Early Access - The Hermetic Demiurge
Added 2025-11-19 18:43:06 +0000 UTC
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Greetings Dr. Sledge. I've been following your work for a little while now, and truly appreciate your insightful analysis and witty commentary. Although I generally prefer to lurk, a comment you made in this lecture triggered some questions I'd love to hear your thoughts on. The concept of competing creators resulting in one attempting to create beyond the scope of its power seems to echo themes from the creation myths of Tolkien's Silmarillion. Do we know if hermeticism had any direct influence on Tolkien's work, or would this be a common theme derived from other sources in his case?
DFrost451
2025-11-27 17:51:44 +0000 UTCThe mark of scholarship? Her-story perspective for religious safety at any speed
Gabriel Elliot
2025-11-25 17:18:12 +0000 UTClink to todays session
Icarus Flyby
2025-11-23 18:32:28 +0000 UTCAin’t that the etoinal question! Was I thrown in, or did I volunteer? Am I trapped, or willing, did I fall, or dive. As Campbell says, if you realize you’re falling, turn it into a dive.
Matthew Barker
2025-11-22 15:24:45 +0000 UTCWell that was fantastic! Thanks Dr. Sledge! Good stuff. Dr. Litwa shoutout was appropriate here. His work in Hermeticism and Gnosticism is unparalleled. His translation of the corpus is superb.
Matthew Barker
2025-11-22 15:22:27 +0000 UTCAt the end of the video you mentioned the YouTube channel of another gentleman and you said you we have to absolutely check him out, but you kind of mumbled his name and I couldn't understand what it was. Could you give that to us again?
Dianne Lawrence
2025-11-22 07:58:09 +0000 UTCThat demiurgic character is such a fixed and moving target. Just can't quite figure him out. Is he here to help or here to hinder? No one knows for sure.
Anon Omous
2025-11-21 03:13:37 +0000 UTCSame design but each one is different
Justin Sledge
2025-11-20 20:57:33 +0000 UTCφιλο-ψοφος
Justin Sledge
2025-11-20 20:57:14 +0000 UTCLoves the Hermetic deep dives! One of my favorites! BTW, are the next batch of incantation bowls going to be the same design as the previous batches or something different? Thanks!
S Mill
2025-11-20 18:42:20 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite reels so far. Will need to watch a few more times, look up the chapters in my corpus hermeticum. And maybe get a B on the test. 😀
Erich Brown
2025-11-20 16:32:15 +0000 UTCHow do you spell "philo-sofers" (lovers of noise)?
Areaknown
2025-11-20 16:24:22 +0000 UTCA random thought came to me, I'd love to see a "scribes gone wild: tales from the marginalia" episode. I've seen so much goofy stuff added as commentary by scribes.
Sasha
2025-11-20 08:31:03 +0000 UTCAmazing and educational as well, Dr Sledge! Learning about the demiurge is always incredibly fascinating - Ancient Christians having such vast array of cosmic interoperations is truly eye opening. I only wish we kept a lot of these thing as the religion as an institution grew over the millennia
Raygun Judas
2025-11-20 02:51:06 +0000 UTC
