>>184The occult is in no way, shape, or form incompatible with Leftism. Esoterica has usually been the force in mainstream religious movements pulling the rank and file away from reactionary lurches.
>"But anon, isn't the occult the purview of feudalist cultures?"Sometimes. But just because something was associated with them doesn't mean there's an inextricable link. The esoteric system of the Egyptians and their palace economy was the closest thing to a socialized system in the ancient world (provided we ignore that palace economy implies a hereditary monarchy with totalized ownership of product). While some may point to Tibet as an example of this, your common monk has no more political power than anyone else, and the Lamastic government in Tibet need not be the only system, and it certainly wasn't when Padmasambhava went there, and even for a few hundred years afterward - it was the egalitarian force disrupting society and thus was subject to suppression by Bon proponents. China even seems fine with Vajrayana so long as it's not actually propagating nationalism, actively supporting the Dorje Shugden factionalists - whether or not you view this as simply a wedge to divide and conquer, they are doing it. In Germany, though the Winter King, Frederick the Elector Palatine, was CERTAINLY a ruling aristocrat, his interest in alchemy was a liberalizing force given his belief in an esoteric utopia. In England, tradesman cults like Horseman's Word, Miller's Word, and the Bonesmen were essentially primitive trade unions, gating membership by passing through occult rites, securing wages against exploitative bosses, and they would eventually contribute to Traditional Witchcraft movements that have now become quite popular.
>but what about the idiotsBuddhist logicians moved away from binary logic thousands of years before we would. Their theorists of mind have a stronger grasp on cognitive psychology than our clinicians. Abhinavagupta was a polymath whose insights to aesthetics are largely responsible for codifying India's methods of dance and music giving rise, many steps removed, to Bollywood Newton was interested in alchemy. Dee was one of England's foremost mathematicians and intellectuals and held discourse with angels. Hegel may have had some interest in the Hermetic. Crowley tried his hand at solving long standing problems in formal logic that plague us to this day. To be anti-occult is in fact to be anti intellectual.
>>167It has been my lifelong project to Seize the Means of Initiation away from cloistered groups that simply seek to recreate Capital in their closed ranks. Liberation need not be confined to the chains of political and economic life, but can be applied to spiritual life as well. As such, I'm posting my library, 55gb of rare, academic, unpublished, hard to find, or otherwise difficult to procure occult materials, curated specifically against New Age excess for traditional resources, collaboratively assembled by a team of, largely, Marxists on /x/. These include Crowley's unpublished rituals, diaries, letters, notes, manuscripts, typescripts, commentaries and the like, a huge amount of Tantra, the most complete file of Andrew Chumbley's traditional witchcraft assembled online, and much MUCH more.
Library link: mega.nz/folder/jlEwhYyJ#iK4mVC4y5iwk_cr3eIpX4g
Whether you're a Posadist Mystic omegadosing on ketamine to commune with the Dolphin Hivemind, a Syndicalist trying to strengthen the bonds of Union, or just a Leninist who wants to see exactly how badly the Whites fucked up by forging the Protocols, the library WILL have something for you.
>“Hence, our motto must be: reform of consciousness not through dogmas, but by analysing the mystical consciousness that is unintelligible to itself, whether it manifests itself in a religious or a political form.”~Karl Marx to Ruge Kreuznach, Sept 1843
https://youtu.be/mPTCq3LiZSE((I may make a library thread if there seems to be interest))