Listen, Moirai (Fates) ... hear our prayers ...
send us rose-bloomed Eunomia ( Good Order in civic government)
and her bright-throned sisters Dike (Justice)
and garland-wearing Eirana (Peace),
and make this city forget its heavy-hearted misfortunes.
- Greek Lyric V Anonymous Fragments 1018 (from Stobaeus, Anthology)
2011/07/31
prayer
Listen, Moirai (Fates) ... hear our prayers ...
send us rose-bloomed Eunomia ( Good Order in civic government)
and her bright-throned sisters Dike (Justice)
and garland-wearing Eirana (Peace),
and make this city forget its heavy-hearted misfortunes.
- Greek Lyric V Anonymous Fragments 1018 (from Stobaeus, Anthology)
send us rose-bloomed Eunomia ( Good Order in civic government)
and her bright-throned sisters Dike (Justice)
and garland-wearing Eirana (Peace),
and make this city forget its heavy-hearted misfortunes.
- Greek Lyric V Anonymous Fragments 1018 (from Stobaeus, Anthology)
2011/07/30
Carl Jung
I've always felt Jung's approach was empirical from the standpoint of a physician. Equilibrium, homeostasis, as in functioning as compensation and complement, as between unconscious and consciousnesses (which holds up well as we're realizing that we actually think in the unconscious and later sort out our arguments -- same for memory; we re-create it. Re-member it) . The key is to consider the psyche as real as any physical thing, just as we accept energy and matter as both "real". The unknown forces at play -- as with physics, the quantum critical mass, etc. -- also part of the exploration.
Empiricism as we apply it concerns making models. Always incomplete, never the thing itself. Think of how code works on the internet now: computers jump ahead, see patterns without models. As with our thinking, I suspect (the processing done in the unconscious), though our awareness(consciousness) functions on the Newtonian level in what we describe as the everyday "common sense" world. Empiricism augments and extrapolates beyond the mere, the sensual. Jung expands our tool kit like a Tardis. :)
Jung, truly a philosopher in the old sense: lover of wisdom, trained in the Muses, a healer and a teacher. This is a good grounding:
Maureen writes:
Empiricism as we apply it concerns making models. Always incomplete, never the thing itself. Think of how code works on the internet now: computers jump ahead, see patterns without models. As with our thinking, I suspect (the processing done in the unconscious), though our awareness(consciousness) functions on the Newtonian level in what we describe as the everyday "common sense" world. Empiricism augments and extrapolates beyond the mere, the sensual. Jung expands our tool kit like a Tardis. :)
Jung, truly a philosopher in the old sense: lover of wisdom, trained in the Muses, a healer and a teacher. This is a good grounding:
Maureen writes:
Dear Lovely & Beloved Deborah & Alice
[...]
Jung looks at the source energy as Pleroma (Seven Sermons to the Dead), Tao (I Ching), unus mundus (alchemy) - all names for a Ground of Being that is unexpainable but can be experienced through intuition, mysticism, creativity, ecstasy and love. Because Eros is gaining the upper hand again through Aquarian holism, Eastern and Western thought have already come together to some extent through the new kind of understanding coming out of quantum physics - the realization of the interrelatedness of all and the archetypal links between psyche, creativity and science.
OF (Jung as 'Old Fool') had no preference for 'logical' over its opposite - the world as infinite and incomprehensible. As a 'whole-some' individual, he embodied the dance of opposites. I love him because he's a guy after my own heart. I was the only bod at my high school and at Uni who leaned toward neither the arts or science, so I embraced both, while everyone else did one or the other. Both are, after all, underpinned by the same archetypal energies and so have always been two sides of the one coin of truth, as wholistic thinkers like Bohm and Pauli understand. Ditto for Jung, a self-proclaimed 'scientist of soul' - and as we all know, soul can't be objectified, weighed, analysed, explained, or in any other way dissected, or pinned like a dead butterfly. Neither can a star, or a leaf, or an atom for that matter. Is a star merely a big ball of flaming gas, or is that simply what it's made of? Jung was not 'scientifically grounded' if by that we mean someone who tries to reduces the poetry and mystery of life to rational, stagnant, objective facts and cerebral explantions.
As OF made clear, at least half of life is irrational! Someone once asked him why the Chinese had developed no 'science'. He replied that this was an optical illusion, since they had a science - the I Ching - grounded in 'general synchronicity' - the understanding that psyche and nature mirror one another meaningfully, as inseparable twin facets of a unitary ground of being. This was the only kind of science that Jung had time for - he didn't buy into the Western hubris of trying to tame and reduce life to the 'myth' of objectivity and 'scientific theory'. Science, after all, simply means 'knowledge'. As Jung reminds us, we can never know the 'ding an sich' - the thing in itself - since all our knowledge - ALL of it - is experienced through the lens of the psyche. All of Jung's ideas are based on this kind of direct experience of the world through the lens of soul.
Anyway, my ramblings to toss into the Fire.
Carl Jung
I've always felt Jung's approach was empirical from the standpoint of a physician. Equilibrium, homeostasis, as in functioning as compensation and complement, as between unconscious and consciousnesses (which holds up well as we're realizing that we actually think in the unconscious and later sort out our arguments -- same for memory; we re-create it. Re-member it) . The key is to consider the psyche as real as any physical thing, just as we accept energy and matter as both "real". The unknown forces at play -- as with physics, the quantum critical mass, etc. -- also part of the exploration.
Empiricism as we apply it concerns making models. Always incomplete, never the thing itself. Think of how code works on the internet now: computers jump ahead, see patterns without models. As with our thinking, I suspect (the processing done in the unconscious), though our awareness(consciousness) functions on the Newtonian level in what we describe as the everyday "common sense" world. Empiricism augments and extrapolates beyond the mere, the sensual. Jung expands our tool kit like a Tardis. :)
Jung, truly a philosopher in the old sense: lover of wisdom, trained in the Muses, a healer and a teacher. This is a good grounding:
Maureen writes:
Empiricism as we apply it concerns making models. Always incomplete, never the thing itself. Think of how code works on the internet now: computers jump ahead, see patterns without models. As with our thinking, I suspect (the processing done in the unconscious), though our awareness(consciousness) functions on the Newtonian level in what we describe as the everyday "common sense" world. Empiricism augments and extrapolates beyond the mere, the sensual. Jung expands our tool kit like a Tardis. :)
Jung, truly a philosopher in the old sense: lover of wisdom, trained in the Muses, a healer and a teacher. This is a good grounding:
Maureen writes:
Dear Lovely & Beloved Deborah & Alice
[...]
Jung looks at the source energy as Pleroma (Seven Sermons to the Dead), Tao (I Ching), unus mundus (alchemy) - all names for a Ground of Being that is unexpainable but can be experienced through intuition, mysticism, creativity, ecstasy and love. Because Eros is gaining the upper hand again through Aquarian holism, Eastern and Western thought have already come together to some extent through the new kind of understanding coming out of quantum physics - the realization of the interrelatedness of all and the archetypal links between psyche, creativity and science.
OF (Jung as 'Old Fool') had no preference for 'logical' over its opposite - the world as infinite and incomprehensible. As a 'whole-some' individual, he embodied the dance of opposites. I love him because he's a guy after my own heart. I was the only bod at my high school and at Uni who leaned toward neither the arts or science, so I embraced both, while everyone else did one or the other. Both are, after all, underpinned by the same archetypal energies and so have always been two sides of the one coin of truth, as wholistic thinkers like Bohm and Pauli understand. Ditto for Jung, a self-proclaimed 'scientist of soul' - and as we all know, soul can't be objectified, weighed, analysed, explained, or in any other way dissected, or pinned like a dead butterfly. Neither can a star, or a leaf, or an atom for that matter. Is a star merely a big ball of flaming gas, or is that simply what it's made of? Jung was not 'scientifically grounded' if by that we mean someone who tries to reduces the poetry and mystery of life to rational, stagnant, objective facts and cerebral explantions.
As OF made clear, at least half of life is irrational! Someone once asked him why the Chinese had developed no 'science'. He replied that this was an optical illusion, since they had a science - the I Ching - grounded in 'general synchronicity' - the understanding that psyche and nature mirror one another meaningfully, as inseparable twin facets of a unitary ground of being. This was the only kind of science that Jung had time for - he didn't buy into the Western hubris of trying to tame and reduce life to the 'myth' of objectivity and 'scientific theory'. Science, after all, simply means 'knowledge'. As Jung reminds us, we can never know the 'ding an sich' - the thing in itself - since all our knowledge - ALL of it - is experienced through the lens of the psyche. All of Jung's ideas are based on this kind of direct experience of the world through the lens of soul.
Anyway, my ramblings to toss into the Fire.
2011/07/27
old pirates, yes...
Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing
This(not another) songs of freedom
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.
Won't you help to sing
This songs of freedom-
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.
Won't you have to sing
This songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
Redemption song ~Bob Marley
Old pirates, yes. Of course -- this is not the sailing of every man.
The Pirates of Cilicia were far more than a mere band of thieves. Rather, the pirates, who numbered at least twenty thousand, formed what amounted to a small nation which at its height controlled the entire Mediterranean Sea. Plutarch's description of the pirates in his Life of Pompey is instructive:
'The power of the pirates had its scat in Cilicia at first . . . then, while the Romans were embroiled in civil wars at the gates of Rome, the sea was left unguarded and gradually drew and enticed them on until they no longer attacked navigators only, but also laid waste islands and maritime cities. . . There were also forti-fled roadsteads and signal-stations for piratical craft in many places, and fleets put ii' here which were not merely furnished for their peculiar work with sturdy crews, skilful pilots, and light and speedy ships, nay, more annoying than the fear which they inspired was the odious extravagance of their equipment, with their gilded sails, and purple awnings, and silvered oars... For, you see, the ships of the pirates numbered more than a thousand, and the cities captured by them four hundred. ... This power extended its operations over the whole of our Mediterranean Sea, making it unnavigable and closed to all commerce.'
"Presently men whose wealth gave them power, and those whose lineage was illustrious, and those who laid claim to superior intelligence, began to mbark on piratical craft and share their enterprises."
(No ordinary pirates, these!)
'...Plutarch here tells us that the pirates had close ties with the upper classes and intelligentsia. It would, therefore, have been quite possible for the teachings of the young astronomical mystery cult of the Tarsian intellectuals to have been transmitted to the pirates. And note that this is especially true in view of the fact that the pirates, like all sailors, were dependent on the stars for the purposes of navigation and would thus very likely have been particularly receptive to religious teachings involving a deity whose essential characteristic was his power over the stars.....Tarsus, of course, was the the capital city of the province Cilicia and birthplace of St. Paul.
"...perhaps the most significant aspect of life in Tarsus in Hellenistic and Roman times was the existence there of a very important intellectual community, which Sir William Ramsay felt comfortable calling a "university." According to our chief source, Strabo (64 B.c.E.-21 C.E.):
'The people of Tarsus have devoted themselves so eagerly, not only to philosophy, but also to the whole round of education in general, that they have surpassed Athens, Alexandria, or any other place that can be named where there have been schools and lectures of philosophers. But it is so different from other cities that there the men who are fond of learning are all natives, and foreigners are not inclined to sojourn there; neither do these natives stay there, but they complete their education abroad; and when they have completed it they are pleased to live abroad and hut few go back home. . . . Further, the city of Tarsus has all kinds of schools of rhetoric; and in general it not only has a flourishing population but also is most powerful, thus keeping up the reputation of the mother-city.'
It also appears from Strabo's account that the university of Tarsus had an unusually large influence in the political life of the city. He tells us that during the reign of Augustus two of the most important philosophers in the university-first Athenodorus and then Nestor-became the city's political leaders. Thus, says Ramsay, "Tarsus in the reign of Augustus is the one example known in history of a State ruled by a University acting through its successive principals."
(culled from David Ulansey's Origins of Mithraic Mysteries.)
Can't help but note... The 'civilization' now so exclusively attributed to the Christians -- was also carried to them on these decks.
Anyway -- that's the pirate movie I want to see.
---------------------------------
mike:
Love the Ullansey, but that's not the version i would've put (it's not even Marley singing it)... try these...
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v
------------
deb
yeah, they're samoans!Adeaze.
Nice Marley. Have those on my ipod.
still was a nice combo -- both those songs together. did you see I Am Legend? Different from the orig novela, but oh, the film so timely and so well done. Art speaks to the times. Will Smith carries it all magnificently.
ariel got to see the wailers on gm campus. still lighting up in many ways!
old pirates, yes...
Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing
This(not another) songs of freedom
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.
Won't you help to sing
This songs of freedom-
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.
Won't you have to sing
This songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.
Redemption song ~Bob Marley
Old pirates, yes. Of course -- this is not the sailing of every man.
The Pirates of Cilicia were far more than a mere band of thieves. Rather, the pirates, who numbered at least twenty thousand, formed what amounted to a small nation which at its height controlled the entire Mediterranean Sea. Plutarch's description of the pirates in his Life of Pompey is instructive:
'The power of the pirates had its scat in Cilicia at first . . . then, while the Romans were embroiled in civil wars at the gates of Rome, the sea was left unguarded and gradually drew and enticed them on until they no longer attacked navigators only, but also laid waste islands and maritime cities. . . There were also forti-fled roadsteads and signal-stations for piratical craft in many places, and fleets put ii' here which were not merely furnished for their peculiar work with sturdy crews, skilful pilots, and light and speedy ships, nay, more annoying than the fear which they inspired was the odious extravagance of their equipment, with their gilded sails, and purple awnings, and silvered oars... For, you see, the ships of the pirates numbered more than a thousand, and the cities captured by them four hundred. ... This power extended its operations over the whole of our Mediterranean Sea, making it unnavigable and closed to all commerce.'
"Presently men whose wealth gave them power, and those whose lineage was illustrious, and those who laid claim to superior intelligence, began to mbark on piratical craft and share their enterprises."
(No ordinary pirates, these!)
'...Plutarch here tells us that the pirates had close ties with the upper classes and intelligentsia. It would, therefore, have been quite possible for the teachings of the young astronomical mystery cult of the Tarsian intellectuals to have been transmitted to the pirates. And note that this is especially true in view of the fact that the pirates, like all sailors, were dependent on the stars for the purposes of navigation and would thus very likely have been particularly receptive to religious teachings involving a deity whose essential characteristic was his power over the stars.....Tarsus, of course, was the the capital city of the province Cilicia and birthplace of St. Paul.
"...perhaps the most significant aspect of life in Tarsus in Hellenistic and Roman times was the existence there of a very important intellectual community, which Sir William Ramsay felt comfortable calling a "university." According to our chief source, Strabo (64 B.c.E.-21 C.E.):
'The people of Tarsus have devoted themselves so eagerly, not only to philosophy, but also to the whole round of education in general, that they have surpassed Athens, Alexandria, or any other place that can be named where there have been schools and lectures of philosophers. But it is so different from other cities that there the men who are fond of learning are all natives, and foreigners are not inclined to sojourn there; neither do these natives stay there, but they complete their education abroad; and when they have completed it they are pleased to live abroad and hut few go back home. . . . Further, the city of Tarsus has all kinds of schools of rhetoric; and in general it not only has a flourishing population but also is most powerful, thus keeping up the reputation of the mother-city.'
It also appears from Strabo's account that the university of Tarsus had an unusually large influence in the political life of the city. He tells us that during the reign of Augustus two of the most important philosophers in the university-first Athenodorus and then Nestor-became the city's political leaders. Thus, says Ramsay, "Tarsus in the reign of Augustus is the one example known in history of a State ruled by a University acting through its successive principals."
(culled from David Ulansey's Origins of Mithraic Mysteries.)
Can't help but note... The 'civilization' now so exclusively attributed to the Christians -- was also carried to them on these decks.
Anyway -- that's the pirate movie I want to see.
---------------------------------
mike:
Love the Ullansey, but that's not the version i would've put (it's not even Marley singing it)... try these...
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v
------------
deb
yeah, they're samoans!Adeaze.
Nice Marley. Have those on my ipod.
still was a nice combo -- both those songs together. did you see I Am Legend? Different from the orig novela, but oh, the film so timely and so well done. Art speaks to the times. Will Smith carries it all magnificently.
ariel got to see the wailers on gm campus. still lighting up in many ways!
2011/07/24
beyond the bigger picture Darwinism
Watching PBS online last night (Secrets of the Dead) about Michelangelo. All very much memory management -- a gentler, kinder, form of inquisition-- claiming (basically) Michelangelo as a a closet Protestant, that "by faith alone is salvation" and none of those sacraments or good works for him, thank you. Once again it's that modern tendency of stuffing something into a bin that simply didn't exist at the time, certainly not in the way it "exists" now. No faith? Sacraments were defined as the "outward sign of faith". Faith is essential to make any spell work (Alohomora!) and corruption simply corruption (No worry. Into the fiery hole, you scum! Back on the wheel!). And what is faith? A life shaping verb: what you act on. The gods you worship are the gods you deserve.
So -- minds that make sensuality look like spirituality? Of course and vice versa -- remembering that the great magnum opus IS the great magnum opus: stuffing souls (sentience, consciousness) into bodies (Sit up, clay!). Dancing really is a fine religion.
Or, as Mike Dickman once said
And Culianu:
And here's the kicker. "Peaceful coexistence" = Equilibrium. And that means no movement, no change, no gradients, no life. No dance. No Eros. No Mojo. So... embrace the tension. Live your story. In the end, equilibrium. And behind it all always, equilibrium. It just that just now, you're still moving through your own story.
UNFOLD YOUR OWN MYTH
Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms?
Who comes to a spring thirsty and sees the moon reflected in it?
Who, like Jacob blind with grief and age, smells the shirt of his lost
son and can see again?
Who lets a bucket down and brings up a flowing prophet?
Or like Moses goes for fire and finds what burns inside the sunrise?
Jesus slips into a house to escape enemies, and opens a door to the other world.
Solomon cuts open a fish, and there’s a gold ring.
Omar storms in to kill the prophet and leaves with blessings.
Chase a deer and end up everywhere!
An oyster opens his mouth to swallow one drop.
Now there’s a pearl.
A vagrant wanders empty ruins. Suddenly he’s wealthy.
But don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation,
so everyone will understand the passage:
We have opened you.
Start walking toward Shams.
Your legs will get heavy and tired.
Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you’ve grown,
lifting.
~RUMI
So -- minds that make sensuality look like spirituality? Of course and vice versa -- remembering that the great magnum opus IS the great magnum opus: stuffing souls (sentience, consciousness) into bodies (Sit up, clay!). Dancing really is a fine religion.
"...The ultimate fate of every dogma is that it gradually becomes
soulless. Life wants to create new forms, and therefore, when a dogma
loses its vitality, it must perforce activate the archetype that has
always helped man to express the mystery of the soul....the psychic
archetype .... take form and become accessible to understanding....But
the supremely important motive power which is needed .... and which
sets the archetypal possibilities in motion at a given historical
moment, cannot be explained in terms of archetype itself. Only
experience can establish which archetype has become operative, but one
can never predict that it must enter into manifestation. ..."
(CGJung, Collected Works, Vol. 14, p. 347, par. 488)
Or, as Mike Dickman once said
The Mass is not a parody of the Magnum Opus. The Mass is an exact manifestation of the Magnum Opus. Most Parisian Catholics have no idea of what they're about. They're Sunday Christians only. Many French people today are fascinated with all things esoteric. But it's only an intellectual fascination. Alchemical wisdom can not be understood intellectually but only experienced...or -better put- Alchemical wisdom can only be understood intellectually IF experienced.
And Culianu:
Magic is not about disorder. On the contrary, it reestablishes a peaceful coexistence between the conscious and unconscious when coexistence is under attack. ~Ioan CoulianoAnd I dare say that's also the function of art.
And here's the kicker. "Peaceful coexistence" = Equilibrium. And that means no movement, no change, no gradients, no life. No dance. No Eros. No Mojo. So... embrace the tension. Live your story. In the end, equilibrium. And behind it all always, equilibrium. It just that just now, you're still moving through your own story.
UNFOLD YOUR OWN MYTH
Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms?
Who comes to a spring thirsty and sees the moon reflected in it?
Who, like Jacob blind with grief and age, smells the shirt of his lost
son and can see again?
Who lets a bucket down and brings up a flowing prophet?
Or like Moses goes for fire and finds what burns inside the sunrise?
Jesus slips into a house to escape enemies, and opens a door to the other world.
Solomon cuts open a fish, and there’s a gold ring.
Omar storms in to kill the prophet and leaves with blessings.
Chase a deer and end up everywhere!
An oyster opens his mouth to swallow one drop.
Now there’s a pearl.
A vagrant wanders empty ruins. Suddenly he’s wealthy.
But don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation,
so everyone will understand the passage:
We have opened you.
Start walking toward Shams.
Your legs will get heavy and tired.
Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you’ve grown,
lifting.
~RUMI
beyond the bigger picture Darwinism
Watching PBS online last night (Secrets of the Dead) about Michelangelo. All very much memory management -- a gentler, kinder, form of inquisition-- claiming (basically) Michelangelo as a a closet Protestant, that "by faith alone is salvation" and none of those sacraments or good works for him, thank you. Once again it's that modern tendency of stuffing something into a bin that simply didn't exist at the time, certainly not in the way it "exists" now. No faith? Sacraments were defined as the "outward sign of faith". Faith is essential to make any spell work (Alohomora!) and corruption simply corruption (No worry. Into the fiery hole, you scum! Back on the wheel!). And what is faith? A life shaping verb: what you act on. The gods you worship are the gods you deserve.
So -- minds that make sensuality look like spirituality? Of course and vice versa -- remembering that the great magnum opus IS the great magnum opus: stuffing souls (sentience, consciousness) into bodies (Sit up, clay!). Dancing really is a fine religion.
Or, as Mike Dickman once said
And Culianu:
And here's the kicker. "Peaceful coexistence" = Equilibrium. And that means no movement, no change, no gradients, no life. No dance. No Eros. No Mojo. So... embrace the tension. Live your story. In the end, equilibrium. And behind it all always, equilibrium. It just that just now, you're still moving through your own story.
UNFOLD YOUR OWN MYTH
Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms?
Who comes to a spring thirsty and sees the moon reflected in it?
Who, like Jacob blind with grief and age, smells the shirt of his lost
son and can see again?
Who lets a bucket down and brings up a flowing prophet?
Or like Moses goes for fire and finds what burns inside the sunrise?
Jesus slips into a house to escape enemies, and opens a door to the other world.
Solomon cuts open a fish, and there’s a gold ring.
Omar storms in to kill the prophet and leaves with blessings.
Chase a deer and end up everywhere!
An oyster opens his mouth to swallow one drop.
Now there’s a pearl.
A vagrant wanders empty ruins. Suddenly he’s wealthy.
But don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation,
so everyone will understand the passage:
We have opened you.
Start walking toward Shams.
Your legs will get heavy and tired.
Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you’ve grown,
lifting.
~RUMI
So -- minds that make sensuality look like spirituality? Of course and vice versa -- remembering that the great magnum opus IS the great magnum opus: stuffing souls (sentience, consciousness) into bodies (Sit up, clay!). Dancing really is a fine religion.
"...The ultimate fate of every dogma is that it gradually becomes
soulless. Life wants to create new forms, and therefore, when a dogma
loses its vitality, it must perforce activate the archetype that has
always helped man to express the mystery of the soul....the psychic
archetype .... take form and become accessible to understanding....But
the supremely important motive power which is needed .... and which
sets the archetypal possibilities in motion at a given historical
moment, cannot be explained in terms of archetype itself. Only
experience can establish which archetype has become operative, but one
can never predict that it must enter into manifestation. ..."
(CGJung, Collected Works, Vol. 14, p. 347, par. 488)
Or, as Mike Dickman once said
The Mass is not a parody of the Magnum Opus. The Mass is an exact manifestation of the Magnum Opus. Most Parisian Catholics have no idea of what they're about. They're Sunday Christians only. Many French people today are fascinated with all things esoteric. But it's only an intellectual fascination. Alchemical wisdom can not be understood intellectually but only experienced...or -better put- Alchemical wisdom can only be understood intellectually IF experienced.
And Culianu:
Magic is not about disorder. On the contrary, it reestablishes a peaceful coexistence between the conscious and unconscious when coexistence is under attack. ~Ioan CoulianoAnd I dare say that's also the function of art.
And here's the kicker. "Peaceful coexistence" = Equilibrium. And that means no movement, no change, no gradients, no life. No dance. No Eros. No Mojo. So... embrace the tension. Live your story. In the end, equilibrium. And behind it all always, equilibrium. It just that just now, you're still moving through your own story.
UNFOLD YOUR OWN MYTH
Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?
Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms?
Who comes to a spring thirsty and sees the moon reflected in it?
Who, like Jacob blind with grief and age, smells the shirt of his lost
son and can see again?
Who lets a bucket down and brings up a flowing prophet?
Or like Moses goes for fire and finds what burns inside the sunrise?
Jesus slips into a house to escape enemies, and opens a door to the other world.
Solomon cuts open a fish, and there’s a gold ring.
Omar storms in to kill the prophet and leaves with blessings.
Chase a deer and end up everywhere!
An oyster opens his mouth to swallow one drop.
Now there’s a pearl.
A vagrant wanders empty ruins. Suddenly he’s wealthy.
But don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.
Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation,
so everyone will understand the passage:
We have opened you.
Start walking toward Shams.
Your legs will get heavy and tired.
Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you’ve grown,
lifting.
~RUMI
2011/07/23
none of that cross-breeding, intergalactic sex, thank you!
Oh, Dr! The infinite vision and experience, the pain you carry. That miraculous regenerating flesh. And now this out of wedlock, un-church-sanctified threat of carnal passion.
Dr. Who is for kids like Harry Potter is for kids. Dr. Who fills our need to envision, charting a direction large enough to fit what we know (and suspect) about the cosmos. Sci-fi, like the old religions, the old gods, is like the Tardis, a vehicle to project yourself far enough from the mundane to glimpse both your inner and outer states -- the total psyche -- and the binding, unquestioned parameters of your culture's hold on those states.
You think kids don't have sexual feelings? At five, I was totally in love with Robin Hood (the one with the BBC accent: Richard Greene, The Adventures of Robin Hood. Wow -- did you know Lindsay Anderson directed some of those?). I think I also had a thing for the Sheiff of Nottingham. He was just so evil and had that demonic little beard. But I didn't know the facts of life, the old in-out, not growing up on a farm. But still -- the feelings. The passion and attraction.
I remember being very shocked by it all when I learned about sex. It's so preposterous, and, unless you're actually experiencing the moment, seems to have very little to do with the feelings that caught you up into that act in the first place. Which is why porn and even so many sex scenes in adult movies fail to attract or intrigue me. It's like eating, really. I'm not interested in watching it. Some things are simply not spectator sports. (And if sex is -- what? -- 80% visual as they say it is for men, is not watching porn 80% infidelity?) (Oh, lusting in his heart.) (Kidding!) It's more romantic to have Dr. Who un-entangled: I know he's a passionate being, body and mind. A Time Lord! What an aphrodisiac. He doesn't need anything more than what he simply is. It just breaks the spell. Makes him -- human. Mundane.
(Of course I love the scene, what they did, River Song, all of it.)
Yet, I do love the Greek god statues, those Leda and Swan paintings... But you see, we don't identify with the gods. They embody things beyond our reach. They are awe.
And love is also awe.
On Netflix, I read the reactions to "An Education". It's a marvelous film that understands all I'm trying to get at here: grappling with mysteries, the forces that make life and move the sun and all the stars, how easy it is to lose oneself. Thank the gods Jenny doesn't. Thank Jenny, saved by her own wisdom: her ability to learn. She's far too whole to be cut in pieces, which is what we do with sex. Hell, we sell cars with it, cut it away from Being. But reading the Netflix responses, how many write that they were creeped out by a 30 year-old man seducing a 16 year-old girl -- so creeped out that they missed the point of the film. It's symptomatic of our sexual dysfunction, the way we've divorced body and soul. Romance is eros centered, and we've lost reverence for the eros. And Eros is life itself, life as it moves and lives.
Ah, Jenny. How we love you. How we love our Doctors. As for carnality, it was 1885, an eye-blink ago, that the age of consent was raised in England from 12 to 16, and it took a good long jolly fight to get that passed by Parliament.
I trust adults will grow up at some point. Hollywood is looking for actors who have real, non-silicone bodies. Reality centered bodies. A place where we can fully dwell, where we can travel the cosmos, defy time and space, plant our feet, dance, and get -- educated.
Blessed are the arts.
extra credit: STEPHEN HAWKING:TIME LORD
none of that cross-breeding, intergalactic sex, thank you!
Oh, Dr! The infinite vision and experience, the pain you carry. That miraculous regenerating flesh. And now this out of wedlock, un-church-sanctified threat of carnal passion.
Dr. Who is for kids like Harry Potter is for kids. Dr. Who fills our need to envision, charting a direction large enough to fit what we know (and suspect) about the cosmos. Sci-fi, like the old religions, the old gods, is like the Tardis, a vehicle to project yourself far enough from the mundane to glimpse both your inner and outer states -- the total psyche -- and the binding, unquestioned parameters of your culture's hold on those states.
You think kids don't have sexual feelings? At five, I was totally in love with Robin Hood (the one with the BBC accent: Richard Greene, The Adventures of Robin Hood. Wow -- did you know Lindsay Anderson directed some of those?). I think I also had a thing for the Sheiff of Nottingham. He was just so evil and had that demonic little beard. But I didn't know the facts of life, the old in-out, not growing up on a farm. But still -- the feelings. The passion and attraction.
I remember being very shocked by it all when I learned about sex. It's so preposterous, and, unless you're actually experiencing the moment, seems to have very little to do with the feelings that caught you up into that act in the first place. Which is why porn and even so many sex scenes in adult movies fail to attract or intrigue me. It's like eating, really. I'm not interested in watching it. Some things are simply not spectator sports. (And if sex is -- what? -- 80% visual as they say it is for men, is not watching porn 80% infidelity?) (Oh, lusting in his heart.) (Kidding!) It's more romantic to have Dr. Who un-entangled: I know he's a passionate being, body and mind. A Time Lord! What an aphrodisiac. He doesn't need anything more than what he simply is. It just breaks the spell. Makes him -- human. Mundane.
(Of course I love the scene, what they did, River Song, all of it.)
And love is also awe.
On Netflix, I read the reactions to "An Education". It's a marvelous film that understands all I'm trying to get at here: grappling with mysteries, the forces that make life and move the sun and all the stars, how easy it is to lose oneself. Thank the gods Jenny doesn't. Thank Jenny, saved by her own wisdom: her ability to learn. She's far too whole to be cut in pieces, which is what we do with sex. Hell, we sell cars with it, cut it away from Being. But reading the Netflix responses, how many write that they were creeped out by a 30 year-old man seducing a 16 year-old girl -- so creeped out that they missed the point of the film. It's symptomatic of our sexual dysfunction, the way we've divorced body and soul. Romance is eros centered, and we've lost reverence for the eros. And Eros is life itself, life as it moves and lives.
Ah, Jenny. How we love you. How we love our Doctors. As for carnality, it was 1885, an eye-blink ago, that the age of consent was raised in England from 12 to 16, and it took a good long jolly fight to get that passed by Parliament.
I trust adults will grow up at some point. Hollywood is looking for actors who have real, non-silicone bodies. Reality centered bodies. A place where we can fully dwell, where we can travel the cosmos, defy time and space, plant our feet, dance, and get -- educated.
extra credit: STEPHEN HAWKING:TIME LORD
2011/07/22
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/stingray_nebula.png
2011/07/19
Bachmann: Did Stephen King invent this character?
Hubris or mere Son of Sam?
Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality, usually including false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations).
Ronan Bennett's Havoc, in its Third Year, or Jeff Sharlet's The Family -- also grounding in the bat-shitism of "faith" forced into being "real."
-------------------
And for dessert:
Rick Warren and Rupert Murdoch Merge Their Purpose Driven Lives
http://www.newshounds.us/2006/12/24/rick_warren_and_rupert_murdoch_merge_their_purpose_driven_lives.php
Murdoch also owns Zondervan, the world’s largest publisher of Bibles.
Bachmann: Did Stephen King invent this character?
Hubris or mere Son of Sam?
Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality, usually including false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations).
Ronan Bennett's Havoc, in its Third Year, or Jeff Sharlet's The Family -- also grounding in the bat-shitism of "faith" forced into being "real."
-------------------
And for dessert:
Rick Warren and Rupert Murdoch Merge Their Purpose Driven Lives
http://www.newshounds.us/2006/12/24/rick_warren_and_rupert_murdoch_merge_their_purpose_driven_lives.php
Murdoch also owns Zondervan, the world’s largest publisher of Bibles.
2011/07/17
2011/07/16
ever in search
from my notes on Masonry:
Benjamin Franklin and his broad Deist Enlightenment perspective led him to speak a language more symbolic / poetic than today's--yet it was perfectly understood in his time. I keep thinking of Walter Isaacson's description of Franklin's funeral... all the clergy from the entire city marched at the front with his coffin--the Rabbi with them. It says everything about Franklin, and everything about what our current leaders and their castrati of press would like us to lose.
In every town I drive through, I look for and often find the Masonic emblem. I understand what an important role they played in carrying Enlightenment views though this nation. They were long the civic backbone, a place where all the clergy could 'walk together' and meet as men, all dogma realized as symbol and ritual. Too often written out of serious history, what a great loss to lose this perspective.
Seems to me that FreeMasonry was sometimes the one place in this commercialgodobsessed nation where different denominations and parties might come together, seeing we are really all made alike, hands, feet, head, soul, notions, fears, hopes, failings... Why not enlighten each other's way?
How to join
Freemasonry Today
Anyone interested in Masonry and its history will find the articles in the Eighteenth-Century Studies Journal vol 33 number 2 , Johns Hopkins Univ Press, helpful. To paint all masonry as diabolical -- some NWO -- is absurd. The US Constitution is essentially a Masonic document. Separation of religion and state (the original wording) was the very core of Masonry in that age.
Masonry and its history: Eighteenth-Century Studies Journal vol 33 number 2 , Johns Hopkins Univ Press.
Jacob,Margaret C. Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteen-Century Europe . Oxford University Press: New York, 1991.
Jacob provides an insight into how Freemasons, in their private sociability, reconstituted polity and established a constitutional form of self-government complete with laws, elections and representatives. Moral, ethical and political prescriptions permeating Masonic rituals and discourse is thoroughly examined. Freemasonry wove Enlightened ideas into a tapestry of rituals and oaths; rules of conduct intended to induce loyalty and civility for its dedicated followers—promoting socially acceptable virtues. Also mentioned are Freemason utopian, reforming and free-thinking tendencies (Benjamin Franklin among a few). Jacob explains the exclusion of women in Freemasonry and the anti-masonic trends.
Pedicord, Harry W. “Masonic Theatre Pieces in London 1730-1780.” Theatre Survey. 25 (1984), 153-166. Freemasonry as a vital force in the theatrical scene both before and behind the stage curtain; 18th century. Pedicord gives a compilation of plays, operas and song that were predominately Masonic in theme. Among the pieces are an Opera, “The Generous Free- Mason,” a tragedy, “The London Merchant,” and a drama, “Harlequin Freemason.” Each reflect the traditions and teachings of Freemasonry. All pieces are broken down scene by scene and explained. Samples of reviews in magazines and newspapers are also included.
Roberts, Marie. British Poets and Secret Societies. Barnes and Noble Books: Totowa New Jersey, 1986. A compilation of works of 18th century poetry on the subject of Freemasonry. This book investigates the relationship between poets and secret societies; mainly Freemasonry. Included in the compilation are writings by Rudyard Kipling. The involvement of the poets with the Freemason Brotherhood is also examined. The poems include all aspects of Freemasonry; from their philosophy and practice to their rituals and dress. Each poem is broken down and interpreted, making this interesting reading even for those unfamiliar with Freemasory.
http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/colors/black/bljett01/farebiblio.html
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/poznan.html
"The Library of the University of Poznan possess an exceptional collection of Masonic books amounting to about 80,000 volumes. This collection was originally formed during World War II when Heinrich Himmler's SS under the Nazi regime in Germany confiscated the libraries of Masonic libraries in Germany, and stored this archive in Poland. After the war this collection remained in Poland, and only since the fall of the communist regime has its existence been known or it been given any publicity.
It is the largest Masonic collection in continental Europe and second only to that of the Grand Lodge in London. Some of the items are housed in Poznan and others at the Chateau de Ciazen about 80 kilometers from Poznan. The University Library and some Masonic bodies from Poland and Western Europe agreed to make Ciazen the centre of Masonic research. The palace has long been a place for conferences and seminars, so it has hotel-like facilities. It is a beautiful place and was formerly the residence of bishops.
The older part of the collection has many Rosicrucian books of the 17th and 18th Centuries, but the most substantial part of the collection is of 19th and 20th century works. The greater part of the collection is in German, but there are many English and French works. There are many Masonic encyclopaedias, monographs, Masonic manuals, and polemical and works of Masonic instruction. 70% of the titles are in the form of journals and magazines in a number of languages. There are a number of membership list and other internal documents of various Masonic orders, Constitutions and Statutes, and works on the symbolism, the catechism, instructions, grade rituals and ceremonies of the different Masonic orders. The manuscripts are at present being catalogued. There are both alchemical and magical items."
A catalogue of the collection is available on Microfiche (30 microfiches) from:-
George Olms (Division III Microform)
Hagentorwall 7
Hildesheim
D 3200
Germany
[Some scholarly institutions may already have copies of this microfiche.]
The address of the curator is:-
Mgr A. Karpowicz
Samodzielna Sekcja Zbiorow Masonskich
Biblioteka Glowna UAM
ul. Ratajczaka 38/40
61.816 Poznan
Poland.
So what is this with Sir Philip Wharton as a source for Richardson's Lovelace? These "malcontent masons": from J.L.Carr, Gorgons, Gormogons, Medusists and Masons, Modern Language Review, LVIII (Jan. 1963), pp.73-8. "The Gormogons were a body of malcontent Masons who formed themselves into a society in order to mimic and disparage the parent society. The Order was founded by Sir Philip Wharton who had also established the society for the advancement of flirtation. Wharton, who had been Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England, may have been the model for Lovelace in Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe (1747-8). See T.C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, Samuel Richardson: A Biography (Oxford, 1971), p.267."
"What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian Senate."
~Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 1816.
The Carbonari and the independence movements in Greece and Italy, the Red Circle Conan Doyle writes about, the current twists... well, speculative indeed.. Sadly, any group is subject to following agenda, thus the ever-present crap detector is all. (Update: the Breivik Psychosis)
At the end of the Gnosis article on Freemasonry [No. 44, Summer 97] by the author of The Hiram Key (actually, that Jerusalem Community Hiram Key speaks of is an area of current academic immersion -- if we can keep the region from being completely blown up, agenda again, ever the real conspiracy... ), he talks about the rites being hijacked and rewritten:
Freemasonry as it's practiced today has lost its way to large degree, partly because of people's living patterns and the way times have changed, but also because it was deliberately changed around 1717 and again in the next century. (Note: He looks to the Scottish as the authentic, as well as the Masonry of the US Founding Fathers.) Christian degrees were invented, and old degrees were pushed back into the background. It's hard to understand, because it's all been carved up so much. We are still continuing to piece it all back together again.*********
bleetings from when times were less dark and my prose a bit more purple...
My personal interest in Masonry and other esoteric off-shoots came from studying various artists from the 19th C. Was for me a worthy journey.
related:
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback)
by Frances Yates
"In the old Europe, a royal wedding was a diplomatic event of the first importance, and royal wedding festivities were a statement of policy..." (more)
Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats | SIPs | CAPs
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited (Paperback)
by Paul Bembridge, Joscelyn Godwin, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Claire Goodrick-Clarke, Christopher McIntosh,Robert Sardello, Christopher Bamford, John Matthews (Editor), Ralph White (Introduction) "THE GRAIL AND THE ROSE: two streams of wisdom flowing side by side, sometimes entering the same channel and flowing together, sometimes separating again to..." (more)
Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats | SIPs | CAPs
ever in search
from my notes on Masonry:
Benjamin Franklin and his broad Deist Enlightenment perspective led him to speak a language more symbolic / poetic than today's--yet it was perfectly understood in his time. I keep thinking of Walter Isaacson's description of Franklin's funeral... all the clergy from the entire city marched at the front with his coffin--the Rabbi with them. It says everything about Franklin, and everything about what our current leaders and their castrati of press would like us to lose.
In every town I drive through, I look for and often find the Masonic emblem. I understand what an important role they played in carrying Enlightenment views though this nation. They were long the civic backbone, a place where all the clergy could 'walk together' and meet as men, all dogma realized as symbol and ritual. Too often written out of serious history, what a great loss to lose this perspective.
Seems to me that FreeMasonry was sometimes the one place in this commercialgodobsessed nation where different denominations and parties might come together, seeing we are really all made alike, hands, feet, head, soul, notions, fears, hopes, failings... Why not enlighten each other's way?
How to join
Freemasonry Today
Anyone interested in Masonry and its history will find the articles in the Eighteenth-Century Studies Journal vol 33 number 2 , Johns Hopkins Univ Press, helpful. To paint all masonry as diabolical -- some NWO -- is absurd. The US Constitution is essentially a Masonic document. Separation of religion and state (the original wording) was the very core of Masonry in that age.
Masonry and its history: Eighteenth-Century Studies Journal vol 33 number 2 , Johns Hopkins Univ Press.
Jacob,Margaret C. Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteen-Century Europe . Oxford University Press: New York, 1991.
Jacob provides an insight into how Freemasons, in their private sociability, reconstituted polity and established a constitutional form of self-government complete with laws, elections and representatives. Moral, ethical and political prescriptions permeating Masonic rituals and discourse is thoroughly examined. Freemasonry wove Enlightened ideas into a tapestry of rituals and oaths; rules of conduct intended to induce loyalty and civility for its dedicated followers—promoting socially acceptable virtues. Also mentioned are Freemason utopian, reforming and free-thinking tendencies (Benjamin Franklin among a few). Jacob explains the exclusion of women in Freemasonry and the anti-masonic trends.
Pedicord, Harry W. “Masonic Theatre Pieces in London 1730-1780.” Theatre Survey. 25 (1984), 153-166. Freemasonry as a vital force in the theatrical scene both before and behind the stage curtain; 18th century. Pedicord gives a compilation of plays, operas and song that were predominately Masonic in theme. Among the pieces are an Opera, “The Generous Free- Mason,” a tragedy, “The London Merchant,” and a drama, “Harlequin Freemason.” Each reflect the traditions and teachings of Freemasonry. All pieces are broken down scene by scene and explained. Samples of reviews in magazines and newspapers are also included.
Roberts, Marie. British Poets and Secret Societies. Barnes and Noble Books: Totowa New Jersey, 1986. A compilation of works of 18th century poetry on the subject of Freemasonry. This book investigates the relationship between poets and secret societies; mainly Freemasonry. Included in the compilation are writings by Rudyard Kipling. The involvement of the poets with the Freemason Brotherhood is also examined. The poems include all aspects of Freemasonry; from their philosophy and practice to their rituals and dress. Each poem is broken down and interpreted, making this interesting reading even for those unfamiliar with Freemasory.
http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/colors/black/bljett01/farebiblio.html
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/poznan.html
"The Library of the University of Poznan possess an exceptional collection of Masonic books amounting to about 80,000 volumes. This collection was originally formed during World War II when Heinrich Himmler's SS under the Nazi regime in Germany confiscated the libraries of Masonic libraries in Germany, and stored this archive in Poland. After the war this collection remained in Poland, and only since the fall of the communist regime has its existence been known or it been given any publicity.
It is the largest Masonic collection in continental Europe and second only to that of the Grand Lodge in London. Some of the items are housed in Poznan and others at the Chateau de Ciazen about 80 kilometers from Poznan. The University Library and some Masonic bodies from Poland and Western Europe agreed to make Ciazen the centre of Masonic research. The palace has long been a place for conferences and seminars, so it has hotel-like facilities. It is a beautiful place and was formerly the residence of bishops.
The older part of the collection has many Rosicrucian books of the 17th and 18th Centuries, but the most substantial part of the collection is of 19th and 20th century works. The greater part of the collection is in German, but there are many English and French works. There are many Masonic encyclopaedias, monographs, Masonic manuals, and polemical and works of Masonic instruction. 70% of the titles are in the form of journals and magazines in a number of languages. There are a number of membership list and other internal documents of various Masonic orders, Constitutions and Statutes, and works on the symbolism, the catechism, instructions, grade rituals and ceremonies of the different Masonic orders. The manuscripts are at present being catalogued. There are both alchemical and magical items."
A catalogue of the collection is available on Microfiche (30 microfiches) from:-
George Olms (Division III Microform)
Hagentorwall 7
Hildesheim
D 3200
Germany
[Some scholarly institutions may already have copies of this microfiche.]
The address of the curator is:-
Mgr A. Karpowicz
Samodzielna Sekcja Zbiorow Masonskich
Biblioteka Glowna UAM
ul. Ratajczaka 38/40
61.816 Poznan
Poland.
So what is this with Sir Philip Wharton as a source for Richardson's Lovelace? These "malcontent masons": from J.L.Carr, Gorgons, Gormogons, Medusists and Masons, Modern Language Review, LVIII (Jan. 1963), pp.73-8. "The Gormogons were a body of malcontent Masons who formed themselves into a society in order to mimic and disparage the parent society. The Order was founded by Sir Philip Wharton who had also established the society for the advancement of flirtation. Wharton, who had been Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England, may have been the model for Lovelace in Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe (1747-8). See T.C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel, Samuel Richardson: A Biography (Oxford, 1971), p.267."
"What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian Senate."
~Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell, 1816.
The Carbonari and the independence movements in Greece and Italy, the Red Circle Conan Doyle writes about, the current twists... well, speculative indeed.. Sadly, any group is subject to following agenda, thus the ever-present crap detector is all. (Update: the Breivik Psychosis)
At the end of the Gnosis article on Freemasonry [No. 44, Summer 97] by the author of The Hiram Key (actually, that Jerusalem Community Hiram Key speaks of is an area of current academic immersion -- if we can keep the region from being completely blown up, agenda again, ever the real conspiracy... ), he talks about the rites being hijacked and rewritten:
Freemasonry as it's practiced today has lost its way to large degree, partly because of people's living patterns and the way times have changed, but also because it was deliberately changed around 1717 and again in the next century. (Note: He looks to the Scottish as the authentic, as well as the Masonry of the US Founding Fathers.) Christian degrees were invented, and old degrees were pushed back into the background. It's hard to understand, because it's all been carved up so much. We are still continuing to piece it all back together again.*********
bleetings from when times were less dark and my prose a bit more purple...
My personal interest in Masonry and other esoteric off-shoots came from studying various artists from the 19th C. Was for me a worthy journey.
related:
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Routledge Classics) (Routledge Classics (Paperback)) (Paperback)
by Frances Yates
"In the old Europe, a royal wedding was a diplomatic event of the first importance, and royal wedding festivities were a statement of policy..." (more)
Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats | SIPs | CAPs
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment Revisited (Paperback)
by Paul Bembridge, Joscelyn Godwin, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Claire Goodrick-Clarke, Christopher McIntosh,Robert Sardello, Christopher Bamford, John Matthews (Editor), Ralph White (Introduction) "THE GRAIL AND THE ROSE: two streams of wisdom flowing side by side, sometimes entering the same channel and flowing together, sometimes separating again to..." (more)
Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats | SIPs | CAPs
2011/07/13
2011/07/09
Let not thine eyes know Any forbidden thing itself
(OPENPRESS) July 08, 2011 -- As part of a journey that takes in the V&A Museum in London and the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, from September 13th until January 15th the iconic Musee d'Orsay in Saint-Germain-des-Pres will be home to an exhibition that charts the seismic artistic shift that took place in Victorian England.
Entitled 'Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde', the work explores how the expressive photography, painting, literature and fashion of the time all contributed to a move away from the long held Victorian values.
Including work by Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti amd James McNeill Whistler, it is certainly worth a stroll along the Seine to see it.
Hotels-Paris.co.uk has a variety of cheap hotels to choose from near Paris city centre. Helvetia is just one of many comfortable, convenient options available.
For more information about the exhibition, visit www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/.
Entitled 'Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde', the work explores how the expressive photography, painting, literature and fashion of the time all contributed to a move away from the long held Victorian values.
Including work by Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti amd James McNeill Whistler, it is certainly worth a stroll along the Seine to see it.
Hotels-Paris.co.uk has a variety of cheap hotels to choose from near Paris city centre. Helvetia is just one of many comfortable, convenient options available.
For more information about the exhibition, visit www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/.
Let not thine eyes know Any forbidden thing itself
(OPENPRESS) July 08, 2011 -- As part of a journey that takes in the V&A Museum in London and the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, from September 13th until January 15th the iconic Musee d'Orsay in Saint-Germain-des-Pres will be home to an exhibition that charts the seismic artistic shift that took place in Victorian England.
Entitled 'Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde', the work explores how the expressive photography, painting, literature and fashion of the time all contributed to a move away from the long held Victorian values.
Including work by Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti amd James McNeill Whistler, it is certainly worth a stroll along the Seine to see it.
Hotels-Paris.co.uk has a variety of cheap hotels to choose from near Paris city centre. Helvetia is just one of many comfortable, convenient options available.
For more information about the exhibition, visit www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/.
Entitled 'Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde', the work explores how the expressive photography, painting, literature and fashion of the time all contributed to a move away from the long held Victorian values.
Including work by Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti amd James McNeill Whistler, it is certainly worth a stroll along the Seine to see it.
Hotels-Paris.co.uk has a variety of cheap hotels to choose from near Paris city centre. Helvetia is just one of many comfortable, convenient options available.
For more information about the exhibition, visit www.musee-orsay.fr/en/events/exhibitions/.
macro 101
Some links to stuff I’ve written bearing on macroeconomic policy. Read all of them, and you’ll have a good sense of where I’m coming from.
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