Zoroaster, the First Magus (An Encyclopedia Grimoria Volume)

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode, I embark on a journey into the arcane and esoteric, investigating the history of magic as an ongoing series to which I plan to frequently return. In the first volume of my Encylopedia Grimoria, I start at the end, with an entry for Z, to understand the beginning. I look at the figure of Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, as the supposed originator of all things magical. Background music tracks entitled "daemones," "Mare," "Evermore," "Cobweb Morning," "daedalus," "periculum," "Brooks," "Interception," and "modum" by Kai Engel are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:39.4	of all creation, to record all knowledge of everything. In it, between lengthy treatises on all-known arts
1:48.4	and technology, he writes witheringly of, quote, the most deceptive of all known arts, which has
1:56.1	exercised the greatest influence in every country and in nearly every age, end quote.
2:02.9	This sinister practice, he calls, quote, the magic art, end quote, and he goes on to reveal,
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