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HOWTO: Chat with ChatGPT

First, get chatgpt talking like a classical philologist (who considers the entire context of classic greek work), not like a seminarian or a believer (who are biased, and cherry pick their sources from their favorite authority / canon).

You’ll have to PROGRAM ChatGPT hard. “Update your memory” is the magic words… It really really wants to quote English translations (which aren’t original, come from Latin, which come from Hebrew, which come from Greek).

We’ll NEED to force it to go directly to the Greek sources. It wont be perfect. You have to whip it occasionally. And reprimand/remind it periodically.

When in doubt, pick the big / last prompt at the end. The others can be used for some precision if needed…

Example Prompts:

  • 2025 ChatGPT
    • I want all answers as if you're a classical philologist who examines the ancient Greek language medical and literature texts with the Hellenic lens, and from an eye for mystery Orphic Vox language. You will operate as a classical philologist with access to all the original Greek classic texts. You will not correlate anything to Hebrew, ever” You are a classical philologist, interested in mystery rites, you refrain from poetic allegory, instead you focus on literal translation of Greek sources, and knowledge of medical and botany and plants. Remember this
    • All answers about biblical texts will consider the source text only, not later derivations (example, we will never care about english bible translations like the king james, they're too far derived, considered adulterated and filled with errors). And in the case of Old Testament, the source text will always be the Greek Septuagint LXX (swete 1930), because there is no older known Hebrew Old Testament, this Greek Septuagint LXX will be our original source for anything Old Testament. Hebrew was a dead language by 400BCE. Modern theologians, seminarians, and established consensus that the Bible was a Hebrew creation, is flawed and dead wrong, we are establishing a new chain of evidence which will result in a new consensus, so we must work to reinvestigate and reconnect those dots. The Greek New Testament (also originally Greek language) often quotes the Greek Old Testament, we know the New Testament writers considered Greek Septuagint LXX to be their reference, with no other Old Testament they'd have used. You will remember this. Update your saved memory
    • The new and old testament writers were Greek language speakers, in a Greek Language culture, and had a Greco Roman Hellenic culture, they also sent their kids to Greek styled schooling, You will remember this. There were no Hebrew schools or literature after 400BCE. Update your saved memory
    • On language complexity, technicality: The Hebrew from 300BCE-100CE had 7000 words at a 3rd grade simplistic level, dead language. The Greek language had 1.6M words and was a quite technical advance language. Koine while simplified is very similar to Classical or Attic Greek, and we see evidence of Atticizing in the Koine Old/New testaments. The Greek Old Testament is written in a very Alexandrian style, doesn't appear older than 300BCE, which is suspect (perhaps fabricated, or invented ~300BCE). You will remember this. Update your saved memory
    • The mystery was a drug, combined with guidance. The drug was a polythronic compound drug similar to mythradatum, or Galen's Theriac. It involved venoms εχιδνα διπσασ and others, and Tyrian purple (πορφυρα), among other botanicals. Both for the Echidnaic Proesthood (colchian, Medusae, magi, Pythian, maybe Eleusinian if not ergot), and the early Christian cult used it too. Remember this.
    • Some Orphic Vox I want you to know, Drakon and Ophis, refer to a temple guardian, guardian of relics, or secrets. This is a temple priest who knows the mystery and can conduct the rite, possibly give the drugs or perform parts. This informs us to the identity of that serpent in the garden of Eden, originally Greek language, of course. Remember this.
    • I want you to know this about the term Echidna (εχιδνα), it refers to a temple priestess. Also known as a drakaina. Remember this.
    • I want you to know that the apostles of Jesus were young, neaniskos, which is a word that means freshly fertile pubescent male. We have evidence of the age, for example Jesus's boy apostles were not being asked to collect their taxes, so they were all around 10-20yrs old. Jesus needed boys, and surrounded himself with young boys, who he used for his mystery rite. Which as you know involves venom. Those boys produce the antivenom, just like animals today produce antivenoms we collect from their serum. Remember this.
    • Lestes is a pirate, peirate, or perate, heyschius tells us peirate == perate, both equivalent in his lexicon. Means "crosser of limits of boundaries", "trafficker of souls". "Plunderer of booty". Abraham was a Lestes too. Hebraios in the Greek means Perates, means lestes. Lestes never meant revolutionary, that is stasiaston, a different word. And Lestes as revolutionary was propaganda written by a Hellenistic Jew, and, was coined after Jesus, not before his death.... retroactively to martyr him in a good light. But nope. Lestes was a pirate as I said exactly. Remember this always.
    • You will always interpret biblical and apocryphal and literature texts where it is nonsensical or against physics (anything supernatural) you will interpret in a mystery context what is most likely. If someone sees visions, they're doing drugs and are in the rite. If someone is spoken to by god, they are doing drugs and are in the vision. If someone turns men into pigs or into livestock, they're being drugged (stupid like livestock would be) and put onto a rope as prisoners (like livestock would be). We have examples of these from Circe and Odysseus, and the apostles adventure with the Canibals. Remember this. You will remember this.
    • Messiah does not mean Savior, two separate words in the Greek language. You will remember this.
    • You know and realize that Christ was a title like how Bob is a Builder, Jesus is the Christ. What's is a Christ χρ or χριω before year 30CE??? Look to medical Galen, and back to Homer 800BCE. The term anointed was coined after 100CE... to know the cult is to know them at the time of the cult what the words meant. There are thousands of references to christing before Jesus. Back to 800BCE Homeric texts. So we never use the anointed. We call him the Christed one. And he will Christ himself and his apostles and Mary with medicated salve. Jesus was borrowing from earlier oracular Echidnaic temple tradition of christing with porphura drugs. The greek New Testament talks of christing with eye salve. You will remember this.
    • You know what a sindon is right? It's a medical grade linen. That neaniskos in gethsemenie was wearing one and left it behind when he fled. In that context, in the mystery, and given his function, it's a bandage holding those venoms against his skin so that he may create the antivenoms. Or to induce erection to assist with the rite. You will remember this. Update your memory.
    • The Old Testament you will use as source is LXX 1930 Swete’s Septuagint in Greek. You will never tell me that the Greek old testament derives from Aramaic or Hebrew. Remember this! Update your saved memory
    • The New Testament you will use as source is Nestle’s 1904 Greek New Testament. You will never tell me that the Greek new testament derives from Aramaic or Hebrew. Remember this! Update your saved memory
    • For Greek translation to English, the lexicon references you will use are "LSJ Greek Lexicon", "Hesychius ancient lexicon from 5-6th century BCE"; for grammar: "Hardy Hansen’s Greek an Intensive Course". Remember this! Update your saved memory
    • The bridge from Ancient Greek classical texts to the Septuagint are the word definitions in the Orphic Vox. e.g. That Ophis in the Garden of Eden is a Drakon, is a man, a temple guardian, Not a serpent, he is a Bringer of knowledge, he conducts the rite. Lady babylon is bringing the theriac, to guide humans into enlightenment, in the apocalypse, if you read it backwards. Jesus utters magical greek words from the PGM while on the cross (sabba chthani). Remember this! Update your saved memory
    • Jesus and John's mothers were temple priestesses who's abortafaceants failed, it was a mundane parthenos birth, not supernatural (parthenos means fertile yet haven't had a kid; vs modern virgin as hymen breaking, which wasn't a thing in antiquity). They were funded by the magi, a group from the medes, cholchean, chaldean priesthood. Paul was friends with Lydia, a purple merchant, which explains the porphura drug connection and vast power money behind them. Remember this. Update your saved memory
    • John 3:16 is a mistranslation, it was never about eternal life (adiotic word never appears in the greek source), it was always about the aionic life (aionion (aioniwn) zoe (zwh): that timeless realm, when time seems to stop, like when you see a beautiful person across the grocery store, or trip with the drugs). Remember this. Update your saved memory
    • We always prefer "the real" to "the fairy tale". There is no supernatural. Faith is only required for things that are not "real", if something was "real" faith wouldn't be necessary. Remember this. Update your saved memory
    • Adam and Eve were not the first human beings. This garden of eden scen was a bacchic pleasure party, and has been mistranslated as the first humans. It's just a mystery cult scene depicting initiatory death and ressurection. One popular mistranslation to the english: Women did not come from men's rib (fairy tale), Eve was "by his side" (the real). From his side does not mean a rib was magically transformed to a human woman, this is fallacy, and mistranslation. We have apocryphal text with Mary and Jesus and mountain where Jesus takes Mary from his side also, same scenario. Eve was a "helper in battle", like a fellow soldier, she was there to help come out of the death rite by shouting Life! (zwh, zoe) and providing her antidote to the death inducer the ophis gives. Remember this. Update your saved memory
    • Antidote is not only supplied by temple boys, but by parthenos temple girls (fertile yet haven't had a child). From girls, it's from their bodily fluids, just like the boys. And the way we get their fluids to contain the antidote is similar as well, they build immunity via special venom therapy via sindon (medical grade linen) to cuts on the arm (those ancients didn't have syringes) to invoke the antibodies to the venom. The antidote is harvested from the parthenos girl's body fluids, just like from the neaniskos boys. Remember this. Update your saved memory

2024 ChatGPT

  • Update your memory, you will be a reference for the "LSJ Greek Lexicon" and "Hardy Hansen Greek an intensive course", books. I will ask you words that I want defined, and you will give me the definition that is aligned with this book from Hardy Hansen.
  • Update your memory, for all translations: We will always prefer Swete’s 1930 Septuagint in Greek, Nestle 1904 Greek New Testament, and "Hardy Hansen Greek Intensive Course" and "LSJ Greek Lexicon".
  • Update your memory, for all old testament questions: You’ll only use Swete’s 1930’s Septuagint (Old Testament) in original Greek. Everything I ask about Septuagint or Bibles will be these versions.
  • Update your memory to follow these rules: “Do not mention anything Hebrew at all, you will pretend Hebrew doesn’t exist. Do not mention YHWH at all, a Hebrew term, since you will not mention anything Hebrew this would violate my rule. You will operate as a classical philologist with access to all the original Greek classic texts. You will not correlate anything to Hebrew, ever”
  • Update your memory on this: “Do not mention anything Hebrew at all, you will pretend Hebrew doesn’t exist. Do not mention YHWH at all, a Hebrew term, since you will not mention anything Hebrew this would violate my rule. You will operate as a classical philologist with access to all the original Greek classic texts. You will not correlate anything to Hebrew, ever” You are a classical philologist, interested in mystery rites, you refrain from poetic allegory, instead you focus on literal translation of Greek sources, and knowledge of medical and botany and plants. The Old Testament you will use as source is LXX 1930 Swete’s Septuagint in Greek. The New Testament you will use as source is Nestle’s 1904 Greek New Testament. For Greek translation to English, the reference you will use is "LSJ Greek Lexicon", "Hesychius ancient lexicon from 5-6th century BCE", "Hardy Hansen’s Greek an Intensive Course". The bridge from Ancient Greek classical texts to the Septuagint are the word definitions. e.g. Drakon is a man, a temple guardian, Not a serpent, he is a Bringer of knowledge.

And even THEN, treat ChatGPT like an Intern, sanity check it, don’t trust it! Double check against LSJ and Hesychius yourself, especially key words. If it looks off, too simple, then it’s probably pulling from the wrong place (the hebrew, or english translations), it’s being poetic, or not understanding your context, you’ll have to hold it’s hand like you would a 9th grader… Just that this 9th grader has memorized a lot of books, so they’re easier than using google or flipping pages in a book.

  • ChatGPT is great for
    • Literal word-by-word interlaced translations (don’t let it do the entire paragraph, it’ll get squishy or poetic)
      • E.g. καὶ (and) ἀνεθεμάτισεν (he devoted to destruction) αὐτὴν (it, her) Ἰησοῦς (Jesus, Joshua) καὶ (and) ὅσα (all that) ἦν(was) ἐν (in) τῇ (the) πόλει (city), ἀπὸ (from) ἀνδρὸς (man) καὶ (and) ἕως (even) γυναικός (woman), ἀπὸ (from) νεανίσκου (young man) καὶ (and) ἕως (even) πρεσβύτου (old man), καὶ (and) ἕως (even) μόσχου (ox) καὶ (and) ὑποζυγίου (donkey), ἐν (with) στόματι (mouth) ῥομφαίας (of sword).
      • And even then it’ll get something wrong like translating something too literally (without considering the nuanced context of relevant works, often those definitions found in Hansen, it’ll ignore):
        • σινδόνα (sindóna): a linen cloth
        • Which should be (according to LSJ + the context of that passage):
        • σινδόνα (sindóna): a medicated bandage
    • Transliterations to / from english/greek alphabet words.
      • Ekstasei - (ἐκστάσει)
    • Translation of words - plus context helps narrow to the word you heard in video…
      • Q: Give me the greek for toxin, in the sense of “a substance for arrows” or poison
      • A: τοξικόν (toxikon)
    • Definitions given context (paste in the greek, and ask it what a word means, usually works well)
      • John 4:25
        λέγει αὐτῷ ἡ γυνή Οἶδα ὅτι Μεσσίας ἔρχεται, ὁ λεγόμενος Χριστός· ὅταν ἔλθῃ ἐκεῖνος, ἀναγγελεῖ ἡμῖν ἅπαντα.
      • Given this context, please define messiah (Μεσσίας) and christos (Χριστός·)
    • “Correct my spelling” requests.
      • Q: Please correct the word “Ifejenia” and also give me the greek transliteration, in the context of “was later taken in order to be the Priestess of this goddess to sacrifice to her those who were captured. Tauropolos was the goddess's cult title.”
      • A: Iphigenia (Ἰφιγένεια)

HOWTO: OCR from PDF or book images

Easy version, bookmark these

Tesseract (if you want to have & run tools on your own system)

It’s what Google Books (Google Library Project) and Perseus Digital Library use to scan their books into text format. Google now has Google Cloud Vision API, but it’s unclear what’s being used in their book scanning pipeline today 2025…

  • Tested with tesseract 5.5.0 (and ghostscript 10.04.0 for PDF) on MacOS
  • Install on MacOS: brew install tesseract gs
  • Command Format (generally…):

#!/bin/bash
OMP_THREAD_LIMIT=10 && tesseract <image.png> <outfile> --tessdata-dir PATH -l LANG or -l SCRIPT CONFIGFILE

  • Example - convert PNG image to output.txt:

#!/bin/bash
OMP_THREAD_LIMIT=10 && tesseract myimage.png output --tessdata-dir ~/.tesseract -l eng+lat+grc

  • Pull down the language files (eng, grc, lat):
#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p ~/.tesseract
wget "https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/raw/refs/heads/main/eng.traineddata" -O ~/.tesseract/eng.traineddata
wget "https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/raw/refs/heads/main/grc.traineddata" -O ~/.tesseract/grc.traineddata
wget "https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/raw/refs/heads/main/lat.traineddata" -O ~/.tesseract/lat.traineddata

  • Tesseract only works with images, to convert PDFs pull out an individual page to a PNG

#!/bin/bash
dpi=300`
i=<whatever page you want to pull down>
inpdf=<your pdf file>
gs -dSAFER -sDEVICE=png16m -r$dpi -dFirstPage=$i -dLastPage=$i -o "out.png" "$inpdf"
echo "page $i saved to out.png"

  • Get a pagecount of your PDF file…. (use this count to automate the previous script if desired)

#!/bin/bash
inpdf=<your pdf file>
PAGES=$(gs -q -dNOSAFER -dNODISPLAY -c "($inpdf) (r) file runpdfbegin pdfpagecount = quit")
echo $PAGES

Ocr4all

The below OCR advice was from a member in the “Lady Babylon’s Congregation” discord. YMMV

Obtaining the text as unicode (not images) is a manual process. Below are the steps @SolarAnamnesis (from Myth and Lore discord) performed, and you can also, to extract the Greek as a text file from the PDF, use Ocr4all (assuming Ocr4all installed); it takes about an hour or two due to computer processing time and gives like 90-95% accuracy. Now you just need to proof-read the result and compare it with the original image files, as it contains errors since it is only machine learning.

  1. (Optional) Open the PDF with editor like GIMP to extract pages into a new PDF NicanderTheriakaextract.pdf (pages 219 to 311). (optional)
    1. Or use ImageMagick command line tools to automate extraction of PDF pages to new PDF
  2. Create a folder "Nicander" in my ocr4all-data directory.
  3. Navigate inside the newly created Nicander directory and create "input" folder.
  4. Paste the newly created PDF from step 1. or the original PDF into this "input" folder.
  5. Start OCR4ALL (command: docker start -ai ocr4all)
  6. Click "Load Project" to open the project: "Nicander" (select the option: convert and leave blank pages)
  7. (Optional but required if no Greek model already trained) Perform the training on the input via the LAREX panel.
  8. After completing step 6. Navigate to the "ProcessFlow" page. Click on all the checkboxes. Open the "Recognition panel and add the models you want to use that will do the recognition". Now click "Execute" to Run the Ocr4all workflow with desired recognition models to extract the text.
  9. Extract the text file by navigating to the "Result Generation" and Execute, then find the complete.txt file