Tag Archives: mystery

Prague: A Threshold

Posted on March 12, 2023 by Symbol Reader

You may have heard of two magical triangles, one of black, the other of white magic. The origins of that legend are impossible to fathom. The white magic triangle is said to include Lyon, Prague and Turin, while the black … Continue reading →

Posted in Prague | Tagged alchemy, Alphonse Mucha, archetypes, art, Art Nouveau, astrology, Black Madonna, C.G. Jung, Cancer, city, Don Giovanni, Edward Kelley, goddess, Il Commendatore, Jaroslaw Rona, John Dee, Kafka, Kepler, literature, magic, magic triangle, Mother, mystery, Prague, Rudolf II, Secession, Soul, symbolism, symbols, Tycho Brahe | 7 Comments

Living the Question: the Voynich Manuscript

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Symbol Reader

It is astonishing how ideas often appear in our awareness in curious juxtapositions. While working doggedly and hopelessly on fathoming the mystery of Stonehenge, my mind was sidetracked by an article on The Voynich Manuscript – an enigmatic medieval volume … Continue reading →

Posted in The Voynich Manuscript, Uncategorized | Tagged experience, mystery, Voynich manuscript, Wilfrid Voynich | 24 Comments

Only Symbols or Silence

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Symbol Reader

I “The anthropologist Paul Radin points out that … ‘it must be explicitly recognized that in temperament and in capacity for logical and symbolical thought, there is no difference between civilized and primitive man,’ and as to ‘progress,’ that none … Continue reading →

Posted in The Symbol, Uncategorized | Tagged Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, mystery, mysticism, symbolism, symbols | 15 Comments

Poetry and Mystery: “Women” by Evelyn Scott

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Symbol Reader

“Crystal columns, When they bend they crack; Brittle souls, Conforming, yet not conforming– Mirrors. Masculine souls pass across the mirrors: Whirling, gliding ecstasies– Retreating, retreating, Dimly, dimly, Like dreams fading across the mirrors. Then the mirrors, Stark and brilliant in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged divine feminine, Evelyn Scott, goddess, mystery, poem, poetry | 6 Comments

A Heaven in a Wild Flower

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Symbol Reader

“When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured … Continue reading →