Lewis IV° Date: September 5, XXI Revised: December 21, XXIII Subject: Remanifestation, Life and Death Reading List: 2H, 2L, 2M, 3I, 6I, 6K, 9A, 9C, 12C, 16A, 17A, 17D, 18A, 19G📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-James Lewis IV°, "Remanifestation" (The Ruby Tablet) -Plato, Phaedo (trans. Benjamin Jowett) -Aristotle, De Anima (On the Soul) (trans. R.D. Hicks) -Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (trans. Norman Kemp Smith) -Anthony Flew, "Immortality" in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy -Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis) -Aleister Crowley, Liber CMXIII (The Book of the Memory of the Path) -Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible -Michael A. Aquino VI°, The Church of Satan -Michael A. Aquino VI°, The Book of Coming Forth by Night -P.D. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum -Francis Huxley, "The Drunkenness of Man" -A. Merritt, The Face in the Abyss -Her-Bak, Vol. II (The Egyptian text) -William Shakespeare, Othello (Act V, Scene II) -Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change -Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan -Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha.🏷️ HASHTAGS#Remanifestation #Immortality #SetianPhilosophy #Xeper #ComingIntoBeing #GreatHouseOfTheBeing #JamesLewisIV #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #DeathAndDying #Consciousness #Will #Thelema #Indulgence #Nuit #Set #Soul #ImmortalSoul #Reconstitution #ShadowMan #Ouspensky #Plato #Phaedo #Aristotle #DeAnima #Kant #Crowley #BookOfTheLaw #LaVey #SatanicBible #Aquino #BookOfComingForthByNight #Flew #HerBak #Merritt #Hesse #Hoffer #Hobbes #Shakespeare #Othello #SelfDeceit #MentalSeparateness #Setamorphosis #CosmicNothing #Magick #OccultPhilosophy #WisdomTraditions #IndividualSovereignty #EternalLife #ConsciousContinuation #BlackFlame #AncientWisdom

In this episode, we descend from the theoretical heights of Xeper's transformative potential into the brutal, intimate laboratory of one initiate's soul as he wrestles with the most demanding challenge the Temple of Set has ever presented: the actualization of Xem. We explore how Priest Robertt W. Neilly III—newly elevated to the Priesthood, intellectually driven yet yearning for the intelligence of the Heart, standing at the threshold of the Ordeal of Initiation—took up the Keys of Anubis and subjected himself to a systematic dismantling and reconstruction of his own Being. This is not philosophy from a safe distance. This is the sound of a Black Magician's psyche being forged in the crucible of self-confrontation.In a world that still seeks shortcuts, still fears the mirror of self-confrontation, and still debates the relationship between the individual Will and the demands of transformation, do we have the courage to confront our own impurities, or will we retreat into the comfortable security of the uninitiated?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Commentary and Analysis of Anubis' Keys Author: Robertt W. Neilly III° Classification: V4 - A17.26 - 3 Date: March 6th, XVI A.S. Revision: December, XXVIII Subject: Xem Reading List: Introduction · Key #1 · Key #2 · Key #3 · Key #4 · Comments on Key 5 · Footnotes · Endnotes📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set (especially the sections on Xem and the Xem Working)Michael A. Aquino, The Onyx TabletMichael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by NightRobertt W. Neilly III, Commentary and Analysis of Anubis' Keys (this essay)Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand PathStephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand PathAleister Crowley, Magick Without TearsKenneth Grant, Nightside of EdenHer-Bak, Egyptian Initiate (as referenced in the essay)R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple in Man (as referenced in the essay)E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead (as referenced in the essay)Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (for the biographical context of the ancient world)William Shakespeare, Hamlet (for the question "To be or not to be" which haunts the commentary)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Xem #Xeper #Anubis #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #Initiation #Ordeal #Neter #Harmachis #Sphinx #Set #HarWer #Maat #TwoLands #PhilosophersStone #Alchemy #Alxemist #HeartIntelligence #Intellect #HigherMan #LowerMan #Fear #Change #SelfTransformation #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #EsotericPodcast #OccultPodcast #LeftHandPathPodcast #Setian #EgyptianMagic #NeterWork #BlackFlame #MagusBarrett #MichaelAquino #PriestNeilly #SteleOfXem #XemWorking #AeonicWords #Remanifest #Runa #ConcurrentReality #BlueprintProphecy #PracticalWisdom #Phronesis #Eudaimonia #AncientEgypt #SetianPhilosophy #DarkPhilosophy #IndividualSovereignty #WillToPower #SelfOvercoming #Becoming

In this episode, we descend from the structured hierarchies of the Temple of Set into the molten core of individual Becoming, where initiation is no longer the acquisition of grades and titles but the relentless confrontation with the Self as it actually is. We explore how James A. Lewis IV°—Magister, commentator, and bearer of the Black Flame—seized the foundational Word of Xeper and pushed it toward its logical extreme, declaring that the engine of Xem is not the comfortable accumulation of knowledge but the dynamic interplay of evolution and mutation, initiation and ordeal, the Alone and the concert.From the rejection of passive understanding and the embrace of active Work to the concept of Maat as the essential partner of Xeper, from the classification of Initiatory Ordeals and the conquest of fear to the controversial doctrine of the Black Jackal as internal psychopomp, from the political animal of the Council of Nine and the ideal constitution of the Temple to the denial of any final state of Being and the assertion of eternal Becoming—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of Lewis's commentary and ask: In a world that still thinks in fixed categories, still seeks silver platters, and still debates the relationship between the individual and the community, do we have the courage to face our own reflection in Maat's scales, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of those who claim to know the Way without having walked it?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Analysis and Commentary of the Keys of XemAuthor: James A. Lewis IV° Date: IX-I-XVI A.S. to X-VIII-XVI A.S. HTML Revision: Jun 07, 1999 CE Subject: Xem Reading List: Pyramid-XIX through Pyramid-XXIII📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Ronald K. Barrett, The Keys of Xem (from The Ruby Tablet) -Michael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by Night -Michael A. Aquino, The Diabolicon -Michael A. Aquino, The Dark Side -James A. Lewis IV°, The Keys of Xem Commentary (this episode) -Constance Moffatt, The Executive Directorship of the Temple of Set The IAM Manuscript (as referenced in the Stélé) -The Stélé of Xem (as analyzed in Key #4) -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears Aristotle, -The Nicomachean Ethics (for comparison with the Golden Mean of Initiation) -Niven & Pournelle, Inferno (as referenced in the commentary) -C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (for the concept of the further in)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Xem #Xeper #Maat #TempleOfSet #Set #LeftHandPath #Setianism #Initiation #Evolution #Mutation #Ordeal #Fear #TheRubyTablet #JamesLewis #RonBarrett #MichaelAquino #KeysOfXem #StéléOfXem #IAMManuscript #BlackJackal #Anubis #OpenerOfTheWay #CouncilOfNine #HighPriest #Alone #Concert #Quest #HigherSenses #Symbolism #PhilosophyPodcast #Esoteric #Occult #Magick #BlackFlame #Setian #EgyptianMythology #EgyptianMagic #Xepera #Per-t #AlXemy #Leviathan #Diabolicon #BookOfComingForthByNight #Philosophy #WisdomTraditions #AncientWisdom #Satanism #OccultPodcast #InitiationPodcast #MagickPodcast #SpiritualJourney #SelfCreation #Becoming #HigherMan #Godhood

In this episode, we step back from the blazing ambition of the Quest and into the quiet chamber of re-evaluation, where a wounded Temple surveys the wreckage of its most passionate crusade and asks: What was Xem, really? What did we lose when the Magus who Uttered the Word resigned from the Order? And what remains—for those who survived, for those who matured, for those who found their own path through the ashes of a shattered parade?We explore how Robert Menschel IV°—an Adept who marched in the parade, who felt the trauma of year XVII, who watched the Temple nearly melt away in the chaos of the Set IV Conclave—returned to the scene of the catastrophe years later, not to resurrect what was lost, but to understand it, to extract its wisdom, and to move beyond it. We trace the arc of Xem: from its Utterance by Magus Ronald Barrett V° as the first new Word after Xeper itself, through the fevered quest of a Priesthood desperate for direction, to the collapse that followed Barrett's resignation, and finally to the sober, mature analysis that transformed Xem from a goal to a byproduct, from a destination to a stepping stone.Does the analysis of Xem contain perennial wisdom about the dangers of collective focus, the necessity of individual Quest, and the art of transforming trauma into Understanding? And in a Temple that has moved on to Remanifestation, what remains for those who seek to learn from Xem's rise and fall—not to achieve Xem, but to Xeper?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Xem – An Updated AnalysisAuthor: Robert Menschel IV° Date: October 31, XXII Revisions: September 21, XXVI; Update 5, XXIX HTML Revision: September 28, 1998 CE Subject: Xem Reading List: Preface: Some History 📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Magus Ronald K. Barrett, The Book of Opening the Way (The Five Keys) -Magus Ronald K. Barrett, The Xem Working Magus -James Lewis, Commentary on Keys 1-5 -Magus James Lewis, Remanifestation (The Ruby Tablet of Set) -Magister R. Amn DeCecco, Vollenden -Magister R. Amn DeCecco, A Hidden Dimension -Priest Corey S. Cole, Commentary on Key 1 -Priest Robertt W. Neilly, Commentary on Keys 1-4 -Priest Mitchel Wade, Khem, Sekhem, and Sekhmet -Priest Roger Whitaker, Commentary on Key #1 -Magistra Margaret Wendall, The Book of Knowing the Way -Priestess Alexandra Sarris, Xem Comments Ipsissimus -Michael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by Night -Ipsissimus Michael A. Aquino, The Diabolicon Ipsissimus -Michael A. Aquino, Black Magic Magister -Stephen Flowers, Private Letter to Robert Menschel (August 28, XXII) -Magister Lynn Norton, Keynotes, Kwestions and Komments -The Onyx Tablet of Set (various commentaries) -The Ruby Tablet of Set, Gems From the Trail, Vol. 1 -The Scroll of Set (various issues) -The Trail of the Serpent (various issues)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Xem #Xeper #Remanifestation #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #Set #BlackFlame #AeonOfSet #Magus #Magister #Priesthood #InitiatoryQuest #TheQuestion #PurityOfBeing #HeartAndMind #TheWork #Initiation #Fear #ConqueringFear #TheNeters #HarWer #Maat #Anubis #Shu #Leviathan #Sekhmet #Khem #TheBlackRealm #TheParade #MagusBarrett #MagusLewis #RobertMenschel #TheGreatWork #TheDiabolicon #BookOfComingForthByNight #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultTradition #Initiation #HigherMan #Godhood #Individuality #Will #Purpose #Quest #SpiritualGrowth #Maturity #Understanding #Being #Podcast #Occult #Esoteric #Philosophy #SelfDevelopment #AncientWisdom

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical abstractions of the Academy into the cold, stark reality of Lovecraft Grove—where initiation is no longer the contemplation of transcendent ideals but the brutal, unflinching confrontation with the Self in the darkness of a winter night. We explore how Alexandra Sarris III°—the initiate, the seeker, the one who demands judgment—seized the teachings of the Temple of Set and submitted herself to the ultimate test of the Ordeal, declaring that the engine of spiritual transformation is not the accumulation of knowledge but the dynamic, terrifying interplay of fear and courage, death and rebirth, judgment and self-knowledge.From the rejection of comfortable spiritual abstraction and the embrace of lived, embodied experience to the revelation that Xem is not a place but a mode of being, from the terrifying pronouncement of "Dead" and the symbolic weighing of the heart to the triumphant yet quiet declaration that "Truth has no compromise," from the ordered chaos of the Neters and the hidden light of Set beneath the bushel to the eventual realization that Maat is not an external judge but a guest welcomed into the heart—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly intimate legacy of the Ordeal and ask: In a world that still seeks shortcuts, still craves certainty, and still avoids the cold darkness of its own soul, do we have the courage to demand judgment of ourselves, or will we retreat into the comfortable illusion that we have already arrived?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: The Ordeal (V2 - A17.25 - 1)Author: Alexandra Sarris III°Date: March 24-25, XIVSubject: Xem — Ordeal📚 RECOMMENDED READING:The Book of Opening the Way, Key 2 (Ruby Tablet item V2-A17.2-2)Her-Bak: Egyptian Initiate (Maat and the weighing of the heart)The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) — The Weighing of the HeartPeter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut (Chaos magick and the dissolution of the self)Phil Hine, Condensed Chaos (Practical initiation and the confrontation with fear)Julius Evola, The Hermetic Tradition (Initiation and symbolic death)John G. Neihardt, Black Elk Speaks (Vision quest and the ordeal of the seeker)Mircea Eliade, Rites and Symbols of Initiation (The universal structure of initiatory ordeals)Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears (Self-mastery and the path of the initiate)Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set: History, Philosophy, and Practice (Xem and the initiatory framework)🏷️ HASHTAGS#TheOrdeal #Xem #Initiation #Maat #Anubis #Set #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #RubyTablet #TheRubyTabletPodcast #PhilosophyPodcast #SpiritualJourney #WeighingOfTheHeart #TruthHasNoCompromise #OrderedChaos #LovecraftGrove #Neters #EgyptianMythology #BlackFlame #Xeper #SelfKnowledge #InitiationRites #Ordeal #Fear #Courage #DeathAndRebirth #SymbolicDeath #Consciousness #HighestMan #Hermeticism #Occult #Esoteric #AncientWisdom #ModernMystery #Setianism #HiddenLight #Lucifer #LightBringer #UnderTheBushel #Awakening #SelfTransformation #SpiritualAlchemy #Podcast #OccultPodcast #Philosophy #EgyptianInitiation

In this episode, we descend from the heights of Magical Words and their cosmic pronouncements into the treacherous territory of linguistic traps and metaphysical masquerades. We explore how Margaret Wendall IV°—the Priestess of Per-Bastet, the meticulous scholar of hieroglyphs, the initiate who dared to question the Word itself—seized a fragmentary utterance and dragged it into the light, declaring that the path to Setamorphosis is not found in the blind recitation of sacred formulae but in the careful discernment of masks, the rejection of false gods, and the arduous labor of self-definition.From the rejection of Xem as a self-sufficient utterance and the embrace of Xem-Set as the microcosmic Majesty of Set to the concept of the Black Flame as the Pentagram in the heart, from the classification of the Neters of Emptiness and the rejection of Enochian magic to the controversial doctrine of the interdependence of Set and HarWer, from the political animal of the Order and the ideal constitution of the sub-Orders to the denial of collective identity without the Magick of the All—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of Wendall's work and ask: In a world that still mistakes masks for faces, still confuses the void for the Form, and still debates the relationship between the individual Elect and the collective Order, do we have the courage to know our own Names, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of the Word as it was given?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: The Book of Knowing the Way Author: Margaret Wendall IV° (Anxembastet) Date: November, XIV(1) Classification: V4 - A17.22 - 5 Subject: Xem📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Michael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by Night; Analysis and Commentary -Michael A. Aquino, The Stélé of Xeper -Ronald K. Barrett, The Book of Opening the Way -Ronald K. Barrett, Letter to the Council of Nine (Dec. 4, 1978) -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead -E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Language -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians (two volumes) -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Mummy -Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice -Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth V.L. Davis, Pathways to the Gods: Ancient Egypt -J.G. Frazer, The Golden Bough -Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible -J. Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy -E. Rossiter, The Book of the Dead -Alan Watts, Beyond Theology Diogenes -Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers🏷️ HASHTAGS#MargaretWendall #Anxembastet #BookOfKnowingTheWay #Xem #XemSet #Xeper #Set #HarWer #Anubis #Magus #Ipsissimus #TempleOfSet #OrderOfSet #LeftHandPath #BlackFlame #Pentagram #FormAndEmptiness #Neter #Khem #Osiris #Horus #Enochian #EnochianKeys #MagicalWord #StéléOfXem #StéléOfXeper #Setamorphosis #PerfectWisdom #Ma'at #Utchat #EgyptianHieroglyphs #AncientEgypt #Khem #Leviathan #RedMagus #RubyTablet #TheRubyTabletPodcast #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultTradition #EsotericWisdom #Initiation #SelfDefinition #Sovereignty #IsolateIntelligence #Darkness #BlackMagick #Setian #SetianPhilosophy #Xepera #Xeperu #MichaelAquino #RonaldBarrett #AntonLaVey #AleisterCrowley #Budge #Egyptology #BookOfTheDead #ComingForthByNight #OpeningTheWay #Thelema #Satanism #ChurchOfSatan #Harpocrates #Isis #Ra #AmenRa #Diabolicon #Thelemic #Magick

In this episode, we step through the gates of perception into the painted Arizona desert, where the boundaries between the known and the unknown dissolve, where the gods of ancient Egypt are reborn not in the sands of the Nile but in the American Southwest, and where the most advanced magicians of the Temple of Set encounter a being that defies all their categories—a green-robed androgynous child, horned and innocent, who is both the Deceiver and the god who is unknown. We explore the Ritual of Xem—a working that brought into "positive Being" a new Word, a new god-form, and a new current in the history of the Left-Hand Path.From the rejection of the Egyptian desert in favor of the Arizona landscape to the androgynous form of the youthful deity, from the constructive deception of the rainbow-robed trickster to Barrett's associations with Druidic Ovates and the Venusian principle, from the ninefold company of gods to the crisis of the unknown itself—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of this ritual working and ask: In a world that still seeks certainty, still demands that the gods fit our categories, and still struggles to distinguish between deception and revelation, do we have the courage to penetrate the disguise, or will we be fooled by the shimmering rainbow robes?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: RitualClassification: V4 - A17.22 - 3 Authors: Linda Reynolds III°, Alexandra Sarris III° Date: July 29, XIII HTML Revision: September 27, 1998 CE Subject: Xem Reading List: — 📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-The Book of the Coming Forth by Night (Temple of Set, internal publication) -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set, Volume I -Ronald K. Barrett, "The Word Xem" (Temple of Set internal communications) -John Dee, Enochian material (various sources) -Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice -Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Rituals -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead (for context on the Neters and the paut Neter) -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple of Man (for Egyptian symbolism) -Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path -Stephen Flowers (Edred Thorsson), The Galdrabók: An Icelandic Grimoire (for broader magical context) -Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival (for Enochian and Thelemic context) -P.D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous (for Gurdjieffian concepts referenced in other Xem materials) -H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (for the concept of the unknown god as a trope in modern esotericism) -Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (for the child-god archetype) -Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane (for understanding visionary experience)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Xem #Ritual #TempleOfSet #Set #Xeper #LeftHandPath #Deceiver #ConstructiveDeception #UnknownGod #Nine #PautNeter #Ennead #EgyptianMythology #Neters #RonaldBarrett #MichaelAquino #Enochian #ArizonaDesert #GreenRobes #Androgyny #Druids #Ovates #Venus #VenusianPrinciple #Horns #Crescent #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #MagicalWorking #GodCreation #VisionaryExperience #PriestessReynolds #PriestessSarris #CouncilOfNine #ThelemicCurrent #SatanicRituals #SetianCurrent #Magick #CeremonialMagic #SpiritualEvolution #SelfCreation #Becoming #GodlikeState #Esoteric #Occult #AncientWisdom #ModernMagic #AmericanSouthwest #DesertVision #DivineAndrogyny #RainbowRobes #MagicalDisguise #WorthyAspirant #Initiation #MysteryTradition #Daemons #CyclicalTime #RebirthOfGods

In this episode, we turn from our examination of historical Masters to the living documents of Setian practice and revelation. We descend into the mysteries of The Xem Working—a record of inspired magical experience produced by Ronald Keith Barrett during his tenure as High Priest of the Temple of Set—and we explore its profound teachings on the nature of Higher Man, the judgment of the Elect, and the true meaning of Xeper. We ask: What does it mean to confront the darkness within and without? And what secrets does this Working hold for the Initiate who dares to sit in the moonlight and open the gates?We begin in the crucible of personal magical practice: a mountain in California called Khemset, the site where Barrett was preparing to build his future home. It is the late 1970s or early 1980s, a period of transition and internal debate following the departure of Michael Aquino from the office of High Priest. Barrett's approach, described by some Temple members as "more mystical than magical," represented a significant shift in emphasis—one that would ultimately prove controversial and lead to his resignation in 1982. We trace the influences upon Barrett's Work—from the revealed texts of Aquino's Book of Coming Forth by Night to the Egyptian mythology that underpins Setian theology, from the Platonic idealism of the Cave Allegory to the practical demands of Initiatory self-transformation—and we ask: Was Barrett's vision of Xem a genuine revelation from Set, or the product of a High Priest who had strayed too far from the magical foundations of the Order?In a tradition that demands self-initiation and personal responsibility, do we have the courage to conquer our fears and open the gates for ourselves, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of received teachings and priestly intermediaries?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:The Xem Working Author: Ronald K. Barrett III° Classification: V2 - A17.22 - 1 Date: June 22, XII (on Khemset) HTML Revision: September 25, 1998 CE Subject: Xem, Higher Man, Initiation📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Ronald K. Barrett III°, The Xem Working -Michael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by Night -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set (various essays) -Don Webb, Mysteries of the Temple of Set -Stephen Flowers, Lords of the Left Hand Path -The Diabolicon (Temple of Set) -Plato, The Republic (The Allegory of the Cave) -Egyptian Book of the Dead (The Hall of Judgment)💬 JOIN THE DISCUSSION:What do you think? Is Barrett's vision of Xem a genuine revelation from Set, or the product of a High Priest who had strayed too far from the magical foundations of the Order? Can the mystical and the magical truly be reconciled within Setian practice, or does one inevitably diminish the other? And what does it mean to "open the gates" and welcome the unknown in a tradition that demands self-initiation and personal responsibility?Drop your thoughts in the comments below. Which side are you on—the personal revelation of the Working, or the pragmatic assertion of individual Will? The comfort of received wisdom, or the terrifying freedom of sitting alone in the moonlight and opening the gates for yourself?🏷️ HASHTAGS#TheXemWorking #TempleOfSet #Setianism #LeftHandPath #Initiation #Xeper #HigherMan #RonaldKeithBarrett #MichaelAquino #Set #PrinceOfDarkness #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #Occult #Esoteric #Mysticism #Magic #Setian #Plato #CaveAllegory #PersonalExperience #MagicalPractice #Osiris #Anubis #HallOfJudgment #ConquestOfFear #Xem #Khemset

In this episode, we descend from the structured architecture of the Temple of Set into the abyssal depths of Xem—the Holy of Holies, the Naos, the Inner Sanctum where the individual Magician confronts the terrifying and liberating truth of his own Becoming. We explore how Ronald K. Barrett V°—the High Priest who bore the Uas scepter as Opener of the Way—seized the initiatory inheritance of the Temple and charted a path beyond Xeper itself, declaring that the engine of Setian evolution is not merely the Will to change, but the direction of that Will toward the Unknown, the faceless, the Name that must be Created.From the rejection of human standards and the embrace of Ma'at as the only True measure, to the ordeal of initiation and the conquest of fear; from the judgment of the heart against the feather of Truth, to the Black Jackal's alchemical transformation of carrion into life; from the structure of the Temple of Set as a macrocosm of the individual Being, to the meaning of HarWer and the fusion of the Two Lands; from the faceless god whose Name is Unknown, to the Stele of Xem as the Rosetta Stone of this new language of Being—we trace the monumental, deeply demanding, and astonishingly ambitious legacy of this initiatory text and ask: In a world that still clings to comfort, still fears the Unknown, and still retreats from the demands of its own Becoming, do we have the courage to stand before Ma'at and weigh our own hearts, or will we retreat into the illusion of preservation that the Will to Xeper must forever oppose?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays and scriptures of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: The Book of Opening the Way: Keys #1-5 Author: Ronald K. Barrett V° Classification: V2 - A17.2 - 1 through 5 Date: (Not recorded) 📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Ronald K. Barrett V°, The Book of Opening the Way (Keys #1-5) -Michael A. Aquino VI°, The Book of Coming Forth by Night -Michael A. Aquino VI°, The Diabolicon -Michael A. Aquino VI°, The Temple of Set (Various Essays) -I.S. de Lubicz, Her-Bak: Chick Pea (RL #2L) -Robert Lawlor, Symbol and the Symbolic: R.A.S. de Lubicz (RL #2V) -Michael A. Aquino VI°, Geneset -Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Rituals (The Ceremony of the Nine Angles) -Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Various Translations) -Isaac Asimov, Foundation Trilogy (For the concept of the Second Foundation) -Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary of the English Language (Definition of Annihilation) -Frank Eliscu, Sculpture: Techniques and Design Plato, -Cratylus (On the Rightness of Names) -Plotinus, Enneads (On Hieroglyphs and Symbolism) -Plutarch, Moralia (On the Pythagorean Symbols)(🏷️ HASHTAGS#Xem #Xeper #Set #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #Setianism #Initiation #Ma'at #Anubis #BlackJackal #HarWer #TheTwoLands #SteleOfXem #RonaldKBarrett #MichaelAquino #TheBookOfOpeningTheWay #BookOfComingForthByNight #TheDiabolicon #BlackFlame #Setamorphosis #Alxemy #PhilosophersStone #Naos #HolyOfHolies #OrderOfSet #BlackMagic #OccultPhilosophy #Esotericism #AncientEgypt #Khem #EgyptianMythology #Neters #Alchemy #Will #Fear #TheUnknown #FacelessGod #PhilosophyPodcast #TheRubyTablet #WisdomTraditions #SetianTradition #AeonOfSet #XeperIRXem #Pylons #HallOfJudgment #OpenerOfTheWay #Upuat #Anpu #UasScepter #Shen #Cartouche #Scarabaeus #IAmManuscript #TheOnyxTablet #TheRubyTablet #RobertLawlor #SchwallerDeLubicz #Crowley #LaVey #Diabolicon #Asimov #FoundationTrilogy)

In this episode, we descend from the abstract heights of philosophical systems into the heat and smoke of a single ritual act—where philosophy is no longer the cool contemplation of eternal truths but the raw, visceral experience of transformation in real time. We explore how Richard Osborn I°—a First Degree Initiate, a Priest performing his role within a Pylon Working, a magician engaged in the consecration of fire—seized the philosophical inheritance of existentialism and Aristotelian dynamics and fused it with the living current of Setian practice, declaring that the engine of Becoming is not the abstract perfection of a formula but the dynamic interplay of Mortality, Sensuality, and Spirituality made manifest through the ecstasy of the Work.In a world that still craves meaning, still yearns for transcendence, and still struggles with the weight of its own freedom, do we have the courage to consecrate our own fires, or will we settle for the comfortable safety of secondhand truths?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:-Utterance Classification: V2 - A17.17 - 1 Author: Richard Osborn I° Date: March 12, XXVII Publication: Vox Draconis, Summer XXVII (Draconis Pylon)-'HTML Revision: September 22, 1998 CE Subject: Out of Body Projection Reading List: [Sentinel's Note: The following article was written in March '92 by then-Setian Osborn. It is a reflection upon the Pylon Working of the previous August, which had been the Initiatory group Working for the Pylon. His role in the Working was to consecrate the fire to become the Black Flame.]📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (trans. Alastair Hannay) -Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (trans. C. Stephen Evans & Sylvia Walsh) -Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (trans. Hazel E. Barnes) -Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Hu...manism (trans. Carol Macomber) -Aristotle, De Anima (On the Soul) (trans. R.D. Hicks) -Aristotle, Metaphysics (trans. W.D. Ross) -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set, Volume I (especially the sections on Xeper) -Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path -Don Webb, Overthrowing the Old Gods -Stephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand Path -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sacred Science -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears (especially the chapters on will and becoming) -Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null & Psychonaut -Julius Evola, Ride the Tiger -Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (for context on the Greek sources invoked)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Setianism #Xeper #BlackFlame #LeftHandPath #TempleOfSet #OutOfBodyProjection #Ecstasy #Becoming #Kierkegaard #Sartre #Existentialism #Aristotle #Mortality #Transcendence #Sensual #Spirituality #AeonicFormula #Xepera #Xeper #Xeperu #Ritual #Magic #PylonWorking #VoxDraconis #DraconisPylon #Initiation #SelfCreation #Gnosis #Ecstasy #WillToPower #IndividualSovereignty #Philosophy #OccultPodcast #TheRubyTablet #WisdomTraditions #EsotericPhilosophy #SelfOvercoming #MagicalPractice #Consciousness #MeaningCreation #ExistentialFreedom #BlackFlameMeditation #EgyptianMagic #Set #Setian #FirstDegree #InitiationPath

In this episode, we descend from the conventional veneration of the Mahatma into the shadowy corridors of initiatic history, where the Apostle of Non-Violence is revealed not as a saint of the Right Hand Path but as a Master of the Temple—a Magister Templi working a profound and devastating form of Black Magic. We explore how Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—the Hindu lawyer from Porbandar, the reluctant revolutionary, the most influential political figure of the 20th century—seized the currents of the emerging Aeon of HarWer and channeled them through the ancient language of Hinduism, declaring that the engine of human liberation is not passive submission to divine will but the relentless assertion of Truth as the ultimate principle of being.From the fateful Day of Judgment in a South African train station and the birth of active non-violence to the calm waters of Binah and the working without lust for results, from the synthesis of Love and Will in the crucible of Satyagraha to the controversial doctrine of Truth as God, from the renegade's rejection of established custom to the Master's final utterance of "He Rama" as the bullets found their mark—we trace the monumental, deeply heretical, and astonishingly influential legacy of Gandhian thought and ask: In a world that still worships the masks of saints while ignoring the engines of Masters, do we have the courage to see the darkness behind the light, or will we retreat into the comfortable mythology of the peaceful prophet?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Gandhi Author: James Lewis V° Date: October 8, XXIII HTML Revision: November 27, XXXII Subject: Gandhi Reading List: 6K, 9C, 9D📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Louis Fischer, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas -Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth -Mohandas K. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears -Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law The Diabolicon (Temple of Set)- Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set (various essays on Initiation and the Left Hand Path) -Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception -Don Stephenson, The Essential Set -Stephen Flowers, Lords of the Left Hand Path -Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Erik H. Erikson, Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence Joseph Lelyveld, Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India Ramachandra Guha, Gandhi Before India and Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World🏷️ HASHTAGS#Gandhi #Mahatma #NonViolence #Satyagraha #Ahimsa #TruthIsGod #BlackMagic #LeftHandPath #MasterOfTheTemple #MagisterTempli #TempleOfSet #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #IndianPhilosophy #Hinduism #Jainism #Thelema #AleisterCrowley #HarWer #AeonOfOsiris #AeonOfHarWer #Binah #LawOfSorrow #Xeper #Set #India #BritishEmpire #Colonialism #CivilDisobedience #PassiveResistance #TruthForce #Philosophy #Spirituality #Occult #Initiation #TheEssentialGandhi #Diabolicon #Satanism #Setianism #HistoryPodcast)

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical heights of Platonic contemplation into the burning crucible of revelation itself—where philosophy gives way to prophecy, where the cool analysis of the natural world yields to the searing intensity of divine speech, and where the question is no longer "What is real?" but "Who is speaking?" We explore how the Word of Set—channeled through Michael A. Aquino in the crucible of the Temple's founding—seized the magical inheritance of the Western esoteric tradition and transformed it into something unprecedented: a direct revelation from an autonomous intelligence that claims to have fashioned human consciousness itself.From the declaration of the Highest of Life who is "within and beyond" humanity to the hierarchical orderings of being, from the Powers of Darkness and the Black Flame to the Temple that exists "in the mind of Set," from the priests and armies of death and their "intoxicant of destruction" to the "Gate of Darkness" through which alone the stone of wisdom can be found, from the falling Temple and vanishing pentagram to the nineteen parts of the Word and the vision of the Aethyrs—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of the Word of Set and ask: In a world that still worships death, still seeks easy answers, and still drowns in the forgetfulness of its own creation, do we have the courage to arise in our glory and behold the genius of our creation, or will we retreat into the comfortable worship of the god of death?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay #A17.122: The Word of SetAuthor: Michael A. Aquino VI° Date: April 13, XVI Revision: September 18, 1998 CE Subject: The Word of Set Reading List: The Word of Set📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Aquino, Michael A., The Word of Set (Temple of Set, 1975–1998)-Aquino, Michael A., The Book of Coming Forth by Night (Temple of Set, 1975) -Webb, Don, Xeper: The Eternal Word of Set (Temple of Set, 1996) -Webb, Don, The Seven Faces of Darkness: Practical Typhonian Magic (Runa-Raven Press, 1996) -Sessions, Robert, The Black Flame (Temple of Set, 1983) -Harris, Stephen E., The Fire and the Force (Temple of Set, 1983) -The Temple of Set, The Crystal Tablet of Set (Temple of Set, 1982) -Crowley, Aleister, The Equinox, Volume I (various editions) -Dee, John, The Enochian Calls (various editions) -Budge, E.A. Wallis, The Gods of the Egyptians (Dover Publications, 1904) -Plutarch, Isis and Osiris (various translations) -Nietzsche, Friedrich, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (trans. Walter Kaufmann) -Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Will to Power (trans. Walter Kaufmann) -LaVey, Anton Szandor, The Satanic Bible (Avon Books, 1969)🏷️ HASHTAGS#WordOfSet #Set #Setian #TempleOfSet #Xeper #BlackFlame #PowersOfDarkness #LeftHandPath #Setianism #Occult #Magic #Thelema #Crowley #Enochian #EnochianCalls #Aethyrs #EgyptianMythology #EgyptianGods #Set #Typhon #MichaelAquino #DonWebb #Gnostics #DivineSpark #WillToPower #Nietzsche #Philosophy #Darkness #Revelation #Prophecy #Apocalyptic #Doom #Guardians #Elect #TheRubyTablet #OccultPodcast #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #SpiritualAwakening #SelfCreation #Consciousness #AncientWisdom #Perfection #Truth #Immortality #SetianPhilosophy #BlackMagic #CeremonialMagic #Thelema #HellenisticEra #Plato #Aristotle #Forms #MatterAndForm #Potentiality #Actuality #FourCauses #Lyceum #Academy #AlexanderTheGreat #HiddenCurrents

In this episode, we descend from the towering pronouncements of Magi and the grand sweep of Aeonic change into the intimate, demanding crucible of individual transformation—where philosophy is no longer the contemplation of Words uttered by others but the agonizing, exhilarating work of becoming oneself. We explore how the Word Xeper—uttered in the crucible of the Year XI, born from the crisis of the Church of Satan and the emergence of the Temple of Set—declares that the engine of reality is not the authority of tradition or the comfort of stasis, but the deliberate, conscious, individual force of mind that transforms the Will from a human to a divine state of being.We begin in the crucible of the Year X: an age of spiritual upheaval, of ruptures and revelations, of the turbulent transition from the Age of Satan to the Aeon of Set. The Church of Satan had unleashed the power of Indulgence, but had not yet reckoned with the implications of that unleashing. We trace the lineage of the Words—from Agape and Restriction to Thelema and Indulgence, from Xeper and Xem to Remanifestation—and we ask: Is Xeper the great liberator that opens the door to a freedom unequalled in sophistication by previous Aeonic points of change, or the architect of a new and troubling burden that places the full weight of transformation squarely on the shoulders of the individual, with no savior to catch them if they fall?In a world that still seeks easy answers, still craves gurus and saviors, and still recoils from the terrifying freedom of total self-determination, do we have the courage to become what we truly are, or will we retreat into the comfortable delusion of self-deception?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: XeperClassification: V2 - A17.1 - 1Author: James Lewis V°Date: January 17, XXIIHTML Revision: Sept. 6, 1998 CESubject: XeperReading List: 6N, 9C, 9K📚 RECOMMENDED READING:James Lewis, Xeper (The Ruby Tablet Essay)Michael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by NightMichael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set, Volume IAleister Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law)Aleister Crowley, Magick Without TearsAnton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic BibleAnton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic RitualsDon Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand PathDon Webb, The Seven Faces of DarknessStephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand PathStephen E. Flowers, Hermetic MagicKenneth Grant, The Nightside of EdenPeter J. Carroll, Liber Null & PsychonautPhil Hine, Condensed Chaos🏷️ HASHTAGS#Xeper #Becoming #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #Set #EgyptianMysteries #BlackFlame #IsolateIntelligence #Initiation #Magick #Will #Transformation #Evolution #AeonOfSet #ChurchOfSatan #AntonLaVey #MichaelAquino #JamesLewis #DonWebb #BookOfComingForthByNight #LiberAL #BookOfTheLaw #AleisterCrowley #Thelema #Indulgence #Remanifestation #Xem #Agape #Restriction #TheWord #Initiate #Adept #Magus #InternalExaminer #HigherSelf #ForbiddenPlanet #CosmicResistance #Entropy #Stasis #SelfDeception #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #EsotericTraditions #WisdomTraditions #SetianPhilosophy #MagicalPractice #PersonalTransformation #DivineBecoming #WillToPower

In this episode, we descend from the sun-drenched temples of Thebes into the smoke-filled room of a Cairo hotel room, where a poet, mountaineer, and self-proclaimed Beast receives a revelation that will shatter the foundations of Western occultism. We explore how Aleister Crowley—the prodigal son of a Plymouth Brethren family, the Golden Dawn apostate, the most infamous magician of the modern age—transcribed a text that would declare the death of the old Aeons and the birth of a new Law, only to misunderstand its deepest secrets and spend his life in pursuit of a revelation he could never fully grasp.: In a world that still struggles with the tension between individual freedom and cosmic unity, between the will to power and the call to dissolution, do we have the courage to think our own thoughts, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of the Beast who thought he knew, but never truly understood?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay #18: Liber Al Vel Legis: The Book of the Law ~Analysis and Commentary~Author: Michael A. Aquino VI° Date: (Unknown) HTML Revision: December 18, 1997 CE Subject: Book of the Law; Crowley Reading List: #9📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis) -Aleister Crowley, The Equinox of the Gods Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley -Aleister Crowley, Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on the Book of the Law (Ed. Symonds & Grant) -Aleister Crowley, The Law is for All (Ed. Regardie) -Aleister Crowley, The Vision and the Voice (Liber 418) -Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears -Michael A. Aquino, The Book of Coming Forth by Night -Michael A. Aquino, The Diabolicon -Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible -John Symonds, The Great Beast: The Life and Magick of Aleister Crowley Lawrence Sutin, Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley -Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, From Fetish to God in Ancient Egypt -Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, The Book of Opening the Mouth -Plato, The Dialogues (especially the Phaedo and the Republic) -Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil🏷️ HASHTAGS#Crowley #BookOfTheLaw #LiberAL #Thelema #DoWhatThouWilt #Nuit #Hadit #RaHoorKhuit #Aiwass #SteleOfRevealing #AnkhfnKhonsu #AeonOfHorus #AeonOfSet #TempleOfSet #ChurchOfSatan #Set #Xeper #BlackFlame #Magick #Occult #Hermeticism #GoldenDawn #OTO #AA #Abrahadabra #Thelemite #OccultHistory #Esoteric #Egyptology #Behdety #RaHarakte #HarWer #Harpokrates #Diabolicon #BookOfComingForthByNight #MagisterTempli #Ipsissimus #ScarletWoman #Boleskine #CairoWorking #1904 #AncientWisdom #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #MagicalTransmission #AleisterCrowley #Parsons #Liber418 #Babalon #Thelemic #Setian #Nietzsche #WillToPower #GoldenMean #Aristotle #Plato #Pythagoras #Mysticism #MagickWithoutTears #EquinoxOfTheGods #TheBeast666

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical abstractions of the Academy into the solitary crucible of the individual soul, where magic is no longer the invocation of external powers but the excavation of one's own deepest nature. We explore how the True Will—that elusive, unifying purpose at the core of each aspirant's being—can be discovered, forged, and manifested through a ritual technology that synthesizes the Left-Hand Path, Thelemic philosophy, Lovecraftian cosmic horror, and the practical discipline of self-examination. We ask: Is the True Will something we discover, or something we create? And what happens when we stop looking outward for meaning and turn inward to become our own authority?From the Litany of the Nine Angles and the invocation of Set and the Great Old Ones to the dark inversion of the Grail myth and the summoning of the elements as psychological qualities; from the consecration of the black candle according to one's ingenium to the closing affirmation that "And so it is done"—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly practical legacy of this ritual technology and ask: In a world that still fragments our attention, disperses our power, and offers us ready-made identities, do we have the courage to seek our own True Will, or will we retreat into the comfortable servitude of external authority?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: True Will Working Classification: V2 - A15.2 - 1 Author: John J. Felczak III° Date: September 28, XXVI HTML Revision: Oct 07, 1997 CE Subject: Thelema📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis) -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears (esp. Chapters on True Will and Liber Samekh) -Aleister Crowley, Liber Samekh (Theurgia Goetia Summa sub figura DCCC) -Temple of Set, The Book of Opening the Way (The Book of Coming Forth by Night) -Temple of Set, The Word of Set (18th Part) -Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (esp. Prologue and "On the Three Metamorphoses") -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (esp. Aphorisms on Will to Power) -Carl Jung, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious (on individuation and integration) -Carl Jung, Aion (on the Self as the organizing principle of the psyche) -Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising (on sub-personalities and consciousness) -Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn (on elemental magic and ritual structure) The Book of Abramelin the Mage (on magical retreats and the Knowledge and Conversation) -Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (for Lovecraftian cosmology) -Aleister Crowley, Liber Aleph vel CXI (on the nature of Will) -Temple of Set, The Diabolicon (on Setian philosophy) -Michael A. Aquino, The Church of Satan (for context on the Left-Hand Path) 🏷️ HASHTAGS#TrueWill #Thelema #LeftHandPath #Setianism #TempleOfSet #Set #Xeper #Xem #Runa #Indulgence #Crowley #AleisterCrowley #DoWhatThouWilt #HolyGuardianAngel #NeterXem #BookOfTheLaw #LiberAL #LiberSamekh #Nietzsche #Superman #Ubermensch #WillToPower #Siegfried #Needful #PsychologicalIntegration #Individuation #Jung #Lovecraft #GreatOldOnes #Azathoth #YogSothoth #Nyarlathotep #ShubNiggurath #DarkGraal #GrailMyth #ElementalMagic #GoldenDawn #CeremonialMagic #BlackFlame #MagicalJournal #DreamInterpretation #Divination #Xeper #Remanifestation #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #MagicPodcast #WisdomTraditions #OccultPhilosophy #SetianPhilosophy #SelfCreation #Becoming #Will #Magick #Esoterica

In this episode, we step through the veil of time and into the sun-scorched yet life-giving land of Khem, where the great river Nile flows not merely as water but as the very pulse of existence. We journey alongside Shehbui—artisan, painter of temples and tombs, a man who calls himself the South Wind—as he guides us through the daily rhythms, cosmic structures, and eternal aspirations of the civilization that has haunted the Western imagination for millennia. We explore how Egypt, the gift of the river, built its empire not on abstract principles but on the precarious marriage of flood and drought, order and chaos, life and the relentless encroachment of the desert.From the rejection of the desert as the home of the dead and the embrace of the Nile as the source of all life to the concept of the divine Pharaoh who controlled the very temperament of the river, from the joyful exuberance of the afterlife in the Field of Reeds to the elaborate preparations for one's own death, from the social mobility that rewarded the "work of a man's hands" to the crushing bureaucracy of the Vizier who stood outside the Pharaoh's door each morning—we trace the monumental, deeply human, and astonishingly influential legacy of Egyptian civilization and ask: In a world that still longs for permanence, still builds monuments to its own greatness, and still struggles to balance the demands of order with the chaos of existence, do we have the courage to live fully in the present, or will we retreat into the comfortable certainty of eternal monuments and rituals that promise to defeat the very thing we most fear?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Egypt - Life and Times (or: Egyptomania - Better Living Through Khemistry) Classification: V4 - 930.01 - 1 Author: Linda Reynolds III° Date: March XIII Publication: Cry of the Jackal, I.1, Anubis Pylon Subject: Egypt📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation -John A. Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt -Erik Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt -Jan Assmann, The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs -Barry J. Kemp, Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization -Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt Miroslav Verner, The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments -E.A. Wallis Budge, The Egyptian Book of the Dead (The Papyrus of Ani) Erik Hornung, The Secret Lore of Egypt: Its Impact on the West -Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (for Egyptomania and the esoteric tradition) -Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth (for the Egyptian influence on Western occultism) -Plutarch, Isis and Osiris (for the Greek interpretation of Egyptian religion)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Egypt #AncientEgypt #Khem #Nile #Egyptomania #Shehbui #Pharaoh #Vizier #Afterlife #FieldOfReeds #BookOfTheDead #Ma'at #Osiris #Isis #Anubis #Pyramids #Temples #Tombs #Art #Artisan #Inundation #Emergence #Drought #ThreeSeasons #DivineKing #Meritocracy #SocialMobility #Burial #Eternity #Immortality #Occult #Hermeticism #Esoteric #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #AncientWisdom #CryOfTheJackal #AnubisPylon #Khemistry #Set #Xeper #EgyptianMythology #AncientCivilizations #SpiritualJourney

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical abstractions of the Academy into the shadow-haunted streets of Providence, where horror is no longer the crude evocation of monsters but the slow, dawning realization that the cosmos is utterly indifferent to human meaning. We explore how H.P. Lovecraft—the reclusive New Englander, the self-styled gentleman of the 18th century, the most influential horror writer of the modern age—seized the raw materials of myth, folklore, and science and forged them into a new mythology of cosmic dread, declaring that the engine of reality is not the comforting order of divine providence but the cold, mechanistic interplay of blind forces that reduce human consciousness to foam on a wave.In a world that still fears the unknown, still recoils from the abyss, and still struggles to find meaning in a universe that offers none, do we have the courage to look into the darkness and make it our own, or will we retreat into the comfortable fantasies that Lovecraft so mercilessly exposed?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: The Magical Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft Classification: V2 - 92I.L - 1 Author: Pat Hardy III° Date: October, XXV HTML Revision: September 2, XXXIII Subject: H. P. Lovecraft; Magic and Fiction Reading List: 7A, 7B, 7F, 6L📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Lovecraft, H.P. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories -Lovecraft, H.P. At the Mountains of Madness -Lovecraft, H.P. The Shadow Over Innsmouth-Lovecraft, H.P. The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories -Lovecraft, H.P. Selected Letters (Vols. I-V) -L. Sprague de Camp, Lovecraft: A Biography -S.T. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Life -S.T. Joshi (ed.), The H.P. Lovecraft Centennial Conference Proceedings -Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival -Donald R. Burleson, Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe -Robert M. Price, The Lovecraft-Library -Barry Leon Bender, "Aleister Crowley and H.P. Lovecraft" (Lovecraft Studies, Vol. 4, no. 1) -Steven J. Mariconda, "Lovecraft's Concept of 'Background'" (Lovecraft Studies, Vol. 5, no. 1) -Matthew H. Onderdonk, "The Lord of R'lyeh" (Lovecraft Studies, Vol 2, no. 2) -H.P. Lovecraft & Anthony Raven, The Occult Lovecraft -Stephen C.G. Olbrys, "Another History of the NECRONOMICON: a look at the Forbidden Tome" -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears (for contrast on the nature of Will and meaning)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Lovecraft #HP Lovecraft #CosmicHorror #Cthulhu #Necronomicon #Mythos #WeirdFiction #Occult #Magic #Archetypes #Providence #NewEngland #Atavism #Materialism #Mechanism #Philosophy #Horror #Gothic #ScienceFiction #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #HorrorPodcast #Xeper #BlackFlame #Set #CosmicDread #Eldritch #Blasphemous #Nyarlathotep #YogSothoth #ShubNiggurath #DreamLore #StarryWisdom #KennethGrant #MagicalRevival #LovecraftStudies #FictionalGrimoire #ThoughtForm #ArchetypalDistillation #CosmicFiction #SupernaturalHorror #AlienCosmos #HumanInsignificance #SelfCreation #WillToPower #MeaningAndMeaninglessness

In this episode, we descend from the sunlit gardens of the Golden Dawn into the shadowed woodlands of Arthur Machen's imagination, where evil is no longer the violation of social norms or the commission of violent acts but the fundamental rupture of the natural order itself. We explore how Machen—the Welsh mystic, the Golden Dawn initiate, the most unsettling horror writer of the Victorian era—seized upon the esoteric traditions of his time and twisted them into a vision of metaphysical evil so profound that it continues to disturb readers more than a century later.In a world that still craves harmony with the universe, still seeks refuge in dogma, and still flirts with the Dark Side from a safe distance, do we have the courage to step outside the natural order, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of those who have never truly seen the abyss?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Arthur Machen's The White People Classification: V4 - 805.1 - 2 Author: L. Dale Seago IV° Date: April 1, XVI HTML Revision: Sept. 16, 1998 CE Subject: Evil Reading List: #3, #10📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Arthur Machen, The White People (in The House of Souls) -Arthur Machen, The Hill of Dreams -Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan -Arthur Machen, Hieroglyphics: A Note Upon Ecstasy in Literature -Arthur Machen, The Anatomy of Tobacco -Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis) -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears -Stephen Flowers (Edred Thorsson), Lords of the Left-Hand Path -Stephen Flowers (Edred Thorsson), The Unholy Bible: A Biography of Aleister Crowley -Stephen Flowers (Edred Thorsson), The Galdrabók: An Icelandic Grimoire -W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight -W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica -Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites & Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn -G.W.F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit (trans. A.V. Miller), especially the section on "Self-Consciousness" (Master/Slave dialectic) -Ken Legg, "The White People" (critical analysis) -Don Webb, The Seven Faces of Darkness: Practical Typhonian Magic -Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment -S.T. Joshi, The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen, -Algernon Blackwood,-M.R. James, H.P. Lovecraft -Michel Houellebecq, H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (for its treatment of the cosmic horror tradition) -Graham Harman, Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (for its treatment of the philosophical dimensions of weird fiction) 🏷️ HASHTAGS#ArthurMachen #TheWhitePeople #Horror #WeirdFiction #GothicLiterature #VictorianHorror #Occult #GoldenDawn #HermeticOrder #AleisterCrowley #Crowley #BookOfTheLaw #LiberAL #StephenFlowers #LeftHandPath #RightHandPath #BlackFlame #TempleOfSet #Evil #MetaphysicalEvil #Sin #SelfConsciousness #Hegel #PhenomenologyOfSpirit #SelfAndNotSelf #Innocence #Corruption #Awakening #Initiation #Wales #CelticRevival #TheGreatGodPan #TheHillOfDreams #WBYeats #IsraelRegardie #DarkSide #LightSide #StarWars #DarthVader #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #HorrorPodcast #WeirdTales #CosmicHorror #HP Lovecraft #Set #Xeper #Initiation #Magick #Esotericism #VictorianOccult #FinDeSiecle #Decadence #Symbolism #Mysticism #WhiteMagic #BlackMagic #Thelemite #Satanism #SpiritualJourney #SelfDevelopment #Individualism #WillToPower #Nietzsche #Philosophy

In this episode, we descend from the sun-scorched courtyards of the Egyptian peristyle into the shadowed silence of the inner hypostyle, where philosophy is no longer the rote repetition of accepted wisdom but the perilous confrontation with essential principles—the neters—that structure reality itself. We explore how Her-Bak—an inquisitive boy who refused to accept surface-level answers, guided by the Sage and the questioning priest Pasab—embarked on a journey from the comfortable certainties of the outer temple to the terrifying transformative potential of initiation. We examine the philosophical vision of R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, who spent fifteen years in Egypt not excavating tombs but reading stones, attempting to recover a living wisdom that had been buried beneath centuries of dead interpretation.From the rejection of the dead stick and the recovery of the living twig, from the disaster of the ill-made footstool to the hard-won entry into the hypostyle, from the distinction between the peristyle priests who accept their limitations and the seekers who yearn for transformation to the nature of the neter as principle rather than being—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of Egyptian wisdom as refracted through the Schwaller de Lubicz lens and ask: In a world that has forgotten how to read its own symbols, that mistakes words for things and rituals for realities, do we have the courage to ask the soul-searching questions, or will we retreat into the comfortable security of the peristyle, content with the dead sticks we have been given?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Book Review: Her-Bak Classification: V2 - 805.1 - 1 Author: Alexandra Sarris III° Date: March, XIII Publication: Cry of the Jackal, I.1, Anubis Pylon Subject: Initiation Reading List: #2L📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, Her-Bak -Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, Her-Bak, Disciple -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple in Man (trans. Robert & Deborah Lawlor) -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple of Man (forthcoming in English) -R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Egyptian Miracle -Lucie Lamy, Egyptian Mysteries: New Light on Ancient Knowledge -John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt -Peter Tompkins, Secrets of the Great Pyramid -Erik Hornung, Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many -Henri Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian Religion: An Interpretation -Jan Assmann, The Search for God in Ancient Egypt -James P. Allen, The Philosophy of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom -Alexandra Sarris III°, "Book Review: Her-Bak" (Cry of the Jackal, I.1)🏷️ HASHTAGS#HerBak #Egypt #EgyptianPhilosophy #SchwallerDeLubicz #Neter #Initiation #Peristyle #Hypostyle #MeduNeter #LivingTwig #EssentialPrinciples #AncientEgypt #TempleOfMan #TempleInMan #IshaSchwallerDeLubicz #CryOfTheJackal #AnubisPylon #Philosophy #WisdomTraditions #EsotericEgypt #Occult #Hermeticism #Set #Xeper #BlackFlame #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #AncientWisdom #TheSage #Initiation #SpiritualJourney #SoulSearching #Egyptology #TempleOfSet #Mysteries #EgyptianMysteries #Footstool #Artisan #Craft #Principle #Function #Being #Meaning #Symbolism #Hieroglyphs #DeadStick #LivingTwig)

In this episode, we descend from the comfortable certainties of finite existence into the vertiginous abyss of the transfinite—where mathematics ceases to be a dry exercise in calculation and becomes a dark mirror reflecting the true nature of consciousness itself. We explore how Georg Cantor—the tormented genius, the devout Lutheran who believed his work was divinely inspired, the mathematician who died mad—shattered the theological foundations of Western thought by proving that the infinite is not a single, indivisible mystery but a hierarchy of distinct orders, each more vast and terrible than the last. In a world that still seeks comfort in theological authority, still shrinks from the burden of sovereignty, and still denies the godlike potential of the human mind, do we have the courage to count the infinite, or will we retreat into the comfortable ignorance of those who refuse to see?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Transfinitudes Classification: V2 - 510.I - 1 Author: Patty A. Hardy III° Date: Unknown HTML Revision: December 1, 1997 CE Subject: Infinities Reading List: (From The Kaliyuga Pylon Study Guide)📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Georg Cantor, Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers (trans. Philip Jourdain)Jacques Bergier & Louis Pauwels, The Morning of the MagiciansRudy Rucker, Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the InfiniteDavid Foster Wallace, Everything and More: A Compact History of ∞Peter Aczel, Non-Well-Founded SetsGregory H. Moore, Zermelo's Axiom of Choice: Its Origins, Development, and InfluenceJoseph Warren Dauben, Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the InfiniteWilliam Poundstone, Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of KnowledgeIan Stewart, From Here to Infinity: A Guide to Today's MathematicsAleister Crowley, The Book of the Law (especially Chapter I: "Every number is infinite; there is no difference")Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion (for the concept of the alien self)Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set (especially the concept of Isolate Intelligence)John G. Thompson, The Problem of InfinityDiogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (for the pre-Socratic roots of infinity)Plato, Parmenides (for the paradoxes of the one and the many).🏷️ HASHTAGS#Transfinite #Cantor #Infinity #AlephNought #AlephOne #AlephTwo #SetianPhilosophy #LeftHandPath #Mathematics #SetTheory #Theology #Philosophy #TheMorningOfTheMagicians #TempleOfSet #TheRubyTablet #InfinityPodcast #OccultMathematics #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #GeorgCantor #IsolateIntelligence #Xeper #TheAbyss #SovereignIntellect #PhilosophyOfMathematics #Platonism #Pythagoreanism #Gnosticism #Setianism #BlackFlame #TheKaliyugaPylon #WeAreGods #DasTierdrama #MadnessAndGenius #TheWeightOfTheCrown #BeyondTheUniverse #TransfiniteNumbers #InfiniteRegress #MathematicalPlatonism #OccultPodcast #PhilosophyTube #Esoterica

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical heights of Xeper and the Black Flame into the cold, quiet chamber of death itself, where the final journey is not a tragedy to be mourned but a transition to be orchestrated. We explore how the Rite of Setian Passage—a meticulously crafted funeral liturgy born from the heart of the Temple of Set—transforms the ancient Egyptian traditions of the Book of the Dead into a living magical working, declaring that the soul's judgment is not a passive ordeal to be endured but an active declaration to be proclaimed.In a world that still struggles to face death with honesty and courage, do we have the will to speak our own truth at the final threshold, or will we retreat into the comfortable silence of conventional mourning?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Rite of Setian Passage Classification: V2 - 393.R - 1 Author: Ruth Nielsen III° Date: October 22, XXVII HTML Revision: October 16, 1997 CE Subject: Death, Farewell Reading List: As provided📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-The Egyptian Book of the Dead (trans. E.A. Wallis Budge) -The Book of Gates (trans. Erik Hornung) -The Amduat (trans. Erik Hornung) Erik Hornung, -The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife -John H. Taylor, Death and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt -Jan Assmann, Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt - Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law -Aleister Crowley, Liber AL vel Legis-Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice -Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path -Don Webb, The Seven Faces of Darkness -Stephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand Path -Peter J. Carroll, Liber Kaos -Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival- Michael A. Aquino, The Church of Satan -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set -Sekhet Hetep, The Ritual of the Secret Flame -W. Marsham Adams, The Book of the Master -E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian Magic -G.R.S. Mead, Pistis Sophia - Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma -Eliphas Levi, The History of Magic -Helena Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled -Lon Milo DuQuette, The Magick of Aleister Crowley -Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Black Magic and of Pacts -James Frazer, The Golden Bough -Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces -Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane -Plato, Phaedo Plato, Republic -Aristotle, De Anima (On the Soul)🏷️ HASHTAGS#RiteOfSetianPassage #FuneralRite #TempleOfSet #Setian #Xeper #LeftHandPath #Set #AncientEgypt #EgyptianBookOfTheDead #Tuat #Underworld #BlackFlame #Maat #Anubis #Selket #Sothis #Sekhmet #Nephthys #CanopicJars #FuneralBoat #VikingFuneral #GraalCeremony #Magic #Ritual #Death #Farewell #Mourning #Grief #Immortality #Soul #Ba #Ka #Shadow #Adept #Initiation #Occult #Esoteric #PhilosophyOfDeath #Afterlife #Transition #RitualTheater #Community #SpiritualFamily #TheRubyTablet #Podcast #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #DeathAndDying #MagicalWorking #XeperaXeperXeperuuuu #RickFurgeson #KevinDeLong #RuthNielsen

In this episode, we descend from the abstract theological debates of magical orders into the intimate, contested terrain of personal identity—where philosophy is no longer the contemplation of cosmic principles but the lived experience of the flesh, the heart, and the will. We explore how James Lewis IV°—a voice from within the Temple of Set, writing across the final decades of the 20th century—seized the thorny question of homosexuality and refused to let it be dismissed as either sin or mere lifestyle choice, declaring instead that the homosexual magician's very existence is a living crucible of magical potential, a daily resistance to the impersonal laws of the cosmos. In a world that still judges, still labels, and still struggles to reconcile the flesh with the spirit, do we have the courage to embrace the full spectrum of our being, or will we retreat into the comfortable tyranny of the normal?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Homosexuality in Magic Classification: V2 - 392.S - 1 Author: James Lewis IV° Date: September 16, XIX Revision: December 21, XXIII HTML Revision: Oct 14, 1997 CE Subject: Sex in Religion and Magic Reading List: 13D, 6A, 6K, 6L, 6N📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible (The Book of Belial: "Satanic Sex") -Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice (Chapter XI: "Of the Magical Operation") -Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (Various references to sexual Workings) -J.K. Huysmans, Là-Bas (Depictions of homosexual elements in occult practice) -Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (On perversions and the humors) -Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (On the construction of sexual categories) -Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (On the closet as a structure of modern thought) -Gayle Rubin, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality" -George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World -John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (On the historical acceptance of homosexuality) -The Cloven Hoof (Various issues—original covers missing, but the article "The Homosexual Satanist" appears in an early issue) -Stephen Flowers (Ed.), The Hermetic Tradition and the Left-Hand Path -Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path (On individual sovereignty)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Homosexuality #Magic #Occult #LeftHandPath #TempleOfSet #ChurchOfSatan #AleisterCrowley #SexMagic #SexualOrientation #QueerMagick #MagicalIdentity #TheClovenHoof #SatanicSex #Perversion #GreaterLaw #IndividualSovereignty #Xeper #JamesLewisIV #Esotericism #OccultPhilosophy #Sexuality #Identity #Resistance #MagicalTradition #Wicca #Paganism #GayMagick #LGBTQOccult #Hermeticism #SexAndReligion #MagicalWorking #EleventhDegree #XIWorkings #HarWer #Thelema #SexualPolitics #QueerStudies #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #OccultPodcast #Set #BlackFlame #IsolateIntelligence #SelfCreation #WillToPower

In this episode, we descend from the shadowy realms of esoteric speculation into the cold, harsh light of historical analysis, where the distinction between genuine magical practice and political appropriation is not merely academic but essential to understanding the darkest chapters of human history. We explore how L. Dale Seago IV°—the Setian philosopher, the critic of scholarly myopia, the most provocative voice in the debate over the Nazi occult—seized Dusty Sklar's historical analysis and turned it inside out, declaring that the engine of Nazi destruction was not the dark power of Black Magic but the catastrophic triumph of a very different philosophy: the White school's demand for obedience, conformity, and the dissolution of the individual will into a mechanical, totalitarian order.In a world that still confuses the counterfeit for the genuine, still mistakes political appropriation for spiritual practice, and still debates the relationship between the individual and the collective, do we have the courage to think our own thoughts, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of the master of those who know?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay #37: Magical Perspectives: A Response to Dusty SklarAuthor: L. Dale Seago IV° Date: January 27, XIII HTML Revision: September 15, 1998 Subject: Black Magic Reading List: #14📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Dusty Sklar, Gods and Beasts: The Nazis and the OccultDusty Sklar, "The Nazis and Occultism" (The Humanist, January-February issue)Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass MovementsWilliam Sargant, Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and BrainwashingWilliam Sargant, The Mind PossessedAleister Crowley, Magick Without TearsAristotle, Politics (trans. Benjamin Jowett)Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (trans. W.D. Ross)Michael A. Aquino VI°, The Temple of Set (various essays)Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (for context on Nazi ideology and racial mythology)Hanns Hörbiger, Welteislehre (for context on Nazi pseudoscience)Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (for context on myth and archetype)Mircea Eliade, The Myth of the Eternal Return (for context on myth and history)Stephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand PathWouter J. Hanegraaff, Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western CultureAntoine Faivre, Access to Western EsotericismNicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of NazismJames Webb, The Occult EstablishmentDiogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Book V: Aristotle)🏷️ HASHTAGS#MagicalPerspectives #DustySklar #Nazis #Occultism #BlackMagic #WhiteMagic #LeftHandPath #RightHandPath #TempleOfSet #Set #Xeper #Aristotle #Politics #EricHoffer #TrueBeliever #WilliamSargant #Brainwashing #Conversion #Cults #Scientology #Est #Moonies #UnificationChurch #AleisterCrowley #OrderOfTheSilverStar #OrdoTempliOrientis #OTO #TriadSociety #Shaolin #MingDynasty #PriesthoodOfSet #Osiris #OsirianPersecution #HistoryOfMagic #PoliticalArt #TheHumanist #GodsAndBeasts #NaziOccult #MichaelAquino

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical heights of the Left-Hand Path into the chaotic marketplace of modern religious identity, where the boundaries between pagan, neo-pagan, Christian, and Setian blur into a confusing morass of terminology and misunderstanding. We explore how Ruth Nielsen II°—an Adept of the Temple of Set, a former Catholic, and a sharp-eyed analyst of religious systems—seized a moment of public confusion and transformed it into a masterclass in apologetics, declaring that the true distinction between religious paths is not the name of the god you worship but the ultimate fate of the Self.From the rejection of union with Something-Or-Other and the embrace of Self-deification, from the four categories of religious analysis to the devastating summary of the right-hand path as "Self feeding the Gods and feeding upon the Gods," from the critique of Christian paganism to the appropriation of Buber's I-Thou for Setian purposes, from the crisis of the Holocaust and the "omnipotent Nothingness" of modern Judaism to the vampire as symbol of self-motivated independence—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly useful legacy of Nielsen's apologetic framework and ask: In a world that still categorizes us as satanists, still confuses us with neo-pagans, and still demands that we explain ourselves in soundbites, do we have the courage to articulate our own truth, or will we retreat into the comfortable silence of the misunderstood?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay #36: Neo-Paganism and the Temple of Set Classification: V2 - 290.P - 1 Author: Ruth Nielsen II° Date: October, XXV Publication: Trail of the Serpent HTML Revision: Sept. 14, 1998 CE Subject: Neo-Paganism Reading List: 3C📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Ruth Nielsen II°, "Neo-Paganism and the Temple of Set" (Trail of the Serpent) -Martin Buber, I and Thou -Richard L. Rubenstein, After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism -Irving Greenburg, "Cloud of Smoke, Pillar of Fire: Judaism, Christianity, and Modernity After the Holocaust" -Jerry V. Diller (ed.), Ancient Roots and Modern Meanings Robin Lane Fox, Pagans and Christians -Marvin W. Meyer (ed.), The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook -James Lewis (Ipsissimus), Book of Leviathan -Carl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious -Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears -Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers -The Crystal Tablet of Set The Word of Leviathan (Prophecy of the Red Magus) -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set (various writings)🏷️ HASHTAGS#NeoPaganism #TempleOfSet #Apologetics #Setianism #LeftHandPath #RightHandPath #SelfDeification #Paganism #Christianity #Judaism #Catholicism #Sacraments #MysteryCults #IAndThou #MartinBuber #RichardRubenstein #HolocaustTheology #GodIsDead #VampireMythology #Mythology #Deities #Mysteries #InitiatoryStates #Xeper #BlackFlame #Set #Satanism #ReligiousPluralism #ReligiousCommunication #Apologetics #SelfRealization #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #SpiritualJourney #ReligiousStudies #ComparativeReligion #TrailOfTheSerpent #Gnosis #KKUP #TimMcGranahan #TheGiftOfSet #Setamorphosis #AeonicWords #OrderOfLeviathan #CouncilOfNine #Remanifest #Setian #Nielsen #RuthNielsenII #TheSelf #GodForms #PeersInEternity #AdventureOfEternalLife #TheUprightPosition #SetIsAlsoFriend #ReligiousTerminology #CulturalCommunication #EsotericLiterature #NewAge #AquarianAge

In this episode, we descend from the ethereal heights of esoteric philosophy into the fluorescent-lit corridors of military bureaucracy, where spiritual truth is no longer the contemplation of transcendent ideals but the careful documentation of religious requirements for the United States Department of the Army. We explore how the Temple of Set—the Egyptian revivalist order, the most substantive offshoot of the Church of Satan, the religion of the isolated self—seized the machinery of the state and forced it to acknowledge the reality of Black Magic, declaring that the engine of religious accommodation is not the abstract principle of freedom of conscience but the dynamic interplay of bureaucratic classification, scholarly validation, and the will to be recognized.In a world that still thinks in categories, still seeks causes, and still debates the relationship between the individual and the state, do we have the courage to think our own thoughts, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of those who have filed the world away in neat folders?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:-Essay: Religious Requirements and Practices of Certain Selected Groups: A Handbook for Chaplains Classification: V5 - 203 - 1 Author: The Institute for the Study of American Religion J. Gordon Melton, Project Director James R. Lewis, Senior Research Associate Date: 1992 CE HTML Revision: Sept. 11, 1998 CE Subject: Religions and Religious Groups Reading List: Glinda File USChapTS📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedia of American Religions (Gale Research, 3rd ed. 1989) -J. Gordon Melton, Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America (Garland Publishing, 1986) -Department of the Army, DA Pamphphlet 165-13: Religious Requirements and Practices of Certain Selected Groups (1978, 1992 revision) -Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set (1982) Michael A. Aquino, MindStar (1986) -Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path (1999) -Stephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand Path (1997) -Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible (1969) -Burton H. Wolfe, The Devil's Avenger (1974) -Christopher Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West (2004) -Jeffrey S. Victor, Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend (1993) -Philip Jenkins, Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America (1998)- Aidan A. Kelly, Crafting the Art of Magic (1991) -Arthur C. Piepkorn, Profiles in Belief (3 vols., 1977-79) -Samuel Hill, Handbook of Denominations in the U.S. (annual edition) -Kenneth V. Lanning, Investigator's Guide to Allegations of Ritual Child Abuse (FBI, 1992)🏷️ HASHTAGS#TempleOfSet #HandbookForChaplains #ArmyChaplain #ReligiousFreedom #FirstAmendment #MilitaryReligion #Occult #Satanism #Set #Xeper #BlackMagic #LeftHandPath #JGordonMelton #JamesRLewis #MichaelAquino #ChurchOfSatan #AntonLaVey #SatanicPanic #RitualAbuse #MoralPanic #Bureaucracy #Pluralism #ReligiousAccommodation #ConscientiousObjection #IndividualConscience #FreedomOfReligion #AmericanReligion #NewReligiousMovements #ModernSatanism #EgyptianReligion #Setian #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #MilitaryHistory #ColdWar #PostmodernReligion #ReligiousTaxonomy #Scholarship #EncyclopediaOfAmericanReligions #Chaplaincy #DepartmentOfDefense

In this episode, we descend from the celestial realms of Platonic perfection and the comfortable consolations of Christian piety into the shadow-drenched underworld of the Left-Hand Path, where salvation is not found in surrender but in self-assertion, where the divine is not worshipped but confronted, and where the goal of existence is not union with God but the eternal Becoming of the individual Will. We explore how the Satanic and Setian traditions—from the theatrical psychodramas of Anton LaVey to the Egyptian mysteries of Michael A. Aquino—seized the theological inheritance of the West and inverted it, declaring that the engine of authentic existence is not the dissolution of the ego into the divine but the exaltation of consciousness as the highest value.In a world that still yearns for meaning, still fears death, and still struggles with the burden of self-consciousness, do we have the courage to become our own redeemers, or will we retreat into the comfortable slavery of the many, worshipping statues we have carved with our own hands?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Satanic Theology: An Exploration of the Left-Hand Path Classification: V2 - 201.A1 - 1 Author: Burton P. Gillis III° Date: December 14, XXI1 Revision: March 24, XXII HTML Revision: Dec 15, 1997 CE Subject: Satanism Reading List: 6📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Aquino, Michael A., The Book of Coming Forth By Night. San Francisco: Temple of Set. -Aquino, Michael A., The Diabolicon. San Francisco: Temple of Set. -Aquino, Michael A., The Church of Satan. San Francisco: Temple of Set, 1983 C.E. -Aquino, Michael A., The Crystal Tablet of Set. San Francisco, Temple of Set, 1986 C.E. -Blake, William, A Marriage of Heaven and Hell -Crowley, Aleister, Liber Legis (The Book of the Law)- LaVey, Anton S., The Satanic Bible. New York: Avon Books, 1969 C.E. -LaVey, Anton S., The Satanic Rituals. New York: Avon Books, 1972 C.E. -LaVey, Anton S., The Compleat Witch. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1970 C.E. -Lubicz, Isha Schwaller De, Her-Bak: Egyptian Initiate. New York: Inner Traditions, 1967 C.E. -Milton, John, Paradise Lost. Spinoza, Benedict De, Works of Spinoza, Volume II. New York: Dover, 1955 C.E. -Symonds, John, The Great Beast. London: MacDonald, 1971 C.E. -Wilson, Robert Anton, Prometheus Rising. Phoenix: Falcon Press, 1983 C.E.🏷️ HASHTAGS#Satanism #Setianism #LeftHandPath #RightHandPath #AntonLaVey #MichaelAquino #TempleOfSet #ChurchOfSatan #Xeper #Becoming #SevenDeadlySins #Pride #Greed #Lust #Existentialism #Nietzsche #MasterMorality #SlaveMorality #FreeWill #Determinism #Compatibilism #Theodicy #ProblemOfEvil #TapestryAnalogy #PsycheCentricConsciousness #Consciousness #Will #BlackMagic #GreaterBlackMagic #LesserBlackMagic #MoralRelativism #Thelema #AleisterCrowley #BookOfTheLaw #Milton #ParadiseLost #Blake #MarriageOfHeavenAndHell #Spinoza #Heraclitus #EgyptianMysteries #Set #Horus #SatanicBible #CrystalTablet #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultWisdom #AncientWisdom #SpiritualJourney #SelfCreation #IndividualWill #ExistentialAuthenticity

In this episode, we descend from the pragmatic forums of the Roman Republic into the shadowy, forbidden gatherings of the antiarchal Gnostics, where philosophy is no longer the servant of the state or the careful observation of nature, but the radical rejection of all authority—divine and human alike. We explore how these audacious heretics—the rebels among rebels, the most irreverent and extreme fringe of an already unconventional movement—seized the philosophical inheritance of Plato, the mystery religions of the East, and the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism, and twisted them into a weapon aimed directly at the heart of the Old Testament God. We ask: Were these antiarchal Gnostics simply depraved libertines using philosophy as an excuse for excess, or were they engaged in a profound and terrifying spiritual war against the tyrant they believed had enslaved all of humanity?In a world that still bows to authority, still follows rules without questioning their source, and still demonizes those who dare to defy the established order, do we have the courage to think our own thoughts, or will we retreat into the comfortable orthodoxy of the powerful?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay #189.G: Antiarchal GnosticismAuthor: Shell Runar II° Date: Spring, XXV Publication: Flames From Hell, III.1 HTML Revision: Sept. 10, 1998 CE Subject: Gnosticism Reading List: 3L, 16A, 16L, 16M📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Kurt Rudolph, Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism -R.M. Grant, Gnosticism and Early Christianity -R.M. Grant, Gnosticism: An Anthology -Robert Haardt, Gnosis: Character and Testimony -Werner Foerster, Gnosis: A Selection of Gnostic Texts -Edwin M. Yamanchi, Gnostic Ethics and Mandean Origins -Benjamin Walker, Gnosticism: Its History and Influence -Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion- Mircea Eliade, The Encyclopedia of Religion -Scribners, Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics =Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels Marvin Meyer, The Nag Hammadi Scriptures Bentley Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures -G.R.S. Mead, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten- Stephan A. Hoeller, Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing -Irenaeus, Against Heresies (trans. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson) -Clement of Alexandria, Stromata (trans. John Ferguson) -Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies (trans. J.H. MacMahon) -Epiphanius, Panarion (trans. Frank Williams)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Gnosticism #AntiarchalGnosticism #Gnosis #Demiurge #Serpent #Ophites #Cainites #Carpocrates #Epiphanes #SimonMagus #Antinomianism #Antiarchy #Heresy #NagHammadi #Dualism #Mithras #MagnaMater #Serapis #Essenes #Tantra #Buddhism #Stoicism #Skepticism #Sophism #OldTestament #Yahweh #Yaldabaoth #Samael #Logos #DivineSpark #Salvation #Sin #Liberation #GnosticGospels #GospelOfThomas #GospelOfPhilip #ApocryphonOfJohn #AncientPhilosophy #GnosticPhilosophy #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #ClassicalPhilosophy #HereticalTradition #Set #Xeper #Gnosis #TheKnowledge #AncientWisdom #Rebellion #Freedom #Antinomian #Libertine #Cain #Esau #Judas #Sodomites #TheTwelveTables #RomanLaw #JuliusCaesar #RomanEmpire #Cicero #MarcusAurelius #Seneca #NeoGnostic

In this episode, we descend from the marble halls of the Academy into the shadowy chambers of the soul, where philosophy is no longer the careful dissection of logic but the fierce confrontation with the limits of reason itself. We explore how Plato—the initiate of Egyptian mysteries, the student of Pythagoras, the most mystical thinker of the ancient world—constructed a philosophical system that was never meant to be understood by logic alone, but by the soul's recollection of eternal truths glimpsed before birth.From the deconstruction of The Sophist as a political hit job disguised as philosophy to the revelation of the Meno as the true key to understanding Plato, from the logical collapse of The Statesman to the devastating critique of Plato's "absolute standards," from the mystical teachings of the Pythagoreans to the Egyptian priesthoods that secretly shaped them both—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of Platonic thought and ask: In a world that still seeks certainty, still fears the Sophist's relativism, and still yearns for the eternal, do we have the courage to admit that reason alone cannot save us, or will we retreat into the comfortable illusion that logic can solve everything?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay #184.RI.1: The Sphinx and the ChimaeraAuthor: Michael A. Aquino V° Date of Working: May 30, X First Distribution: November 6, X Transcribed: August 31, XXIV (Robert Menschel, IV°) HTML Conversion: September 10, 1998 CE Subject: Platonic Philosophy Reading List: 12C📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Plato, The Collected Dialogues of Plato (Hamilton & Cairns, Ed., Princeton University Press, 1961)Plato, The Sophist Plato, The Statesman Plato, The Meno Plato, The Republic Plato, The TimaeusThomas Stanley, The History of Philosophy (1687, especially Part IX on the Pythagoreans)G.J. Whitrow, The Nature of TimeBertrand Russell, A History of Western PhilosophyAlban D. Winspear, The Genesis of Plato's ThoughtHeinrich Brugsch-Bey, Egypt Under the PharaohsSir E.A. Wallis Budge, Egyptian LanguageLeonard Cottrell, Life Under the PharaohsLionel Casson, Ancient EgyptPeter Tompkins, Secrets of the Great PyramidHenry Frankfort, Ancient Egyptian ReligionAlexandre Piankoff (Ed.), The Tomb of Ramesses VIPaul Christian, Histoire de la Magie, du Monde Surnaturel et de la Fatalité à travers les Temps et les PeuplesProclus, Commentary on PlatoSt. Jerome, Prologus Galeatus to the Bible (1590 edition)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Plato #Philosophy #Sophist #Statesman #Meno #TheoryOfForms #Recollection #Pythagoras #EgyptianMysteries #Maat #Sphinx #Chimaera #Gryphon #AncientPhilosophy #GreekPhilosophy #EgyptianWisdom #Mysticism #Rationalism #Relativity #Einstein #Time #Immortality #Soul #Dialectic #Sophistry #Academy #Athens #Khem #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #ClassicalPhilosophy #Initiation #MysteryTraditions #Set #Xeper #AncientWisdom #PlatonicPhilosophy #Forms #EternalTruths #RecollectionOfKnowledge #CrossExamination #Dialectics

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical heights of abstract ethical systems into the crucible of individual becoming, where morality is no longer the contemplation of inherited commandments but the ruthless examination of action and intention. We explore how the Temple of Set's essay on "Sin and Virtue"—channeled through the ritual dialogue of Shu and Tefnut, the visible and the hidden—seizes the ancient problem of good and evil and drags it into the domain of self-creation, declaring that the engine of ethical reality is not obedience to external law but the dynamic interplay of behavior and motive, result and intention, visibility and concealment.From the declaration that sin and virtue are two sides of the same coin, to the challenge that any virtue can be called a sin and any sin can be called a virtue; from the two measures of visible behavior and hidden motive, to the call to shine the light of truth upon plans, actions, and paths of becoming; from the weighing of results and the examination of intent, to the final declaration that the future must be planned and created—we trace the monumental, deeply challenging, and astonishingly personal legacy of this ethical framework and ask: In a world that still seeks easy answers, still craves external validation, and still hides from the terror of genuine self-examination, do we have the courage to become our own moral authors, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of inherited sin and virtue?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Sin and Virtue Classification: V2 - 17A.X - 1 Author: Robert Menschel IV° Date: October 14, XXIX — O. Shuti Working, Set-XV HTML Revision: Sept. 9, 1998 CE Subject: Ethics and Xeper Reading List: [As per ritual notes]📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Plato, Republic (trans. Allan Bloom)Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (trans. W.D. Ross)Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (trans. Walter Kaufmann)Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality (trans. Maudemarie Clark and Alan Swensen)Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears, Chapter on Ethics and WillDon Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand PathMichael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set, Volume IStephen E. Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand PathSt. Augustine, Confessions (for contrast with the Left-Hand Path)Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (for contrast with the Left-Hand Path)Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (for contrast with the Left-Hand Path)John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (for contrast with the Left-Hand Path)🏷️ HASHTAGS#SinAndVirtue #Ethics #Xeper #Set #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #Shu #Tefnut #Shuti #Maat #IsolateIntelligence #SelfCreation #Becoming #BlackFlame #Philosophy #EthicalBecoming #MoralRelativism #Virtue #Sin #GoodAndEvil #BeyondGoodAndEvil #Nietzsche #Crowley #MagickWithoutTears #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #AncientWisdom #SelfExamination #ConsciousVision #ConscientiousReflection #HiddenMotive #VisibleBehavior #ActionAndIntention #WillToPower #SelfDeification #Godhood #Initiation #Ritual #XeperWorking #SetianPhilosophy #EthicalFramework #MoralAutonomy #TheCoinOfSinAndVirtue #ThusItBegins

In this episode, we descend from the cosmic struggles of Egyptian mythology into the intimate terrain of the human psyche, where the gods are no longer distant beings to be worshipped but internal forces to be integrated. We explore how Ruth Nielsen III°—a Setian philosopher and practitioner—takes the ancient Egyptian dyad of Set and HarWer and transforms it into a powerful simile for understanding the divergent polarities within the Self, declaring that the engine of spiritual development is not the elimination of our internal conflicts but the dynamic balance of our most seemingly irreconcilable parts. In a world that still struggles with trust, still wrestles with guilt, and still debates the relationship between the individual and the community, do we have the courage to do the Work, or will we retreat into the comfortable fantasy of spiritual achievement without psychological foundation?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Set / HarWer – The Discussion ContinuesAuthor: Ruth Nielsen III°Date: June 23, XXVIIIRevision: Sept. 9, 1998 CESubject: Self-IntegrationClassification: V2 - 159.2I - 1📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Milton H. Erickson, The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson on Hypnosis (ed. Ernest Rossi)Erik Erikson, Childhood and SocietyErik Erikson, Identity: Youth and CrisisClifford H. Swenson, Jr., "Personality Development in the Family" in The Handbook of Family Psychology and Therapy (ed. Luciano L'Abate, 1985)Dane Rudhyar, The Planetarization of ConsciousnessDane Rudhyar, The Astrology of PersonalityMichael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set: The First Four DegreesDon Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand PathStephen Flowers, Lords of the Left-Hand PathAleister Crowley, Magick Without TearsCarl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective UnconsciousCarl Jung, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the SelfJames Hillman, Re-Visioning PsychologyDonald Winnicott, Playing and RealityJohn Bowlby, Attachment and Loss (3 volumes)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Set #HarWer #SelfIntegration #Xeper #Psychology #Erikson #Erickson #DevelopmentalStages #Trust #Autonomy #Initiative #Industry #Identity #Intimacy #Generativity #Integrity #PersonalityDevelopment #DynamicBalance #Setian #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #PsychologyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #SelfDevelopment #PersonalGrowth #Magick #Ritual #AeonicFormula #Hypnosis #SelfEsteem #Guilt #Shame #Doubt #Inferiority #Despair #GoldenMean #Individualion #Individuation #BlackFlame #OSOM #AncientEgypt #EgyptianMythology #SetAndHarWer #PsychologicalIntegration #SpiritualDevelopment #SelfOvercoming #WillToPower

In this episode, we descend from the speculative heights of philosophical abstraction into the cold, hard terrain of cultural autopsy, where we confront a diagnosis so bleak it borders on the prophetic. We explore how R. Amn DeCecco IV°—an observer of the human condition, a student of Setamorphosis, a voice crying out from the intellectual wilderness—declares that the entity we call "man" has expired, not through any dramatic apocalypse but through a quiet, unnoticed death that occurred somewhere between the assassinations of the 1960s and the cultural stagnation of the present day. We trace DeCecco's influences—from the ancient Egyptian understanding of psychological development to Schwaller de Lubicz's "Crowning of the Skull" thesis, from the intellectual provocations of Anton LaVey to the dawning realization that the great geniuses of the past have no counterparts in the present—and we ask: Was DeCecco a prophet who saw the trajectory of Western civilization with terrifying clarity, or a reactionary who mistook his own alienation for a universal condition?From the rejection of the "adolescent fantasy" of self-improvement to the devastating assertion that humanity has achieved only the psychological maturity of a 17-year-old, from the identification of the "Soaring Sixties" as humanity's last gasp of individuality to the grim taxonomy of cultural stagnation—sequels, remakes, repetitive fashion, the deification of childish sports, the re-consolidation of old religious and political morays—we trace the monumental, deeply unsettling, and astonishingly prescient diagnosis of DeCecco's essay and ask: In a world that still produces technological wonders but no new Mona Lisas, still builds rockets but no new Ninth Symphonies, and still debates the same tired political battles while ignoring the extinction of genius, do we have the courage to recognize that "man" is dead, or will we continue to dance in the graveyard, pretending the corpse is still breathing?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Man is Dead Classification: V2 - 159.2 - 1 Author: R. Amn DeCecco IV° Date: April/May XIX Publication: Scroll HTML Revision: Sept. 5, 1998 CE Subject: Modern Society; Mankind's Annihilation Reading List: None specified📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man Isaac Asimov, Foundation (trilogy) George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible Plato, The Republic Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears🏷️ HASHTAGS#ManIsDead #DeCecco #CulturalCriticism #Philosophy #ModernSociety #MankindsAnnihilation #Setamorphosis #TheElect #Ennui #Genius #Individualism #MassSociety #Conformity #PsychologicalDevelopment #SchwallerDeLubicz #CrowningOfTheSkull #Foundation #Asimov #Spengler #DeclineOfTheWest #Nietzsche #TheMasses #SoaringSixties #CulturalStasis #Sequels #Remakes #IntellectualDeath #SpiritualPoverty #LeftHandPath #TempleOfSet #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #Set #Xeper #AncientWisdom #Modernity #PostModernity #CulturalDiagnosis #Apocalypse #Transcendence #TheBlackFlame

n this episode, we descend from the orderly temples of organized religion into the wild, fungal undergrowth of human consciousness, where the sacred is not a matter of faith but of direct, chemical encounter with the divine. We explore how R. Gordon Wasson—the J.P. Morgan banker turned ethnomycologist, the Swiss-American outsider who married a Russian mycophile, the unlikely pioneer of a field that barely had a name—seized the anthropological inheritance of his time and dragged it into the muddy, mushroom-strewn reality of preindustrial ritual, declaring that the engine of religion is not the abstract perfection of doctrine but the dynamic interplay of plant, brain, and culture. In a world that still craves direct spiritual experience, still fears the wild things that grow in the earth, and still debates the relationship between consciousness and the divine, do we have the courage to eat the mushroom, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of the priest who tells us faith is enough?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay #29: R. Gordon Wasson and the Mushroom CultsAuthor: Pat Hardy II° Date: October 1, XIX Revision: January 1, XXIV HTML Revision: January 25, 1998 CE Subject: Psychology, Sociology, Drugs Reading List: 3L, 16A, 16L, 16M📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Wasson, Valentina Pavlovna, and R. Gordon Wasson. Mushrooms, Russia and History, 2 vol. Pantheon Books, NY, 1957. (Out of print and quite rare—try large university libraries.)Wasson, R. Gordon. Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. The Hague: Moutan, 1968.Wasson, R. Gordon, George and Florence Cowan, and Willard Rhodes. María Sabina and Her Mazatec Mushroom Velada. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY & London, 1974.Wasson, R. Gordon, and Carl A.P. Ruck. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY & London, 1978.Allegro, John. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. Hodder & Stoughton, 1970. (Regarded as crank scholarship—unlike Wasson's work, which is treated respectfully by the academic community.)Schultes, Richard Evans, and Albert Hofmann. Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers. McGraw-Hill, 1979.Furst, Peter T. Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens. Praeger, 1972.La Barre, Weston. The Peyote Cult. Yale University Press, 1938.Harner, Michael J., ed. Hallucinogens and Shamanism. Oxford University Press, 1973.Ott, Jonathan. Pharmacotheon: Entheogenic Drugs, Their Plant Sources and History. Natural Products Co., 1993.Ruck, Carl A.P. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (with R. Gordon Wasson and Albert Hofmann). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.Dobkin de Rios, Marlene. Hallucinogens: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. University of New Mexico Press, 1984.McKenna, Terence. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge. Bantam Books, 1992.🏷️ HASHTAGS#Wasson #Ethnomycology #Ethnobotany #Ethnopharmacology #Psychedelics #Entheogens #Mushrooms #MagicMushrooms #Psilocybin #AmanitaMuscaria #FlyAgaric #Soma #RigVeda #EleusinianMysteries #MaríaSabina #Mazatec #Huautla #Velada

In this episode, we descend from the abstract categories of political ideology into the labyrinthine architecture of the human skull, where philosophy is no longer the contemplation of transcendent principles but the uncomfortable recognition that our deepest convictions may be wired into the very structure of our brains. We explore how Pat Hardy II°—a student of the Black Arts who turned his gaze from the occult to the neurological—seized upon the ancient handedness metaphor and dragged it into the cold light of cognitive science, declaring that the engine of political and spiritual conflict is not the clash of ideas but the lateral specialization of brain function, the eternal war between the verbal left hemisphere and the pattern-seeking right.In a world that still thinks in left and right, still wages war between hemispheres, and still projects its shadows onto the bodies of its enemies, do we have the courage to look in the mirror, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of our own partial vision?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay #V2 - 159.1 - 1: Of the Handedness MetaphorAuthor: Pat Hardy II° Date: April 15, XXII HTML Revision: Jan 25, 1998 CE Subject: Psychology Reading List: 14E📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral MindBenjamin Lee Whorf, Language, Thought, and RealityGeorge Lakoff, Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the MindIain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western WorldCarl Jung, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (particularly on the shadow)Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (for the "A=A" mentality)Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (on the psychology of authoritarianism)Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (on the Nazi regime as a political phenomenon)Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears (on the Left-Hand Path)Stephen A. Diamond, Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic (on shadow integration)Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden (on the evolution of human intelligence)Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (on neurology and perception)V.S. Ramachandran, Phantoms in the Brain (on hemispheric specialization)Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set (on the Left-Hand Path tradition)Don Webb, Uncle Setnakt's Essential Guide to the Left Hand Path (on practical application)🏷️ HASHTAGS#HandednessMetaphor #LeftHandPath #RightHandPath #Neurology #CognitiveScience #HemisphericSpecialization #JulianJaynes #BicameralMind #WhorfianPosition #LanguageAndThought #PatternSeeking #VerbalMind #SilentHemisphere #SwordsmanAndSorcerer #PoliticalLeft #PoliticalRight #Projection #Shadow #Integration #NaziGermany #Totalitarianism #AynRand #AEqualsA #MatrixMind #NDimensional #EvolutionaryPsychology #CognitiveBias #SelfAwareness #Mirror #TempleOfSet #Xeper #Set #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #OccultPodcast #PsychologyPodcast #LeftHandPathPodcast #RightHandPath #CognitiveDissonance #FeedbackLoop #PoliticalPsychology #SpiritualPsychology #Individuation #ShadowWork #SelfKnowledge

In this episode, we descend from the ethereal heights of philosophical abstraction into the shadowed corridors of the human psyche, where the great questions are no longer about the nature of reality but about the nature of ourselves. We explore how Vesa T. Iitti II°—a conscript confronting the machinery of war, a philosopher wrestling with the claims of sociobiology, and an initiate walking the path of Setian self-deification—seized the most urgent questions of our time and dragged them down from the realm of academic debate into the crucible of lived experience. He asks us: Is aggression the engine of our species, or is it merely a symptom of something deeper, something we have refused to face?In a world that still goes to war, still projects its shadows onto others, and still refuses to confront the primal forces within itself, do we have the courage to face our own darkness, or will we continue to project it outward until there is nothing left?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay Classification: V2 - 158 - 1Author: Vesa T. Iitti II°Date: April, XXVIIIHTML Revision: January 12, 1998 CESubject: AggressionReading List:Matti Bergstrom, Aivojen fysiologiasta ja psyykesta (On Brain Physiology and the Psyche)Kirsti Lagerspetz, Psykologia, jarjen ja tunteen tiede (Psychology, the Science of Reason and Emotion)F. Alberoni & S. Veca, Hyva ja Paha (Good and Evil)Desmond Morris, The Naked ApeKen Wilber, No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal GrowthDr. Michael Aquino, Black Magic in the Crystal Tablet of SetAnton LaVey, The Satanic BibleAleister Crowley, The Book of the LawThe Book of Coming Forth by Night📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Konrad Lorenz, On AggressionDesmond Morris, The Naked ApeE.O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New SynthesisRichard Dawkins, The Selfish GeneCarl Jung, Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the SelfCarl Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective UnconsciousKen Wilber, No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal GrowthAnton LaVey, The Satanic BibleDr. Michael Aquino, Black Magic in the Crystal Tablet of SetAleister Crowley, The Book of the LawAleister Crowley, Magick Without TearsAlvin Toffler, Future ShockMichel de Montaigne, EssaysCarl von Clausewitz, On WarThe Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth🏷️ HASHTAGS#Aggression #Sociobiology #HumanNature #War #Instinct #ShadowWork #PersonaAndShadow #JungianPsychology #KenWilber #DesmondMorris #KonradLorenz #EvolutionaryPsychology #Nationalism #Patriotism #CivilService #ConscientiousObjection #Morality #Ethics #CosmicDialectic #SelfConsciousness #WillToBecome #Xeper #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #PsychologyPodcast #EsotericPhilosophy #SpiritualPhilosophy #Set #Thelema #AleisterCrowley

In this episode, we descend from the philosophical heights of Plato's Academy and the practical walkways of Aristotle's Lyceum into the shadowy, labyrinthine corridors of Gnostic thought—where philosophy is no longer the contemplation of transcendent ideals or the careful observation of nature, but the desperate engineering of escape from a cosmos that has become a maximum-security prison.In a world that still seeks escape from the prison of the material, still yearns for secret knowledge, and still divides humanity into the awake and the asleep, the saved and the damned, do we have the courage to think our own thoughts and forge our own path, or will we retreat into the comfortable authority of those who claim to possess the Mystery of the First Mystery?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay #16: The Gnosis as an Integral Part of the Hermetic ScienceAuthor: Walter Jantschik II° Date: November 20, 1981 CE Publication: Ph.D. Thesis, University of East Georgia Subject: Gnosis Reading List: Burkitt, Kingsland, Krause, Lea, MacGregor, Mead, Van Groningen, Yamanchi📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Jantschik, Walter II°, The Gnosis as an Integral Part of the Hermetic Science (Ph.D. Thesis, University of East Georgia, 1981)Mead, G.R.S., Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (University Books, 1960)Jonas, Hans, The Gnostic Religion (Beacon Press, 1958)Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels (Random House, 1979)Burkitt, F.C., Church & Gnosis (Cambridge, 1932)Kingsland, William, The Gnosis or Ancient Wisdom in the Christian Scriptures (London, 1937)Van Groningen, G., First Century Gnosticism: Its Origin and Motifs (Leiden, 1967)Quispel, Gilles, Gnosis and the New Testament (Leiden, 1960)Rudolph, Kurt, Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism (Harper & Row, 1983)Filoramo, Giovanni, A History of Gnosticism (Blackwell, 1990)The Nag Hammadi Library (various translations, especially the NHL in English, ed. James M. Robinson)Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies (various translations)Irenaeus, Against Heresies (various translations)Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis (various translations)Philo of Alexandria, On the Creation, On the Confusion of Tongues, On the Migration of Abraham(various translations)MacGregor, Geddes, Gnosis (Wheaton, Illinois, 1979)Grant, R.M., Gnosticism and Early Christianity (Columbia University Press, 1966)🏷️ HASHTAGS#Gnosticism #Gnosis #Hermeticism #Pleroma #Sophia #Demiurge #Archons #PistisSophia #NagHammadi #Gospels #Scientism #Magic #Astrology #Hylic #Psychic #Pneumatic #FirstMystery #Metacube #Gematria #IesousChristos #Mithras #MagnaMater #Philo #Hippolytus #Carpocrates #Basilides #Valentinus #SimonMagus #ClementOfAlexandria #Irenaeus #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #AncientPhilosophy #ChristianHeresy #Esotericism #Mysticism #EscapeFromTheCosmos #CosmicPrison #DivineSpark #Gnosis #Knowledge #Salvation #Set #Xeper #AncientWisdom

In this episode, we descend from the chattering marketplace of everyday speech into the silent, luminous realm where thought operates without words—where the mind grasps truth not through argument and proposition, but through the sudden, intuitive recognition of pattern and relationship. In a world that increasingly confuses opinion with knowledge, expression with understanding, and chatter with thought, do we have the courage to think in silence, or will we retreat into the comfortable prison of our native tongue?🔗 SOURCES & READING LISTEssay #156.A: Is Noesis Mystical?Author: Pat Hardy III° Date: December 15, XXIV HTML Revision: Jan 12, 1998 CE Subject: Philosophy Reading List: 2V, 12B, 12C📚 RECOMMENDED READINGPlato, Republic (trans. Allan Bloom) — especially Books VI-VII on the Divided Line and the Form of the GoodPlato, Meno (trans. G.M.A. Grube) — on recollection and the nature of knowledgeAristotle, Metaphysics (trans. W.D. Ross) — on the nature of form and the critique of the FormsAristotle, De Anima (On the Soul) (trans. R.D. Hicks) — on the active intellectThe Pythagorean Fragments (ed. Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie) — the surviving sayings and doctrinesIamblichus, On the Pythagorean Life (trans. Gillian Clark) — the practices of the Pythagorean schoolProclus, Commentary on Plato's Republic — on the levels of knowledgeR.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple of Man — on symbol and the Egyptian mode of thoughtAlfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality — on the fallacy of misplaced concreteness in languageGottlob Frege, On Sense and Reference — the distinction that transformed logicLudwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus — on the limits of languageBertrand Russell, The Principles of Mathematics — on logic and languageKurt Gödel, On Formally Undecidable Propositions — the limits of formal systemsAlan Turing, On Computable Numbers — the foundations of artificial intelligenceDouglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid — on formal systems and consciousnessAleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears — on the nature of the True Will and intuitionJulius Evola, The Hermetic Tradition — on symbolism and the royal artFrances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition — on the revival of Pythagorean thoughtDiogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers — on Pythagoras, Plato, and the Academic tradition🏷️ HASHTAGS#Noesis #Philosophy #Pythagoras #Plato #TheoryOfForms #DivineLine #Mathematics #ArtificialLanguages #Calculus #ZenosParadox #SymbolAndSign #GraceHopper #Picosecond #FormalLogic #NaturalLanguage #Reason #Intuition #NonverbalThought #PatternRecognition #Setianism #TempleOfSet #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #AncientPhilosophy #GreekPhilosophy #Pythagoreanism #Platonism #Xeper #Initiation #SelfDeification #Mysticism #Rationalism #SymbolicThought #CrypticAphorisms #Academy #MusicTheory #Geometry #Astronomy #RightHandPath #Shamanism #Gurus #Meditation #EliteKnowledge #IntellectualRigor #AleisterCrowley #AleisterCrowley #SchwallerDeLubicz #Symbolism #FormalSystems #Logic #Gödel #Turing #Wittgenstein #Frege #Russell #Hofstadter #Evola #Ficino #Hermeticism

In this episode, we descend from the marble halls of Rome's political philosophy into the shadowed chambers of the individual psyche, where philosophy is no longer the contemplation of the state's constitution but the terrifying confrontation with one's own existence. We explore how existentialism—that most unsettling of philosophical traditions, born in the anguish of the 19th century and forged in the trauma of the 20th—seized the foundations of Western thought and inverted them, declaring that the engine of reality is not the structure of society or the decrees of reason, but the radical freedom of the isolated consciousness, condemned to create meaning in a universe that offers none. In a world that still celebrates the individual, still struggles with the burden of freedom, and still searches for meaning in a universe that offers none, do we have the courage to become our own creators, or will we retreat into the comfortable illusions of the Right-hand Path?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Existentialism and Satanism Classification: V2 - 149.EX - 1 Author: Eulit M. Hinson I° Date: July, XXV HTML Conversion: Jan 01, 1998 CE Subject: Philosophy: Existentialism Reading List:📚 RECOMMENDED READING:Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and TremblingFriedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche, The Gay ScienceMartin Heidegger, Being and TimeJean-Paul Sartre, Being and NothingnessJean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul Sartre, NauseaAlbert Camus, The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus, The StrangerFyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from UndergroundFranz Kafka, The MetamorphosisSimone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of AmbiguityKarl Jaspers, Philosophy of ExistenceMaurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of PerceptionEdith Hamilton, The Greek Way (for philosophical context)Will Durant, The Story of PhilosophyMichael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set: The First Ten YearsMichael A. Aquino, The Church of SatanAleister Crowley, Magick Without TearsAnton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible🏷️ HASHTAGS#Existentialism #Satanism #Philosophy #Kierkegaard #Nietzsche #Heidegger #Sartre #Xeper #BeingAndNothingness #BeingAndTime #Dasein #BlackFlame #Set #TempleOfSet #GodIsDead #Angst #BadFaith #Authenticity #Freedom #Responsibility #Nausea #Absurdism #Camus #Dostoevsky #Phenomenology #Marius #Sulla #Pompey #JuliusCaesar #RomanRepublic #AncientPhilosophy #GreekPhilosophy #RomanPhilosophy #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #ExistentialistPhilosophy #AleisterCrowley #MagickWithoutTears #Crowley #Individualism #SelfCreation #Becoming #Being #Nothingness #EroticCrystallizationInertia #ECI #GoldenMean #Phronesis #Eudaimonia #Setianism #AncientWisdom #Occult #Esotericism #Spirituality #SelfDevelopment #Initiation #Thelema

In this episode, we descend from the symbolic languages of the ancient Egyptian temples into the workshop of the Order of Shuti, where symbolism is no longer the passive inheritance of cultural tradition but the active, conscious tool of individual transformation. We explore how the Grand Master of the Order seized the raw materials of symbolic thought—from the hieroglyphic determinatives of the Nile to the archetypal Tricksters of world mythology, from the complex pantheon of Egyptian Neters to the visceral languages of incense and music—and forged them into a practical, pragmatic system of initiatory technology that asks not "What does this symbol mean?" but "Does this symbol work?"We ask: In a world that still speaks in symbols, still resonates with archetypes, and still debates the relationship between the conscious will and the unconscious depths, do we have the courage to wield our symbols with intention, or will we retreat into the comfortable passivity of those who are merely affected by them?🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLETThe Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:Essay: Symbolism Classification: V2 - 135.A - 1 Author: Robert Menschel IV° Date: December, XXIV Publication: Dialogues I.3(1) HTML Revision: Dec 12, 1997 CE Subject: Symbolism Reading List: 2L, 2V📚 RECOMMENDED READING:-Barrett, Ronald K., Book of Opening the Way (Key #4). RT A17.2-4. -Barrett, Ronald K., Stele of Xem. RT A17.28-1. -Cavendish, Richard, The Black Arts. 4C (TS-3). -Crowley, Aleister, The Book of Thoth. 9L (TS-4). -De Lubicz, Isha Schwaller, Her-Bak. 2L (TS-1). -De Lubicz, Isha Schwaller, Symbol and the Symbolique. 2V (TS-4). -Fisher, Leonard Everett, Symbol Art: Thirteen Squares, Circles, and Triangles from Around the World. NY: Four Winds Press, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1985. -Helfman, Elizabeth S., Signs and Symbols Around the World. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1967. -Jung, Carl G., Man and his Symbols. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1964, 1968. Also NY: Dell Publishing Co., 1968, and London: Aldus Books, 1964. -Menschel, Robert, Remanifestation: A Symbolic Syntheses, RT A17.36-3. -Menschel, Robert, Tarot Primer, RT C1D.1L-1. -Norton, Lynn, Golden Section Tarot Working, Atu XV: The Devil, and The Dialogue. RT C1D.1 (-2, -3, -4). -Regardie, Israel, 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley. 9M (TS-4). -Schaefer, Heinrich, Principles of Egyptian Art. 2R (TS-4).🏷️ HASHTAGS#Symbolism #OrderOfShuti #TempleOfSet #Xeper #Symbol #Archetype #Jung #Unconscious #Consciousness #Awake #Ouspensky #Plato #PlatonicForms #EgyptianNeters #Set #Shu #Tefnut #Thoth #Trickster #Coyote #Loki #JungianArchetypes #CollectiveUnconscious #Hieroglyphics #EgyptianMythology #LesserBlackMagic #Ritual #Incense #Music #Mantra #Xeper #Remanifestation #Xem #Initiation #LeftHandPath #TheRubyTablet #PhilosophyPodcast #WisdomTraditions #Esoteric #Occult #Magic #Magick #Application #Usefulness #Results #PragmaticMagic #SetianPhilosophy #AncientWisdom #SymbolicLanguage #Metalanguage #Determinatives #Neters #GodForms #Priesthoods #PersonalSymbolism #GroupConsensus #Diversity #Communication #InnateVsLearned #VisceralResponse #Meaning #ConsciousWill