Sexy Religion

>>2007969

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_magic

>>2007969
Any of the ancient fertility religions.

>>2007969

i was reading herodotus i think and he mentioned a religion that had priestesses/temple whores (might have been babylonians) and if you threw a coin between her legs she would sleep with you.

>>2007977
^This, but the wiki is a weak article.

See my folder on the subject:
https://mega.nz/#F!sdxBVZCT!1cbfKNTqV--kMRD9EtN5ow

>>2007999
>999
Temple prostitution was relatively widespread. Samael's wives (Agrat, Lilith, Namaah, and Eisheth) were tied to the notion of sacred prostitution in super early Hebrew religion.

A number of occultists still venerate these four; though a fair number swap out Eisheth for Rahab in either an ascended angelic form (like Enoch or Azra), or as a draconic entity like Leviathan (via Psalms, etc.). This is due to Eisheth being generally accepted as the ruling spirit of Binah's qlifot and therefore not an entity to be idly toying with.

>>2008022

i wish fundamental christianity, which i was brought up in, had church prostitutes. i might have stayed a christian if i got some free sex every sunday. the church should look into it to boost attendance.

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>>2008083
>tfw no Scarlet Mother of Abomination, Saint of Harlotry, and Woman of the Apocalypse gf

>>2008110

iktf

>>2007969
that statue is pretty hot tbqh
>>2008016
this is what schizophrenia looks like, children

>>2008005
As always, thanks Ape.

>>2007969
>TFW no qt jain gf

>>2007999
Why did this ever go out of style?

>>2007969

phonecians had that thing with sacred prostitutes, temples that were basicaly brothels where women lived in pretty much a monastic lifestile serving their godess and offering their bodies to travelers and pilgrims as a ritual sacrifice

thing is this being a religious thing these women would go on to become respected and revered members of society and almost retain a religious function even after they would exit the sex-temple thing

other ancient religions had rituals where the king and queen, having a cult function as well as if not moreso than a political one, would perform mating rituals that were supposed to have huge significance since somehow they simbolicaly are the realisation of some alchemical-astral union bla bla bla, so basicaly the ruling couple would fuck on a altar in front of a whole regiment of priests and congregation as a ceremonial act that sets the world in order or whatever

>>2008005

any advice on which to read first?

>>2008585
Depends on what you're into.
Most of this is introductory material with a touch of intermediate Thelema.

For Tantra? Kiss of the Yogini is a great introduction.

For Thelema? Ararita: Elaborations on the Star Sapphire is a touch advanced but gives actual recommendations for how to work the rite and what the symbolism is.

Aztec priests would masturbate onto the earth to fertilize it, in honor of Tonatiuh. And prostitutes played a prominent role in some state ceremonies with the great noble warriors, where they'd dance in ecstasy together and if they wanted to, they could take one with them that night and marry them. Among the Maya theres a community orgy that occurs under the moonlight in the forest. Virgin girls would cast off their clothes before a spring while a woman sang.

>>2008554

Abrahamic religion had a LOT to do with it.

>inb4 le fedora maymay

I'm serious. The Picts, just for instance, were a pagan society that openly fucked in public with no qualms, they also had regular orgies. That ended with the coming of Christianity.

>>2011037
Ironic considering how erotic chunks of the Bible are.

Probably the Dionysian cults, although they were so secretive no one really knows what went on in them.

>>2011037
>>2011046
Great. Just another example of how the Big Three Faiths ruined the world.

>edgy as fugg

You can't convince me that the world wouldn't be better off and happier without Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The first one, especially.

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>>2008022
>was

>>2011226
How's high-school going? Careful of that edge there.

>>2011245
Nope, 25 years old.

Seriously, send me a shower of memes, there are hundreds of cultures, many mythologies and lost technologies that are gone forever because of shit like Conquistadores, Manifest Destiny, Christianization, colonialization, Muslim conquests, etc.

What have the Abrahamic Three ever given to this world that others could have done or already did and were destroyed by these religions taking over?

>>2011046
which chunks

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>>2011253

>>2011253
>What have the Abrahamic Three ever given to this world that others could have done or already did and were destroyed by these religions taking over?

Very Eurocentric and imperialist of you to focus on Christianity while Islam has destroyed far more. Shrine of Noah, countless Buddhist statues and temples, Assurance temples in Syria.. and that's just modern day Islam.

To answer your question, Christianity gave the message of salvation by God becoming man, God Incarnate, something that is not found in any other religion. Fully God and fully man. Human rights, like those of the UN, are ultimately because of Christianity and it being the foundation of Western culture - compassion for the Ill, weak, and destitute, poor, the abolition of slavery, monogamous marriage, etc.
Of course being the lefty you probably are, you'll disagree because Christianity can't possibly be the foundation of the West.

>>2011270

What are you talking about, the anon you replied to literally mentioned the Muslim conquests

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>>2011270
>something that is not found in any other religion

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>>2011290
No other religion has almighty God fully incarnate in a historical person.

>>2011283
>literally
There's that word again

>>2011296

lit·er·al·ly
ˈlidərəlē,ˈlitrəlē/

adverb

in a literal manner or sense; exactly.
"the driver took it literally when asked to go straight across the traffic circle"
synonyms: exactly, precisely, actually, really, truly; More
without question, unquestionably, indisputably
"there are literally 214 colors available"
informal
used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true.
"I have received literally thousands of letters"

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>>2011293


Oh great,he believes it, he actually fucking believes in a literal interpretation...

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>>2011311
>ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο

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>tfw when you will never live in a religious matriarchy where the woman of your village take your virginity when you reach of age (13).

catholicism

>>2011296
Literally used in a figuratively perfect way.

>>2011311
We'll, now I know you're not a Christian. Muslim? Jew? Atheist?

>>2011226
and Islam what makes Islam less violent than Christianity, apparently someone doesn't watch the news :^)

>>2007969
Unironcially Islam

>multiple wives
>sex slaves
>lolis
>temporary brides

>>2011328

I was raised in a conservative protestant Christian home and community. I still live in that community. I never went through an edgy teenage-early 20s phase. I was a literal believer until about the age of 21. I realized one day that I was afraid to actually question what I believed, and discovered comparative religion/mythology around the same time and the pieces all fell into place and I realized that I didn't have to read the Bible or any other such book literally. The Bible can be full of truths without it being factual, the same goes for any other mythology, you have to understand that.

I really hate to be rude, but when I try to have a conversation with someone that is a literalist I just want to bang my head against a wall because the conversation usually goes nowhere because the other party already 'knows' they're right and is unwilling to consider the possibility of changing their perspective if even for a moment.

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>>2011347
But Jesus literally exists and the Gospels accurately convey His message.

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>>2011293
>93
>No other religion has almighty God fully incarnate in a historical person.

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>>2011322

The city of Uruk had temples to Ishtar, where any man could go and a priestess would have sex with him. This was seen as a ritual to be closer to the gods.

"Sweet Ishullanu, let me suck your rod, touch my vagina, caress my jewel…’” - Ishtar

>dem titties.

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>>2011356

>>2011226
>The first one, especially.
Ok ok
Complaining about the Three, I get, but singling out Christianity? This makes you look like a child, Islam is far more socially conservative, their women live in curtains ffs.

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p. Sexy

>>2011338

Sure, but it's forced. In pagan religions the women do all that freely

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>>2011353

You just did the very thing I said you were going to do...

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>>2011354
>Shuk-den was nothing but a minor Ge-luk protector before the 1930s when Pa-bong-ka started to promote him aggressively as the main Ge-luk protector."[3] Dreyfus states "the propitiation of Shukden as a Geluk protector is not an ancestral tradition, but a relatively recent invention of tradition associated with the revival movement within the Geluk spearheaded by Pabongkha."[4]

>>2011347
>Christ didn't LITERALLY get nailed to the Cross guise
You sound like a Muslim apologist. From what you're saying you're some moral relativistic atheist.

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>>2011367
It's called being dependable.

>>2011293
What about all those countless societies that venerated God Kings/had imperial cults? Many acknowledged their leaders as literal divine beings on Earth, or at least partially divine, it's not so different at all from the Christian notion of Jesus being God and walking the Earth.

>>2011368

If you think Pantheistic gods don't go up and down the hierarchy then you obviously haven't even read the Greeks

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Just look at this Ishtar slut seducing a 2/3 animal.

>>2011270
The entire Americas, polynesia and european cultures were twisted due to Christianity. How is this far less than what Islam has destroyed?

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>>2011368
>literally sanctioned propaganda from Lhamo Dondrub copy/pasted from his website

>>2011371
>>2011372

2/10 strawman

At least you got me to respond. Here is your (you)

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>>2011377
Obviously those hypocrites were not divine because they've largely been forgotten.

On the other hand, Jesus Christ will remain vitally controversial until He returns.

>>2011377
Sorry duns, but it is different. ChrI still is fully God and fully man. Those kings claimed to be gods, not men. Further, they did not come for the salvation of humanity, but just to enrich themselves and solidify power. Besides that obviously they werent God nor divine, just simply human.

>>2011388
>>2011368
Anon, why haven't you accepted Dorje Shugden as your Lord and personal Dharma Protector in these spiritually degenerate times?

He died for your Attainment :3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYay5XfwOO4

>>2011391
>>2011392
>no other religion features an incarnate God
>well, other religions did indeed feature incarnate Gods, but they aren't true LOL
k

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>>2011385
(((pantheistic gods))) are not almighty

>>2011388
>literally a tripfag

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>>2011398
I said HAS not "features."

>>2011293
>>2011293

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>>2011399
>literally a frogposter

>>2011387
>>2011387
>America
Specifics? I'd prefer Christ over ritual human sacrifice on the reg. The culture of machismo and violence is very well still with the natives in centrap and south America, despite Christianity. Further, many natives still have their culture intact.
>Polynesian
Islam went there first, and before that Hinduism. Why not call them out?
>Europe
European culture is Christianity, or rather the other way around. You're lamenting for druids or something? Or Slavic wooden face trees? Some Indo-European pantheon?

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>>2011404
>literally a pedo defender

>>2011398
Sorry dude, but no other religion has God being man to walk the Earth.

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>>2011403
Anon, you need to accept Dorge Shugden as the Dharma Protector of this spiritual age.

He knew he was going to be assassinated but let it happen anyway so that in his death he could protect your path to Enlightenment.

:3

>>2011371

Look I'm really honestly trying to be empathetic here. I believed the same thing that you did, and I mean that I literally believed that Jesus was the son of God/Is God and that he died to cleanse me of sin if I merely believed that. I believed that the flood of Noah actually historically happened and that Armageddon and the Rapture was going to happen.

I'm with you on that. I know the stories and the ideas back and front. I lived it anon.

But I don't believe those things are literal historical events anymore. The people? Sure, some of them actually existed, including Joshua (Jesus we come to from the greek) but so did Gautama Siddhartha, and a slew of other figures from mythology. Myth naturally incorporates the real world into its stories as a way to relate our Being to the world.

>>2011403
In this context it means the same thing.
>no other religion has an incarnate God
>well, other religions did indeed have incarnate Gods, but they aren't true LOL

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>>2011411
>>2005103
>>2005115
>>2005132
>>2005164
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>>2005205
>>2005217
>>2005232
>>2005257

>>2011413

>no other religion has the god of my religion, which I conveniently call God, as a man walking the earth in their religion

Yeah you're right about one thing at least

>>2011037
Good, it's disgusting.
>>2011311
Christ is God embodied as a human and is fully both.
>>2011347
But it is factual.

You're a child, you know nothing of comparative religion and probably only heard of it through the Recognitions you memeshitter.
>>2011415
dude its all wrong because some guys on Reddit said it a few years ago IM SO FUCKING ENLIGHTENED BROS HAHA
>>2011419
>scholars
Look at the fucking empiricist.

>>2011413

Except the Pharaohs were Horus in life and then Osiris in death...

>>2011425
>multiple men

>>2011424
>But it is factual.

Prove it.

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>>2011414
Christ is my protector.

>>2011416
No it does not because those other religions did not indeed have incarnate Gods.

>>2011419
Kid, witches get stitches.

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>>2011424
>[triggered]

>>2011427

They were all Horus.

>>2011422
Such edge
So sharp
Wow

So are Christians the Australians of /his/?

>>2011427
Do you seriously intend to have a rational discussion or are you just going to keep moving goalposts?

You lost this one dude, just move on to the next point, this topic isn't even integral to the discussion, lots of religions had God-Men in them.

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>>2011429
>mfw Pet3r replies to me

>>2011435
Nope, that'd be commies.

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>>2011440
>mfw he defends witchcraft

>>2011442
Christians are surely the Canadians of /his/, then.

>>2011410
>prefer Christ over ritual human sacrifice

>forced conversion
>conquest
>purges
>crusades
>manifest destiny
>inquisition
>jihad
>honor killings
>witch hunts


Literally every current culture on earth has been either assailed physically or ideologically or completely influenced and dominated in some manner by some sect of either Christianity or Islam at some point in its history. Communism and Fascism are the contenders

>>2011446
Leftists do, such cancer.

>>2011449
Are we Canadians known for shitposting?

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How about the Dionysian cults?

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>>2011447
>mfw Christfags tell me I should hate Islam because it's violent and repressive but if I practice witchcraft I'll "get stitches".

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>>2011460
God's wrath is real.

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Anyhow, back on topic, Sabbatic Craft as formulated by Chumbley's Cultus Sabbati is pretty darn sexy.

>>2011467
>God's wrath is real.

Prove it.

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>>2011468

>>2011456
You must be part of the reddit shit posting leftists that are playing this board looking for a beachhead to attack /pol/

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>>2011469
Why did Judas hang himself?

>>2011469
The scourge that is the false religion of Islam

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>>2011474

>>2011482
What? Nah. I just don't go to /pol/ or /int/ these days. Last time I was on /pol/ you got to choose your flag and I've never posted on /int/.

>>2011483
>>2011485
Got anything that can't be explained via psychology and sociology better?

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>>2011486

>>2011489
I miss choosing flags. Anyway, what I said actually is going on here.

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>>2011491
God is the architect of human psychology.

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>>2011493
>93
Thelema is also sexy.

>>2011491
How Christianity has been teaching what such sciences just discovered.

>>2011496
Prove it.

>>2011410
>Specifics? I'd prefer Christ over ritual human sacrifice on the reg.
Well for starters the Taino, Lucayan, Kaligano, Calusa, Caddo, Iroquois, All the mound cultures of eastern woodlands, great lakes cultures, the plains, coastal californians, mohaves, hopi, dine and other pueblo people, tahue, raramuri, aztec, purepecha, mixtec, zapotec, maya, otomi, huastec, totonac, pipil, zoque, mixe, colima, nicarao, chorotega, lenca, xicaque, chibchan, muisca, kechwa, aymara, mapuche, xingu and other amazonian peoples. This is only a handful, but there were hundreds of ethnicities, many wiped out. Knowledge lost forever.
>The culture of machismo and violence is very well still with the natives in centrap and south America, despite Christianity.
I know at least for the Maya this actually got worst during the colonial period, see Diego de Landas account on Yucatan.
>Further, many natives still have their culture intact.
bits and pieces yea. In the case of my ethnicity for instance, I don't even know the names of any rulers at all or any history. All we have is a vocabulary, a handful of legends and stories most of which was passed on orally. And even nowadays the church was having conflicts with a neighboring indigenous group of ours. Apparently they didn't like that they were performing their rituals inside the church, which was built over an older sacred site.
>Islam went there first, and before that Hinduism. Why not call them out?
In hawaii and new zealand? I know they went into southeast asia, but I'm talking about oceania.
>European culture is Christianity, or rather the other way around. You're lamenting for druids or something? Or Slavic wooden face trees? Some Indo-European pantheon?
Well it'd be nice if we knew a little more about them.

>>2011502
So has every other religion and philosophy, to varying degrees of success. Buddhism and Stoicism were closer to truth in regards to human psychology.

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>>2011503
Creation requires a creator.

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>>2011506

>>2011508
Prove it.

>>2011424
>You're a child, you know nothing of comparative religion and probably only heard of it through the Recognitions you memeshitter.

Well I see, you've clearly ousted yourself as a turd that can type. I suppose being concise, non-inflammatory, and all around empathetic and nice isn't your style; do unto others as they say.


If you must know I started my dilettantism into comparative mythology when Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces was required reading in college. After reading that I dove into the rest of Campbell's work and moved on to Robert Graves and read the Golden Bough by Frazer. I discovered Mircea Eliade, soon after that, I scoured over much of his work. I began reading psychoanalysis (I still have a love of Jung even after ultimately leaving his side), Greek mythology, and philosophy at the same time as well. I've read the per-socratics, the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Descarte, Hume, Leibniz, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.

You don't fuck with me about what I do or don't fucking know you shit, I don't even have to bet on the knowledge that I would grind you into the dust with my dick tied behind my back.


>TL;DR You're damn right I mad and you're a tool

>>2011504
We'll, hard truth the is this:
Pagan cultures are influenced by demons and idol worship, of course they would crumble before Christ as they fear Him.

>>2011428
>prove
Fuck off empiricist.
>>2011431
No, I'm disgusted by bad philosophy (everything attention whores like you post.)
>>2011437
I'm not that person.

Rationality doesn't exist, it's a massive Enlightenment meme.

God-Man is not the same thing as God fully embodied as a single man that exists solely to bridge the gap that was created after the Fall.

>>2011505
>Buddhism
>Stoic
>we are everlasting suffering
>God is unknowable
Please.

>>2011521
>Fuck off empiricist.

Wrong, fag.

>Rationality doesn't exist, it's a massive Enlightenment meme.

He said, using rational thought to come to this conclusion. Also: prove it.

>God-Man is not the same thing as God fully embodied as a single man that exists solely to bridge the gap that was created after the Fall.
>If I focus only on what makes them different, they're nothing alike.

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>>2011528
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>>2011525
>we're stuck on an endless treadmill of gratification followed by the lessening of these pleasures, leading us into a cycle of continual want and fulfillment that will continue unabated for the rest of our existences

That's a pretty core idea to both philosophies and pretty much spot on.

>God is unknowable

Prove he exists then.

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>>2011536
Chinnamasta.

>>2011539
>inb4 'the bible says so'.

>>2011469
Proof doesn't exist, it's an empiricist meme.
>>2011491
Psychology and sociology don't explain anything.
>>2011505
>becuz i sed so
>>2011518
Stop posting, no one cares you disgusting ideologue.

>ive read a handful of things so im le genius
No one cares you functional teenager.
>>2011530
>>2011539
Prove doesn't exist.

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>>2011514
We know the universe has an age and therefore there was a time that the universe was not and therefore there must have been something to create the universe because nothing cannot create nothing.

>>2011539
>>God is unknowable
>Prove he exists then.

I agree, but that's not even the point. God as anything other than a metaphor is unknowable by its very nature. God cannot be encapsulated in a framework of mind, and goes beyond the concepts of opposites like being and non-being.

>>2011521
>God-Man is not the same thing as God fully embodied as a single man that exists solely to bridge the gap that was created after the Fall.
Yeah because that is exclusively Christian theology, obviously that one thing is unique to Christianity but incarnate Gods are absolutely not exclusive to it, which seemed to be your original assumption.

And funnily enough you shifted goalposts again.

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>>2011543
For iconographic reasons I suspect this illustrator is involved with Chumbley's systems.

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>>2011518

All of my kek

best BTFO i've seen all day

>>2011536
is it the butthole face that attracts you?

>>2011544
>Proof doesn't exist, it's an empiricist meme.

Where the fuck did you get this idea from? There are countless forms of proof, most of them aren't empirical (in fact only empirical proof is). The concept predates the idea of empiricism. Socrates was quite fond of using proofs in his dialectic.

>Psychology and sociology don't explain anything.

Except for the fact they have both proven effective as predictive and (in the case of psychology) therapeutic disciplines.

>becuz i sed so

See here >>2011539

>Prove doesn't exist.

Prove it. :^)

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>>2011553
>>2011555
Use of line.

>>2011550
I'm not that person you fucking illiterate

The person specified something that only exists in Christianity, just concede.
>>2011554
Don't reply to yourself.
>i read things that makes me an expert xDDDDD

>>2011555

maybe, its probably the veiny nipples and epic hips doe

>>2011547
Subatomic particles have been observed coming into existence without cause. Further only matter in the universe has a definitive age. The background energies and fundamental forces have always been as far as we can tell.

Also: prove it.

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>>2011558
Sure is shitposty in here.

>>2011556
>proof exists because i sed so
I'm not referring to epistemological empiricism, I'm referring to an ontological empiricism.
>Except for the fact they have both proven effective as predictive and (in the case of psychology) therapeutic disciplines.
Except that's false.
>Prove it. :^)
Presupposition of the existence of proof. Typical empiricist honkery.
>>2011564
Proof doesn't exist. Subatomic particles don't exists.
>we can tell
Presupposition of a knowable universe.
>>2011567
You? Yes.

>>2011559
>>2011544
>>2011424
On a scale of one to ten, how hurt is your ass?

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>>2011564
Without a detectable cause you mean and those "fundamental forces" are a language which require speaker.

They are a language because we can understand them and express them therefore there is an Understanding Mind who authored them.

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>>2011567
Someone's GREAT rendition of Gnostic Mass.

>>2011568
I'm posting my cache of sexy religious art.
All you appear to be doing is throwing a bitchfit like a teenager on the rag.

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>>2011559

>i read one book that makes me an expert xDDDDD

Also, try again

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>>2011574

>>2011568
>I'm not referring to epistemological empiricism, I'm referring to an ontological empiricism.

Buzzwords. I'm not an empiricist, I'll accept any standard of proof, and you know you require a standard of proof in your day to day life. Unless you don't in which case have you bought any bridges lately.

>Except that's false.

In what way?

>Presupposition of the existence of proof. Typical empiricist honkery.

Kay. Tell me of your bridge-properties and how you'll soon be making mad bank on them.

>Subatomic particles don't exists.

Oh wow, we're getting into some moon hoax territory.

>Presupposition of a knowable universe.

You're currently willingly interacting with it, so you've already accepted that proposition, so don't try to weasel out of its conclusions.

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>>2011582
>You're currently willingly interacting with it, so you've already accepted that proposition, so don't try to weasel out of its conclusions.

BTFO

>>2011573
>Without a detectable cause

>God is sitting there creating subatomic particles.

Kay.

>those "fundamental forces" are a language which require speaker.

Prove it.

>They are a language because we can understand them and express them therefore there is an Understanding Mind who authored them.

They're not a language; they serve no communicative function.

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>>2011585
They communicate reality.

>>2011569
Not at all. Stop being braindead.
>>2011574
Attention-whoring is shitposting. Nothing you've posted is remotely sexy anyway.
>>2011578
It's incredibly easy to bypass that mechanic, I often do it unwillingly so no doubt you could do it willingly
>>2011582
Proof doesn't exist. You're an empiricist because you believe in a knowable (existing) universe.
>so you've already accepted that proposition
False, don't delude yourself.
>>2011584
Stop replying to yourself you 12-year-old.
>>2011585
Proof doesn't exist.

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>>2011583
Definitely some sexy religion up in Mirror of Simple Souls.

>you will never rescue a qt3.14 beguine from the flames of heresy

>>2011588
No they don't. Communication spreads ideas. Reality is not an idea.

>>2011508
The problem is, less imaginative human minds must personify this creator in order to be able to fathom it. The creating force was not a man, nor man-like, and it especially was not the Canaanite god of war "Yahweh."

The force that created all is all. The separation of all is what we are able to observe, that which we're a part of.

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>>2011590
>Nothing you've posted is remotely sexy anyway.
I'd drop my collection of hardcore gay Jesus porn but this is an SFW board.

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>>2011594
Communication spreads the truth and reality is true.

>>2011598
God spoke and created all things; Jesus is His Word.

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>>2011600

>>2011590
>You're an empiricist because you believe in a knowable (existing) universe.

Words have meanings. I am not an empiricist. I also don't believe we can know the universe, due to the limitations of our senses. I just believe it highly probable that there is one.

>False, don't delude yourself.

Lying is a sin. You're interacting with it in a consistent, structured fashion. Thats acceptance of a knowable universe, otherwise you'd be in a catatonic state of perpetual doubt.

>Proof doesn't exist.

You keep asserting this, but give no reason to believe it. Your proposition is self-defeating. You either can provide no reason to believe it (if proof doesn't exist) or you can, and thus defeat the proposition by proving it.

>>2011610
>otherwise you'd be in a catatonic state of perpetual doubt.
And?
>reason
Doesn't exist

>>2011608
>reality is true

Prove it.

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>>2011609
>when The Buddha knows to keep your fuckboi on the downlow with Lord Shiva because you love to get Hebrew'd. Nailed, as it were.

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>>2011590

This is starting to get epic anons, is he going to go for the gold? Who's taking bets?

>>2011619
haha epic emes xDDDDdD

>>2011615
>And?

You're not, so you demonstrate that you've accepted a knowable universe.

>Doesn't exist

I just used it to show how your proposition is complete bullshit. I know you may not possess it, but please don't project your limitations on to others.

>>2011590

>proof doesn't exist
>I can prove my literal beliefs

>>2011624
>You're not, so you demonstrate that you've accepted a knowable universe.
Prove it.
>I just used it to show how your proposition is complete bullshit
Presupposition of reason.

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>>2011617
It is what it is.

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>>2011618
Also, Hail Eris.

>>2011619
At least nobody's doing that thing where they copy and reply with huge chunks of headers and post numbers.

>>2011626
>Prove it.

Well you're still here shitposting, and while I can't be certain of that fact, it's highly probable that you're currently being a massive, butthurt faggot who needs to grow the fuck up. I think I'm going to go back through these posts and find out when sent you on this little temper tantrum, so I can know (yes know) just how much you need to grow up.

>Presupposition of reason.

The guy who thinks proof doesn't exist is complaining about the quality of other peoples proofs, but why would he complain about the quality of something that doesn't exist?

>>2011619
I think I'm the third contestant here and I must admit to feeling a bit bottom befuddled. I think I'll go play some video games rather than carry this stupid business on.

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>>2011628

>>2011636
What tantrum? You sure like to make presumptions.

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>>2011637
heh
mormonism

>>2011642
The one where you've grown increasingly vitriolic and your spelling, grammar and punctuation have progressively declined as you reply to several posters at a time in an increasingly angry and rude fashion.

>>2011648
All false. Try again.

>>2011636

pretty sure it started somewhere around here

>>2011037
>>2011226
>>2011245
>>2011270
>>2011293
>>2011311
>>2011328

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>>2011647

>>2011651
Did it not meet your standard of proof?

>>2011504
>This is only a handful, but there were hundreds of ethnicities, many wiped out. Knowledge lost forever


Most of these died off before Europeans actually crushed them. Remember Aztecs and Incas were empires that conquered many of their own.

The only ones i sorely miss are the Patagonic tribes, Alacalufe, Kaweshkar and Selknam, they were amazing compared to the rest of the jungle and mountain squaters.

>>2011652
I didn't start posting until like 20 minutes ago you idiot.
>>2011658
No such thing exists.

You are not even consistent within your own ideology, you're a fucking joke.

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>>2011651

>doesn't believe proof exists
>continues calling things true or false


You really can't make this shit up

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>>2011658
Wait, I thought that was the guy who doesn't believe in proof.

Whose zozzling which dolans again?

>>2011667
Things can be right and wrong without fedora concepts like 'proof'.

Wait wait, so I'm confused. I can't even tell who's trolling who at this point

>>2011670

How can you prove something is right or wrong?

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>>2011668
>who's

>>2011672
You don't.

>>2011676

So how would you know the difference?

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>>2011671

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>>2008110
it hurts

>>2011266
song of songs

>>2011617

What is true other than what is correct, verifiable and effective? If reality could not be it?

>>2011679

Depends on his fee fees.

He can FEEL things have correctness, just like all his boo boos are no-nos.

>tfw derailed thread

>>2011694
>he can't taste the difference between salt and sugar

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>>2011689
Yes, but just about any time we're talking about hands and feet, feet particularly, there's a healthy chance there's some fuck innuendo mixed in.

>tfw the biblical authors were /tv/ tier footfags

>>2011697

It was for a worthy cause. At least some anons have been kind enough to sprinkle the sexy mythic figure pics.

You get the guys coming in and barking their literalist religious beliefs and you got a failed thread anyway, only thing to do is take off and nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

>>2011698

Are you suggesting morality has flavor?

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>>2011710
it's sweeter than honey and the honeycomb

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>>2011706
I'm still totes down to talk about sexy religion, especially materials in Thelema and Tantra.

Have a Gnostic Mass:
http://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib15.html

>>2011698

Most people have different amounts of taste receptors, some lack them completely, some have strange neuronal arrangements that alter sensations for them.

Some simply get dulled out permanently.

>>2011702
here's an interesting one for you

nearly all mammals with the notable exception of man and horses have a bone in their penis to help maintain erections, it's called a baculum. This odd fact of anatomy was well known in antiquity, and it has been speculated that in genesis 2 when god takes adam's "rib" to make eve the ancient hebrew word that is translated as rib was actually a euphemism for baculum, and that part of the creation story explained why man has none when so many animals do.

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>>2011716
Christ gives sight to the blind and heals the lame.

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>>2011710
>Samarasa, the Essential Taste of Self-Similarity, distilled from the twin seats of masculine and feminine energies, comingled and alchemically consecrated as the Aquae Vitae and Universal Solvent.

>>2011721
>tfw no baculum wand
I've wanted one for a long goddamn time. It's just hard to find an animal with the proper size and shape that's not endangered as fuck. Best I could find was walrus baculi (bacula/baculums?)

>>2011723
>heals the lame.
Still waiting for your turn then, huh? Dork.

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>>2011739
With the full assurance of hope I persevere.

>>2011668
I was making fun of that guy, but he seems to completely lack self-awareness.

>>2011698
That's actually a good example.

Given only the use of my eyes, salt and sugar look the same, at least with a cursory glance. I can't decide which is one or the other.

The tasting with my tongue is proof(!) that the two are different. I can cross-reference the tastes with previous tastes I have experienced.

So yeah, proof-based decision-making again.

>>2011940
Though to be perfectly fair you'll never know if it isn't your sense of taste somehow deceiving you, but you have to take a leap of faith at some point.

>>2011944
Well, yeah, you could be deceived. Assuming there is no evidence of that, though, you can take action with the assumption of the identities of the two objects until given reason to doubt that.

>>2011253
Yeah Christianity sure destroyed all that nigger technology.

>whaaaa I can't fap to Christianity
Kill yourself.

Ape must be somewhere on the spectrum, it is highly improbable that neurotypical adult sacrifices so much time, attention and energy to such narrow, specific topics. His interest in occult is borderline obsessive, which is indicative of OCD whic frequentley occurs in AS and Highly Functioning Autism. Magical thinking that Ape displays is also frequent is AS, and in low iq highly fnctioning autism even moreso. High functioning autistics who displays magical thinking are prime suspects for schizophrenia in later life (30+ of age), and deducing by his writing style he must be somewhat 25-30 years old.

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>>2012028
You know you're in a dark age when intelligence and erudition are taken as evidence of mental illness.

>>2012070
Well, americans did elect a person who might have alzheimers to be their voice.

>>2012070
Well, technically autism is not mental illness (ilness implies it could be cured), it's more of a
neurological disorder. However in some instances it is advantageous

>>2012088
I thought Hillary lost?

>>2007999
>>2008022
>>2008083


sex a human right and open up tax-payer founded brothels where we can have free sex at-least once a month.
pussy be a human right provided by the state
>the state provides corporations a pool of exploitable labor to screw
>the state enforces the right for corporations to screw you
if you are not exploited, you can go to your local labor office and put your name on the list for your government to arrange corporate exploitation
so, the answer is yes, since they already provide it for corporations. they should not discriminate against the little man
the state bends over backwards to accommodate the appetite of corporations:
if corporations want more exploitable resources to screw, the state will increase the pool by opening up the borders
pussy rights were recognized and enforced by the state religion since ancient times

>>2012190
>>2007999


>The Babylonian custom is that which compels every woman of the land to sit in the temple of Aphrodite and have intercourse with some stranger at least once in her life. Many women who are rich and proud and disdain to mingle with the rest, drive to the temple in covered carriages drawn by teams, and stand there with a great retinue of attendants. But most sit down in the sacred plot of Aphrodite, with crowns of cord on their heads; there is a great multitude of women coming and going; passages marked by line run every way through the crowd, by which the men pass and make their choice. Once a woman has taken her place there, she does not go away to her home before some stranger has cast money into her lap, and had intercourse with her outside the temple; but while he casts the money, he must say, “I invite you in the name of Mylitta” (that is the Assyrian name for Aphrodite). It does not matter what sum the money is; the woman will never refuse, for that would be a sin, the money being by this act made sacred. So she follows the first man who casts it and rejects no one. After their intercourse, having discharged her sacred duty to the goddess, she goes away to her home; and thereafter there is no bribe however great that will get her. So then the women that are fair and tall are soon free to depart, but the uncomely have long to wait because they cannot fulfil the law; for some of them remain for three years, or four. There is a custom like this in some parts of Cyprus.

prostitution was considered sacred and done as charity without consideration of money
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_prostitution

>>2011386

isnt that some whore fucking enkidu, not ishtar?

>>2012097
>The most notable damage was located deep in the VIP room of the Clinton camp. A custom 150 inch ultra HD TV, a gift from the Saudi Arabian government, was found with a broken screen. The damage was caused by a $950,000 bottle of champagne that was believed to have been thrown at the screen by the former presidential candidate some time during the election.

>>2011940

What if you had the concepts of salty and sweet completely switched around and a societal pressure from people to keep you from learning about it?

Christian polemics say that syrian priests for some airgodess used to dress effeminately, wear makeup, wail and cry in their processions like women and got it up the bum before playing flutes and telling fortunes.

>Oh if only that kike on a stick didn't fuck up muh Rome we would have M'ladies offering there bodies to everyone and I wouldn't be an Incel
*tips Fedora*

>>2011987

>hey look guys I can invalidate entire civilizations if I just put the word nigger in front of them

>>2012321

>implying the problems with Christianity have anything to do with Christ

>>2011647
https://youtu.be/46PXaJxzuDE

>>2011694
Everything is based on feelings, Anon.

Remember: logic is dictate to feeling.

>>2012447
That's fuckin' glorious.

>>2008005

wow thanks, seems very cool

>>2013052
As mentioned the focus is a tad narrow; Tantra and Thelema, and not even complete pictures of both; since I put that together I've posted Crowley's unpublished papers from the Yorke Microfilms of the Warburg Collection. I've also significantly expanded my tantra collections (Hevajra Tantra, Kurukulla practice, visualization manuals for Trika Kaula).

>>2011399
Trip fags are the worst

>>2013172
I'm sorry you get [triggered] by active and on-topic discussion.

>>2013187
There's no triggering. You're just a massive faggot.

>>2013191
What sexy aspects of religion do you feel like discussing, anon?

I don't think we've covered much spermo-Gnosticism ITT.

>>2012305
You'd still know they tasted different.

Why is it that every time a thread on /his/ has any mention of any sort of religion it turns into christians and anti-christians throwing shit at each other?
Every. Single. Time.

>>2013205
https://books.google.com/books?id=Z-GbOvrbniQC&pg=PT6&lpg=PT6&dq=Zoophilia+ancient+egypt&source=bl&ots=goUe5leI2S&sig=wwwm8RmJx_l9koglR9XfvY_Zy1U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OCZJVIKBEsexyATziILgCQ#v=onepage&q=Zoophilia%20ancient%20egypt&f=false

I really think ancient cultures views on bestiality combined with religion. It's really funny.

>>2013226
>Man, I'm broke as shit. Guess I'll go fuck this croc.

2005, huh? I think had a cache of texts on extreme sexual practices through culture but couldn't figure out an excuse to throw them in the library.

>>2013172
>Trip fags are the worst
Ape of Thoth is literally the exception that proves the rule

>>2008005
Who are you and do you have anything about the Maya

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>>2013320
>who am I
I'm a tripfag from /x/. Started using a code like four or five years ago but it's changed and /x/ wasn't my homeboard. Wanted to contribute something meaningful between the succubus shitposting and hanz/mia spam.

Built up a library (you can find it in my 'historical defense of witchcraft and paganism' thread). It has over 5k texts, many of them rare scans that generally aren't found elsewhere, including the Yorke Microfilms of the Warburg Collection, and I make routine updates. My current project is scanning Tantraloka, and Abhinavagupta text that's barely in English, let alone online.

I got my undergrad in archaeology. I'm working on an MPA specializing in museum admin. I currently work in a curatorial capacity.

>>2013320
>>2013348
Oh, and with respect to Mayan cultures, no I don't. I sorta wanna present some linguistic stuff for reconstructionists but my favorite Mayan linguistic manuals aren't online.

I've got a few shamanic texts in the "shamanic" folder including a copy of The Jaguar Within:
https://www.amazon.com/Jaguar-Within-Shamanic-American-Pre-Columbian/dp/0292726260

I have a fair bit of info on the Moche and other proto-Incan peoples of Peru in the academic folder.

>>2013215
>christians and anti-christians throwing shit at each other

It generally starts with the uber-religious coming in and shouting down everyone because we're all hateful fedora wearing cringe atheists going to hell

>>2007969
Have you guys ever happened to come across with porn themed like these?

>>2012028
You know, not everyone that's passionate or kinda weird has a neurological disorder man.

>>2013348
>hanz/mia spam

That nigga just showed up on /x/ for the first time in ages after you posted this. I feel like this is your fault somehow, Frater.

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>>2014076
>mfw

>>2013463
Not going to lie, this board has killed any thoughts of me becoming religious.

>>2012405
This: those in the know blame Paul and Constantine in equal measures.

>>2014316
inorite? I used to try to keep an open mind about Christianity until I saw how the Christians here act.

>>2014326
The shit slinging between denominations makes me feel like I'm in a console war thread. It is honest to god like /v/ with delusions of sophistication

>>2014350
>>2014326
That's why you should reject Protestantism, Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodoxy in favor of Gnosticism and/or the Oriental Orthodox. Maybe Beguines, Beghards, and other Antinomians.

Just because you're a Christfag doesn't mean you have to be a YEC/ethnophysite/denomination shilling Christfag.

>>2014364
Nah. I'm seriously not big on the notion of a perfect God in any thinking form. I believe the wellspring of reality would be an unthinking pantheism of some sort.

>>2014350
I once saw a poster (a Christian actually) describe it for non-believers as watching people argue about bigfoot or alien abduction stories and from the outside, it really does feel that way.

>>2014371
I wouldn't disagree, IJS there are, in fact, non shitty options on the table.

>>2014377
I've personally noticed the loudest participants in that shit tend to be recent(ish) converts who haven't settled into their praxes yet.

>>2014397
>I wouldn't disagree, IJS there are, in fact, non shitty options on the table.

Yeah, fair enough. I always liked the idea of the form of the good for that, though I never was able to swallow it.

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Why the flying fuck did religiously inspired ritualistic sex have to fucking die.

If only it hadn't I wouldn't have to suffer through life as a 25 year old virgin like I am now.

Thanks Jesus.

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>>2015243
It didn't.

Find a ritual partner and get to Work.

>>2015275
It did in the West.

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>>2015243

>>2015295
Then why do I have this massive cache of Western sex magick files?

>>2015305
I can lie on the internet too if I wanted.

>>2015339
I doubt he's lying. The types that are into occultism also tend to be pretty libertine, so it's not much of a stretch to think that they've written a fair bit about magical fucking.

>>2014320

This nigga knows what's up

>>2015305
How to find women interested in Western sex magick?

Popobawa (meaning “bat-wing” in Swahili) is said to be a large, bat-like creature with one eye and a very large penis. It is said to stalk the men and women of Zanzibar, Africa, and surrounding islands. It is a shapeshifter, often taking the form of a human or animal. It usually visits households at night, and it doesn’t discriminate against men, women or children, often sodomising an entire household before moving on. Victims are warned by Popobawa to tell others about the attack, or risk it returning.

Popobawa first appeared on the island of Pemba in 1965, and sightings have been reported as recently as 2007. There are several different theories about Popobawa’s origin. Some say it is an angry spirit created by a Sheikh to take vengeance on his neighbours. In 2007, Researcher Benjamin Radford investigated Popobawa and found that its roots are in Islam, the dominant religion of the area. According to Radford, “holding or reciting the Koran is said to keep the Popobawa at bay, much as the Bible is said to dispel Christian demons.”

>>2016294
Ren Faire
With that said, don't go in with high expectations

>>2016299
>With that said, don't go in with high expectations
I am not a greedy man.

>>2016296

>literally inventing demons to scare people into reading the Koran

Oh islam, you so crazy

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>>2012028
Nah his only sin (though it is pretty terrible) is that he's a disgusting tripfag

>>2016379
he's one of the good ones though. He provides a lot of good source material for religion threads.

>>2011253
The idea of progress is secularised Christian eschatology. Similarly, Christianity established the concept of an egalitarian society.

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>>2011724
oh hey i lived i lived two hours away from the borobudur, what are some spooky stuff i can do there

>>2015339
>lie on the internet
>>2008005
>See my folder on the subject:
>https://mega.nz/#F!sdxBVZCT!1cbfKNTqV--kMRD9EtN5ow

>>2016498
A Mahayana monument in Java?
No idea.

>>2008083
Eh they could get the same results with a bukkake event and it wouldn't be a sin.

>>2011504
>dine and other pueblo people
>dine
>pueblo
Yeah they wish.
Also many of the cultures are still alive to this day.

>>2007969
>tfw when days later and the thread I derailed still isn't on its original lame topic
Praise God

>>2016936
As water merges in water, as fire merges in fire, as (the void within) a broken pot dissolves in aether, and as air merges with air, so too the brahmana and brahmani dissolve in the supreme essence by drinking wine. Mountain Born One, there is no doubt about it! - Matrikabheda Tantra, III,34-35

The Matrikabheda tantra is one of the oldest Hindutantric texts, dated to the fourth century AD.

The Matrikabheda Tantra is a brief Kaula text which, however, contains some interesting threads alluded to in only a few other tantras. For example, there are
clear references to alchemy, so linking this work to Indian texts of the Raseshvaras - Lords of the Rasa or the quintessence. It also clearly sets out methods of meditation on the goddess as Kundalini at the root of the spine, alludes to sexual techniques of the Kaulas, to the pre-eminence of the guru, to Chandi, and outlines the importance of building temples, establishing tanks and the unity of the different forms of Shakti.

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>>2016952
This is Sir John Woodroffe's (Arthur Avalon) introduction to a Sanskrit edition of the Kaulavalinirnaya in Sanskrit which is now out of print and out of copyright. Because it covers many topics relating to the Kaula tradition of tantra, it merits wider availability. The text, to the best of my knowledge, is not available in an English translation.

The third Chapter speaks of the rite of Antaryaga. Unless a man does this any outward Yaga or sacrificial rite that he may do becomes fruitless. Antaryaga may be done in different ways such as Kundaliniyoga or meditation by the Sadhaka in his heart on the Ocean of Nectar in the middle of which is the Island of Gems encircled by a beach of golden sand. All over the Island are Parijata trees and in its middle is a Kalpa tree which is composed of the 50 letters of the alphabet. At the foot of this tree is the excellent Temple of Light (Jyotirmandira) decked with Gems of various kinds. It is resplendent like the rising sun and is a hundred Yojanas in extent. Its light is diffused all over the universe. Surrounded by a wall of gold it has four entrances. Inside the temple is an Altar of Gems, and over it an umbrella made of thread of gold. The Sadhaka should meditate there upon the Great Yantra resting on the altar and filled to overflowing with Nectar. Yantra here means a receptacle, containing nectar or wine. Verse 77 is identical with one quoted in Serpent Power which describes the mind of the Yogi as dissolved in the Great Void (Mahashunya). When he is able to do this, he is a king among Yogis. His inward light can then rest on the plane which is without support (Niralambapada) and he attains the highest form of Dhyana.

http://www.shivashakti.com/kaulav.htm

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>>2016965
The jiva (embodied human) is devoid of qualities. Devi, for the jiva, pleasure is delusion. There is no doubt about this. Kundalini, the form of Sun, Moon and Fire, is endowed with qualities. Matrikabheda III, 6.
This is the second chapter of the large tantrik digest Devirahasya, and deals with the bija and other mantras of a number of Devis and Shaktis. Some of these, such as Bala, Jvalamukhi and Rajni have larger sections devoted to them in the body of the text.

As the Matrikabheda Tantra points out, "names" of goddesses are really adjectives of the one goddess, and this goes for male aspects of divinity too.

While, in the original text, the letters making up the following mantras were given in code form, they are decoded in the translation below. Numbers which occur in mantras, such as Krim 3, and so forth, mean the word is to be repeated the requisite number of times.

While the following collection of written words may even be expressed as utterances, the tantrik texts and adepts are adamant that such remain mere words and letters without being infused with the mantra consciousness of the Devis they are said to represent. The same applies to the geometric form of divinity expressed as yantra. They are dead collections of lines and petals without Shakti.

>>2016972
http://www.shivashakti.com/deviras2.htm

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>>2016982
I remember again and again the dark primaeval Devi swayed with passion, Her beauteous face heated and moist with the sweat of amorous play, Bearing a necklace of Gunja berries, and clad with leaves - Bhuvaneshvari Stotra, quoted in Avalon's Hymns to the Goddess
Hindu tantras are discourses between Shiva and Shakti, the male and female aspects of divinity whose play creates the entire universe. The Jnanasankalini Tantra is a brief work of 107 shlokas (verses) which outlines the dynamics of this interplay.

Of particular importance in this short work is the emphasis placed on the syllable Om, made up of the three Sanskrit letters a+u+m. These represent Shiva, Shakti and their union and can also be represented by the three gunas or qualities well known as rajas, tamas and sattvas.

Other important elements of the tantrik cosmology are outlined here, including the correspondence between the macrocosm and the microcosm, the five elements of earth, air, fire, water and space, and the essential similarity between the individual spirit, the Atma, and the universal spirit, the Paramatma.

The emphasis here is on Jnana, or pure knowledge. Although the spirit is one and all- pervading, it manifests through a variety of elements (tattvas). Through ignorance, an individual soul (jiva), may take each or any of these elements to be himself or herself.

The work here translated is, then, a brief summary of the essential elements of the Hindu tantrik tradition. There is no indication in the contents of this book when it was written, but it cannot be very old.

http://www.shivashakti.com/jnana.htm

>>2016993
>93
Only when Shiva is united with Shakti does he have the power to create - Saundaryalahari
Second-hand knowledge of the self gathered from books or gurus can never emancipate a man until its truth is rightly investigated and applied; only direct realisation will do that. Realise yourself, turning the mind inward. - Tripura Rahasya, 18: 89

http://www.shivashakti.com/
^Lokanath's website.

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>>2017012
Yab-yum (Tibetan literally, "father-mother") is a common symbol in the Buddhist art of India, Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibet. It represents the primordial union of wisdom and compassion, depicted as a male deity in sexual union with his female consort. The male figure represents compassion and skillful means, while the female partner represents insight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yab-Yum

Thanks for the mega link, Ape. Started reading Kiss of the Yogini and I remembered why I have trouble getting into this type of stuff.
The damn vocab. If the book in question has a lot of specific vocab (like all the Hindi words) I find it hard to get into a book. I can read and understand on a surface level, but to get into it I need my to make a personal vocab that's always at hand.
Literal translations are often inadequate too. I understand that Kaula means 'clan' but that says fuck all to me.
And then there's academic lingo like "exegesis". But that's less trouble.

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>>2017030
Kiss of the Yogini is an advanced intro, mostly for academics, etc.

You may wanna try Jan Fries' Kali Kaula. There's still lots of Sanskrit words but it's MUCH less academic.

There's also Lokanath's AMOoKoS manual, but it's meant for practitioners, and actually isn't related to the Natha or the Kaula, it's a synthesis of many tantras meant as an intro for western magicians, you'll probably get nothing out of it if you don't intend to practice or aren't rooted in the western esoteric traditions.

>>2017041
You should read up about devi worship and matriarch in south western India.

So Ape, what got you into this stuff?

>>2020041
satan

>>2007969
have they said islam yet...because goats

>>2011547

True. The world was made by hindu gods.

>>2020457
Go away.

>>2020930
Why do you worship satan you fucking catholic

>>2020041
Experience. I started reading and practicing magick young.

When I was like 14 I printed out all three of Agrippa's books of occult philosophy and put them in a binder. That was after my edgelordy Satanic phase and experiments with like "Wicca".

One of the people involved in the early Wicca experiments was somewhat proficient with Enochian. That really hooked me in.

>>2012198

Yeah it's the Ishtar priestess doing her duty.

Thinking I could lift some of my posts from this thread plus the Vajrayana thread and weave them into a trantra thread.

>>2008110
why even live

>>2011037
>The Picts, just for instance, were a pagan society that openly fucked in public with no qualms, they also had regular orgies.

If the sources your reading are Christian in nature, you may want to rethink the validity of those claims. While sex was probably much more casual, regular orgies sounds like something someone would concot to discredit the culture of a foreign people.

>>2023982

By regularly I meant seasonally, during fertility festivivals

>>2011547
Actually, classic thermodynamic physics seems to fall apart the farther "subatomic" you go. Hence the branch of quantum physics.

What you describe seems to hold true for visible light and matter, but visible light and matter are only 30% of our entire universe. The rest is about 10-20% dark matter, and the remainder being dark energy.

Also, it is lazy logic and still a false premise to presume the universe must have had some kind of conscious supernatural (i.e. outside nature/the physical universe) entity.

Most of those deeply studying dark matter and quantum physics seem to believe in 'multiverse' theories. That our universe is but one small bubble in a tub of foamy bubble bath, made up of countless other 'bubbles'. Some grow and pop or shrink or whatever faster than others due to different compositions.

Although we will never have evidence because we cannot look at the 'edge' of our universe, as it is constantly getting farther away from us at a faster pace.

>>2011549
how convenient...

>>2022642
do it.

>>2012195
>Giving away pussy as charity.
What was the religious/phylosphical/social significance of this practise?
I cannot comprehend.
I cannot comprehend it.

>>2026477
I didn't expect the thread to linger but I'll be sure to make an OP when I get home from work/class.

>>2026473

What do you mean convenient?

I'm not using the old stale argument of "Yeah but you can't DISPROVE the existence of God, u lose lol"

God is one of those transcendental ideas that goes beyond our categories of thought and exists outside empirical observation.

Catch up on your Kant

>>2027341
>hurr durr resort to Kant
how convenient.

>>2007969

Most certainly pre-reformation Christianity.

>>2027190

Their sexual union was, for both participants, communion with the divine. In the case of the king himself, there was a yearly celebration that re-enacted the marriage of the shepherd-king Dumuzi with the goddess Inanna.

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>>2011226
>You can't convince me that the world wouldn't be better off and happier without Christianity
hello, Reddit

>>2011046
>erotic chunks of the Bible are
>calling Israel a whore as a figure of speech is erotic
You know what you have to do

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>>2011270
>God Incarnate, something that is not found in any other religion.

>>2011226
Wouldn't knocking off judaism early stop the other two from forming? Sure, we would probably have large cults anyways, but they would be for something else.