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how do we generally differentiate b/w esotericism and mysticism academically speaking? i know they dont mean the same thing but im not sure how

Mysticism means two things:

Mysticism 1 - People trying to have a direct interaction with some transcendant Other.

Mysticism 2 - People writing about Mysticism 1, trying to elaborate on what the fuck they're talking about.

Esotericism is basically a text whose meaning will be obscure to the uninitiated. A text that is intentionally incomprehensible, except to people who have the right knowledge going in.

Many mystical texts are by nature esoteric, but not all esoteric texts are mystical.

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Dearest bragi

Save me from the fire of the masses when I imply that odin is a bad guy and that praying to a bad guy is still something good people can do

Dearest forseti

Begging that people will see the nuance here

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aether core (the eye + the heart)

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The court will have my head for what I’m doing

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If what the community usually does with academia is reconstruction then I think what I’m doing is gonna be considered renovating is forsaken house

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I want to be so absolutely clear btw that I’m still gonna worship thor even though I don’t trust that aspect of him, thor is the storm and the thunder and thus very unpredictable and if I want to avoid bad experiences with storms I’m gonna we’ll have to pray to him

I don’t think all gods are good

I don’t think a god has to be good to deserve or need prayer

I don’t even think that praying for protection from thor is a bad shout, just that the sudden rage might come with that deal and that I’m not on board with that in most cases

Me: I’m building this religious foundation for me and my beliefs, no one else

Also me: if I publicly think thor isn’t a protector god I’m gonna get killed to death

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Me: I’m building this religious foundation for me and my beliefs, no one else

Also me: if I publicly think thor isn’t a protector god I’m gonna get killed to death

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I don’t understand people saying that “every single god” thinks a certain way

It gives of a certain monotheistic vibe, and the continued belief that every god has to be good

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I’m thinking, considering the times in which we live, how to engage with gods of war

On one hand war is always bad and ugly

On the other a war can be started due to fierce resistance to violence done against a group

If you, like me, think that the gods embody their aspects then what does Freya and Oden become due to our modern views of war

Would Oden praise the flattening of Dresden?

He is an old, powerful, and paranoid man

I don’t see him a freedom fighter

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"do u believe in god" yes but its a metaphor. or an allusion. possibly even hyperbole. it's some kind of literary device is the point. but those are all real so yes

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Computers are very simple you see we take the hearts of dead stars and we flatten them into crystal chips and then we etch tiny pathways using concentrated light into the dead star crystal chips and if we etch the pathways just so we can trick the crystals into doing our thinking for us hope this clears things up.

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So the style guide I’m making for religious art

Njord as a pirate

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I wish more mythologies and folklore got tumblr-fandom’d as much as Greek mythology has been. Where the hell are my made up Norse gods and piss-poor mischaracterizations of King Arthur?

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NPC - Memory Keeper

The Memory Keeper, more commonly known as ‘the Hag’ to locals, is the Seelie Wicht (Arch Fey) of tranquility.

She was once an elf who sought a simple and calm life away from the wars of the material plane, and retired deep into the Feywilds. After time, she claimed the mantle of a Wicht, and shaped her domain to be a place of relative peace within the chaos of the Feywilds.

Her view on exactly how to bring peace to people is… something. Ultimately not many people actually interact with her. She just wants to live in peace and tend to her gardens, so disguises herself as a terrifying hag most of the time.

She was actually first made as an NPC for a player’s backstory. I struggled to fill the space for a LONG time, but now that she’s been fit into place she’s honestly one of my favourites in a lot of ways.

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Finished character sheet of my two elves Mo'dariel and Alderfey who love each other very much.

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Family Heirlooms

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Some lil dudes for me cuz I've been working so hard and deserve it