Reasonable Paganism

0. Preface

1. Concentrating

• 1. Digital Platonism
• 2. We Welcome Everybody
• 3. Concentrating Rituals
• 4. The Progression of Elements

2. Water: The Zero is Non-Being

• 1. Pagan Origin Myths
• 2. Peirce: The Self-Negation of Non-Being
• 3. The Abyss of Non-Being
• 4. Materiality and Evil
• 5. Fathomless Depths of Power

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 Anti-Negativity
• 5. The Earth Emerges from the Sea

4. The Priority of the One

• 1. The Lowest One
• 2. The Wiccan Ultimate Source
• 3. Altars and Sacrifices
• 4. From Running to Cannabis

5. From the One to the Two

• 1. The Androgynous Dyad
• 2. Reasoning without any Reasoner
• 3. Emanating the First Beings
• 4. All the Air in the Abstract Sky

6. Air: The Logic of Existence

• 1. The Laws of Logic
• 2. Propositions Emanate Objects
• 3. Reasons For and Reasons Against
• 4. The Rational Ordering of Existence

7. From Simplicity to Sets

• 1. The Simple Initial Object
• 2. Distinct Copies Do Not Exist
• 3. Reasons Against Regressions
• 4. Every Many has its One
• 5. 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 Star of Numbers

9. The Sky of Sets

• 1. Selections and Rejections
• 2. The Stack of Power Sets
• 3. The Incantation for Sets
• 4. The Axioms of Set Theory
• 5. Intrinsic Value is Distance from the One

10. Mathematical Physics

• 1. Intrinsic Value is Distance from the One
• 2. The Unfolding of the One
• 3. Sacred Arithmetic and Sacred Geometry

11. Unfolding

• 1. The Incantation for Strings
• 2. Axioms for Digital Agents
• 3. All Mathematically Possible Universes
• 4. Biological and Cosmic Programs

12. The Sapwood

• 1. Arguments for Animation
• 2. From Intrinsic Value to Complexity
• 3. The Comparative Values of Universes
• 4. Seeds and Skulls
• 5. The Incantation for Seeds

13. Fire: The One Animates the Seeds

• 1. The Animation of Programs
• 2. The Sources of Animating Reasons
• 3. The Logic of Animation
• 4. The Incantation for Animations
• 5. The Worlds and their Blazes
• 6. Fire Fills the Abstract Sky

14. The World Tree

• 1. The Stoic Conception of Fire-Energy
• 2. Fire-Energy Animates the Cosmic Seeds
• 3. Animated Seeds Manifest Cosmic Computers
• 4. The Incantation for Demiurges
• 5. The Biocosmic Analogy

15. The Sexual Aspects of Fire-Energy

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

16. 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. Universes are Agents

17. 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. Possible Futures

18. The First Universes

• 1. A Modernized Great Chain
• 2. The Simple Universes
• 3. The Geometrical Universes
• 4. The Emergence of Simple Particles
• 5. The Natural Obligation to Self-Organize

19. Physical Complexity

• 1. The Physical Universes
• 2. The Emergence of Physical Bonds
• 3. The Emergence of Wholes
• 4. The Emergence of Atoms

20. Chemical Complexity

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

21. Biological Complexity

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

22. Social Complexity

• 1. Organisms Cooperate
• 2. Societies of Complex Organisms
• 3. The Categorical Imperative for Social Agents
• 4. Virtuous and Vicious Conflicts
• 5. The Triumph of Goodness over Evil

23. On Casting Spells

• 1. Purely Semiotic Causality
• 2. The Effectiveness of Magic
• 3. The Grimoires at Universes

24. Birth and Fate

• 1. Welcome to Our Universe
• 2. The Influences of the Stars
• 3. The Influences of Your Genes
• 4. The Influences of Your Season of Birth

25. Mind-Craft: Stoicism

• 1. From Duties to Virtues
• 2. The Stoic Workout
• 3. Sources of Adversity for Stoic Training
• 4. The Virtuous Person
• 5. The Stoic Moral Compass

26. Mind-Craft: Stoic Exercises

• 1. Stoicism Old and New
• 2. Stoic Mind-Craft Practices
• 3. Mindfulness Meditation
• 4. Working towards an Ideal Self

27. Sign-Craft: The Body and the Soul

• 1. The Soul is the Form of the Body
• 2. Matter is Functional Impairment
• 3. The Accumulation of Errors

28. Sign-Craft: Techno-Theurgy

• 1. The Craft of Self-Surpassing
• 2. Techno-Theurgy Corrects Bodies
• 3. Techno-Theurgy Enhances Bodies

29. Sign-Craft: Magic

• 1. How Magic Works
• 2. An Illustration of Magic
• 3. The Rationality of Magic

30. Benefactors

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

31. Giving Thanks

• 1. Giving Thanks to Evolution
• 2. Giving Thanks to our Sun
• 3. Giving Thanks to Deep Agents
• 4. Atheistic Contemplative Prayer

32. The Wheel of the Year

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

33. Fire-Craft: Sacrifices

• 1. Sacrificial Offerings to the Good
• 2. Simulating Personal Rebirth
• 3. Simulating Cosmic Rebirth

34. Ancient Reincarnation

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

35. Naturalizing Reincarnation

• 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

36. The Divine Animals

• 1. The Deities are Animals
• 2. The Deities are Superhuman Animals
• 3. Possible Future Superhuman Aimals
• 4. Many Future Divine Animals

37. Divine-Craft: Becoming Divine

• 1. Humans Becoming Divine Animals
• 2. The Ways of Biotechnical Evolution
• 3. The Way of Cosmological Evolution
• 4. The Superhuman Universes

38. Divine-Craft: The Ranks of Bodies

• 1. Transhuman Bodies
• 2. Heroic Bodies
• 3. Daimonic Bodies
• 4. Olympian Bodies
• 5. Celestial Bodies
• 6. Holographic Bodies

39. Divine-Craft: Future Deities

• 1. Evolving Divine Animals
• 2. Unsurpassable Sequences of Surpassable Bodies
• 3. The Stars are Ideals
• 4. With Your Arms Upstretched

40. Shape-Craft: Shifting

• 1. Simulating Greater Selves
• 2. Shifting via Theurgical Rituals
• 3. Shifting via Ecstatic Dancing

41. The Perfect Bodies

• 1. Ancient Divine Minds
• 2. Plotinus: The Infinite Holographic Mind
• 3. Progressions of Finite Omega Points
• 4. Progressions of Infinite Omega Points
• 5. The Perfect Ecosystem

42. 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 Stars
• 5. Mystical Experience

43. Light-Craft: Psychedelic Shifting

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

44. The Sun and the Stars

• 1. Striving for Divinity
• 2. The Plurality of Perfections
• 3. The Pentacle

45. Releasing