EntAspirant
The homeland of nothing whatsoever is the true abode.
Joined Apr 2022
"One is confronted with a hopeless and impenetrable darkness, an abysmal void that is now suddenly filled with an alluring vision,
the palpably real presence of a strange yet helpful being,
in the same way that, when one lives for a long time in great solitude,
the silence or the darkness becomes visibly, audibly, and tangibly alive, and the unknown in oneself steps up in an unknown guise."
we've been getting regular rain, which has made my clover seeding a success.
the evening primrose are planted and settling in near the bee balm and along the edge. hopefully, they will spread throughout that open area.
the Catulpa is quickly regaining its growth after being reduced to stubs last fall, to keep it from getting enormous, which otherwise it would. not there.
"Jesus identifies him self with the healing snake of Moses;
for the Monogenes is synonymous with the Nous, and this with the serpent- saviour or Agathodaimon.
The serpent is also a synonym for the divine water.
The dialogue may be compared with Jesus’words to the woman of Samaria in John 4 : 14:
“. . . a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Significantly enough, the conversation by the well forms the context for the teaching that “God is Spirit” (John 4 : 24)."
Jung's Alchemical studies.
"the idea of the divine water was familiar to every alchemist.
When Jesus said: “Except a man be born of water and of the spirit"
an alchemist of that time would have understood what he meant.
Jesus marvelled at the ignorance of Nicodemus and asked him: “Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?”
a teacher would know the secret of water and spirit,
that is, of death and rebirth..
We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen.”
butterfly on mock orange
whose heady fragrance blends with Japanese lilac in today's offering.
majestic black walnut left to grow as it would
today is dancing
entrancing.
Misunderstanding the Harms of Online Misinformation.
interesting research about where our focus should be on combating the dangers of Qcrap.
angels have a dubious reputation as far as morals/mortals are concerned.
the rule for women to cover their hair in church. Until well into the nineteenth century, they had to wear a special hood.
This was not because of the men in the congregation, but because of the possible presence of angels, who might be thrown into raptures at the sight of a feminine coiffure."
Genesis 6 : 2 , where the “sons of God” displayed a particular penchant for the “daughters of men."
cf. Wings of Desire
"In the floods of life, in the storm of work,
In ebb and flow,
In warp and weft,
Cradle and grave,
An eternal sea,
A changing patchwork,
A glowing life,
At the whirring loom of Time
I weave The living clothes of the Deity.”
"two principles balance one another, active and passive, masculine and feminine,
which constitute the essence of creative power in the eternal cycle of birth and death.
represented in ancient alchemy by the symbol of the uroboros, the dragon that bites its own tail.
Self-devouring is the same as self-destruction,
but the union of the dragon’s tail and mouth was also thought of as self-fertilization.
Hence the texts say: “The dragon slays itself, weds itself, impregnates itself.”
this morning in the garden,
i learned a new Robin phrase🤗
a female on the fence, dropped down to the ground.
a male appeared on the fence where she had been, watching, watching me as well.
she's choosing bits of gravel from the patio to facilitate digestion.
after a few minutes, she's done.
he vocalizes what sounds for all the world like "ok, let's split!"
and off they go🫡
this book opens a path to understanding.
"That is the process of psychic adaptation,
which is going on through the whole history of mankind.
Christianity, for example, is no longer valid for us all, so it does not work. In a few hundred years there will be another system.
This will disappear just as tantric yoga has disappeared.
All these systems are human attempts to grapple with the great problem of life by symbols and sentences which are not only for you and me but for the whole community."
"You must clarify the mind until you have perfect objectivity,
until you can admit that something moves in your mind independently of your will."
"those visions we are dealing with are experiences on a different plane
These things happen in the nowhere; they are universal and impersonal—
and if you do not understand them as impersonal, you simply get an inflation through your identification with the universal."
"If one day I see a small bird and recognize it
a thin thread will form between me and that bird. If I just see it but don’t really recognize it, there is no thin thread.
If I go out tomorrow and see and really recognize that same individual small bird again, the thread will thicken and strengthen just a little. Every time I see and recognize that bird, the thread strengthens.
Eventually it will grow into a string, then a cord, and finally a rope. This is what it means to be a Bushman."
for dinner tonight, a savoury chick pea flatbread. easy, and scrumptious 😋
“Ah, my brother, you will never learn to know the happiness
of thinking nothing and doing nothing:
this is next to sleep; this
is the most delightful thing there is.
Thus we were before birth,
thus we shall be after death.”
“Crêvecoeur: “Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie,” I, 362.”
morning in the garden, after a solid rain. GREEN
my bunny hopped over to me and waited while i gave her some peanuts. ate one, then hopped over to where i scattered millet.❤️so lovely.
mama raccoon very hungry, skunk ate her last night's dinner. big portion today❤️
starlings mobbed red squirrel, actually managed to chase him from the feeder while they fed.
adolescents' begging voices in the trees.
chipmunks everywhere, scurrying, chasing each other. i have no idea how many🫢
EntAspirant
The homeland of nothing whatsoever is the true abode.
Joined Apr 2022