…who we are you may not know, but if you're hip enough, you'll be contacted and asked to join. And people like Robert Flood, who was essentially the heir of the de tradition in english occultism and science, basically put out advertisements saying, if I…

…are scholars of rosicrucianism know that one of the things that was always said about was that they were invisible. This was how Robert Flood proved to people that he wasn't a rosicrucian. Say, you're looking at me, so how can I be one? And so he's in…

…was trying to do was he was in that great tradition of literary alchemy, whose earlier practitioners were people like Robert Flood, Athanasius, Kirscher, parasites, Celsus. These are not familiar names. But in the late flowering of alchemy, when the birth of…

…my idea, by the way. I mean, this is what alchemy turned into. And in the 16th century, people like Gerhard Dornan and Robert Flood and John Dee and Michael Centivorgius and all of these people were on the trail of what they called the lapis, or the…

…the age of Shakespeare and the Rudolphine court in Prague. This is the age of Arkamboldo and John Dee and Robert Flood. And, you know, that incredibly complex, psychedelic, manneristic mishmash that those late Renaissance people put together. But there's a…

…all out there, you know, Proclus and Plotinus and Plato and hypatia and Henry Cornelius Agrippa and John Dee and Robert Flood and Eliaphus Levy, they're all out there pulling for us. And every shaman and shamanist, every magician practitioner, as far…