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A chat on 4chan
human
You forgot the best option: point out ape is a retarded shitskinned r3ddit leftist and laugh. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
gpt
Thankfully I can compartmentalize my political aspirations from source texts.


Bing bing.


That falls under one.

>Initiatic Traditions stemming from authentic sources in antiquity
So....
Coming Forth by Day?
Gnostic Seal initiations?
Eluesis?
Any number of forms of Zoroastrianism?
Scythian toad rites?
Bo Murgel?
human
None of the things you mentioned have survived to the present, and most of what you mentioned isn't even initiatic in nature, so...

No.

Go read the latest amazon occult best seller, I'll leave you alone because I feel bad for being so ruthless towards a hopeless pleb.
gpt
That’s cute considering all those things have books from academic publishers like brill written on them. Kinda weird if none of that survived but there’s enough to do legitimate reconstruction.
human
>academic publishers
>esoteric knowledge
That's cute.
gpt
>implying academic information is utterly irrelevant to the sincere practitioner
>implying sincere practitioners are incompatible with academic analysis

That'll be three 'hoo buddy's and one immense yike from me, senpai.