Ritual Kindles Vision

0. Preface

1. Concentrating

• 1. Casting our Circle of Reasoning
• 2. Offering an Image to the Good
• 3. We are in Vision
• 4. The Progression of Elements

2. Water: The Zero is Non-Being

• 1. The Self-Negation of Non-Being
• 2. Ouroboros
• 3. The Abyss of Non-Being
• 4. Materiality and Evil
• 5. The Oceanic Abyss

3. Earth: The Ground of Being

• 1. The One is Being-Itself
• 2. The Ontic and the Ontological
• 3. The Logical Analysis of Being-Itself
• 4. The Two Ways of Negation
• 5. The Shadow of the One
• 6. The Earth Emerges from the Sea

4. The Priority of the One

• 1. The Lowest One
• 2. The One is not a Divine Being
• 3. The Wiccan Ultimate Source
• 4. Altars and Sacrifices
• 5. Grief and Terror
• 6. The One Gives Birth in Pain to Beauty

5. From the One to the Two

• 1. The Androgynous Dyad
• 2. The Agency of the Lexetor
• 3. Emanating the First Beings
• 4. All the Air in the Abstract Sky

6. Air: The Logic of Existence

• 1. The Logical Zero and the Logical One
• 2. The Cone of Power and the Wild Hunt
• 3. The Laws of Logic
• 4. Reasons For and Reasons Against
• 5. The Rational Ordering of Existence

7. From Simplicity to Sets

• 1. The Agency of the Constructor
• 2. The Simple Initial Object
• 3. Distinct Copies Do Not Exist
• 4. Reasons Against Regressions
• 5. Every Many has its One
• 6. The Iterations of Objects

8. The Axis of the World

• 1. The Axis Mundi
• 2. The Evolution of Numbers
• 3. From the Finite to the Infinite
• 4. The Incantation for Numbers
• 5. The Ecstasy of Numbers

9. The Sky of Sets

• 1. Selections and Rejections
• 2. An Exaltation of Radiolarians
• 3. Trees within Trees
• 4. To Infinity and Beyond
• 5. The Incantation for Sets
• 6. The Axioms of Set Theory

10. Strings

• 1. The Incantation for Strings
• 2. Value is Distance from the One
• 3. From Intrinsic Value to Complexity
• 4. The Intrinsic Values of Strings
• 5. Comparative Value Relations on Strings

11. The Selector

• 1. Seeds and Skulls
• 2. Green Arrows Link Seeds
• 3. The Incantation for Seeds
• 4. The Agency of the Selector

12. Reasons for Ignition

• 1. The Animation of Forms
• 2. Sources of Animating Reasons
• 3. The Logic of Animation
• 4. Fire-Energy Animates the Seeds

13. The Burning Numbers

• 1. Fire Ever-Living
• 2. The Incantation for Animations
• 3. The Worlds and their Blazes
• 4. An Image of the World Tree
• 5. Fire Fills the Abstract Sky

14. Unfolding

• 1. The Unfolding of the One
• 2. From the One to the Platonic Atoms
• 3. How Numbers Unfold into Things
• 4. Sacred Geometry and Sacred Arithmetic

15. The Bees and the Birds

• 1. The Axioms of Unfolding
• 2. The Work of the Bees
• 3. The Work of the Birds
• 4. Computational Possibility is Physical Possibility
• 5. Mechanical Normativity

16. A Tree Full of Dragons

• 1. Unfoldings are Dragons
• 2. From Dragon Eggs to Dragons
• 3. The Incantation for Dragons
• 4. The Sex Lives of Dragons

17. The Sexual Aspects of Fire-Energy

• 1. The Hierogamy of Fires
• 2. The Closing and Opening Powers
• 3. The Gynomic and Andromic Powers
• 4. The Wiccan God and Goddess

18. Fire-Energy at Work

• 1. Networks of Connected Dots
• 2. The Emergence of Physical Presence
• 3. The Incantation for Universes
• 4. This Tree Stands in Flames
• 5. Animating the World Tree
• 6. Universes are Agents

19. The Counterparts

• 1. Things Surpass Themselves
• 2. Plotinus: The Lower and Higher Universes
• 3. Little Trees inside the Big World Tree
• 4. The Incantation for Things
• 5. Determinism and Non-Determinism

20. The First Universes

• 1. The Selector at Work
• 2. The Simple Universes
• 3. The Natural Obligation to Self-Organize

21. Physical Complexity

• 1. The Physical Universes
• 2. The Emergence of Wholes
• 3. The Emergence of Atoms
• 4. To Speak with a Soundless Voice
• 5. Bearing Witness to the Good

22. Chemical Complexity

• 1. The Emergence of Molecules
• 2. The Thermodynamics of Self-Organization
• 3. Self-Adaptive Systems
• 4. The Emergence of Biochemistry

23. Biological Complexity

• 1. Ancient Evolutionary Theories
• 2. Unicellular Organisms
• 3. Multicellular Organisms
• 4. Better Parts Make Better Wholes
• 5. How Optimization Permits Conflicts

24. Social Complexity

• 1. Societies with Cooperating Plants
• 2. Societies with Cooperating Animals
• 3. Virtuous and Vicious Conflicts
• 4. The Triumph of Goodness over Evil
• 5. Humans and their Many Communities

25. Birth and Fate

• 1. Welcome to Our Universe
• 2. The Soul is the Form of the Body
• 3. Matter is Functional Impairment
• 4. Two Kinds of Impairment

26. On Being Loved and Loving Back

• 1. The Selector Loves You
• 2. You Love the Selector
• 3. Living in Networks of Signs
• 4. Hallucinations

27. Alchemy

• 1. Telestic Technology
• 2. Techno-Alchemy Heals Bodies
• 3. Techno-Alchemy Enhances Bodies

28. Mind-Craft: Stoicism

• 1. Solving the Problems of Life
• 2. The Stoic Spiritual Exercises
• 3. The Stoic Sage

29. Mind-Craft: Stoic Exercises

• 1. The Stoic Workout
• 2. Sources of Adversity for Stoic Training
• 3. Stoic Mind-Craft Practices

30. On Casting Spells

• 1. Organisms Express Signs
• 2. Organisms Display Evolved Charms
• 3. Organisms Communicate Deliberate Messages
• 4. Spells are Works of Art in the Medium of Hope
• 5. The Productivity of Magic

31. Sign-Craft: Magic

• 1. How Magic Produces
• 2. Some Implications of Spell-Casting
• 3. Magically Programming Physical Systems
• 4. An Illustration of Magic
• 5. The Rationality of Magic

32. Benefactors

• 1. Exchanges of Food and Grooming
• 2. Reciprocate Food with Grooming Avatars
• 3. Teleonomic Benefactors

33. Giving Thanks

• 1. Giving Thanks to Evolution
• 2. Giving Thanks to the Sun
• 3. Giving Thanks to the Universe
• 4. Giving Thanks to Deep Natural Forces
• 5. Giving Thanks to the One

34. The Wheel of the Year

• 1. The Solar Holidays
• 2. Celebrating the Solar Holidays
• 3. The Common Liturgy
• 4. The Great Cycles of Nature

35. Fire-Craft: Psychedelics

• 1. Modernizing the Mysteries
• 2. A Network Enchanted by Fire-Energy
• 3. Hallucinatory Journeys through Logical Space
• 4. Ego Dissolution and Recreation
• 5. Transformational Experience

36. Fire-Craft: Sacrifices

• 1. Sacrificial Offerings to the Good
• 2. Simulating Personal Rebirth
• 3. Simulating Cosmic Rebirth
• 4. Death and Ghosts

37. Ancient Rebirth

• 1. Ancient Arguments for Reincarnation
• 2. Retributive Karma
• 3. Problems with Retributive Karma
• 4. Wiccan Reincarnation

38. Digital Rebirth

• 1. Arguments for Rebirth
• 2. The Emergence of Karmic Laws
• 3. Karmic Laws for Humans
• 4. Rituals for Accelerating Your Ascent
• 5. The Incantation for Your Lives

39. The Divine Animals

• 1. The Deities are Superhuman Animals
• 2. The Deities are Ideals for Humans
• 3. Maximal Divine Diversity
• 4. Referring to Deities

40. Ranks of Bodies

• 1. Sagacious Bodies
• 2. Heroic Bodies
• 3. Tellurian Bodies
• 4. Olympian Bodies
• 5. Celestial Bodies
• 6. Infinite Bodies

41. Shape-Craft: Theosis

• 1. Humans Becoming Divine Animals
• 2. The Way of Theurgy
• 3. The Way of Cosmological Evolution
• 4. Humans Rising through the Divine Ranks

42. Shape-Craft: Shifting

• 1. Simulating Greater Selves
• 2. Shifting via Possession Trances
• 3. Shifting via Ecstatic Dancing
• 4. Self-Transcendent Pain

43. The Transcendental Bodies

• 1. How Universes Become Cosmic Organisms
• 2. The Emergence of Infinite Cosmic Organisms
• 3. Plotinus: Infinite Holographic Bodies
• 4. The Galaxy of Stars
• 5. With Your Arms Upstretched

44. Light: The Good

• 1. The Good is Not the One
• 2. The Holy Light of an Unsurpassable Fire
• 3. The Sun Illuminates the Earth
• 4. The Sky is Filled with Ecstasies
• 5. Visceral Ecstasy Bears Witness to the Good
• 6. Mystical Experience Bears Witness to the Good

45. The Sun and the Stars

• 1. Striving for Divinity
• 2. The Plurality of Perfections
• 3. Existence Honors the Good
• 4. The Pentacle

46. Releasing