"there are plenty of statements to be found which show it in a special light —views and ideas which attach such importance to the stone that one begins to wonder

whether it was Christ who was taken as a symbol of the stone rather than the other way round.

includes Christ in the realm of immediate inner experience and makes him appear as the figure of the total man."

"The images of God and Christ which man's religious fantasy projects cannot avoid being anthropomorphic and are admitted to be so;

hence they are capable of psychological elu­cidation like any other symbols.

Just as the ancients believed that they had said something important about Christ with their fish symbol,

so it seemed to the alchemists that their parallel with the stone served to illuminate and deepen the meaning of the Christ image."

out my window
i see a tree
its limbs reaching out, like wings
ready for flight

the head wears a spreading crest, keeping watch.

all soon to be greenhidden until fall.

mandalas. saw one today when meditating, sort of like these, but more circles. the cross stitched one is tempting. i haven't done needlework in years, but...

Egyptian statues of the cat goddess Bastet wear the scarab, khepera = the dawning of my coming into being.

this reveals the philosopher's stone, which transforms the prima materia, the lead of the water region, into the gold of ever awakening consciousness.

Alchemy, the reality misconstrued by puffers, then and now. it's a metaphor, eh.

and for all CoSo feline lovers.

THE SPIRIT CAT: AN ANIMAL FAMILIAR IN THE PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESS

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339004437_THE_SPIRIT_CAT_AN_ANIMAL_FAMILIAR_IN_THE_PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC_PROCESS
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15371.85286

THICH NHAT HANH teaches the secret of the golden flower, not by that name, but it's there for eyes.

clarity and peace, compassion and awakening by ongoing meditation.

direct action. gentle work on the self.

here's a photo

anybody know what this is? it's several times the size of any house cat around here, but it has a collar. i wonder if it's a tracking collar.

Clement of Alexandria wrote:

"Therefore, as it seems, it is the greatest of all disciplines to know oneself; for when a man knows himself, he knows God."

And Monoi'mos, in his letter to Theophrastus, writes: "Seek him from out thyself, and learn who it is that taketh possession of everything in thee, saying: my god, my spirit, my understanding, my soul, my body."

continue 🔽

"and learn whence is sorrow and joy, and love and hate, and waking though one would not, and sleeping though one would not, and getting angry though one would not, and falling in love though one would not.

And if thou shouldst closely investigate these things, thou wilt find Him in thyself, the One and the Many, like to that little point [κβραία], for it is in thee that he hath his origin and his deliverance."

some stills too.

good morning all✌🏽🙏🏻🖖

finally, a decent shot of an auburn squirrel. there are several sporting the latest in black squirrel fashion.

some are black bellied, legged and chinned, while auburn elsewhere.

ipad camera doesn't have the chops to really display the depth of colour, but this is an indication.

fascinating fashion statements.

"the Egyptian Ptah, creator of forms, represents Oneness or Unity, yet he is bound in a tight-fitting garment, which serves to constrain oneness as nonpolarized energy.

Aware of constraint, Ptah desired release and willed the world into creation by the release of his energy as breath, carrying The Word.

The one became two: a polarity. This first-generation pair were the air and water gods, who subsequently had four children—

doubling the polarity as a recurrence of this pattern."

"Three-in-one is the basis of the Catholic Trinity. The Father and Son, representing logos and eros, are in relationship through the third, the Holy Spirit, a meaningful energy that some call grace and Jung called the transcendent function.

In Hinduism, Sat, Chit, and Ananda represent existence, consciousness, and bliss, respectively. The first two require the third for union. Bliss is meaningful energy, because it bears upon and transforms the relationship."
R. Ott
https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2018.1536585

"Once metaphysical ideas have lost their capac­ity to recall and evoke the original experience

they have not only become useless but prove to be actual impediments on the
road to wider development.

One clings to possessions that have once meant wealth;

and the more ineffective, incomprehensible, and lifeless they become the more obstinately people cling to them.

Naturally it is only sterile ideas that they cling to;

Thus in the course of time the meaningful turns into the meaningless."

in memory of #Teddy, the wildings in their neighbourhood are being "adopted"

here's a shy momma opossum and one of her babies venturing for adult food for the first time.❤️

the genesis of the CoSo egg.

from Hindu literature:

"Who knows how it was, and who shall declare

Whence it was born and whence it came?

The gods are later than this creation;

Who knows, then, whence it has sprung?

Whence this created world came,
And whether he made it or not,

He alone who sees all in the highest heaven

Knows—or does not know."