Perennial Philosophy
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Mysterium Magnum
Another of Jakob Böhme’s ciphers of the mysterium magnum appearing in his Theosophische Wercke (1682). The All Seeing Eye beholds the Phoenix Reborn. This is the Psyche/Soul transcending the encircling lifeworld. The break in the Ouroboros is the Nothing betwixt… Continue reading
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Centrum Naturae
“When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature [human], and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that eternal one, which is God himself, and then thou shalt perceive and feel the… Continue reading
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elective affinity
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung Related articles piercing intension (keithwaynebrown.com) No Nostalgia Sundays: The (Dead) Flowers of Regret (letterstodionysus.com) Companionship (kyohinaa.wordpress.com) Venture into… Continue reading
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piercing intension
the earth shifts even as the waters reach up and outward to the blazing stars themselves shaggy headed snake writhing and heaving holding tightly in its coils the resting sun where all principles await discovery thunder listens for the best… Continue reading
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Article: Composing Your Thoughts – Issue 2: Uncertainty
Very intriguing e-journal. Composing Your Thoughts – Issue 2: Uncertainty http://nautil.us/issue/2/uncertainty/composing-your-thoughts Continue reading
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Ageless Wisdom
“The sacred function of hope has, in modern man, degenerated into a hideous disease called tomorrow.” –G. Gurdjieff How does the old age not already become the new age? How does the ancient not always transform into the modern? Would… Continue reading
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Entelechy – Cosmos – Event
Seek thou after the entelecy of things if the opening of the Way is thy quest. Look not to the particular example or the general explanation of anything. To take up experience as wisdom means to be a student of… Continue reading
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TONGUE SANDWICH, Plagiarist
NOTE: This piece was originally a reblog. It can no longer be found at TONGUE SANDWICH. Turns out, TS is a horrible little plagiarist. You can see an interchange between that vile man and myself below. And what an ironic… Continue reading
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Yen Hui’s progress
Originally posted on Andrew Taggart, Ph.D.: We read in The Inner Chapters of Yen Hui’s progress. He had given up ‘doing good and being right,’ but Confucius tells him this is ‘not quite enough.’ He goes away and returns. He had given up… Continue reading
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(Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising
Cool site, Mago. Worth some time to read what the contributors are talking about. For an element in the environment to have divinatory properties, it must possess a quality of apparent randomness or unpredictability. If on a walk through my… Continue reading
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Twilighting Idolatries
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they, — let us hold… Continue reading
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House of God
Awesomeness. Shake my sisters and brothers of the Ether… Shake it! Related articles New Dub Gabriel Album Out Today! (midnightraverblog.com) Demo: Jack the Reaper steals your heart and soul in this SNES-inspired platformer (indiegames.com) The Eater of Worlds:HERO Chapter 8… Continue reading
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Poem for Kris
as said by them sages, “just so” just so-just so-just so non-interference with the flow forgoing and slowing forgoing all knowing when we see “to – be” just sewing-just sewing-just sewing Related articles Flowing / Swaying (keithwaynebrown.com) Daodejing 25 (keithwaynebrown.com) Body… Continue reading
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Flowing / Swaying
Knowledge is holding power: directing actuality or enabling skill. Thus, knowing thinks as a kind of doing, taking-up, having-in-hand, putting-to-work. Knowledge embraces interference (striking-between) not only establishing but proliferating differences, setting apart and breaking down until the world is an… Continue reading
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Philosophy isn’t dead yet | Raymond Tallis
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions ‘…then there is the mishandling of time. The physicist Lee Smolin’s recent book, Time Reborn, links the crisis in physics with its failure to acknowledge the fundamental reality of time. Physics is predisposed to… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 9
Dozing content on mid-may morning Cool pillow against my cheek Iced coffee just enough to keep me from going back into dreamland Birds squawking at the humid heat Sun bright, day brilliant Writing thinking planning ———————- My futon is tight… Continue reading
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Withdrawing
Engagement with the world happens on many levels. One of the most difficult actions is keeping faith in the good of humankind even as you see folks overladen with distractions. I read Star Wars novels, like to go to blockbuster… Continue reading
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Boon of Dandelions 7
Anything done to excess opens the door to more excesses. The spiral downward–slow or fast–can only be arrested with real moderation born of bold honesty. Any Existenz who lies to himself with the con game of “I am NOT an… Continue reading
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