My experience of Guillermo del Toro’s take on Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” was like watching a myth unfolding before my eyes. This is my exegesis of that myth.

The Angel of Death Saves: A Platonic Reading of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein”

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Commentary on the Theological Common Minimums: Theological Maxims 1, 2, and 3

The commentary is on these three from @hubner.likes.earth's Manifesto:

1. There is no God but the Gods.

2. There is no divinity outside the Gods.

3. Every God is All God.

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I connect the concept of “face” to Christology and the concept of “prosopon”.

2. How Orthodox Christology can justify a perennialism that is indistinguishable from a Christian Polytheism. The result is a Christology that is structurally similar to Ibn Arabi’s semi-perspectival understanding of “gods” and all of manifest reality as the “Face of God”.

This concern flows out of someone else’s substack (linked in the post) concerning the limits of physics and “theorization” in general.

New post is up!

Two things concern me here:

1. The idea of “untheorizable phenomena” and how such phenomena can be seen as the premier sign of a God’s presence.

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New post up on my Substack: "Some thoughts on disjunctive difference within 'the same' God: A further reply to Antonio Vargas" open.substack.com/pub/epbutler...

“Will we welcome the new ways in which the Gods may reveal themselves to us? Are we prepared to express new myths and develop new rites that honor the Gods' accent? Are we open to the new names with which they may reveal themselves?” - @hubner.likes.earth

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Time is a God

Review and Thoughts on Antonio Vargas’ “Time’s Causal Power: Proclus on the Natural Theology of Time”

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“Given this particular book’s importance to my current understanding of Platonism, I decided to re-read it, and write a review, with thoughts appended.”

Theism just is Polytheism: Review and Thoughts on Steven Dillon’s “Polytheism: A Platonic Approach”

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Theism just is Polytheism, by @timmodryoid.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/symmetri...

Sure, the Hermetic texts are monist in its philosophy and cosmology. They are *also* polytheist, explicitly encouraging us to worship the many gods, not only because it's good to do so, but also to continue our active co-creation with the world as part of our own mystic work towards the Godhead.

Commentary XXIII, On Platonic Symbolic Exegesis of Yoruba Myths by @timmodryoid.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/symmetri...

Flavours of Reversion: Review and Thoughts on Eliade’s “Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return”
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"I am not sure that such a thing [Idolatry] ever really existed before the modern age. ... But now, in the wake of Christendom’s disintegration, it is worth asking whether we have at last succeeded in inventing idolatry."

- D. B. Hart, "Exit, pursued by Voltaire – Part the Third"

O curso de @teurgiacritica.bsky.social está ótimo, consolidando seu lugar no renascimento platônico no Brasil e no mundo.

“Behold, a god!”: Realization as what it means to be divine, from @timmodryoid.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/symmetri...

"Being as such", as "Presence as such", is beyond the Law of identity and difference. The unity characteristic of presence is therefore not subject to the dialectic of finitude. It is the pure singularity of each, the first polycentric proclaimer of the ineffable.

It never ceases to amaze me how we have culturally memory-holed the fact that before c. 1920 it was perfectly normal to believe seriously that intelligent life existed on other planets in the Solar System

One of the most darkly funny scientistic pieties is the idea that the discovery of intelligent life beyond Earth would 'humble' humanity - given that in the late c19th and early c20th (an era renowned for human humility 🤔) it was a mainstream view that Mars was inhabited