Forwarded from Occult of Personality
A Gurdjieff selection:
“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
“LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth.”
“You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can’t escape.”
“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
“The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.”
“Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself—only with yourself.”
“Better to die than live in sleep.”
“Only super-efforts count.”
”Life Is Real Only Then When ‘I Am’.”
“Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.”
“Transient emotions are lower emotions. Lasting emotions are higher emotions.”
”If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.”
“A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing."
“Patience is the mother of will.”
“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”
“Love of consciousness evokes the same in response. Love of feeling evokes the opposite. Love of body depends only on type and polarity.”
“Hope of consciousness is strength, hope of feelings is slavery, hope of body is disease.”
“Objective knowledge, the idea of unity included, belongs to objective consciousness.”
“RELIGION IS DOING, Respect every religion.”
“Faith of consciousness is freedom. Love of consciousness evokes the same in response. Love of feeling evokes the opposite.”
“Don’t judge a man by the tales of others.”
“By teaching others you will learn yourself.”
“Rest comes not from the quantity but from the quality of sleep.”
“Remember yourself always and everywhere.”
“The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.”
“Only he who can take care of the property of others can have his own.”
“If you already know what is wrong and do it, you commit a sin that is difficult to redress.”
“Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.”
“It is impossible to recognise a wrong way without knowing the right way.”
“One of man’s important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I.”
“Judge others according to yourself and you will seldom be mistaken.”
“Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West - and then seek.”
“The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself."
"Modern civilisation is based on violence and slavery.”
“What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.”
“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
“LIBERATION LEADS TO LIBERATION. These are the first words of truth.”
“You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can’t escape.”
“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
“The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.”
“Remember you come here having already understood the necessity of struggling with yourself—only with yourself.”
“Better to die than live in sleep.”
“Only super-efforts count.”
”Life Is Real Only Then When ‘I Am’.”
“Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.”
“Transient emotions are lower emotions. Lasting emotions are higher emotions.”
”If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.”
“A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”
“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing."
“Patience is the mother of will.”
“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.”
“Love of consciousness evokes the same in response. Love of feeling evokes the opposite. Love of body depends only on type and polarity.”
“Hope of consciousness is strength, hope of feelings is slavery, hope of body is disease.”
“Objective knowledge, the idea of unity included, belongs to objective consciousness.”
“RELIGION IS DOING, Respect every religion.”
“Faith of consciousness is freedom. Love of consciousness evokes the same in response. Love of feeling evokes the opposite.”
“Don’t judge a man by the tales of others.”
“By teaching others you will learn yourself.”
“Rest comes not from the quantity but from the quality of sleep.”
“Remember yourself always and everywhere.”
“The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.”
“Only he who can take care of the property of others can have his own.”
“If you already know what is wrong and do it, you commit a sin that is difficult to redress.”
“Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.”
“It is impossible to recognise a wrong way without knowing the right way.”
“One of man’s important mistakes, one which must be remembered, is his illusion in regard to his I.”
“Judge others according to yourself and you will seldom be mistaken.”
“Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West - and then seek.”
“The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself."
"Modern civilisation is based on violence and slavery.”
“What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.”
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Forwarded from PhilosophiCat
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The Sea Beneath the Weave, Part 1
The Ontology of Pre-Fate: Freya's Substratum and the Law of Seiðr
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The Ontology of Pre-Fate: Freya's Substratum and the Law of Seiðr
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Forwarded from Wodewose
Reading medieval demonology is so fucking confusing because you'll have a reviled Great Duke of Hell and his whole thing is that he likes to help people fall in love and counsels their marriage, and then on the next page is an obscure demon they didn't consider exceptionally evil and his whole thing is that he eats babies and can make testicles explode
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Forwarded from Occult of Personality
“To love naked appearances, without interpretation, so one truly loves the divine.”
~ Simone Weil
“Read need behind feeling, read order behind need, and read God behind order.”
~ Simone Weil
"Everything makes sense, because everything depends on everything else." One loves the sea and the mountains because in them the need is visible; it is our alphabet.”
~ Alain (teacher of Simone Weil at the École Normale Supérieure)
The phenomenon (or appearance) is literally light. The mind is, metaphorically, light. The mind creates meaning with light. Metaphors manifest themselves as events in the world.
"The eye would never have seen the sun if it had not become like the sun," Plotino. "If the eye were not the sun, it could never behold the sun; if the strength of God were not within us, how could the divine delight us?"
~ Goethe
Learning to read the universe, with the instrument of attention, until phenomena become signs, revelations, epiphanies of a single divine language... Until you get to a non-read. Empty, mind is light before concept. The space of union where the fullness of meaning arises; the sky with its star writing.
"In the same way one has to learn to read, or to master a trade, one has to learn in all things, first and almost exclusively, the obedience of the universe to God." Well it's a real learning experience and it takes time and effort. For the man who has finished this learning, the differences between things or between events are no more important than those perceived by someone who knows how to read when he has in front the same statement repeated several times, in red or blue ink, and printed on one or the other typography. The man who can't read sees only the differences. [... Whoever has finished his learning recognizes things and events, anywhere and at any time, as vibrations of the same infinitely sweet word. Which doesn't mean he won't suffer. Pain is the color of certain events. When a man who can read and one who can't see a sentence written in red ink, they both see something red; but the color red is not so important to the one who can read."
~ Simone Weil
“For an experienced captain, whose ship has become a sort of extension of his body, the ship is an instrument to read the storm and reads it very differently than a passenger does.” “Where the passenger reads chaos, fear and limitless danger, the captain reads needs, limited danger, resources to avoid, courage, honor and obligation.”
~ Simone Weil
"""The forces of nature are infinitely overwhelming us"... Well? And yet the sailor on his ship is equally balanced against the infinite forces of the ocean. (Remember a ship is a lever). At every moment, the helm — through the weak, but directed, force of its muscles over the rod and oar — maintains balance with that enormous mass of air and water. There is nothing more beautiful than a boat."
~ Simone Weil
“Let the whole universe be for me, in relation to my body, as a blind man’s staff is in his hand. Her sensitivity no longer resides in her hand, but in the end of her cane."
~ Simone Weil
Weil distinguishes between tools born out of real needs and serve to bring balance with the universe and other tools that, pursuing economic ambitions, force us to adapt the human mind and body to the tool itself. The first are reading tools—a blind man’s cane, a ship, an astrolaby—. In the end, the real “tool” we must work to read the world and see the divinity in all things is attention. Pure and empty attention becomes prayer: lectio becomes oratio, a non-reading.
“The obedience of things in relation to God is what the transparency of a window is in relation to light.. God is the source of light; that is, all forms of care are degraded forms of religious care.. The soul that receives a vision of light must give its vision to God and direct it to the world..
“When the self disappears, it becomes an opening through which creation and God contemplate each other.”
~ Simone Weil
~ Simone Weil
“Read need behind feeling, read order behind need, and read God behind order.”
~ Simone Weil
"Everything makes sense, because everything depends on everything else." One loves the sea and the mountains because in them the need is visible; it is our alphabet.”
~ Alain (teacher of Simone Weil at the École Normale Supérieure)
The phenomenon (or appearance) is literally light. The mind is, metaphorically, light. The mind creates meaning with light. Metaphors manifest themselves as events in the world.
"The eye would never have seen the sun if it had not become like the sun," Plotino. "If the eye were not the sun, it could never behold the sun; if the strength of God were not within us, how could the divine delight us?"
~ Goethe
Learning to read the universe, with the instrument of attention, until phenomena become signs, revelations, epiphanies of a single divine language... Until you get to a non-read. Empty, mind is light before concept. The space of union where the fullness of meaning arises; the sky with its star writing.
"In the same way one has to learn to read, or to master a trade, one has to learn in all things, first and almost exclusively, the obedience of the universe to God." Well it's a real learning experience and it takes time and effort. For the man who has finished this learning, the differences between things or between events are no more important than those perceived by someone who knows how to read when he has in front the same statement repeated several times, in red or blue ink, and printed on one or the other typography. The man who can't read sees only the differences. [... Whoever has finished his learning recognizes things and events, anywhere and at any time, as vibrations of the same infinitely sweet word. Which doesn't mean he won't suffer. Pain is the color of certain events. When a man who can read and one who can't see a sentence written in red ink, they both see something red; but the color red is not so important to the one who can read."
~ Simone Weil
“For an experienced captain, whose ship has become a sort of extension of his body, the ship is an instrument to read the storm and reads it very differently than a passenger does.” “Where the passenger reads chaos, fear and limitless danger, the captain reads needs, limited danger, resources to avoid, courage, honor and obligation.”
~ Simone Weil
"""The forces of nature are infinitely overwhelming us"... Well? And yet the sailor on his ship is equally balanced against the infinite forces of the ocean. (Remember a ship is a lever). At every moment, the helm — through the weak, but directed, force of its muscles over the rod and oar — maintains balance with that enormous mass of air and water. There is nothing more beautiful than a boat."
~ Simone Weil
“Let the whole universe be for me, in relation to my body, as a blind man’s staff is in his hand. Her sensitivity no longer resides in her hand, but in the end of her cane."
~ Simone Weil
Weil distinguishes between tools born out of real needs and serve to bring balance with the universe and other tools that, pursuing economic ambitions, force us to adapt the human mind and body to the tool itself. The first are reading tools—a blind man’s cane, a ship, an astrolaby—. In the end, the real “tool” we must work to read the world and see the divinity in all things is attention. Pure and empty attention becomes prayer: lectio becomes oratio, a non-reading.
“The obedience of things in relation to God is what the transparency of a window is in relation to light.. God is the source of light; that is, all forms of care are degraded forms of religious care.. The soul that receives a vision of light must give its vision to God and direct it to the world..
“When the self disappears, it becomes an opening through which creation and God contemplate each other.”
~ Simone Weil
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