Wisdom from Robert Fludd (aka Robertus de Fluctibus) (1574 - 1637):
Particulars are frequently fallible, but universals never. Occult philosophy lays bare Nature in her complete nakedness, and alone contemplates the wisdom of universals by the eyes of intelligence. Accustomed to partake of the rivers which flow from the Fountain of Life, it is unacquainted with grossness and with clouded waters.
Which of us has, at this day, the ability to discover those true and vivific numbers whereby the elements are united and bound to one another?
But, good God, what is this when compared with that deep and true music of the wise, whereby the proportions of natural things are investigated, the harmonical concord and the qualities of the whole world are revealed, by which also connected things are bound together, peace established between conflicting elements, and whereby each star is perpetually suspended in its appointed place by its weight and strength, and by the harmony of its lucent spirit.
In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water.
Geomancy was a natural art, drawing on the inborn powers of the human soul to glean information from the larger soul of the world.
Marvelous is the love and fellowship of the flesh and the soul, of the spirit of life and the mud of the earth: for the whole man may be said to be formed from these two conjoined. For thus it is written: “God made man from the mud of the earth, and breathed the breath of life into his face ”[Genesis 2:7], giving him sense and intellect, so that through sense he might vivify the clay associated with him, and through intellect rule it; that likewise he might enter inwardly through the intellect and contemplate the wisdom of God, and outwardly through the sense behold the works of his wisdom. God illuminated the intellect from within but adorned the sense without, so that the whole man might find recreation in both, namely felicity within and enjoyment without. But since outward things cannot last long, man is bidden to turn from the things without to the things within and to ascend from the things within to the things above, that is to say from sense to imagination, from imagination to reason, from reason to intellect, thence to mind or intelligence and thus to God.
I was whilest I did sojourne in Rome, acquainted with a very learned and skillful personage, called Master Gruther. Hee was by birth of Swisserland, and for his excellency in the Mathematick, and in the Art of Motions and inventions of Machines, he was much esteemed by the Cardinall of Saint George. This gentleman taught mee the best of my skill in those practices: and amongst the rest, he delivered this magneticall experiment unto me, as a great secret, assuring me that it was tried in his Country, upon many with good successe…
Lord God almighty, Father of Jesus Christ, that dear Child of yours, through whom we have come to know you, God of the angels and powers, God of all creation, God of the race that lives in your presence, the race of the just.
I bless you because you have thought me worthy of this day and hour, worthy to be numbered among the martyrs and to drink out of the cup your Anointed has drunk from, so to rise and live for ever, body and soul, in the incorruptibility that is the Holy Spirit’s.
May I be admitted with them to your presence today, a satisfying, welcome sacrifice. You have made my life a preparation for this; you showed me that this was to be and now you have brought it about, like the veracious and truthful God that you are. For this and all your blessings I praise you and give you glory, through the eternal high priest, Jesus Christ the heavenly, your dear Child.
He is with you and the Holy Spirit. Through him may glory be given you now and in the ages to come. Amen.
Lord God almighty, Jesus Christ, you did not come to call the just; you came to call sinners to repentance.
Your promise is clear; it admits of no doubt. You were so good as to say that as soon as a sinner turned away from his evil deeds, you would say no more about his sins. Accept, then, as a sign of my repentance, the sufferings I am now undergoing, and by this fire that is waiting to burn my body for a time, deliver me from the eternal fire that burns body and soul alike.
Thanks be to you, Lord Jesus Christ: in your mercy you have chosen me to be a victim for the glory of your name – you who offered yourself on the cross as a victim for the salvation of the whole world, you the innocent for us the guilty, you the good for us the wicked, you the blessed for us the cursed, you the sinless for all us sinners.
To you I offer my sacrifice, to you who are one God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, with whim you live and reign, as you always will, age after age. Amen.
“Submit. Close your eyes. Trust that from my hand will come a blessing, not a knife.
I am your soul’s guide. Be silent when I speak. I speak love and not vengeance, my words play you no tricks. Without me you are a brute. No different from the beasts in the wild. I am the spirit that warms your heart. I am your couterpart. When you learn how to be, be still with me, we will give birth to a new universe through the power of We. Father, Mother, and child. The Holy Trinity”
Trying to survive the Gavin content drought, I’m going through some old dates and realized this…
In the “Gift of Life” karma, MC is wearing two ginkgo bracelets as if it was a reflection of real life, when a bride wears two rings for her wedding… Her diamond engagement ring and her wedding ring.
Obviously there is no mention of it in the date except for us finding out later on that Gavin has indeed bought a gem for that occasion. However by the looks of it, it’s safe to assume that PG wanted to pay an hommage to it with this karma.
The importance of this gesture doesn’t end there… When observed closely, it can be seen that the second and probably the latter bracelet has three ginkgos lined on it.
The number three always had countless meanings throughout the humankind history and is deemed to be the magic number. Among other things, it stands for Beginning, Middle, End… Body, Mind, Soul… Birth, Life, Death… But also
Past, Present and Future
It’s such a Gavin thing to do! To handcraft a ginkgo bracelet for their wedding and to put three ginkgos in line on it deliberately to tell MC without uttering a single word that She is his past, present and future… That she bewitched him in body, mind and soul, That she is his beginning, middle and end. That he was reborn with her, has sworn with his life to be there for her, to care for her, to love her and to accompany her… Till the very end.
And guess what? The very same bracelet makes an appearance on MCs desk in “Momentos”. Coincidence?
Today’s photo with the most hits: this shot of the Church if the Holy Trinity, in Ryse, Bulgaria. The photo of the interior of the church tells a different story.
At the time of its construction, Bulgaria was an Ottoman province and no Christian church could have a profile higher than a mosque, so the Christians excavated and put 80% of the church below ground, to stupendous effect.
