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PATREON & SOCIAL: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AmericanEsoteric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/american.esoteric/ Podcast: https://t.co/Ksj6rT1MlY The Pythagoric Letter two ways spread, Shows the two paths in which Man’s life is led The right hand track to sacred Virtue tends, Though steep and rough at first, in rest it ends; The other broad and smooth, but from its Crown On the rocks the Traveller is tumbled down. He who to Virtue by harsh toils aspires, Subduing pains, worth and renown requires: But who seeks slothful luxury, and flies, The labor of great acts, dishonor’d dies. - Maximinus Pythagoras was born in the sixth century BC to an engraver of fine gems. His father ensured his education by having him study under Creophilus and Pherecydes. It was asserted that young Pythagoras was the spawn of a divinity due to his engaging aspect and manner of speaking. Thales, one of the seven wise men of antiquity, encouraged him to travel to Egypt, specifically to the Priests of Memphis and Zeus. After Pythagoras returned, his over 218 followers and students over many centuries wrote very little that survived. In this video, we'll be sorting through some fragments. NOTICE: I used AI to generate most images for this video. Other than for the purposes of image generation the writing, research, voiceovers, and editing are ALL done in-house. MUSIC: Jelliot - Fearful Solitude, Tacit Sounds - The Unfolding, Wes Bilen Music - Surface Tension. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Primary Pythagorean quotes and history derived from: Iamblichus' The Life of Pythagoras (Taylor translation) & The Pythagorean Sourcebook (Guthrie Translation) [which is a comprehensive anthology].

PATREON & SOCIAL: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AmericanEsoteric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/american.esoteric/ Podcast: https://t.co/Ksj6rT1MlY Orpheus alas! The master musician, bard, and poet. Said to be the founder of Mysteries related to Dionysos (Bacchus) and Hecate. He lived in the Greek Heroic Age, receiving his lyre from Apollo, god of music. On the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts Orpheus combats the luring songs of Sirens with his lyre and saves the ship. When Orpheus returned to Thrace he married the love of his life, Eurydice. But on his wedding day, tragedy struck in the form of a venomous snake. Orpheus was said to be able to move trees and summon animals with his music. And the poets of Greece and Rome looked back on him at times in the same vein as they regarded Homer and Hesiod. But much more than Orpheus’ tragedy impels the modern world to remember him. Plato spoke of Orphic poets and a bushel of books written by Orpheus. While none of his writings survive, many have quoted or summarized his poems throughout history. In this video, we review the sources related to the Orphic tragedy, the accounts of Orphic Mysteries, and the viability of recent discoveries (Olbia Bone Fragments, Gold Tablets, Derveni Papyrus) providing enough evidence to demonstrate that there is a lost tradition of Greek Philosophy that preceded and influenced Platonism. The search for the severed head of Orpheus continues. SOURCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY: Virgil, Georgics, (J. B. Greenough.) Ovid, Metamorphosis (A.S. Kline translation) Ibycus. Fragment No. 22 Pausanias, Description of Greece, (W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A.) Apollodorus, Library, Sir James George Frazer, Ed Boethius, the Consolation of Philosophy, (translated by H.R. JAMES) The Derveni Papyrus, Gabor Betegh Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen (William Wilson translation). Herodotus, The Histories, A. D. Godley, Ed. Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism, Algis Uzdavinys The Mystical Hymns of Orpheus, Thomas Taylor Hütwohl, Dannu. "Plato's Orpheus: The Philosophical Appropriation of Orphic Formulae." (2016). THUMBNAIL: Orpheus in the Underworld, 1865, painting by Henri Regnault (Museum: Musée d’Orsay)

PATREON & SOCIAL: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AmericanEsoteric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/american.esoteric/ Podcast: https://t.co/Ksj6rT1MlY The Illuminati has been attached to conspiracies since its conception. It often refers to a secret cabal of occultists and financiers pulling strings behind world government. But these swamp fogs of speculation have overshadowed much of its genuine history and teachings. And it’s now a popular theory that Freemasonry, the world’s oldest and largest secret society, is in fact engaged in a nefarious agenda to seize control of global affairs and bring on some version of totalitarian rule. In this video, we demonstrate what the doctrines of the Illuminati were by reviewing the history of the Order and the letters of its founder, Adam Weishaupt.

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