Forwarded from Diary of an Underground Ronin
“Yet without myth all culture loses its healthy and natural creative power: only a horizon surrounded by myths can unify an entire cultural movement. Myth alone rescues all the powers of imagination and the Apollonian dream from their aimless wanderings.”
— Nietzsche
— Nietzsche
Forwarded from Self-Immolation
"Are there no asses and the like to whom home and forest are alike and who wander about naked without shame? Do they all become Yogins thereby?
If men could get liberated by smearing themselves with dust and ashes, are all the country folk, who live amidst dust and ashes, liberated?
Denizens of forest like deer and other animals subsist on grass, leaves, and water. Then, O Devi! do they become Yogins Thereby?
Frogs and fishes live all their lives in rivers like Ganges; do they acquire special merit thereby?
O Devi! Parrots and mynas recite before people the sacred words with delight; are they to be regarded great scholars from such recitations?
Pigeons eat nothing but stone; Cātakas; (the bird Cucculus Melanoleucus) does not drink earth-water; are these too, Yogins?
Animals like pigs, bear the winter cold and summer heat and for them food fit or unfit is alike; are they Yogins thereby?
Indeed, such privations and self denials are, O Kulésvarī; only for deceiving the world while direct Knowledge of Truth Alone is the means for Liberation."
Kaularnava Tantra
If men could get liberated by smearing themselves with dust and ashes, are all the country folk, who live amidst dust and ashes, liberated?
Denizens of forest like deer and other animals subsist on grass, leaves, and water. Then, O Devi! do they become Yogins Thereby?
Frogs and fishes live all their lives in rivers like Ganges; do they acquire special merit thereby?
O Devi! Parrots and mynas recite before people the sacred words with delight; are they to be regarded great scholars from such recitations?
Pigeons eat nothing but stone; Cātakas; (the bird Cucculus Melanoleucus) does not drink earth-water; are these too, Yogins?
Animals like pigs, bear the winter cold and summer heat and for them food fit or unfit is alike; are they Yogins thereby?
Indeed, such privations and self denials are, O Kulésvarī; only for deceiving the world while direct Knowledge of Truth Alone is the means for Liberation."
Kaularnava Tantra
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Forwarded from Gnostic Intel
“For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.”
― Angela Carter
Image: Robin Hood Meets Maid Marian by Newell Convers Wyeth
― Angela Carter
Image: Robin Hood Meets Maid Marian by Newell Convers Wyeth
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