by · thomas willard
2nd January, 2025
“The light of nature is at the center of Thalia’s map of the world through which she led Vaughan’s dreamer in his treatise Lumen de Lumine. It lights up the world where a blindfolded seeker of truth is standing, while he is turned away from it toward the ‘Regio phantastica’ where dangerous griffins threaten anyone looking for the ‘Mons Magorum Invisibilis’ (“Invisible mountain of the magicians”). Vaughan understands magic as his favorite author Henricus Cornelius Agrippa defined it, in his three books of occult philosophy, to be the hidden or occult sciences that could guide one in the three worlds of God’s creation: alchemy in the natural world, astrology in the celestial world, and cabala—a Christianized version of Hebrew Kabbalah—in the supercelestial or angelical world.”
by · john temple
21st July, 2024
“The Ophites derived their name from their doctrine that the Serpent which tempted Eve was no devil, but the impersonation of Divine Wisdom, the great Teacher and Civiliser of the human race, the parent and author of all knowledge and science. This, as we have seen, is in complete accordance with the Egyptian Wisdom teachings. They, along with many other Gnostics, also believed that the Creator of the material world was a being subordinate and even antagonistic to the Supreme God—a limited and limiting deity, proud, revengeful and jealous—in fact, the Jehovah of the Jewish race, whose character expresses itself in the Old Testament which proceeded from him.”
by · peter hochmeier
21st March, 2024
“While Paracelsus stood in a long line of adepts who came centuries before as well as after his time—some perhaps higher in standing and some lower than him—he made a most significant contribution to the preservation of the authentic tradition of the Art of Healing and Iatrochemistry in the Occident, even to this day. This was probably his greatest achievement and is regarded as such also by the proponents of the Eastern traditions, who—unlike their European counterparts—have not had to suffer the massive rupture in their heritage that probably began with the expansion of the Roman Empire and culminated in the Middle Ages, the consequences of which continue to reverberate until present times.”
by · thomas willard
2nd January, 2025
“The light of nature is at the center of Thalia’s map of the world through which she led Vaughan’s dreamer in his treatise Lumen de Lumine. It lights up the world where a blindfolded seeker of truth is standing, while he is turned away from it toward the ‘Regio phantastica’ where dangerous griffins threaten anyone looking for the ‘Mons Magorum Invisibilis’ (“Invisible mountain of the magicians”). Vaughan understands magic as his favorite author Henricus Cornelius Agrippa defined it, in his three books of occult philosophy, to be the hidden or occult sciences that could guide one in the three worlds of God’s creation: alchemy in the natural world, astrology in the celestial world, and cabala—a Christianized version of Hebrew Kabbalah—in the supercelestial or angelical world.”
by · john temple
21st July, 2024
“The Ophites derived their name from their doctrine that the Serpent which tempted Eve was no devil, but the impersonation of Divine Wisdom, the great Teacher and Civiliser of the human race, the parent and author of all knowledge and science. This, as we have seen, is in complete accordance with the Egyptian Wisdom teachings. They, along with many other Gnostics, also believed that the Creator of the material world was a being subordinate and even antagonistic to the Supreme God—a limited and limiting deity, proud, revengeful and jealous—in fact, the Jehovah of the Jewish race, whose character expresses itself in the Old Testament which proceeded from him.”
by · peter hochmeier
21st March, 2024
“While Paracelsus stood in a long line of adepts who came centuries before as well as after his time—some perhaps higher in standing and some lower than him—he made a most significant contribution to the preservation of the authentic tradition of the Art of Healing and Iatrochemistry in the Occident, even to this day. This was probably his greatest achievement and is regarded as such also by the proponents of the Eastern traditions, who—unlike their European counterparts—have not had to suffer the massive rupture in their heritage that probably began with the expansion of the Roman Empire and culminated in the Middle Ages, the consequences of which continue to reverberate until present times.”
The part which came
from earth to earth returns,
But what descended from ethereal shores
High heaven’s resplendent temples
welcome back.
∗
lucretius
The part which came
from earth to earth returns,
But what descended from ethereal shores
High heaven’s resplendent temples
welcome back.
∗
lucretius
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