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“This brings us to a consideration of the Cthulhu Mythos, which reflects vastly ancient pre-human lore. Like other accounts of unclassifiable phases of earth's history, the Cthulhu Cult epitomises the subconsciousness and the forces outside terrestrial awareness. It may be said… https://t.co/tLEK8yce66

“Το die before you die, no longer to live on the surface of yourself: this is what Parmenides is pointing to. It demands tremendous courage. The journey he describes changes your body; it alters every cell. Mythologically it's the journey of the hero.”

PETER KINGSLEY

True magical power comes from surrender, not from control. It’s not all about us and our fickle, ever changing desires, but aligning our will with that of the Cosmos, of channeling spiritual forces. Ironically you start out by using magic and end up with magic using you.

“To be acquainted with what is best and oldest in yourself, is to know yourself as you were, before the world was made, before you emerged into time.”

HENRI CORBIN
Art: Hush by Adam Burke

“The world is full of implicit religion, and the inspired saints and poets, who say that the birds "praise God" when they sing, are in no way mistaken…What homage to the source of life is expressed by these small streams of life: the birds which sing!"

ANONYMOUS

Just keep following your spiritual path, doing the humble work, putting one foot in front of the other. Your intuition will tell you what to do next, if you only listen. Ignore cravings for the ‘goblin fruit’, the many exotic distractions of the spiritual supermarket.

‘Philosophy is a travesty of what it once was, no longer a path to wisdom but a defence against it. There is only one way to wisdom: by facing the fact that we know nothing and letting our reasoning be torn apart. Then reality is what is left behind’

PETER KINGSLEY

“Although the opposites flee from one another they strive for balance, since a state of conflict is too inimical to life to be endured..They do this by wearing each other out: the one eats the other, like the two dragons or the ravenous beasts of alchemical symbolism."

CARL JUNG

Cherub of Ezekiel, Artwork by J. Augustus Knapp commissioned by Manly P. Hall for The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928.

Evening Star over the Sea, Evelyn De Morgan 1910-14. The evening star is associated with the planet Venus. The arms are stretched out, as if to invoke luminous spiritual energies. De Morgan was a spiritualist and her detailed, beautiful paintings always contain esoteric symbolism