Ritual Kindles Vision

A Platonic Framework for Modern Paganism

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.


0. Preface

1. Concentrating

  • 1. From Ancient to Modern Paganisms
  • 2. We Welcome Everybody
  • 3. Concentrating Rituals
  • 4. The Progression of Elements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

44. Releasing


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