Steve's Blog – February 2015 Archive (5)

The Pentagram is called in Kabbalah the Sign of the Microcosm, that sign so exalted by Goethe in the beautiful monologue of Faust:



"Ah, how do all my senses leap at this sight! I feel the young and sacred pleasure of life quivering in my nerves and veins. Was it a God who traces this sign which stills the vertigo of my soul, fills my poorly heart with joy and, in a mysterious rapture, unveils the forces of Nature around me? Am I myself a God? All is so clear to me: I behold in these… Continue

The force of itself is blind, but it can be directed by the will of man, and is influenced by prevailing opinions. This universal fluid, if we decide to regard it as the fluid, being the common medium of all nervous organisms and the vehicle of all sensitive vibrations, establishes an actual physical solidarity between impressionable persons, and transmits from one to another the impressions of imagination and of thought. The movement of inert objects determined by undulations of the…

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Man & Woman

You, man, should not seek the feminine in women, but seek and recognize it in yourself, as you… You, woman, should not seek the masculine in men, but assume the masculine in yourself, since you possess it from the beginning. But it amuses you and is easy to play at femininity, consequently man despises…

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Siddhartha is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man…

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