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What happens during the unspoken dialogue between two people can never be changed by anything they say — not even if, with mutual insight into what has occurred, they should make a joint attempt at reparation.

— Dag Hammarskold (via besaged)

6 May 2010 • reblog: alchemism

…For it is always the stronger (or smarter) one who is to blame. We lack life’s patience. Instinctively, we try to eliminate a person from our sphere of responsibility as soon as the outcome of this particular experiment by Life appears, in our eyes, to be a failure. But Life pursues her experiments far beyond the limitations of our judgment. This is also the reason why, at times, it seems so much more difficult to live than to die.

— Markings by Dag Hammarskold

6 May 2010

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.

— Anais Nin (via besaged)

4 May 2010 • reblog: alchemism

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

— Al Capone

3 May 2010

Moon Worship

The Assyrians and the Chaldeans referred to the time of the Moon-god as the oldest period in the memory of the people: before other planetary gods came to dominate the world ages, the Moon was the supreme deity.

During the Age of Taurus, humanity lived, without verbal language (and thus consciousness as we know it), in a matriarchal society ruled by “magicians.” My intuition tells me this much.

27 April 2010 • Religion mythology

Hierogamy (Greek ιερός γάμος, ιερογαμία “holy marriage”) refers to marriage between a god and a goddess, especially when enacted in a symbolic ritual where human participants represent the deities. It is the harmonization of opposites. The notion of hieros gamos does not presuppose actual performance in ritual, but is also used in purely symbolic or mythological context, notably in alchemy and hence in Jungian psychology.

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Hieros Gamos

27 April 2010 • reblog: vajrar0ck • Alchemy metaphysics

In-between Mantavaras

“Our critique began as all critiques begin: with doubt. Doubt became our narrative. Ours was a quest for a new story, our own. And we grasp toward this new history driven by the suspicion… that ordinary language couldn’t tell it. Our past appeared frozen in the distance, and our every gesture and accent… signified the negation of the old world and the reach for a new one. The way we lived created a new situation, one of exuberance and friendship, that of a subversive microsociety… in the heart of a society which ignored it. Art was not the goal but the occasion and the method… for locating our specific rhythm… and buried possibilities of our time. The discovery of a true communication was what it was about, or at least the quest for such a communication. The adventure of finding it and losing it. We the unappeased, the unaccepting continued looking, filling in the silences with our own wishes, fears and fantasies. Driven forward by the fact that no matter how empty the world seemed, no matter how degraded and used up the world appeared to us, we knew that anything was still possible. And, given the right circumstances, a new world was just as likely as an old one.”