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This is why secular catholics most eagerly worship "science" and every propaganda made in its name, since it has become a magic authority in the structure of their supposedly invisible church. Prometheanism has become for them an ossified concept, a calcified myth, rather than a lived reality of aggressive scepticism. The concept of movement, progress is itself held in place by the stability of liturgy.

Twin sources for the post-enlightenment paradigms: Diderot's Encyclopedia for the Catholic secularity and Brucker's Encyclopedia of Esotericism for the Protestant side? Also, while I was walking, I thought the following: in secular catholicism, the religion is woven into the structure so as to be invisible for the members, whereas with protestants: invisibility of scientism in their attempts at religion

Even Paracelsus learned his alchemy from someone who learned it from Jewish sources. And of course, Spinoza spread the false idea of necessitarianism and influenced modernity. In renaissance, the essential content of Spinozism was smuggled inside Europe by Gemistos Plethon whose actual goal was to hide this Hellenic occult religion behind Christianity. Of course this occult religion itself is false too.

Hegel is basically the modern variation on Ficino or Pico, the latter of which was introduced to Kabbalah by Jochanan Alemanno, but with sprightly confidence thought that it's a great system but only Christians could _really_ understand it and that it all culminated to him. While Ficino thought all hermeticism lead to Catholicism! And that's how "Kabbalah", alchemy etc. entered European culture forever.

Also btw in star of david, when you interpret it as tetragon and parallelogram the disjunctive triangles are change direction and become inverted triangles, instead of merely pointing northwest. i wonder if you could turn it around in your head so that you could get triangles pointing into every cardinal point?

On the whole, it's fascinating how philosophy apparently has walked hand-in-hand with technology in terms of a perhaps productive feedback loop: lost wax casting and Platonic philosophy to alchemical philosophy from Renaissance on. Those are pretty straightforwardly philosophies of form and philosophies of plenitudes. But what technophilosophical paradigm comes after? Or is there just blind application of chemistry?

So, if that's the case there are four not two triangles in the Star of David in 2D perspective. So in truth there could be 12 angles, could be 6 angles, we don't know because it can be interpreted in multiple different ways even taken as just a 2D version. You can even see it as a tetragon with recessed sides juxtaposed with a paralellogram, and the same problem of backround vs lines repeats

Star of David is pretty interesting when it comes triangular-themed 3deep5me doodlings...it has two triangles, reverse and right, that form heaxagram and six small triangles starting from each side of the hexagram. In addition, you can view it both in 3D and 2D, in 3D each line has 2 alternatives, so that's 6 for a particular set and 6x6 total = 36, plus the 2 options where they just lay on top of each other, 38

In addition to corresponding to Böhme's wheel of wheels, Hegel's Logic, at least for the first three parts corresponds to the first four parts of dependent origination. Now I wish to read the book where the Buddha myth is compared with Krishna and Jesus (Suns of God) idk about that much...Basically this boils down to wheel mysticism? Contra that: https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/8f40f43cffb...