Forwarded from Toxotes
Jupiter took the shape of an eagle and abducted Ganymede, first king of Troy to serve as a cup bearer to the gods in Olympus. Jupiter granted him eternal youth and immortality and to honor these events it is said that Jupiter placed Aquila (the eagle) and Aquarius (the water bearer) as constellations in the heavens.
Mosaic from 3rd Century AD Tyre.
Mosaic from 3rd Century AD Tyre.
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Forwarded from Toxotes
"Jupiter, the greater benefic, is a much more popular fellow than his dour compeer Saturn... The jolliness of his nature is much too stressed today, for he is more than just the planet of parties and ice-cream. The word 'jovial', derived from the Latin name of the planet, has become increasingly trivialized in our language until it describes just someone who has been at the sherry. True, a common manifestation of Jupiter's expansive nature involves unbuckling one's belt, but his real nature is as a spiritual guide, and in this he does not work alone, but hand in hand with Saturn. They are the carrot and the stick, 'Thy rod and Thy staff' which comfort me though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
Saturn is the rod, that beats me onto the straight path; Jupiter the staff that pulls me out of the thorns. They are expansion and contraction, mercy and justice. We like mercy — or at least, we think we do: we like it until it is shown to the man who has wronged us."
- John Frawley
Saturn is the rod, that beats me onto the straight path; Jupiter the staff that pulls me out of the thorns. They are expansion and contraction, mercy and justice. We like mercy — or at least, we think we do: we like it until it is shown to the man who has wronged us."
- John Frawley
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Astrology together with its sister science alchemy completes the ars regia or Royal Art. Their symbolism is one; their art deals in the same spiritual light which descends through the spheres to Earth and which demands to be reflected back to Heaven.
Traditional astrology struggles to reclaim its former dignity without the alchemal processes which lend its contemplative deductions significance in the realm of action. Astrology today tends to fall into a trap of vague suggestion that leaves room for the modern psychological heresy that has also corrupted alchemy and its symbols.
An astrological chart leaves nothing to fate. It describes essential energies and their interactions at play, while alchemy with its procedural techniques lays out the work to be done, and its co-symbolism adds complimentary context. The lead of the malefic Saturn is to be transmuted into Solar gold; that base putrified substance must undergo Mercurial, mutable, Virgoan distillation before it can begin to shine with the Sun.
Traditional astrology struggles to reclaim its former dignity without the alchemal processes which lend its contemplative deductions significance in the realm of action. Astrology today tends to fall into a trap of vague suggestion that leaves room for the modern psychological heresy that has also corrupted alchemy and its symbols.
An astrological chart leaves nothing to fate. It describes essential energies and their interactions at play, while alchemy with its procedural techniques lays out the work to be done, and its co-symbolism adds complimentary context. The lead of the malefic Saturn is to be transmuted into Solar gold; that base putrified substance must undergo Mercurial, mutable, Virgoan distillation before it can begin to shine with the Sun.
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Forwarded from Orphic Inscendence
"The Yule Goat", John Bauer (4 June 1882 – 20 November 1918), Swedish
The Julbock is a gift bringer in Scandinavian folklore & is also a common Christmas decoration in Scandinavia . The goat is associated with the Sun's transit into the astrological sign of Capricorn (the birth of the Sun), symbolised by the goat. It is also connected to the goats Tanngrisnir & Tanngnjóstr who pull the Thor's chariot.
The Julbock is a gift bringer in Scandinavian folklore & is also a common Christmas decoration in Scandinavia . The goat is associated with the Sun's transit into the astrological sign of Capricorn (the birth of the Sun), symbolised by the goat. It is also connected to the goats Tanngrisnir & Tanngnjóstr who pull the Thor's chariot.
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Forwarded from A Knight’s Path
Attendees of the funeral of Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India.
Standing from left to right:
- Haakon VII, King of Norway
- Ferdinand I, Tsar of Bulgaria
- Manuel II, King of Portugal
- Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia
- George I, King of Greece
- Albert I, King of Belgium
Seated from left to right:
- Alfonso XIII, King of Spain
- George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India
- Frederick VIII, King of Denmark
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, British Empire. 20 May 1910.
Standing from left to right:
- Haakon VII, King of Norway
- Ferdinand I, Tsar of Bulgaria
- Manuel II, King of Portugal
- Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia
- George I, King of Greece
- Albert I, King of Belgium
Seated from left to right:
- Alfonso XIII, King of Spain
- George V, King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India
- Frederick VIII, King of Denmark
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, British Empire. 20 May 1910.
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Forwarded from Quantus tremor est futurus - Actaeon Journal
Merry Christmas. I hope you left some breakfast out for the gnomes.
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"For the Mind being God, Male and Female, Life and Light, brought forth by his Word another Mind or Workman; which being God of the Fire, and the Spirit, fashioned and formed seven other Governors, which in their circles contain the Sensible World, whose Government or disposition is called Fate or Destiny.
Straightway leaped out, or exalted itself from the downward Elements of God, The Word of God, into the clean and pure Workmanship of Nature, and was united to the Workman, Mind, for it was Consubstantial; and so the downward born elements of Nature were left without Reason, that they might be the only Matter."
— Corpus Hermeticum Book I
Straightway leaped out, or exalted itself from the downward Elements of God, The Word of God, into the clean and pure Workmanship of Nature, and was united to the Workman, Mind, for it was Consubstantial; and so the downward born elements of Nature were left without Reason, that they might be the only Matter."
— Corpus Hermeticum Book I
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"Time, then, came into existence along with the Heaven, to the end that having been generated together they might also be dissolved together, if ever a dissolution of them should take place; and it was made after the pattern of the Eternal Nature, to the end that it might be as like thereto as possible; for whereas the pattern is existent through all eternity, the copy, on the other hand, is through all time, continually having existed, existing, and being about to exist. Wherefore, as a consequence of this reasoning and design on the part of God, with a view to the generation of Time, the sun and moon and five other stars, which bear the appellation of 'planets,' came into existence for the determining and preserving of the numbers of Time. And when God had made the bodies of each of them He placed them in the orbits along which the revolution of the Other was moving, seven orbits for the seven bodies. ...
In this wise and for these reasons were generated all those stars which turn themselves about as they travel through Heaven, to the end that this Universe might be as similar as possible to the perfect and intelligible Living Creature in respect of its imitation of the Eternal Nature thereof."
— Plato, Timaeus (38b-39e)
In this wise and for these reasons were generated all those stars which turn themselves about as they travel through Heaven, to the end that this Universe might be as similar as possible to the perfect and intelligible Living Creature in respect of its imitation of the Eternal Nature thereof."
— Plato, Timaeus (38b-39e)
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Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
The West no longer knows Wisdom: it no longer knows the majestic silence of those who have mastered themselves, the bright calm of the Seers, the superb “solar” reality of those in whom the idea has made itself blood, life, and power. Wisdom has been supplanted by the rhetoric of “philosophy” and “culture”, the realm of professors, journalists, and sportsmen—the plan, the program, the proclamation. It has succumbed to sentimental, religious, humanitarian contamination, and the race of chatterers who run around madly exalting “becoming” and “practice”, because silence and contemplation frighten them.
— Pagan Imperialism, by Julius Evola
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Forwarded from Esoteric Dixie Dharma
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
— G.I. Gurdjieff
— G.I. Gurdjieff
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Awareness of sin is not innocence of sin, but the beginning. To be aware that one is doing wrong and do nothing to change it is infinitely worse than to do wrong in the darkness of ignorance. To know what one must do and not do it is properly evil. Thus to simply speak of what is right is of no good whatsoever in itself, but in fact the opposite; the idle talk of the vast majority of modern 'philosphers' is less than worthless but defiles worthiness itself.
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Forwarded from Sagittarius Granorum (Folkvord Grenske)
"I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with harlots, and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin." -Hosea 4:14
For those who wish to understand:
https://wiki.chadnet.org/discourse-on-misogyny
For those who wish to understand:
https://wiki.chadnet.org/discourse-on-misogyny
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Forwarded from Occult of Personality
“The only initiation which I preach and seek with all the ardour of my soul, is that by which we may enter into the heart of God, and make God’s heart enter into us, there to form an indissoluble marriage, which will make us the friend, brother, and spouse of our divine Redeemer.
"There is no other mystery, to arrive at this holy initiation, than to go more and more down into the depths of our being, and not let go till we can bring forth the living vivifying root, because then all the fruit which we ought to bear, according to our kind, will be produced within us and without us, naturally; as we see is the case with our earthly trees, because they are adherent to their own roots, and incessantly draw in their sap.”
~ Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
"There is no other mystery, to arrive at this holy initiation, than to go more and more down into the depths of our being, and not let go till we can bring forth the living vivifying root, because then all the fruit which we ought to bear, according to our kind, will be produced within us and without us, naturally; as we see is the case with our earthly trees, because they are adherent to their own roots, and incessantly draw in their sap.”
~ Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
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Occult of Personality
“The only initiation which I preach and seek with all the ardour of my soul, is that by which we may enter into the heart of God, and make God’s heart enter into us, there to form an indissoluble marriage, which will make us the friend, brother, and spouse…
"God is that pure Revelation that reveals nothing other than itself. God reveals Himself. The Revelation of God is his self-revelation. ...
If by chance 'the Revelation of God' were addressed to people, this would not consist in the unveiling of a content foreign to its own essence and somehow transmitted to a few initiates. To reveal Himself to people could only signify for God that He gives to them a share of his eternal self-revelation. Christianity is nothing other, truly, than the awe-inspiring and meticulous theory of this givenness of God’s self-revelation shared with man. ...
Access to God, understood as his self-revelation according to a phenomenality proper to Him, is not susceptible of being produced except where this self-revelation is produced and in the way self-revelation does so."
— Michel Henry, I Am the Truth. To a Positive Philosophy of Christianity
If by chance 'the Revelation of God' were addressed to people, this would not consist in the unveiling of a content foreign to its own essence and somehow transmitted to a few initiates. To reveal Himself to people could only signify for God that He gives to them a share of his eternal self-revelation. Christianity is nothing other, truly, than the awe-inspiring and meticulous theory of this givenness of God’s self-revelation shared with man. ...
Access to God, understood as his self-revelation according to a phenomenality proper to Him, is not susceptible of being produced except where this self-revelation is produced and in the way self-revelation does so."
— Michel Henry, I Am the Truth. To a Positive Philosophy of Christianity
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Forwarded from Occult of Personality
Ironic, but one of the most intimate acts of our body is death.
So beautiful appeared my death - knowing who then I would kiss,
I died a thousand times before I died.
"Die before you die," said the Prophet Muhammad.
Have wings that feared ever
touched the Sun?
I was born when all I once feared - I could love.
~ Rabia al Basri
So beautiful appeared my death - knowing who then I would kiss,
I died a thousand times before I died.
"Die before you die," said the Prophet Muhammad.
Have wings that feared ever
touched the Sun?
I was born when all I once feared - I could love.
~ Rabia al Basri
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