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In the @frankbacon Crypto-Graphic known as The CRYPTONOMICON, there are a number of core principles of operation, perhaps most famously the Principle of Correspondence. It's often worded "DON'T LOSE YOUR KEY, DON'T LOSE YOUR KEY," but this is only half of the principle.
The full expression is "As above, so below; as below, so above," which outlines a snake eating its own tail as a driver of Hermetic alchemical magic.
In his third lecture for the Mere Simulacrity conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2022, James Lindsay explains how this principle is a driver of what he calls the "Secret Religions of the West" in an elucidating way.
He contends that Karl Marx was the first to realize that the principle of correspondence must be applied from the bottom. Working on the world (as below) to change it (so above), and then the world (as above), changed, will socialize and condition people (so below) to accept the changes and make them "actual." ...
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As per the dialectics I've been writing about - I'm continuing to explore some of these ideas in the next few chapters of my cult of Saturn series - although one area where I would disagree, is that Marx was the first - I've spent a long time looking into this, and as far as I can see the reversal of this principle goes all the way back to ancient Chaldean magick. ;) Hope you're keeping well my friend.
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Yea, I'm of the opinion that we're still in the territory of 5000 year old Babylonian Priestcraft...
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Exactly mate - "nothing new under the sun".