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The less superficial a person is- and the more he knows and is capable of- the greater is his authority. TO BE something, TO KNOW something and TO BE CAPABLE of something is what endows a person with authority...a person has authority in proportion to what he unites...[THREAD]

“But in this this state of whiteness one does not live..to make it come alive it must have ‘blood’, ..what the alchemists call the RUBEDO, the ‘redness’ of life. Blood alone can reanimate a glorious state of consciousness in which the last trace of blackness is dissolved”

JUNG

‘Western science was from the very beginning, a gift offered from the gods for a sacred purpose. Once science has forgotten that purpose, everything is already lost.’

PETER KINGSLEY in Catafalque.

‘The dread and resistance which every natural human being experiences when it comes to delving too deeply into himself is at bottom, the fear of the journey to Hades’.

CARL JUNG

Art- Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, Die toteninsel, the Isle of the Dead, 1905.

Orpheus and Eurydice and the Asp. The story somewhat reminds me of Adam, Eve and the Serpent and the expulsion from Eden.

Artist- Alex Kuno.

The Great God Pan
After Lord Leighton PRA (1830 - 1896). Engraved by Dalziel brothers.

Horned Io, carried into the presence of Isis and Harpocrates by the god of the Nile. Io was one of Zeus’ many lovers, turned into a heifer by Hera. The story may have inspired Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, in which the hero’s devotion to Isis rescues him from his donkey form. Pompeii

Weird fiction book o’ the week, ‘The Blessing of Pan’ by Lord Dunsany (1927). A vicar of an English village tries to prevent his flock from falling away from the Christian faith and back to the old pagan religion, animal sacrifice and Pan worship. Illustration by Sidney Sime.

As it’s the spring equinox, here’s some images of Persephone and her mother Demeter, from this lovely children’s book by Sally Pomme Clayton, illustrated by Virginia Lee.

Fresco from Pompeii (1st cent CE) showing a ceremony to worship the goddess Isis. A mixed choir is ranged either side of the temple steps as a priest descends towards the altar with an offering. This would be milk, honey or herbs for Isis, never an animal sacrifice.