Hi folks,
As some more behind-the-scenes content, here are two new lectures from my class on Roman religion. One was recorded at home, the other in class (hence the difference in sound betwee...
2023-03-03 17:01:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The Bacchic Conspiracy of 186 BC
By Titus Livius (or Livy) (59 BC – 17 AD)
Translated by Evan T. Sage, 1936
Hi folks,
Here's another piece of behind-the-scenes content recorded from my Roman religion class. This one is a lecture on Roman temples specifically. I hope you all enjoy it!
2023-02-28 13:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The Hermetic excerpts from Iamblichus' De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum
Translated by Alexander Wilder, 1911
2023-02-16 23:25:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Julius Obsequens was a Late Antique tabulator of prodigies, omens, and portents officially recognized by the Roman state and its priests. Although he wrote sometime in the late 4th or early 5th cen...
2023-02-07 16:01:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Believe it or not, Marcus Tullius Cicero's 'Somnium Scipionis' or 'The Dream of Scipio' is one of Western Esotericism's most foundational documents. Drawn from Book VI of Cicero's Republic, it desc...
2023-01-28 13:01:37 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks,
Lately I've been teaching a class at a nearby university on Roman religion and today was a freezing rain day so I decided to deliver the lecture from home and post it online....
2023-01-19 18:45:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The Religion of Numa (Part 2/5): The Reorganization of Servius
Written by Jesse Benedict Carter (1906)
PDF available here: 2023-01-18 16:30:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The Religion of Numa (Part 1/5)
Written by Jesse Benedict Carter (1906)
2023-01-12 00:08:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, sorry I haven't been as active this month, I got COVID earlier in the month immediately followed by a nasty (and ongoing) sinus infection, so my ability to record has been hampered tempo...
2022-12-20 21:34:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Written by Thomas Taylor
Full text available here in PDF format: https://arch...
2022-12-07 11:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The Ars Notoria (or Notary Art) is a medieval grimoire of scholastic angel magic constituting a series of prayers and knowledge sigils (or 'notae') used for rapidly learning the seven liberal arts ...
2022-11-23 16:09:29 +0000 UTC View Post
"On the Beautiful" by Plotinus (d. 270 AD)
Translated from Ancient Greek by Thomas Taylor
Read by Dan Attrell
This text is in the public domain, and can be foun...
2022-11-04 12:47:46 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a sale on so I just upgraded my video editing software. I also started using some live plug-ins for my recordings, so I've gotten better and more efficient with my time when doing voice w...
2022-11-03 15:23:56 +0000 UTC View Post
A reading of The Story of King Solomon and Ashmedai (or Asmodeus, the Prince of the Demons), written circa 1340, and based on the Munich Codex of the Babylonian Talmud (Gittin 68a-b).
"The Te...
2022-11-02 12:53:43 +0000 UTC View Post
An early medieval Historian's account of the Six Ages of the World.
(Introduction by R. Pearse, from www.tertulian.org, here abridged): "With St. Isidore of Seville (Isidorus Hispalensis, bor...
2022-10-28 17:35:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This ritual is drawn from a papyrus book from Egypt, composed circa 300 AD. The book contains the prescriptions of a Late Antique magician, and the following ritual full of divine names is drawn fr...
2022-10-20 17:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Translated by F. C. Babbitt (1928)
Read by Dan Attrell (2022)
On Images (or "On Statues") by Porphyry of Tyre [Audiobook]
Translated by Edwin Hamilton Gifford
Read by Dan Attrell
2022-10-13 22:40:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a reading of a 17th century English translation of the Arbatel de magia veterum (English: Arbatel of the Magic of the Ancients), a Latin grimoire of Renaissance ceremonial magic.
2022-10-06 21:20:14 +0000 UTC View Post
To celebrate the beginning of the Halloween season, we turn our attention to a magical experiment: using one disembodied intelligence, the Midjourney AI, to generate the shapes familiar to another ...
2022-09-27 21:37:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The third in a series of three readings from our new translation of Marsilio Ficino's On the Christian Religion (De Christiana religione): "Chapter 15 - The Generation of the Son in Eternity and Hi...
2022-09-23 15:47:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The second part in a series of three readings from our new translation of Marsilio Ficino's On the Christian Religion (De Christiana religione): "Chapter 14 - The Order of the Heavens, Angels, and ...
2022-09-23 15:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The first in a series of three readings from our new translation of Marsilio Ficino's 1474 'On the Christian Religion' ('De Christiana religione'): "Chapter 13 - On the Generation of God's Son in E...
2022-09-23 15:06:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Henry Morley (1822-1894): On Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy and Reuchlin's Cabala
Excerpts drawn from p. 224ff in "The Philosophy of Natural Magic by Heinrich Cornelius Agr...
2022-09-17 01:41:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In collaboration with Dr. Justin Sledge from Esoterica, here's part 2/2 of a series covering the 1517 treatise of the German Humanist and Christian Cabalist Johannes Reuchlin, De arte cabalisti...
2022-09-10 14:50:23 +0000 UTC View Post
In collaboration with Dr. Justin Sledge from @Esoterica - this is part 1/2 of a series covering the 1517 treatise of the German Humanist and Christian Cabalist Johannes Reuchlin, De arte cabalistic...
2022-09-09 00:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
This section contains the commentaries of Pletho and 2022-08-31 13:57:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Edited and translated to English by Thomas Stanley (London, 1661)
Read by Dan Attrell
This section contains the introduction by Thomas Stanley, and the Oracles of Zoroaster themsel...
2022-08-31 13:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Part 3 of "The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries" by Thomas Taylor
This is one 18th/19th century Platonist's account of what the Orphic mysteries of Dionysus were all about.
2022-08-17 20:15:33 +0000 UTC View Post