"I had a realization about a few years back that came as a surprise to no one who knew me but myself: I am most comfortable with intellectualized/abstracted things" - kek!
Reegarding the advice: thank you very much! And I've had quite similar thoughts at all points (except for a lack of urge to skip stages, due to never even considering the hypothesis I might be advanced at this stuff), and therefore do intend to follow exactly some set of instructions, but I don't imagine myself doing it even regarding some occultists I do like, such as Webb (the ones, still, I'm sure I consider being Greer, Miller, Flowers, and Corrigan, as per https://goldensectionforum.boards.net/thread/4/kete-moi-nt ); for now, it looks like I'll go from the Golden Section Fellowship to other John-Gilbert-descended work for some time.
I also think Hodge Rose's work would be useful to me, though I think it *didn't* match my aesthetic preferences (too ... "fluffy" isn't quite the right word) - but still, will read later, see what I can do with it.
Beating you to The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: a challenge!
Regarding the book lists: thanks, I'll have to check more thoroughly later, but it seems they contain great stuff - unfortunately, the 2 interesting sites *not* expected (Mexica Reconstructionism and Polytheist Zoroastrianism) are defunct.
On "Hindu", it started as a geographical expression by pre-Muslim Iranians, and that as self-designation and Hinduism are older than the European arrivals: https://hareesh.org/blog/2015/7/15/what-is-shaivism (note the "turaka dhamma" part, BTW). The previous religions (e.g. Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Buddhism, which had religious conflict between them) had institutions smashed by Islam (though Buddhism was losing ground before), and in that lost distinctiveness, leading to Hinduism (and Shaivism had been becoming less countercultural and converging towards Vaishnavism for some time - as far as my limited knowledge goes, both the Mahabharata and Ramayana are Vaishnava - the former seems to be clearly about (among other things!) the replacement of Vedic worship with Vaishnava bhakti).
"Too late to do that tonight, but I'll try to put that together soon, especially if this is an especial field of interest for you." - please do do it but do not hurry; you've been doing quite enough for me already, and a scale of months won't make things any slower than I can follow anyway in this case!
Arya Akasha: will definitely read more, and - hey, you were already reading nearly-LHP stuff! (The "draconian/ophidian" parts.)
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Reegarding the advice: thank you very much! And I've had quite similar thoughts at all points (except for a lack of urge to skip stages, due to never even considering the hypothesis I might be advanced at this stuff), and therefore do intend to follow exactly some set of instructions, but I don't imagine myself doing it even regarding some occultists I do like, such as Webb (the ones, still, I'm sure I consider being Greer, Miller, Flowers, and Corrigan, as per https://goldensectionforum.boards.net/thread/4/kete-moi-nt ); for now, it looks like I'll go from the Golden Section Fellowship to other John-Gilbert-descended work for some time.
I also think Hodge Rose's work would be useful to me, though I think it *didn't* match my aesthetic preferences (too ... "fluffy" isn't quite the right word) - but still, will read later, see what I can do with it.
Beating you to The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: a challenge!
Regarding the book lists: thanks, I'll have to check more thoroughly later, but it seems they contain great stuff - unfortunately, the 2 interesting sites *not* expected (Mexica Reconstructionism and Polytheist Zoroastrianism) are defunct.
On "Hindu", it started as a geographical expression by pre-Muslim Iranians, and that as self-designation and Hinduism are older than the European arrivals: https://hareesh.org/blog/2015/7/15/what-is-shaivism (note the "turaka dhamma" part, BTW). The previous religions (e.g. Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Buddhism, which had religious conflict between them) had institutions smashed by Islam (though Buddhism was losing ground before), and in that lost distinctiveness, leading to Hinduism (and Shaivism had been becoming less countercultural and converging towards Vaishnavism for some time - as far as my limited knowledge goes, both the Mahabharata and Ramayana are Vaishnava - the former seems to be clearly about (among other things!) the replacement of Vedic worship with Vaishnava bhakti).
"Too late to do that tonight, but I'll try to put that together soon, especially if this is an especial field of interest for you." - please do do it but do not hurry; you've been doing quite enough for me already, and a scale of months won't make things any slower than I can follow anyway in this case!
Arya Akasha: will definitely read more, and - hey, you were already reading nearly-LHP stuff! (The "draconian/ophidian" parts.)