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My Octopus Teacher: the Soul and Her Beloved
I. “It is not necessary that you go out of your house. Remain by your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be completely still and alone. The world will offer itself to you … Continue reading
Posted in Movie Review
Tagged anima, archetypes, Beloved, C.G. Jung, caduceus, eight, Mercurius, My Octopus Teacher, mysticism, Other, psyche, Saint Teresa of Avila, Soul, symbolism, symbols, The Interior Castle, water
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Hermes in the Forest of Symbols
I. “…Hermesian reading is an open, in-depth reading, one that lays bare the metalanguages for us, that is to say, the structures of signs and correspondences that only symbolism and myth make it possible to conserve and transmit. To read, … Continue reading
Posted in Hermes, Uncategorized
Tagged Adocentyn, alchemy, archetypes, Argus, Botticelli, C.G. Jung, caduceus, Carl Jung, Corpus Hermeticum, crossroads, dead, esotericism, Faivre, God, Greek myth, Greek mythology, guide, herma, hermaion, Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermetica, hermeticism, Hermopolis, magic, Marcilio Ficino, Mercury, messenger, myth, mythology, peacock, Picatrix, Primavera, psychopompos, Soul, symbolism, symbols, Thoth, Zeus
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The November Song of the Pleiades
2 November, All Soul’s Day is a universal day of judgement: “I believe this is the source of the Judgement of the Dead linked with the month of November, when the Pleiades are high in the night sky. In the … Continue reading
Posted in The Pleiades
Tagged Alcyone, archetypes, axis mundi, caduceus, Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Mercurius, Ningishzida, November, Pleiades, serpent, Sophia, symbolism, symbols, Tree of Life, World Tree, yoni
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The All-Seeing Eye
1.“Illumination comes to those who hear the song of Light unchanged, unflickering, eternal — Light that is one though the lamps be many.” Dane Rudhyar 2.”The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, … Continue reading
Posted in The All-Seeing Eye
Tagged alchemy, All Seeing Eye, ancient Egypt, archetypes, Blavatsky, caduceus, cone, esoteric knowledge, esoterism, eye, Eye of Horus, Eye of Re, Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, Horus, isis, Isis Unveiled, Juno, kundalini, Moon, myth, mythology, Osiris, peacock, peacock’s tail, pineal gland, Plotinus, psychology, putrefation, sun, symbolism, symbols, third eye, Vatican
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