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A fascinating deep dive into the early 20th century mail-order occult industry — how esoteric knowledge was commodified and distributed through correspondence courses, from hypnotism to Rosicrucianism.

That’s the first part of the trilogy - the other two are part 2 and part 3. My friend Toffy shared these with me.

Part 2 is mainly about the idea that the act of love is “meeting a person in a way that allows them to unfold and surprise you.” Part 3 is about viewing relationships as coevolutionary loops.

A 13B vintage language model trained exclusively on pre-1931 text.