O9A Notes On Two Ancient Pagan Texts
Posted: August 13th, 2018 | Author: baeldraca | Filed under: Inner ONA, O9A, Order of Nine Angles, Order of the Nine Angles, The Sinister Tradition, The Sinisterly Numinous Tradition | Tags: Alchemy, Ancient Pagan Traditions, Anton Long, Corpus Hermeticum, David Myatt, Esoteric Philosophy of Anton Long, Ghayat al-Ḥakim, Labyrinthos Mythologicus, Marsilii Ficini, Order of Nine Angles, Paganism, Picatrix, Seven Fold Way, Somnium Scipionis, The Hermetic Tradition, The Sinister Tradition, The Sinisterly-Numinous Tradition | Comments Off on O9A Notes On Two Ancient Pagan Texts°°°°°°°°°
O9A Esoteric Notes On Two Ancient Pagan Texts
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We republish here two esoteric notes from 2017 ev since they are relevant to and compliment the recent (2018) O9A texts An Esoteric Note On The Somnium Scipionis {1}, Some O9A Notes On The Picatrix {2}, and A Hidden O9A? {3}.
The two esoteric notes deal with ancient Greco-Roman sources that perhaps many of those who describe themselves as practitioners of a Western Occult tradition will be unfamiliar with.
The first deals with the Avenging Alastoras as described in tractate 13 of the Corpus Hermeticum. The second, and more detailed note, concerns a part of Virgil’s Aeneid and provides a scholarly, an initiated, insight into words such as the Latin magicas which via the Greek μαγικός was the origin of the English term magic/magick.
To provide some context, what is evoked by Virgil is the immolation of a lady (Dido) who would rather die than dishonour herself by having to live with a barbarian, and who is angry at Aeneas for deserting her and who seeks aid through The Craft (sorcery) by means of a Dragon-friendly priestess. This is a manifestation of the Western ethos and a world away from what is evoked by the medieval grimoire, Magian influenced, tradition with its profusion of hierarchical ‘demons’, its alleged ‘secrets’, and its hollow promises that anyone can control such ‘demonic’ entities if they have the right accoutrements and the right Magian names.
As we mentioned at the beginning of the Alastoras article:
“We read an awful lot, these days, in books, articles, and via the internet, about ‘sorcery’ and invokations, almost all of which books and articles describe or rely on the Magian influenced goetic ‘tradition’ as exemplified by the misnamed Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn. Thus it is refreshing to once again revisit actual Western pagan sources…”
We have corrected a few typos, updated some of the references, and added an additional reference to the Alastoras article.
TWS Nexion
August 2018 ev
{1} https://www.o9a.org/2018/08/concerning-the-somnium-scipionis/
{2} https://www.o9a.org/2018/08/some-notes-on-the-picatrix/
{3} https://omega9alpha.wordpress.com/2018/08/10/the-hidden-order-of-nine-angles/