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I am an atheist who is fascinated by the Occult tradition, I was even initiated to the fourth [dont ask ; >] degree in one of New York's most prestigious covens and became a freemason. I do not believe in God. Well maybe a few goddesses. I do not believe in angels. I have sat in circles, spoken the words.. read all the dusty arcane books I can get my hands on.
Why? Because The occult is GD Fascinating!
This is my dilemma. And apparently, it was also Agrippa's.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Shakespeare put those words in the mouth of a man who had just seen a ghost he wasn't sure was real. That's the honest position. Not belief. Not dismissal. The uncomfortable suspension between them—the intellectual humility that materialism, ironically, often refuses to practice.
We built The Agrippa Project from that suspension.
The De Occulta Philosophia is over 900 pages of the most rigorous, systematically organized "nonsense" ever committed to print. Or is it? Agrippa cross-referenced celestial hierarchies with the precision of a taxonomist and the obsession of a man who needed the system to be real. Then, three years before publishing it, he wrote De Vanitate—a savage demolition of all human knowledge, occult science included. He couldn't resolve the contradiction. He published both anyway.
I find this deeply relatable.
We are now mapping his system into a graph database. Neo4j. Nodes, relationships, Cypher queries. The angelic hierarchies of the Intellectual World rendered as traversable data. Which raises the question I can't shake:
Are we the Jesuit priest with the $200 ChatGPT account, confidently parsing a collective delusion into bullet points?
Maybe. But here's what I keep returning to: the priest believes. His credulity is the problem—not his curiosity. The rationalist who refuses to look is the mirror image: equally certain, equally incurious, equally protected from the discomfort of not knowing.
I have been inside the circle. I have also written the queries. Neither framework has given me certainty. Both have given me better questions.
That's the atheist / agnostic occult dilemma: you can reject the metaphysics entirely and still find the epistemology worth the trouble. Agrippa wasn't selling salvation. He was mapping the unknown with the best tools available.
So are we.
The angels remain unconfirmed. The graph grows.
3d view using three.js neo4j rendering of Agrippa's intergalactic philosophy..
To abide by forum rules I cant post the link here.. I guess you can ask for it if interested.
The agrippa project is part of the integration of bleeding edge AI technology and the occult..
Technomancy ; >
Why? Because The occult is GD Fascinating!
This is my dilemma. And apparently, it was also Agrippa's.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Shakespeare put those words in the mouth of a man who had just seen a ghost he wasn't sure was real. That's the honest position. Not belief. Not dismissal. The uncomfortable suspension between them—the intellectual humility that materialism, ironically, often refuses to practice.
We built The Agrippa Project from that suspension.
The De Occulta Philosophia is over 900 pages of the most rigorous, systematically organized "nonsense" ever committed to print. Or is it? Agrippa cross-referenced celestial hierarchies with the precision of a taxonomist and the obsession of a man who needed the system to be real. Then, three years before publishing it, he wrote De Vanitate—a savage demolition of all human knowledge, occult science included. He couldn't resolve the contradiction. He published both anyway.
I find this deeply relatable.
We are now mapping his system into a graph database. Neo4j. Nodes, relationships, Cypher queries. The angelic hierarchies of the Intellectual World rendered as traversable data. Which raises the question I can't shake:
Are we the Jesuit priest with the $200 ChatGPT account, confidently parsing a collective delusion into bullet points?
Maybe. But here's what I keep returning to: the priest believes. His credulity is the problem—not his curiosity. The rationalist who refuses to look is the mirror image: equally certain, equally incurious, equally protected from the discomfort of not knowing.
I have been inside the circle. I have also written the queries. Neither framework has given me certainty. Both have given me better questions.
That's the atheist / agnostic occult dilemma: you can reject the metaphysics entirely and still find the epistemology worth the trouble. Agrippa wasn't selling salvation. He was mapping the unknown with the best tools available.
So are we.
The angels remain unconfirmed. The graph grows.
3d view using three.js neo4j rendering of Agrippa's intergalactic philosophy..
To abide by forum rules I cant post the link here.. I guess you can ask for it if interested.
The agrippa project is part of the integration of bleeding edge AI technology and the occult..
Technomancy ; >