Esoteric knowledge is not so much secret, but hidden.
Kocky von Stuckrad - Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities (2010), p. 56
Kocky von Stuckrad - Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities (2010), p. 56
Ликолампи
Esoteric knowledge is not so much secret, but hidden. Kocky von Stuckrad - Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities (2010), p. 56
This is the reason why it is very fruitful to use twentieth-century philosophy in order to understand kabbalistic literature. Phenomenological continental philosophy and what sometimes is vaguely referred to as ‘postmodern’ philosophy, are particularly worthwhile for exploring the many dimensions of kabbalistic texts, for the simple reason that this philosophy is also characterized by intertextuality, multivalence, a dialectic of concealment and revelation of truth, and the approach of texts as textures in which the reader plays a decisive role and the time gap between texts and reader is invalidated.
Ibid., p. 102
Ibid., p. 102
Ликолампи
Esoteric knowledge is not so much secret, but hidden. Kocky von Stuckrad - Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities (2010), p. 56
At first glance, academic philology of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries may look like a sober revaluation of religious texts. However, when we take a closer look at the field of philology, we encounter many actors who are well known from the history of esoteric discourses. This is because many humanist philologists were not simply interested in the objective description of the development of human languages or the exact contextualization and translation of ancient texts; many humanists applied the instruments of philological scrutiny to their overall search for the ultimate language, or Ursprache. The quest for the “Adamic language” that was spoken in Paradise and that there- fore represented the closest affinity to the divine or sacred language is particularly relevant for experts of the Hebrew language. Within the humanist movement, the Christian Hebraists played a crucial role, both for esoteric interpretations of the cosmos and for the emergence of modern societies.
Ibid., p. 111
Ibid., p. 111
Ликолампи
Esoteric knowledge is not so much secret, but hidden. Kocky von Stuckrad - Locations of Knowledge in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Esoteric Discourse and Western Identities (2010), p. 56
I have argued above that the term ‘occult sciences’ is a misleading category that artificially links disciplines that are in fact very diverse and historically complex. However, what unites—to some extent—the disciplines of astrology, alchemy, and magic, is the fact that all of them have been ‘distanced away’ by what I call the processes of disjunction since the eighteenth century. In such a dialectic, these disciplines func- tion as a ‘significant Other’ of post-Enlightenment Western identities. From a discursive point of view, it is interesting to look at the forma- tion of academic theories that legitimate the distancing of these disci- plines. The episteme even determines what counts as relevant objects of study in the academy.
Ibid., p. 200
Ibid., p. 200
"Губки обладаютъ уникальной способностью къ регенераціи. Съ одной стороны, губка, разрѣзанная на пять разныхъ частей, даетъ начало пяти новымъ губкамъ. Съ другой стороны, двѣ губки, растертыя на на теркѣ на отдѣльныя клѣтки, послѣ этого перемѣшанныя между собой, вновь возстанавливаются въ качествѣ двухъ первоначальныхъ организмовъ. При этомъ клѣтки не перепутываются и возвращаются въ тѣло материнскаго организма"
С.В. Наугольныхъ - Палеонтологія Москвы и Подмосковья (2023)
С.В. Наугольныхъ - Палеонтологія Москвы и Подмосковья (2023)
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NB Egill Asprem - The Magical Theory of Politics: Memes, Magic, and the Enchantment of Social Forces in the American Magic War
https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/article/23/4/15/107331/The-Magical-Theory-of-PoliticsMemes-Magic-and-the?searchresult=1
https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/article/23/4/15/107331/The-Magical-Theory-of-PoliticsMemes-Magic-and-the?searchresult=1
NB старенькое, но пусть будетъ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html (о Луисѣ Элизондо)
NY Times
Glowing Auras and ‘Black Money’: The Pentagon’s Mysterious U.F.O. Program (Published 2017)
The shadowy program began in 2007 and was largely funded at the request of Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, who has had a longtime interest in space phenomena.
Forwarded from Подледный футбол
Кстати, нашел еще один подледный футбольный клуб - "Металлург" из Кыштыма.
На фото фанаты кыштымского суперклуба на выезде в Златоусте. Это чемпионат Челябинской области.
А на баннере изображен один из важнейших подледных символов - кыштымский карлик Алешенька!
На фото фанаты кыштымского суперклуба на выезде в Златоусте. Это чемпионат Челябинской области.
А на баннере изображен один из важнейших подледных символов - кыштымский карлик Алешенька!
О суверенности, а также секретности и приватности какъ ея условіяхъ:
I refer to the state’s central need to pursue, generate, and manage secret knowledge in order to sustain its sovereignty. The capacity to do this is actually indispensable to the sovereignty that modern states claim and aim to practice today. Indeed, a state that cannot produce or manage secret knowledge — that is to say, a state that has no secrets and cannot hide its secrets simply cannot be sovereign. That is why scholars such as the historian Michael Warner* have defined the very notion of intelligence (as in, intelligence agencies) as the pursuit and management of secret knowledge by and for the preservation of sovereignty. And while the practices of espionage may be ancient, and not confined solely to states, Warner (2014) points to a set of fundamental transformations at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries that gave rise to what we now call “intelligence” — where it becomes bureaucratized, professionalized, centralized, institutionally independent, and increasingly indispensable to the modern state as it becomes the primary claimant to sovereignty. Warner shows that the institutionalization of secrecy and suspicion comes about historically with the modern state’s becoming the main claimant to sovereignty, above all other entities.
Importantly, liberal democracies are not exempt from this requirement of sovereignty and, thus, from their need to constantly gather secret knowledge. Without such sovereignty, they cannot claim to be genuinely democratic, as they would then be vulnerable to both external intervention and internal subversion. And if they cannot be genuinely democratic, then their claim to being liberal is also rendered unstable (think, for example, about the hacking of elections). It might seem as though the pursuit of secret knowledge through surveillance is incompatible with liberal democracy, but in an important sense, quite the opposite is true because the effective generation of secret knowledge requires that there be a domain of privacy. If there were nothing hidden from anybody, no one could have secret knowledge or the need to generate it. For the surveillance that generates secret knowledge to yield the results it seeks, people must believe in a domain where they are unseen, where they can act “as themselves” without hindrance, without their actions being guarded. Of course, the suspicion that such surveillance is happening can make people more guarded in their private lives, and this can generate a complex, intensifying dynamics of evasion and pursuit. That is one reason why the state aims to conduct its intelligence-gathering activities in secret. What I want to emphasize here is that the liberal democratic state not only requires secret knowledge to sustain its sovereignty but is, with its commitment to personal privacy, especially conducive to the generation of that knowledge. Maybe that is why, in liberal democracies like the United States, the amount of classified information is several times larger than all the information available in the public domain (see Masco 2014).
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* Not Michael Warner the critical theorist.
Hussein Ali Agrama - After Muslims: Authority, Suspicion, and Secrecy in the Liberal Democratic State
in "Conspiracy / Theory" (2024), pp. 399-400
Любопытная статья (по большей части о паттернѣ смѣшенія или сліянія въ общественномъ воображеніи идей скрытой истины и латентной угрозы, которое авторъ находитъ не естественнымъ положеніемъ дѣлъ, а специфическимъ раскладомъ, источникъ котораго, если я правильно поняла, онъ видитъ въ "shifts in the structure and performance of secrecy as part of state governance in the wake of the atomic bomb and the rise of counterterrorism", ссылаясь, понятно, опять-таки на Джозефа Маско) со множествомъ полезныхъ ссылокъ; сборникъ уже выложенъ на Дженезисѣ.
Надо будетъ еще кое-что процитировать. Если нуженъ переводъ - я сдѣлаю.
I refer to the state’s central need to pursue, generate, and manage secret knowledge in order to sustain its sovereignty. The capacity to do this is actually indispensable to the sovereignty that modern states claim and aim to practice today. Indeed, a state that cannot produce or manage secret knowledge — that is to say, a state that has no secrets and cannot hide its secrets simply cannot be sovereign. That is why scholars such as the historian Michael Warner* have defined the very notion of intelligence (as in, intelligence agencies) as the pursuit and management of secret knowledge by and for the preservation of sovereignty. And while the practices of espionage may be ancient, and not confined solely to states, Warner (2014) points to a set of fundamental transformations at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries that gave rise to what we now call “intelligence” — where it becomes bureaucratized, professionalized, centralized, institutionally independent, and increasingly indispensable to the modern state as it becomes the primary claimant to sovereignty. Warner shows that the institutionalization of secrecy and suspicion comes about historically with the modern state’s becoming the main claimant to sovereignty, above all other entities.
Importantly, liberal democracies are not exempt from this requirement of sovereignty and, thus, from their need to constantly gather secret knowledge. Without such sovereignty, they cannot claim to be genuinely democratic, as they would then be vulnerable to both external intervention and internal subversion. And if they cannot be genuinely democratic, then their claim to being liberal is also rendered unstable (think, for example, about the hacking of elections). It might seem as though the pursuit of secret knowledge through surveillance is incompatible with liberal democracy, but in an important sense, quite the opposite is true because the effective generation of secret knowledge requires that there be a domain of privacy. If there were nothing hidden from anybody, no one could have secret knowledge or the need to generate it. For the surveillance that generates secret knowledge to yield the results it seeks, people must believe in a domain where they are unseen, where they can act “as themselves” without hindrance, without their actions being guarded. Of course, the suspicion that such surveillance is happening can make people more guarded in their private lives, and this can generate a complex, intensifying dynamics of evasion and pursuit. That is one reason why the state aims to conduct its intelligence-gathering activities in secret. What I want to emphasize here is that the liberal democratic state not only requires secret knowledge to sustain its sovereignty but is, with its commitment to personal privacy, especially conducive to the generation of that knowledge. Maybe that is why, in liberal democracies like the United States, the amount of classified information is several times larger than all the information available in the public domain (see Masco 2014).
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* Not Michael Warner the critical theorist.
Hussein Ali Agrama - After Muslims: Authority, Suspicion, and Secrecy in the Liberal Democratic State
in "Conspiracy / Theory" (2024), pp. 399-400
Любопытная статья (по большей части о паттернѣ смѣшенія или сліянія въ общественномъ воображеніи идей скрытой истины и латентной угрозы, которое авторъ находитъ не естественнымъ положеніемъ дѣлъ, а специфическимъ раскладомъ, источникъ котораго, если я правильно поняла, онъ видитъ въ "shifts in the structure and performance of secrecy as part of state governance in the wake of the atomic bomb and the rise of counterterrorism", ссылаясь, понятно, опять-таки на Джозефа Маско) со множествомъ полезныхъ ссылокъ; сборникъ уже выложенъ на Дженезисѣ.
Надо будетъ еще кое-что процитировать. Если нуженъ переводъ - я сдѣлаю.
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я броненосный крейсер под водой,
затопленный в междоусобной бойне.
я весь на дне, запас мой жировой
проеден этой муторной войной.
я бульканьем сигналил, что довольно.
довольно много времени людей
затрачено на дыр моих латанье.
и тщетно. изрешечен тем сильней
и яростней, чем больше тёплых дней
познания ушло на оправданье.
оправдан тот, кто давеча в суде
читал мне обвинительные речи,
и тот, кто разглядев меня в воде,
сказал, что путь мой далее нигде,
и словом мне проклятье обеспечил.
я их прощал своим машинным дном,
со всем нутром прорвавшись, понимая:
по ним звонит мой корабельный звон.
по мне шныряют рыбы, за окном
их видно, и вода во мне — живая.
затопленный в междоусобной бойне.
я весь на дне, запас мой жировой
проеден этой муторной войной.
я бульканьем сигналил, что довольно.
довольно много времени людей
затрачено на дыр моих латанье.
и тщетно. изрешечен тем сильней
и яростней, чем больше тёплых дней
познания ушло на оправданье.
оправдан тот, кто давеча в суде
читал мне обвинительные речи,
и тот, кто разглядев меня в воде,
сказал, что путь мой далее нигде,
и словом мне проклятье обеспечил.
я их прощал своим машинным дном,
со всем нутром прорвавшись, понимая:
по ним звонит мой корабельный звон.
по мне шныряют рыбы, за окном
их видно, и вода во мне — живая.
"Отшаманивание" - процесс прекращения контакта шамана с духами. Обряд практиковался на Алтае в раннесоветское время, когда детей-шаманов "выводили" в обычную жизнь, чтобы избежать преследования властей.
Оксана Куропаткина, https://www.facebook.com/okuropatkina/posts/pfbid0nWQHwv9hKfmCm8DkrURSdh7LBKLqoe3yPXzetAoGVLr1kHexzUAercgs4SSgsVewl
Оксана Куропаткина, https://www.facebook.com/okuropatkina/posts/pfbid0nWQHwv9hKfmCm8DkrURSdh7LBKLqoe3yPXzetAoGVLr1kHexzUAercgs4SSgsVewl
Обнаружила, что въ статьѣ подъ названіемъ "Stalinist conspiracy theories in France and Italy: The limits of postwar Communist conspiracy culture" Паскаля Жирара ни разу не упоминается операція Gladio; при этомъ Plan Bleu да, но, что называется, въ нѣсколько underplayed формѣ. Впрочемъ, и весь сборникъ (Conspiracy Theories in Eastern Europe: Tropes and Trends, 2021) странноватъ; или я отвыкла - можетъ быть, такова специфика восточноевропейскихъ штудій и, соотвѣтственно, заслуживанія академическихъ репутацій въ нихъ: лютость идеологическаго заряда приводитъ ихъ къ анахронистичности. Авторы - я пока прочла, впрочемъ, лишь треть книжки - строги и послѣдовательны въ распредѣленіи пейоративныхъ коннотацій: если предполагается, что злоумышляютъ СССР или РФ, - слово джентльмена, что эта теорема вѣрна; въ остальныхъ же случаяхъ очевидно, что какіе-то моральные и(ли) интеллектуальные уроды съ манихейскими наклонностями распространяютъ свои теоріи заговора. Въ частности, выходитъ какъ-то такъ, будто psychological warfare - суровая реальность, если имъ занимается НКВД / КГБ / современныя отечественныя спецслужбы (или, на худой конецъ, Секуритате, Fidesz и Робертъ Фицо); иначе оно есть ничто иное, какъ фантастическій тропъ, эксплуатируемый какими-то конспирологами, напримѣръ ими же.
Эта взаимоигра двухъ типовъ изобличеній характерна и для прочей конспирологологіи; но вѣдь послѣдніе годы положеніе дѣлъ въ дисциплинѣ отчетливо мѣняется и отходитъ отъ этой карикатурности - въ спектрѣ отъ публикаціи чисто-историческихъ матеріаловъ хоть оснѣжномъ человѣкѣ карьерѣ Сидни Готтлиба, хоть о штатовскихъ политикахъ безопасности - до разматыванія самого понятія теоріи заговора, то есть номиналистической деконструкціи, аналогичной той, которая производится сейчасъ надъ понятіемъ "гностицизмъ"; и даже въ заключительной статьѣ этого сборника М Дентитъ чинно отмѣчаетъ: "Perhaps, however, the real lesson here is that we should be worried that the pejorative aspect associated with such theories — if it remains unquestioned and is used uncritically — will lend itself to the very suppression of the kinds of questions we might think are essential to a well-formed, functioning democracy" (напоминая STAD à la Лансъ дё Гавенъ-Смитъ), - но онъ, походу, воплощеніе благопристойности и работаетъ въ Пекинскомъ педагогическомъ университетѣ. Впрочемъ, пока не добралась до попытокъ осмыслить осмысленія коронавирусной эпидеміи - можетъ быть, тамъ по-прежнему никого не проведешь.
Эта взаимоигра двухъ типовъ изобличеній характерна и для прочей конспирологологіи; но вѣдь послѣдніе годы положеніе дѣлъ въ дисциплинѣ отчетливо мѣняется и отходитъ отъ этой карикатурности - въ спектрѣ отъ публикаціи чисто-историческихъ матеріаловъ хоть о
During this period, Crowley worked for, or was connected to, many individuals working for British and US intelligence agencies, as well as many secret societies and freemasons. The factual extent of this history remains uncertain and understudied. One problem is that in order to answer this question, certain secret military and governmental files must be made available, while, at the moment, only a select few have come to light. This problem highlights a third angle in the 'conspiracism and esotericism joined at the hip' triangle that I am introducing here, namely, the overlapping layers of conspiracy theory, esoteric groups, and covert military intelligence. Crowley claimed that he infiltrated the German-sponsored periodicals in New York that aimed to keep America out of the war: The Fatherland and The International (Spence, 2000, 2008). Crowley himself declared that he had written pro-German articles that were psychologically intended to undermine the German image in the eyes of Americans and bolster the image of the United Kingdom (Crowley, 1989, p. 758; Pasi, 2014, p. 46). A problem with this narrative is that Crowley did not assert this until long after the war, and with usual jocularity and two-sided wit, making it hard to know if he was telling the truth, being ironic, downright lying, or else saving face in the eyes of the British government (Pasi, 2014, pp. 44–47).
Churton’s interlocutor is historian Richard Spence, whose 2008 book Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult made a definitive argument that Crowley had indeed been employed by the Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 5 (MI5) during this time, even linking Crowley’s activities to the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, the main event that drew America into the war. While Spence offers myriad pieces of mostly circumstantial evidence, his key piece is a US Army Military Intelligence Division (MID) report from September 1918, currently held in the National Archives [et cetera, et cetera]
Aaron French - Esoteric Nationalism and Conspiracism in WWI // Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends (2023), p. 117
References, TWIMC:
Crowley, A. (1989) The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography. London: Arkana.
Pasi, M. (2014) Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics. Durham: Acumen.
Spence, R. (2000) ‘Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley and British Intelligence in America, 1914–1918’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 13(3), pp. 359–371.
Spence, R. (2008) Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult. Port Townsend: Feral House.
Churton’s interlocutor is historian Richard Spence, whose 2008 book Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult made a definitive argument that Crowley had indeed been employed by the Directorate of Military Intelligence Section 5 (MI5) during this time, even linking Crowley’s activities to the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, the main event that drew America into the war. While Spence offers myriad pieces of mostly circumstantial evidence, his key piece is a US Army Military Intelligence Division (MID) report from September 1918, currently held in the National Archives [et cetera, et cetera]
Aaron French - Esoteric Nationalism and Conspiracism in WWI // Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends (2023), p. 117
References, TWIMC:
Crowley, A. (1989) The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography. London: Arkana.
Pasi, M. (2014) Aleister Crowley and the Temptation of Politics. Durham: Acumen.
Spence, R. (2000) ‘Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley and British Intelligence in America, 1914–1918’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 13(3), pp. 359–371.
Spence, R. (2008) Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult. Port Townsend: Feral House.
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⬆️ Подоплека вопроса: One of the most puzzling aspects of Spiritualism, and indeed of psychical and paranormal phenomena in general, is the confusing ways the seemingly genuine phenomena were unmistakably mixed up with the fraudulent shenanigans, and often…
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In his ethnographic theory of mistrust, Matthew Carey (2017) distinguishes between witchcraft and conspiracy: both work through accusation, but the former is linked with intimacy (following Geschiere, 1997, 2013) while the latter is addressed to a distant other (the Jews, the Freemasons, the Jesuits, the New World Order etc.). The idea of manipulation that my Romanian informants expressed, however, seemed to encompass both far-fetched conspiratorial conjectures and intimate interactions: it can designate, say, the influence of lobbies over the media but also sway another person to your own advantage. If anything, the (slang) word that corresponds to ‘fooling’ in Romanian is vrăjeală, which has the same root of vrajă (spell, charm) and vrăjitorie (witchcraft).
Giuseppe Tateo - When Conspiracy Meets Faith: Making Sense of Tragic Events in Bucharest, Romania // Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends (2023), p. 211
Ref:
Carey, M. (2017) Mistrust. An Ethnographic Theory. Chicago: Hau Books.
Geschiere, P. (1997) The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Geschiere, P. (2013) Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
In his ethnographic theory of mistrust, Matthew Carey (2017) distinguishes between witchcraft and conspiracy: both work through accusation, but the former is linked with intimacy (following Geschiere, 1997, 2013) while the latter is addressed to a distant other (the Jews, the Freemasons, the Jesuits, the New World Order etc.). The idea of manipulation that my Romanian informants expressed, however, seemed to encompass both far-fetched conspiratorial conjectures and intimate interactions: it can designate, say, the influence of lobbies over the media but also sway another person to your own advantage. If anything, the (slang) word that corresponds to ‘fooling’ in Romanian is vrăjeală, which has the same root of vrajă (spell, charm) and vrăjitorie (witchcraft).
Giuseppe Tateo - When Conspiracy Meets Faith: Making Sense of Tragic Events in Bucharest, Romania // Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends (2023), p. 211
Ref:
Carey, M. (2017) Mistrust. An Ethnographic Theory. Chicago: Hau Books.
Geschiere, P. (1997) The Modernity of Witchcraft: Politics and the Occult in Postcolonial Africa. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
Geschiere, P. (2013) Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust: Africa in Comparison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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