Not at the moment, but if they do better I’ll set them up on Ingram. You could go to your local book store and have them order them, but they’re coming from Amazon one way or another
Speaking of the holidays, it would be wonderful to see a post from you on the language, myth, and occultism around Santa Claus.
Who is “Satan Claws”?
Why is Krampus (German: kramp, claws) always seen with “Saint Nick” as his servant? Is this his ahrimanic double or are they just the same “person”?
Is there other etymology, symbolism, and equivalent gods or archetypes that are being connected and distorted here?
It seems that the origin of Saint Nicholas from the 4th century being a generous person, and then no manuscript evidence of anything related to what we see as Santa Claus until the 1800s is odd. Out of nowhere there appears this character all of Europe and North America who is dressed in blood and brings gifts to children with all sorts of pagan symbolism around the Winter Solstice.
As always, deeply appreciate your work and thoughts, been reading your scholarship for a few years now.
I think you touched upon it. It’s a product of the era that is host to so much charlatanry that, without primary source material of how they created it, I can only speculate, which would just add to the feast of nonsense. I’ve seen people make the case for all kinds of things, but Santa is like Saint or Holy and Claus is Claustrum, so if you look at the symbolism from anatomical perspective, it’s the same as the Christos or cerebral spinal fluid going down and up the spine (chimney) from the north (the cerebrum) to the south (base of the spine) to deliver the body its daily bread. But this is all feast of nonsense that I see nowhere other than modern occultism. Part of what makes my work as good as it is, is not necessarily me, but the decision to not look at work written after 1850 if I can help it. But feel free to post material from the clergy or anyone from the inside if you come across their writings about it. I’ve seen nothing beyond modern speculation, which doesn’t meet my standards for writing about it. But Santa is an anagram for Satan, and hell is winter, and it’s obvious that at least a portion of it is symbolic of the sun in winter reckoning the year.
Is there a way to get hard copies of all your Spirit Whirled books not through Amazon.
Not at the moment, but if they do better I’ll set them up on Ingram. You could go to your local book store and have them order them, but they’re coming from Amazon one way or another
Speaking of the holidays, it would be wonderful to see a post from you on the language, myth, and occultism around Santa Claus.
Who is “Satan Claws”?
Why is Krampus (German: kramp, claws) always seen with “Saint Nick” as his servant? Is this his ahrimanic double or are they just the same “person”?
Is there other etymology, symbolism, and equivalent gods or archetypes that are being connected and distorted here?
It seems that the origin of Saint Nicholas from the 4th century being a generous person, and then no manuscript evidence of anything related to what we see as Santa Claus until the 1800s is odd. Out of nowhere there appears this character all of Europe and North America who is dressed in blood and brings gifts to children with all sorts of pagan symbolism around the Winter Solstice.
As always, deeply appreciate your work and thoughts, been reading your scholarship for a few years now.
I think you touched upon it. It’s a product of the era that is host to so much charlatanry that, without primary source material of how they created it, I can only speculate, which would just add to the feast of nonsense. I’ve seen people make the case for all kinds of things, but Santa is like Saint or Holy and Claus is Claustrum, so if you look at the symbolism from anatomical perspective, it’s the same as the Christos or cerebral spinal fluid going down and up the spine (chimney) from the north (the cerebrum) to the south (base of the spine) to deliver the body its daily bread. But this is all feast of nonsense that I see nowhere other than modern occultism. Part of what makes my work as good as it is, is not necessarily me, but the decision to not look at work written after 1850 if I can help it. But feel free to post material from the clergy or anyone from the inside if you come across their writings about it. I’ve seen nothing beyond modern speculation, which doesn’t meet my standards for writing about it. But Santa is an anagram for Satan, and hell is winter, and it’s obvious that at least a portion of it is symbolic of the sun in winter reckoning the year.