Touch grass and worship Dionysos more

Written by thehouseofvines

And for those of you who think Dionysian monasticism is a queer idea, well, these guys would beg to differ. There are as many ways to worship the Bacchic One as there are flowers in Nysa.

And the connection between Bacchic Orphism and Pythagoreanism isn’t exactly novel either; I’ve certainly written about it often enough, as have Gábor Betegh, Leonid Zhmud, Carl Kerényi, and a couple others.

Like Proklos:

All that Orpheus transmitted through secret discourses connected to the mysteries, Pythagoras learnt thoroughly when he completed the initiation at Libethra in Thrace, and Aglaophamos, the initiator, revealed to him the wisdom about the Gods that Orpheus acquired from his mother Kalliope.

And if you don’t think the community he founded was in any way monastic, might I recommend the Pythagorean Sourcebook? And reading, rather than talking shit in your “secret” Discord. I may have been gone awhile, but I’ve still got eyes everywhere. Silly thing; I don’t care that you hate me. I’ve seen what you cheer for. I didn’t think about you once during my hiatus. What a shame the same wasn’t true for you. Maybe you’d be happier if you touched grass and worshipped Dionysos more. It sickens you that I’ve returned? Well, it sickens me that you would say such vile things about Jews in space dedicated to He Who Loves the Stranger … and nobody challenged you. I will.

4 thoughts on “Touch grass and worship Dionysos more”

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  2. I think these fools are so disordered that piety is painful to them. Their natural state is one so aligned against the holy Ones, that anything reverent hurts. They are in thrall, but not to the Gods. Therefore, in the name of Odin, in the name of Loki, in the names of Mani and Sunna, in the name of Dionysos, in the name of Hermes, in the name of Apollo, and in the name of Enki, in the name of Yahweh, and in the name of Sekhmet: May they be gifted with shame for what they have said, done, and not done. May they one day be brought before the council of the Holy Ones and held to account for every attack, every words, every bit of putrescent garbage that falls from their lips or comes from their keyboards. May they be asked and called to account for how they have contributed to the great work of healing and protecting that which the Gods have made, and how they have attempted to harass, mock, intimidate (hah!) and destroy those who serve the Holy Ones. May this blessing be upon their heads in this life and in all others until piety and reverence have replaced their vapid blasphemies and hate.

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    1. ALU.

      And this is the direct consequence of prioritizing politics over everything, including reverence in religious spaces. It starts with innocuous issues everyone can (and often should) get behind; metastasizes as the group starts making lists, and turn on those who won’t make the token gesture; ostracism follows, along with discrediting the askers of questions and erasing their contribution; and then with no one left to challenge them, they grow drunk on power, and corrupted by it, opening themselves to increasingly extreme ideologies, cults of personality and abuses of the power they’ve coalesced, and what’s really scary is that with so many of them dabbling in occultism and demonolatry, who knows what they’re exposing themselves to, and everyone who is part of their cliques too.

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