Eve -> Wisdom -> Reasoning -> Dialectic

This passage is totally fascinating. How did that Agrippa guy realize this shit...?

I mean, I was kind of given jigsaw puzzles to solve, but did he as well? :-/

Btw, side tracking on the issue of scholasticism and dialectism -- it seems like this very classical Greek approach to knowledge and truth *really* doesn't vibe with me. It feels like I suddenly realized where modern philosophy was birthed from and my mind shrieked in horror LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48QMQNdZCqA

The Occult Philosophy of Cornelius Agrippa - 2 of X - Life and Works

By "ESOTERICA" (Dr. Justin Sledge)

(Emphases mine)

Adam had these magical miraculous abilities to manipulate nature; if you

reconcile yourself to God or if you become in the process of reconciling

oneself to God, you would get similar kinds of powers. So magic here at this

time period is in some sense a byproduct of that reconciliation. So as one is

reconciled back to the Divine, original sin is sort of washed off, and as

original sin is washed off so to speak one would gain those prelapsarian Powers

over nature, and that is simply what Agrippa at this time and many people this

time thought of as ultimately what's going to be magic. So that's magic in a in

a short sense of a definition of how one would get these sort of powers. Now

one of the things that's happened is that when the fall occurred, this fall is of

course brought on by Eve, and the mythology that Agrippa develops is that

Eve represents wisdom or Reason rather she represents sort of like dialectical

reasoning and she kind of infected Adam with this dialectical reasoning this

kind of logical reasoning which he also Associates by the way with

scholasticism. This has made it such that human beings have tried to reason

their way to to the Divine, Agrippa thinks that's not going to work you can't

reason your way back to the Divine, because the mind itself is somehow fallen-

in fact it's being duded in some sense by reason itself. And so what has to

happen -- again this is where the more Protestant side Agrrippa's thought pops

out -- is that the only way to restore that is through a type of Faith, but a

mystically informed faith that shorts that circuit. You can't reason your way

back to the Divine, but what you can do is your mind can leap up to the Divine

and it can sort of short the circuit between yourself and God, and that

shorting of that circuit is achieved by kind of mystical faith, and the

mechanisms by which to use that mystical Faith are encoded in texts like text

of the Kabbalah and text of the Corpus Hermeticum. So the idea is the further

we get back in time the further we get access to technologies that allow us to

reconcile ourselves to God, because people back then were just closer to the

Divine. The fall of human beings was simply closer to them and therefore they

weren't as "fallen" as we are now. This idea of the essential aspect of faith

and really faith alone by which one reconciles oneself to God, which again has

this kind of protestant bent to it in a certain kind of way, this is going to

do two things for Agrippa.