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Taken in the Venice Lagoon
on the background you can see the
Isola di Poveglia
You can see this part of lagoon from Lido
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No photoshop, no digital processing
The calm of Lagoon in that moment allowed me to take this photo
For a music follow this link: Rondò Veneziano "Tramonto sulla laguna"
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Book jacket for the New Metaphysical Library no.075
Chapters include: "Projection Problems: Trouble-shooting Yourself into the Cosmos, Packing for Your Trip, and Transcending with Ease."
632. Man must fight against darkness by the side of light, since being in alliance with light is being in alliance with Himself.
633. The fight against darkness manifesting in the world is essential. But my foremost duty is the battle against the darkness in my very own soul.
634. The battle against darkness must be omnidimensional.
635. All things that are light-like are in solidarity with one another.
636. In the highest sense of actionality, action and inaction, doing and non-doing (Chinese wei wu wei) coincide with one another: this is when non-doing becomes an act, and doing takes its place in the calm manner of non-doing.
637. (Mors triumphalis) Triumphal death on the battlefield means victory over death, for though I could not conquer the enemy, I triumphed over death - externally I went under death, internally however I won and ascended triumphally.
638. From a traditional perspective, offensive war is considered to be more appropriate than defensive war, viz. the latter acts under coercion.
639. Each heroically orientated man is ab ovo pacific (but not a pacifist): he is not only inclined to establish peace, but has the capability to accomplish it - and he does so.
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Metaphysical aphorisms by András László
"That from which is everything that exists and from which it first becomes and into which it is rendered at last, its substance remaining under it, but transforming in qualities, that they say is the element and principle of things that are. …For it is necessary that there be some nature (φύσις), either one or more than one, from which become the other things of the object being saved..." Aristotle. Metaphysics. Originally Thales of Miletus
Combining Metaphysics Beautiful Principles Asserting Truths.
Vollständige einflussreiche Philosophie imitativen Gedanken Probleme vorgestellt Bestimmungen,
расширенные условия, определенные превосходства сервировки показано, иллюстрирующую оценки,
líderes engañosos breves conocimiento entusiasta propiedades físicas condenas apropiadas,
ανθρωπολογική συμφέροντα που χαρακτηρίζουν αρχές σύνθετα καταστροφή προηγούμενες επιδράσεις μορφές,
مصادر جود مواربة قوة مبدع المختلفة الاهتمامات المتغيرة نقاط محسوسة,
vertus artistiques arithmétique équidistantes quantités continues proportions intermédiaires impliquant des normes,
constituintes combinações de espécies princípios causais partes primárias descrições de harmonia usadas,
comhábhair aisteach dhaoradh teangacha a thabhairt isteach meafair gnáth dithyramb óráid fileata,
convergenti meravigliosi piaceri che suggeriscono costruzioni complesse episodi narrativi versi eroici,
不可能な追加不可避な状況結果の間違い耐えられない声仮定の残り物.
Steve..Hammond.
Our theme today has been shadows and appearances. In the previous three photographs we've looked at Plato, the psychology of perception, surrealism and Giorgio de Chirico's Metaphysical Art.
Those of you with a background in art history will instantly recognise the de Chirico tropes in this image - steps, elongated shadow, disquieting colour and a lack of people.
The colour palette I have chosen is also very similar to one of the most famous paintings of the modern era, "The Scream" by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). You may not have heard of Munch, but you have most definitely seen an image of his Scream.
[There's actually one hidden in this picture somewhere, but I'll make you look more closely to find it than the previous photograph.]
Nothingness certainly has neither being nor existence, but it is none the less a kind of metaphysical 'direction', something we can conceive and pursue, but never attain; 'evil' is none other than 'nothingness manifested' or 'the impossible made possible.
To say that 'God became man in order that man might become God' means in the final analysis (if we want to pursue this reciprocity to its ultimate foundations) that Reality has entered into nothingness, so that nothingness might become real.
If it be objected here that nothingness, being nothing, can play no part, the answer lies in two questions: how is the existence of the very idea of nothingness to be explained? How is it that there is a 'nothing' on the level of relativities and in everyday experience?
Nothingness certainly has neither being nor existence, but it is none the less a kind of metaphysical 'direction', something we can conceive and pursue, but never attain; 'evil' is none other than 'nothingness manifested' or 'the impossible made possible: Evil never lives from its own substance, which is non-existent, but it corrodes or perverts the good, just as disease could not exist without the body which it tends to destroy; evil, says St Thomas, is there to allow the coming of a greater good, and in fact qualities have need of corresponding privations to enable them to be affirmed distinctively and separately.
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Maya is the reverberation of the Self in the direction of nothingness*, or the totality of the reverberations of the Self; the innumerable relative subjects 'are' the Self under the aspect of'Consciousness' (Chit), and the innumerable relative objects are once again the Self, but this time under the aspect of 'Being' (Sat). Their reciprocal relationships- or their 'common life’ constitute 'Beatitude' (Ananda), in manifested mode, of course; this is made up of everything in the world which is expansion, enjoyment or movement.
*Nothingness cannot exist, but the 'direction towards' nothingness exists, and indeed this observation is fundamental in metaphysics.
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Frithjof Schuon
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
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Image: The Ardabil carpet
Metaphysics abound in the South.
The building looks so terse and stylized because it hadn't been completed yet: no window frames, handrails or other.
Socorro, New Mexico.
"Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
....... Tierra Lumina ...............
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Potency Of Metaphysics.
Спонтанность принципы появлений вещества, движущиеся формы разрушения состоит искусство,
nifer o synhwyrau amwysedd cysylltiadau originative presenoldeb cynradd potency meddu pethau wedi'u malu,
rationalen Wissenschaften entgegen begleitet Quellen produktive Tugenden Entbehrung fähig Formeln Bedingungen gestartet verwandte,
niemożliwości zamienione ekspansji nieskończoność procesy kwantowe rachunkowości Rezolucje podzielne samoloty niezrozumiany,
γύρω από βασικές διαφορές που χωρίζει τις επιφάνειες συνέχεια συμπίπτει άκρα ανεξάρτητα πέτυχε θέσεις,
meriti vacue penetrati grandezze verso il basso risposte assurde considerazioni implicazioni condizioni rare esiste,
compressi maximum conditiones, demonstrationes esse sententiae necesse est scientia analytica sensus retineatur,
דוחות אמיתות מיידיים הנחות אפשריות יסוד originative קשריה המחייבים מחשבות מנומקות מתקבלים,
定義可能な知識対角線抱きしめる同一の意見が定義可能な三段論法前提と結論会社の用語を推論しました.
Steve.D.Hammond.
The exoteric claim to the exclusive possession of a unique truth, or of Truth without epithet, is an error purely and simply; in reality, every expressed truth necessarily assumes a form, that of its expression, and it is metaphysically impossible that any form should possess a unique value to the exclusion of other forms; for a form, by definition, cannot be unique and exclusive, that is to say, it cannot be the only possible expression of what it expresses.
Form implies specifications or distinction, and the specific is only conceivable as a modality of a "species;' that is to say, of a category that includes a combination of analogous modalities. Again, that which is limited excludes by definition whatever is not comprised within its own limits and must compensate for this exclusion by reaffirmation or repetition of itself outside its own boundaries, which amounts to saying that the existence of other limited things is rigorously implied in the very definition of the limited. To claim that a limitation, for example, a form considered as such, is unique and incomparable of its kind, and that it excludes the existence of other analogous modalities, is to attribute to it the unicity of Existence itself; now, no one can contest the fact that a form is always a limitation or that a religion is of necessity always a form- not, that goes without saying, by virtue of its internal Truth, which is of a universal and supraformal order, but because of its mode of expression, which, as such, cannot but be formal and therefore specific and limited.
It can never be said too often that a form is always a modality of a category of formal, and therefore distinctive or multiple, manifestation, and is consequently but one modality among others that are equally possible, their supraformal cause alone being unique. We will also repeat - for this is metaphysically of great importance - that a form, by the very fact that it is limited, necessarily leaves something outside itself, namely, that which its limits exclude; and this something, if it belongs to the same order, is necessarily analogous to the form under consideration, since the distinction between forms must needs be compensated by an indistinction or relative identity that prevents them from being absolutely distinct from each other, for that would entail the absurd idea of a plurality of unicities or Existences, each form representing a sort of divinity without any relationship to other forms.
As we have just seen, the exoteric claim to the exclusive possession of the truth comes up against the axiomatic objection that there is no such thing in existence as a unique fact, for the simple reason that it is strictly impossible that such a fact should exist, unicity alone being unique and no fact being unicity; it is this that is ignored by the ideology of the "believers", which is fundamentally nothing but an intentional and interested confusion between the formal and the universal. The ideas that are affirmed in one religious form (as, for example, the idea of the Word or of the Divine Unity) cannot fail to be affirmed, in one way or another, in all other religious forms; similarly the means of grace or of spiritual realization at the disposal of one priestly order cannot but possess their equivalent elsewhere; and indeed, the more important and indispensable any particular means of grace may be, the more certain it is that it will be found in all orthodox forms in a mode appropriate to the environment in question.
The foregoing can be summed up in the following formula: pure and absolute Truth can only be found beyond all its possible expressions; these expressions, as such, cannot claim the attributes of this Truth; their relative remoteness from it is expressed by their differentiation and multiplicity, by which they are strictly limited ...
It was pointed out earlier that in its normal state humanity is composed of several distinct "worlds." Certain people will doubtless object that Christ, when speaking of the "world," never suggested any such delimitation, and furthermore that He made no reference to the existence of an esoterism. To this it may be an answer that neither did He explain to the Jews how they should interpret those of His words that scandalized them. Moreover, an esoterism is addressed precisely to those "that have ears to hear" and who for that reason have no need of the explanations and "proofs" that may be desired by those for whom esoterism is not intended. As for the teaching that Christ may have reserved for His disciples, or some of them, it did not have to be set forth explicitly in the Gospels, since it is contained therein in a synthetic and symbolic form, the only form admitted in sacred Scriptures ...
In the final analysis the relationship between exoterism and esoterism is equivalent to the relationship between "form" and "spirit" that is discoverable in all expressions and symbols; this relationship must clearly also exist within esoterism itself, and it may be said that only the spiritual authority places itself at the level of naked and integral Truth. The "spirit" (that is to say, the supraformal content of the form, which, for its part, corresponds to the "letter") always displays a tendency to breach its formal limitations, thereby putting itself in apparent contradiction with them. It is for this reason that one may consider every religious readaptation, and therefore every Revelation, as fulfilling the function of an esoterism in relation to the preceding religious form; Christianity, for example, is esoteric relatively to the Judaic form) and Islam relatively to the Judaic and Christian forms, though this is, of course, only valid when regarded from the special point of view that we are here considering and would be quite false if understood literally. Moreover, insofar as Islam is distinguished by its form from the other two monotheistic religions, that is to say, insofar as it is formally limited, these religions also possess an esoteric aspect as between Christianity and Judaism. However, the relationship to which we referred first is a more direct one than the second, since it was Islam that, in the name of the spirit, shattered the forms that preceded it, and Christianity that shattered the Judaic form, and not the other way around ...
The metaphysical discrepancy between expectations and lived reality.
The sand between my own toes will be enough to breathe again?
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A fractal twin ...self similar...one as two...equip to explore da fracverse..he will proceed carefully ....
Taken at Genoa - Italy
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