for now, it looks like I'll go from the Golden Section Fellowship to other John-Gilbert-descended work for some time.
That seems like a solid plan - as I might have mentioned on the forum, I kind of wish I had started there, but it came out about half a year after I got into the Druid Magic Handbook. I think it's a phenomenal place to start, and it's a brief enough starter course that you could do the material in Way of the Golden Section pretty quickly, then decide to pivot into something else related, or else go right into the Occult Philosophy Workbook, so it's nicely flexible.
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.
Mostly I've been fascinated by the Germanish "multipart soul" thing since I first ran into it in an Edred Thorsson book (maybe Northern Magic?), so seeing it get a two-volume treatment is really exciting to me. It's also one of the few cases of a Germanish-flavored meditation-based practice I've run across, besides Nine Doors of Midgard.
Beating you to The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: a challenge!
May the race go to the fastest!
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.
Ah, that's too bad. If you're looking for stuff on indigenous Mexican religion, open_space might be a good resource.
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:[. . .]
Thank you for the correction!
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!
Fair enough, but I'm glad I got reminded to put together what I've already got.
Arya Akasha: will definitely read more, and - hey, you were already reading nearly-LHP stuff! (The "draconian/ophidian" parts.)
Hah, yeah, I hadn't been to the site in a month or two and saw those when I went to get the link and thought you might appreciate it. I found out about them from a guest appearance on Survive the Jive Podcast. I haven't fully decided how I feel about their stuff, in part because the main dude makes me look laconic, and so there's a lot to wade through. They seem to take reconstructionism more seriously than I do these days, but they do it from a place of piety, rather than as a substitute for doing what works.
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That seems like a solid plan - as I might have mentioned on the forum, I kind of wish I had started there, but it came out about half a year after I got into the Druid Magic Handbook. I think it's a phenomenal place to start, and it's a brief enough starter course that you could do the material in Way of the Golden Section pretty quickly, then decide to pivot into something else related, or else go right into the Occult Philosophy Workbook, so it's nicely flexible.
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.
Mostly I've been fascinated by the Germanish "multipart soul" thing since I first ran into it in an Edred Thorsson book (maybe Northern Magic?), so seeing it get a two-volume treatment is really exciting to me. It's also one of the few cases of a Germanish-flavored meditation-based practice I've run across, besides Nine Doors of Midgard.
Beating you to The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: a challenge!
May the race go to the fastest!
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.
Ah, that's too bad. If you're looking for stuff on indigenous Mexican religion,
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:[. . .]
Thank you for the correction!
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!
Fair enough, but I'm glad I got reminded to put together what I've already got.
Arya Akasha: will definitely read more, and - hey, you were already reading nearly-LHP stuff! (The "draconian/ophidian" parts.)
Hah, yeah, I hadn't been to the site in a month or two and saw those when I went to get the link and thought you might appreciate it. I found out about them from a guest appearance on Survive the Jive Podcast. I haven't fully decided how I feel about their stuff, in part because the main dude makes me look laconic, and so there's a lot to wade through. They seem to take reconstructionism more seriously than I do these days, but they do it from a place of piety, rather than as a substitute for doing what works.