關於這一集
In this episode, we descend from the philosophical abstractions of eternal Becoming into the concrete, grinding machinery of how that Becoming actually happens—where the Word is no longer a distant proclamation but a living pattern that must be decoded, applied, and lived. We explore how James Lewis—the skeptic who became a Magus, the twelfth such figure in thousands of years of recorded history, the most systematic expositor of the Setian tradition—seized the revelation of Xeper and dragged it down into the realm of practical application, declaring that the engine of immortality is not the static achievement of Being but the dynamic,
From the definition of a Word as an unnatural force that acts and grows by its own laws to the distinction between the two types of Magus, from the sequence of Thelema, Indulgence, Xeper, and Remanifestation to the controversial fate of the Word Xem, from the expansion of the Formula of the Aeon to the practical process of self-examination and reorganization, from the rejection of the "enlightened society" in favor of "unique and extraordinary individuals" to the assertion that no single object, being, or thought is immortal in its present form—we trace the monumental, deeply contested, and astonishingly influential legacy of Remanifestation and ask: In a world that still drifts through life without direction, still confuses compulsion with indulgence, and still seeks comfort over transformation, do we have the courage to take the hard path of constant Becoming, or will we retreat into the comfortable security of the old and the static?
🎧 ABOUT THE RUBY TABLET
The Ruby Tablet Podcast is a philosophical and spiritual journey through the essays of the Temple of Set, exploring the great traditions of human thought—from ancient Egypt to the present day. Each episode is a deep dive into the ideas that help shape the Self and fan the Black Flame.
🔗 SOURCES & READING LIST:
Essay: To Find a Pattern (V2 - A17.3 - 2)
Author: James Lewis V° Date: April 3, XXII HTML Revision: October 8, 1998 CE Subject: Remanifestation Reading List: 2H, 2M, 4A, 6D, 6K, 6N, 9C, 9D, 9K, 12C, 16A, 17A, 17D, 19G
📚 RECOMMENDED READING:
-James Lewis, To Find a Pattern (The Ruby Tablet)
-H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
-Aleister Crowley, One Star in Sight (from Magick in Theory and Practice)
-Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law (Liber AL vel Legis)
-Aleister Crowley, Magick Without Tears
-Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible (for context on Indulgence)
-Michael A. Aquino, The Temple of Set: A Brief History
-Plato, Phaedo (on the immortality of the soul)
-Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (on dialectical process)
-Kenneth Grant, The Magical Revival (on the role of the Kingly man)
-H.G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future (on the infinite horizon of human progress)
-The Koran, Surah 74:24-25 (on the rejection of the Magus)
-Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers (on the ancient tradition of wisdom)
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