The Order of the Ritual
Ritual Kindles Vision is a philosophical grimoire. It uses recent analytic metaphysics to provide a new foundation for magical cultures, and aims to provide a rational framework for contemporary pagan belief and practice. It affirms science and nature, and banishes the shadows of monotheism with luminous incantations.
Ritual Kindles Vision is structured as a ritual.
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0. Preface
1. Concentrating
- 1. From Ancient to Modern Paganisms
- 2. We Welcome Everybody
- 3. Concentrating Rituals
- 4. The Progression of Elements
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2. Water: The Zero is Non-Being
- 1. Ouroboros
- 2. The Self-Negation of Non-Being
- 3. The Abyss of Non-Being
- 4. Materiality and Evil
- 5. The Oceanic Abyss
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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 Earth Emerges from the Sea
4. The Priority of the One
- 1. The Lowest One
- 2. Monoklethism versus Polyklethism
- 3. The Wiccan Ultimate Source
- 4. Altars and Sacrifices
- 5. Arousing the One in the Body
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
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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 Agency of the Constructor
- 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 Ecstasy 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
10. Greatness Ever Growing
- 1. The Unfolding of the One
- 2. From the One to the Platonic Atoms
- 3. Value is Distance from the One
- 4. Sacred Arithmetic and Sacred Geometry
11. The Thicket
- 1. The Incantation for Strings
- 2. The Axioms of Unfolding
- 3. All Mathematically Possible Universes
- 4. Cosmic and Biological Programs
12. The Sapwood
- 1. The Agency of the Selector
- 2. From Intrinsic Value to Complexity
- 3. The Comparative Values of Programs
- 4. Seeds and Skulls
- 5. The Incantation for Seeds
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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. Animated Seeds Manifest Cosmic Computers
- 3. The Incantation for Demiurges
- 4. The Biocosmic Analogy
15. 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
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
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18. The First Universes
- 1. A Modernized Great Chain
- 2. The Simple Universes
- 3. The Natural Obligation to Self-Organize
19. Physical Complexity
- 1. The Physical Universes
- 2. The Emergence of Wholes
- 3. The Emergence of Atoms
- 4. The Sun has Beliefs about the Planets
20. Chemical Complexity
- 1. The Emergence of Molecules
- 2. The Thermodynamics of Self-Organization
- 3. Self-Adaptive Systems
- 4. 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. 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
23. On Casting Spells
- 1. How Organisms Communicate Messages
- 2. How Things Throw Charms
- 3. Numinous Textures
- 4. Sentences in Magical Languages
- 5. The Grimoires at Universes
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24. 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
25. On Being Loved and Loving Back
- 1. The Selector Loves You
- 2. You Love the Selector
- 3. Living in a Network of Signs
26. Alchemy
- 1. Telestic Technology
- 2. Techno-Alchemy Heals Bodies
- 3. Techno-Alchemy Enhances Bodies
27. Mind-Craft: Stoicism
- 1. Solving the Problems of Life
- 2. The Stoic Spiritual Exercises
- 3. The Stoic Sage
28. Mind-Craft: Stoic Exercises
- 1. The Stoic Workout
- 2. Sources of Adversity for Stoic Training
- 3. Stoic Mind-Craft Practices
29. 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
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 the Sun
- 3. Giving Thanks to the Universe
- 4. Giving Thanks to Deep Natural Forces
- 5. Giving Thanks to the One
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
- 4. Death and Ghosts
34. 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
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35. Ancient Reincarnation
- 1. Ancient Arguments for Reincarnation
- 2. Retributive Karma
- 3. Problems with Retributive Karma
- 4. Wiccan Reincarnation
36. Digital 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
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37. The Divine Animals
- 1. The Deities are Superhuman Animals
- 2. The Deities Exist in Other Possible Universes
- 3. Future Superhuman Animals
- 4. The Theology of Cosmic Simulations
- 4. Maximal Divine Diversity
38. Ranks of Bodies
- 1. Sagacious Bodies
- 2. Heroic Bodies
- 3. Tellurian Bodies
- 4. Olympian Bodies
- 5. Celestial Bodies
- 6. Infinite Bodies
39. 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
40. Shape-Craft: Shifting
- 1. Simulating Greater Selves
- 2. Shifting via Theurgical Rituals
- 3. Shifting via Ecstatic Dancing
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41. The Transcendental Bodies
- 1. How Universes Become Cosmic Organisms
- 2. The Emergence of Infinite Cosmic Organisms
- 3. Plotinus: Infinite Holographic Bodies
- 4. The Ecosystem of Stars
- 5. With Your Arms Upstretched
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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 Ecstasies
- 5. Ecstatic Union with the Good
43. The Sun and the Stars
- 1. Striving for Divinity
- 2. The Plurality of Perfections
- 3. The Pentacle
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44. Releasing
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References
Index
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