tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919954722785758311.post2263887604070409127..comments2023-07-03T05:11:24.721-07:00Comments on Sorcerers and Magi: Scyring the Olympic Spirits: A Pictorial GuideUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919954722785758311.post-54289105548319081052017-01-23T14:18:11.239-08:002017-01-23T14:18:11.239-08:00I'm glad you reached out. Many of the gods of ...I'm glad you reached out. Many of the gods of pre-Christian religions were repurposed as angels and demons or other types of spirits in medieval Christian magic. Aratron is a code name for the Roman god Saturn and the planet of the same name. The term Aratron may be a mash-up of the Latin word ara (“altar”) and the Greek word “tron” (“functional”). In other words, Aratron represents the “platform” so-to-speak on which existence as we know it happens. In spiritual philosophy, this is sometimes called the Divine Ground. Frankly, this is what “God” is in most religions—as it says in one of the epistles of St Paul in the Bible: “In Him, we live, move, and have our being.” These ideas about Aratron are easier to understand if you have some knowledge of Neoplatonism. The author of the Arbatel (the medieval magical book that talks about Aratron) seemed to hold Neoplatonic ideas and expressed them in a hidden way. <br /><br />Different people in the "occult community" who have worked with Aratron and other “Olympic Spirits” have different ideas about how to work with them and what they mean. Most use rituals from Solomonic magic to have an experience of Aratron and most also take a very literal approach to the Arbatel without really examining the philosophical or historical context or hidden messages (I take a different approach). At face value, Aratron is the name of the spiritual “intelligence” of the planet Saturn. The Arbatel tells magicians to conjure Aratron to gain knowledge about astronomy, alchemy, and magic; draw on the spirit’s magical powers of transformation; be in relationship with nature spirits; overcome infertility; and have the power of invisibility. <br /><br />Interestingly, when I myself was involved in a project that included dreamwork about the Olympic Spirits, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin fame would often show up in my dreams on the nights that I was supposed to dream about Aratron. <br />Soror ZSD23https://www.blogger.com/profile/15056865183374988025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2919954722785758311.post-34517260901938854942017-01-23T10:24:52.649-08:002017-01-23T10:24:52.649-08:00I had a dream about Arathron, but I have no idea a...I had a dream about Arathron, but I have no idea about him at all so I tried googling him, which lead me here, but I am still clueless to what it means. I hope to find answers soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com