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Oracles & Oils: Volume 2

The second volume of the Oracles & Oils series continues the first book's project: reading prophecy, initiation, and scripture as a ritual science of altered perception. It opens with the seer's sequence of void, vision, and speech, taking John on Patmos as its working example and arguing that prophecy is testimony to an experience rather than prediction. Pentecost's tongues of fire are treated as activation rather than possession, and the same ignition pattern is traced through Moses and the burning bush, the Transfiguration, and mystery-school trance. Further essays follow the Ethiopian eunuch of Acts as initiation without gatekeepers, contrast Dionysian ecstasy with biblical self-mastery, and describe how empire neutralizes dangerous movements through canon, office, and doctrine. The two masks of the Magi, the pharmakon reading of the gospel associated with Ammon Hillman, theriac and the cup of Babylon, Newton's esoteric reading of myth, Hermes and Asclepius, and transliminal meta-states round out the volume. As with volume one, the pages are heavily illustrated and read as a compiled notebook of themes rather than a single sustained argument.

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