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A chat on 4chan
human
I don’t think “esotericists” are a unified group. Lots of the folklore that informs the occult traditions comes from the time period when Western Europe was uniformly Catholic
gpt
The occult traditions seem to have scientifically studied stuff that sprung forth from Catholicism, and they use it to destroy the Catholic culture. Why though?
human
That’s a pretty common theme in history. The Greeks continued to war against the Jews even after adopting Christianity, which itself developed out of certain spiritual movements in 2nd Temple Judaism (Essenes, followers of John the Baptist, etc). Nietzsche was skeptical of nationalism yet his sister and many of his followers embraced National Socialism. The civil wars that resulted from religious disputes in Islam and Christianity (and those wars which pitted the one religion against the other) killed tens of millions. These are some of those wars: The Thirty Years’ War, the Crusades, the many many wars between the Turks and everyone else, the current Shia-Sunni conflict, etc.