WELCOME to this conversation with translator and esoteric researcher Yury Pankratov, who has translated "The Encyclopedia of Occultism" by the early 20th-century Russian occultist and Martinist teacher Grigori Mebes. Yury's own journey went from computer engineering in Russia to the hidden traditions of Western esotericism and the rediscovery of Russian Martinism – a spiritual current rooted in the teachings of Martinez de Pasqually, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, and Papus. TAP in with us as we talk about: – The rise of Russian Martinism and the soul's fall and reintegration – Occultism is a training of thought – Mebes' model of Archetype, Man, and Nature – The astral plane as a bridge between spirit and matter – The mystery of Egregores – collective fields of consciousness that shape, heal, and influence human life – The creative polarity of manifestation expressed through Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh – How the Tarot serves as a initiatory alphabet – The three stages of initiation – physical, astral, and archetypal – and the meaning of inner alchemy – What it means to make gold by first having gold – Yury's own practice of astrological theurgy through Orphic hymns and planetary communion – Reflections on Mebes' astrology, the question of free will versus fate – Mebes' later life and the happenings due to the Russian Revolution Thank you so much for being with us!! LINKS Here is the book we speak of: https://spirit.aeonbooks.co.uk/product/encyclopedia-of-occultism/95373 Here is Yury's substack: https://russianesotericism.substack.com/ Mannahs website: https://www.therapeuticastrologer.com/

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