@areadingmeat

@areadingmeat

saint

579 ReadsSupporter

Followers4

Following8

Joined 10 months ago

Spain

saint's Books by Status

854 Books

See all
8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go
The Cat Who Taught Zen
Nebula Award Stories 17
The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking
A Case of Conscience
See You at the Top
Be Cool

saint's Reading Goals

Goal

14/12 books
100%

2026 Reading Goal

Read 12 books by . Goal completed! 🎉

saint's Most Popular Reviews

Reading about Elizabethan occult philosophy feels less like studying history and more like auditing a laboratory where theology, mathematics, and angelic linguistics were sharing the same bench.

The Cabala, in this setting, struck me as applied melancholy with a return ticket. A disciplined descent into symbolic darkness, yes, but with rails. You enter the labyrinth of correspondences, numbers, divine names, planetary hierarchies. You feel the weight of Saturn on the skull. Yet there is always a ladder back out. Structure. Commentary. A sanctioned map of the invisible.

The Enochian manuscripts feel different. They are what happens when you lose the ticket.

Just read it.

This was my first acquaintance with Ezra Pound, while walking in Venice. I'm not sure how to properly evaluate the experience, but anyone interested in understanding the creator more deeply should explore the environment where the art was made.

If you see a human coming towards you - the safest action to take is to run and hide.