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The yellow or central ceiling panel, the first color of the spectrum, depicts the Creation of Light. Divine Intelligence is enthroned in the midst of Space, enveloped with mist and clouds, and uttering the words "Let there be light." The cherubs represent Physics, Metaphysics, Psychology, and Theology.
Horned Triskle, three horns interlocked represents Odin. Part of an oak altar I made and feature on my website
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*Metaphysical Properties of Amethyst:
Also known as the "Sobriety Stone". Amethyst is purple quartz, and is a meditative and calming stone. It works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace. Amethyst is also beneficial when dealing with legal problems and money issues, which can lead to prosperity and abundance. Amethyst has a gentle, sedative energy that promotes peacefulness, happiness, and contentment. Amethyst can help get rid of addictions (alcohol, drugs, smoking, etc.) and compulsive behaviors of all kinds. In the psychic and spiritual realms, amethyst is an excellent all-purpose stone that can increase spirituality and enhance intuition and psychic powers of all kinds. It does this by making a clear connection between the earth plane and other planes and worlds. Amethyst also protects against psychic attacks, especially during spiritual work, and protects one from thieves, and protects travelers. Physically, amethyst is beneficial for reducing withdrawal symptoms of all kinds, blood sugar imbalances, depression, general healing, left brain imbalances, headaches, arthritis, insomnia, nightmares, other sleep disorders, ADD/ADHD, generalized anxiety, ear aches, circulatory system issues, endocrine system problems, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, immune system deficiencies, and general healing.
Primarily, amethyst is associated with the third eye and crown chakras but can also open the heart chakra.
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Over a century ago, a young boy left Wales and journeyed to America, where he started a small press, now known as Llewellyn Worldwide. Llewellyn George's adventurous spirit and Welsh heritage embodies The Llewellyn Tarot, which also celebrates the publisher's enduring legacy.
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My consciousness Exists in 3 dimensional space in a linear fashion (i.e. time)
I am a fifth dimensional entity experiencing time in the fourth and everyhting else in the third.
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A roped mage carries two twin flames united in the arc, crossing the Jordan one day of a sun playing a clever game of shadow in Chartres. The symbolism of the portal is based on the Ark of the Covenant, represented twice twice, with an engraved text that suggests "you will work through the Ark". Let me remind you in passing that this cathedral is the only French monument
monument located on a double crossing of gold, i.e. on the Magic Square of the Earth. of the Earth. Silver and copper intersect at the centre of the portal. The Silver Cord connects us to our higher self from the Solar Plexus Chakra, which is positioned closely to the Heart Chakra and passes energy through the heart space.
What is the Silver Cord?
The silver cord, also known as the astral cord, is what tethers your higher self in the spiritual plane to your physical self here in the material world. The silver cord connects your physical body to your etheric body, and up through your astral body.
To charge the Ark "capacitor", all that would have been required would have been for the Priests to carry the Ark through the desert. The combination of the desert heat an friction would create static electricity, which could be effectively stored in the Ark. This charging of the Ark would explain a number of mysteries surrounding the Ark. The first being the need to wrap the Ark in animal skins and fine cloth as a means of 'protection'. This procedure needed to be done in exactly the correct way to ensure the Ark was safe for transportation. This was marked by a lowering point, the transition between the low-energy part of the church and the start of the progression towards high energy. This stream of water. symbolised the Jordan that Jesus had crossed, rather like another crossing the the Rubicon, passing abruptly from a totally discreet life of study to a public life public life. The "crossing of the Jordan" is, for each of us. access to the first of the three planes of consciousness. All philosophies and religions consider that man can rise to spirituality through three successive stages: from the plant to the human and then to the divine in the search for the Grail, from the world of passions (physical) to the world of appearances (spirit) and then to the world of non-appearance (soul) in the search for the Holy Grail.
world of appearances (spirit) and then to the world of non-appearance (soul) for Buddhists, and from the rectangle of physical life to the square of spiritual life and then to the circle of divine life (soul) for Christians. ⁶ Remember your Creator now while you are young, before the silver cord of life snaps and the golden bowl is broken. Don’t wait until the water jar is smashed at the spring and the pulley is broken at the well. ⁷ For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Ecclesiastes 12:6
What's more, it seems that the layout of Chartres takes this element into account. of this element: by tracing, from the centre of the labyrinth, two straight lines tangent to the circle of the apse, a triangle is created, derived from the pentagram. This is not by chance. Remember that the sides of this triangle are in the ratio of the golden section. It is also the basis of the cathedral's regulatory layout.
Geobiological analysis
In this immense cathedral, it was a great surprise to discover that the building's geobiological support was a rather miserable stream of water, not at all on the scale of the monument, located 37 metres below ground. In its defence, this stream of water is perfectly rectilinear in this part of its course. in this part of its course, which is an undeniable asset. What's more, it is strongly felt. So it's easy to understand why the backbone of the vaults has also been placed at a height of 37 metres, for the sake of energy balance, yin and yang.. Tau-shaped route, made up of two independent stepped sections that fit together like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and a second, in the shape of an ankh cross. The two assembled parts of the Tau manifest the two complementary energies, yin and yang, masculine and
feminine. This is wholeness. It comes from Alexandria and the Essenes.
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This would also explain the need to keep the Ark hidden in total darkness when not being used, and the need to carry it long distances before it produced its magic (the seven days around the walls of Jericho?). This would also solve the mystery surrounding the death of anyone who touched the Ark. If the Ark was touched while charged it could have proved instantly fatal. However, if touched while not charged there would be no effect (something the High Priest may have known).
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A typical electrical capacitor is described as being a non-conductive material surrounded by two conductive material. This is an exact description of the Ark itself (refer to the drawing below). If the inner layer of gold were to become positivily charged and the outer layer negativily charged then the whole shell of the Ark would become a charged capacitor.Biblical account
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Construction and description
According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses to build the Ark during his 40-day stay upon Mount Sinai.[6][7] He was shown the pattern for the tabernacle and furnishings of the Ark, and told that it would be made of shittim wood (also known as acacia wood)[8] to house the Tablets of Stone.[8] Moses instructed Bezalel and Aholiab to construct the Ark.[9][10][11]
The Book of Exodus gives detailed instructions on how the Ark is to be constructed.[12] It is to be 2+1⁄2 cubits in length, 1+1⁄2 cubits breadth, and 1+1⁄2 cubits height (approximately 131×79×79 cm or 52×31×31 in) of acacia wood. Then it is to be gilded entirely with gold, and a crown or molding of gold is to be put around it. Four rings of gold are to be attached to its four corners, two on each side—and through these rings staves of shittim wood overlaid with gold for carrying the Ark are to be inserted; and these are not to be removed.[13] A golden lid, the kapporet (translated as 'mercy seat' or 'cover'), which is ornamented with two golden cherubim, is to be placed above the Ark. Missing from the account are instructions concerning the thickness of the mercy seat and details about the cherubim other than that the cover be beaten out over the ends of the Ark and that they form the space where God will appear. The Ark is finally to be placed under a veil to conceal it.
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The biblical account continues that, after its creation by Moses, the Ark was carried by the Israelites during their 40 years of wandering in the desert. Whenever the Israelites camped, the Ark was placed in a separate room in a sacred tent, called the Tabernacle.
When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead, preceding the people, and was the signal for their advance.[14][15] During the crossing, the river grew dry as soon as the feet of the priests carrying the Ark touched its waters, and remained so until the priests—with the Ark—left the river after the people had passed over.
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Silver cord
The silver cord in metaphysical studies and literature, also known as the sutratma or life thread of the antahkarana, refers to a life-giving linkage from the higher self (atma) down to the physical body. It also refers to an extended synthesis of this thread and a second (the consciousness thread, passing from the soul to the physical body) that connects the physical body to the etheric body, onwards to the astral body and finally to the mental body.[1][unreliable source?]
In other research, it is described as a strong, silver-colored, elastic cord which joins a person's physical body to its astral body (a manifestation of the physical body that is less distinct).[2][unreliable source?]
Alfred Ballabene, an astral projector, reported observing that during his out-of-body experiences "glue-like strings" appear as the astral body tries to separate itself from the physical body. As the astral body moves further away from the tangible body, some of the strings break apart and clump into a specific and smaller region – preferably the head, breast, back, stomach, and the abdomen area – thus forming the silver cord.[3]
Astral projection
During astral projection and out-of-body experiences, some[citation needed] claim they can (at will or otherwise) see a silver cord linking their astral form to their physical body. This cord mainly appears to a beginning projector as an assurance they will not become lost.[citation needed] However, even experienced projectors find it useful, claiming it is a fast way to return to the body.[citation needed] Bellallabene, unlike some astral projectors who claim to travel great distances,[citation needed], stated that the cord not only serves as a link between the two bodies, but it also limits the astral body from wandering great distances, describing his experience that as the astral body moves farther away from the physical body and reaches a distance of "50 to 70 meters," the silver cord pulls the astral form right back into the physical body.[3]
Others asserted, though, that the cases of silver cord observations during out-of-body experiences and astral projections are rare;[2][unreliable source?] rather, no astral body is observed and the projector sees himself or herself as a "disembodied awareness or a point of view" in most cases.[4]
Passing through a tunnel is compared to the birth canal, and the silver cord resembling the umbilical cord – these are a few observations during out-of-body experiences that are sometimes likened to childbirth. "Birth theories" hypothesized that people who were delivered by Caesarean section do not have tunnel experiences during astral projections. On the contrary, one study showed that there is no discrepancy between the experiences observed by people who are born through Caesarean section and those born naturally during their OBE or astral projection.[4]
The attachment point of the cord to the astral body differs, not only between projectors, but also from projection to projection. These points correspond to major chakra positions. According to the observations of Robert Bruce, there is not a single point of connection to the denser body, but rather a locally converging collection of strands leading out of all the major chakras, and some minor ones (Astral Dynamics, p398).
The silver cord is mentioned by mystics, especially in contexts of dying and of near-death experiences.[citation needed] It is said that the cord must remain connected to the astral and the physical bodies during the projection because if it breaks, the projector will die. If a person gets older or if their death is near, the astral body slowly separates itself from the physical body and the silver cord breaks, making a complete and irreversible separation of the two bodies. In this situation, the idea of death and dying is interpreted as a "permanent astral projection" that cannot be undone.[2][unreliable source?]
Theosophical writings also interpret the words of some prophets and soothsayers in ancient times as descriptions of seeing the silver cord during their out-of-body experiences.[5][unreliable source?]
Origin of the term
The term is derived from Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 in the Jewish Bible or Christian Old Testament.
As translated from the original Hebrew in The Complete Tanakh:[6]
"Before the silver cord snaps, and the golden fountain is shattered, and the pitcher breaks at the fountain, and the wheel falls shattered into the pit. And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God, Who gave it."
As rendered in the Authorised Version:
"Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."
Or from the New International Version:
"Remember him—before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken; before the pitcher is shattered at the spring, or the wheel broken at the well, and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."
These verses, Ecclesiastes 12:6-7, are variously translated, and there is a lack of consensus among Bible commentators as to its meaning. Matthew Henry's commentary, for example, states that the silver cord refers simply to the "spinal marrow."[7]
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The Silver Cord in Twin Flames
Twin Flames share this cord and are forever connected through it, similar to the constellation of Pisces, which shows two fish swimming in opposite directions, but forever bound together by the silver cord (in astrology, the cord in Pisces is referred to as the golden thread). The Twin Flame silver cord is eternal and impossible to break. This is how Twin Flames remain connected during separation, including if a Twin Flame dies or if only one Twin is incarnated on Earth.
While cord cutting is a helpful practice to break bonds with people at the soul level, you cannot cut the silver cord to your Twin Flame. Since Twin Flames share the same silver cord, your Twin’s cord is your cord, and you cannot cut your own cord. Or in the case of monadic Twin Flames, who may not share cords, chakra systems, or higher selves, the divinity of a Twin Flame silver cord is absolute, infinite, and protected by the principles of the Universe.
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Are dragons real? Since they do not live on the physical plane, scientists cannot trap and dissect them. Yet magicians and psychics who have explored the astral realms know first-hand that dragons do indeed exist, and that they make very powerful co-magicians. Dragons tap into deeper currents of elemental energies than humans. Because of their ancient wisdom, dragons are valuable contacts to call upon when performing any type of divination, such as the laying out of tarot cards. Tarot decks and other divination tools seem to fascinate them. The Celtic Dragon Tarot is the first deck to use the potent energies of dragons for divination, magickal spell working and meditation.
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Title: The tongue of time, and star of the states: : a system of human nature, with the phenomena of the heavens and earth. : American antiquities, remains of giants, geology, volcanoes, Egyptian and Indian magic, diet, dress, drinks, diseases, sleep, somnambulism, trances, resuscitation. : Also an account of persons with two souls, and of five persons who told colors by the touch
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The soul unto itself
Is an imperial friend, --
Or the most agonizing spy
An enemy could send.
Secure against its own,
No treason it can fear;
Itself its sovereign, of itself
The soul should stand in awe.
~Emily Dickinson
Henna I did at the KC Metaphysical fair. She was trying out a design for a possible tattoo. It was fun to do something this detailed and shaded.
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Some notes about the image.
We see the girl, looking somewhere outside the image frame. There is also a tree brunch above her, and a big vertical empty space between the girl and the leaves of a tree above her.
We don't know what the girl is looking at, if something is happening there, and what attracts her attention in particular. The space separating her from the object she is looking at is reduced, but the spatial intrigue, about her look seems unresolved.
However the term "intrigue" is applicable only if we look upon the picture as a narrative with some plot referring to some mundane reality outside it, and not as a thing in itself. As soon as we switch to the latter view – we accept the existing framing of the picture as not "deficient" by this spatial reduction.
Transition from "mundane" to "artistic" look, however, does not mean simple throwing away of one in favor of the other, because the impression from the picture usually originates in none of these fields ("oh, how realistic it is!", or "oh, how artistic it is!"), but rather in ascending from one to another. From here we rather start talking about what the author "has done" with the elements that constitute the picture.
The space, outlined by the girl's look, goes beyond the frame of the picture. But at the same time it is reduced by the frame. However, its "extended" character does not disappear, and still is an integral feature of the picture. But instead of leading us into the mundane world, beyond the frame, the space is transposed into vertical dimension within it (this is the space between the girl and the leaves of the tree above her), which makes us stay within the picture . This transposition is actually "freezing the time". The picture is not narrative any more (like "about the girl who looked at something"). The frame has cut off the narrative, and made us concentrate on the "paradigmatic" relations between the visible elements of the picture, speaking of them as having common properties, considering them as supplementing each other in a single integral image.
With no mundane spatial dimension on the picture, the girl's look becomes metaphysical. And it makes the object of her attention separated from her not that much in space, but rather more in time. Thus, a look in space becomes a look in time, -- from the time frozen by the frames of the picture into the times unspecified outside it.
[Summing up. To create an image, find out what is reduced by the photo frame and find a transposition of it within the frame.]
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Charles Simic
Charles Simic’s poetry has been called “strikingly original,” “grimly realistic,” “metaphysical,” “ironically humorous,” “meditative,” and, most often, “surreal.” He began to write poetry while still in high school, and always in English, which he had learned to speak at fifteen, after leaving Belgrade and arriving in the States, by way of Paris. Just five years later, in 1959, he had published his first poems in an issue of the Chicago Review. His college education was hard won, at night, paid for by the various odd jobs he took during the day, first in Chicago and later in New York City, and interrupted by a two-year stint in the military. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Russian, in 1966, from New York University, almost as a matter of form, for the influences and inspirations for his poems were already well established - his childhood experiences; his passion for art, poetry, jazz, and film; and his keen eye for observation. Within a year after graduation, his first collection, What the Grass Says, was published.
Mr. Simic has kept up an astounding pace in the ensuing years. A very short list of his twenty books of poetry includes The World Doesn’t End: Prose Poems (1990), which won the Pulitzer Prize; Walking the Black Cat (1996), a National Book Award finalist; Jackstraws (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and Selected Poems: 1963–2003 (2004), which won the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize. He has been equally productive as a translator, editor and essayist, and his body of work has been acknowledged by fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007, the same year he won the Wallace Stevens Award, Mr. Simic was appointed the fifteenth Poet Laureate of the United States. And earlier this year he joined the company of Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore as a recipient of the prestigious Robert Frost Medal, presented by the Poetry Society of America to honor “distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry.”
In addition to his writing, Mr. Simic remains active as a teacher. Since 1973, he has taught English and creative writing at the University of New Hampshire, where he is today Emeritus Professor; and as a Distinguished Poet-in-Residence, he teaches every fall semester at New York University.
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About Graham Harman
Graham Harman is the founder of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and the author of numerous books, including Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects, Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things, Circus Philosophicus, The Quadruple Object, and, most recently, Quentin Meillassoux: Philosophy in the Making and Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy. He lives in Cairo, Egypt, where he is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Provost for Research Administration at the American University.
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“A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness... and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out...”.
(Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea")
(Un pallido riflesso di me stesso vacilla nella mia coscienza... e improvvisamente l'"io" impallidisce, impallidisce e svanisce)
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Day One-hundred and Fifty-One. it's a Metaphysics Day. Any glass will work as a mirror, it's all a matter of angle...
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To discover that metaphysical Tree which hid
From my worldling look its brilliant vein
Far deeper in gross wood
Than axe could cut.
But before I might blind sense
To see with the spotless soul,
Each particular quirk so ravished me
Every pock and stain bulked more beautiful
Than flesh of any body
Flawed by love's prints.
— Sylvia Plath “On The Plethora Of Dryads”
I figured I’d upload another philosophical piece again. I’ve been delving into Aristotle’s “Metaphysics” this summer and an he mentioned something that was extremely interesting. Now I drew a conclusion that I can’t say he hasn’t because I’m not even remotely into the book and I’m not sure if he concludes this later on at some point. He was commenting on Empedocles before him, who was a pre-Socratic philosopher, and his ideas on early philosophy and inquiries into the first principles and causes. Empedocles maintained that the first principles are perishable and said that the elements are imperishable. Aristotle states emphatically that the principles are definitely not the same and that they are different, but if they are different are they either imperishable or perishable? He says that if perishable principles exist, then the elements exist because things that perish, perish by resolving into the elements of which they consist and this also means that the elements are perishable. This also leads him to the conclusion that there must be principles prior to the principles (Book III, Chapter IV, Lines 25-30). Those who believe there are perishable principles alone are stuck in a dilemma, as he states further that it’s uncertain whether this process has a limit or proceeds to infinity. But the most interesting conclusion he came to was that how do perishable things exist if their principles are to be annulled? (Book III, Chapter IV, Lines 25-30). Think about that: if the elements are to perish, then why do they exist in the first place? So whether he infers at this point, later on or it’s a conclusion that I’m reaching myself, this means that the principles must be both perishable and imperishable. So to branch off from what he’s saying, if the elements are perishable and they resolve into each other, thus constantly changing, it would seem that their very existence is based on not being consistent and remaining formalized. As he says, how can perishable things exist if their principles are to be annulled? So if their very existence is to be disordered and perishable, then why do they exist? The only conclusion to draw is that there are imperishable principles as well sustaining these perishable principles. An example: when you’re reading this, and looking at your computer screen, if your computer screen is composed of principles and elements that were disordered at one point and will resolve into other elements and principles when it reaches its end, why is it presently existing as an essence, a form in front of you? It must, then, be currently sustained by imperishable principles as well. So what are these imperishable principles? Now I’m not sure if he reaches this conclusion through these means now or later on or if I’m making this conclusion now after being familiar with his thought and writings, but this imperishable principle is the soul.