The Ascent to the DivinewithP.D. “Danny” Newman

Books Mentioned In This Interview

Danny Newman is author of Alchemically Stoned: The Psychedelic Secret of Freemasonry and also Angels in Vermilion: The Philosopher’s Stone from Dee to DMT. His newest book is Theurgy: Theory and Practrice – The Mysteries of the Ascent to the Divine. He is a 32nd degree master mason.

Here he focuses on the practice of theurgy as it was practiced by the neoplatonic philosophers who suggested that their rituals were derived from Homer.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:49 Early Greek practices

00:10:55 Mainstream scholarship

00:18:31 The neoplatonists

00:28:46 The rituals

00:49:03 Ancient controversies

01:02:47 Contempory theurgical practice

01:06:30 Theurgy in Orthodox Christianity

01:10:32 Conclusion

(Recorded on December 5, 2023)

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Published on January 12, 2024

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