#jantra

“There is a body that enfolds the whole of the world; imagine it in the form of a  circle, for this is the form of the Whole… Imagine now that under the circle of this  body are the 36 decans, midway between the total circle and the circle of the zodiac, separating these two circles and, so to speak, delimiting the zodiac, transported  along it with the planets… The changing of kings, the rising up of cities, famine, plague, the tides of the sea, earthquakes: none of these takes place without the influence of the decans…”

~ Corpus Hermeticus, Stobaeus, excerptum VI (from the Umberto Eco’s “Foucault’s Pendulum”, chapter 4)

“A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.”▼

~ George R.R. Martin 

“Maria Magdalena” as Sophia by Carlo Crivelli (1435-1495) ▼ ~ You shoulda saw Her!(Listen song)

“All the traditions of the earth must be seen as deriving from a fundamental mother-tradition that, from the beginning, was entrusted to sinful man and to his first offspring.”

~ Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (,De I’esprit des chases’, Paris, Laran, 1800, II, “De l’esprit des traditions en general”) Art: ,Adam & Eve’ by Daniel Martin Diaz

△“It’s a wonderful story. Did you know that our universe is the result of an error and  that it’s partly my fault? Sophia was the female part of Absolute, because Absolute then was more female than male; it was you men who later put a beard on him and started calling him He. I was his good half. (…) I tried to create the world without asking permission—I, the Sophia, who is also called—the Ennoia. But my male part didn’t want to create; maybe he lacked the courage or was impotent. So instead of uniting with him, I decided to make the world by myself. I couldn’t resist; it was through an excess of love. Which is true; I adore this whole mixed-up universe. And that’s why I’m the soul of this world. (…) ~ You mean the Demiurge? ~ That’s him, yes. Or maybe it wasn’t Sophia who made this Demiurge; maybe he was  already around and she egged him on: Get moving, silly, make the world, and then we’ll have real fun. The Demiurge must have been a real screwup, because he didn’t know  how to make the world properly. In fact, he shouldn’t even have tried it, because matter is bad, and he wasn’t authorized to touch the stuff. Anyway, he made this  awful mess, and Sophia was caught inside. Prisoner of the world.”▼

~ Umberto Eco (,Foucault’s Pendulum’, chapter 5 Gevurah/50) Pictures: 1. Anima Mundi = Sophia; 2. art by Marcel Roux; 3. Virgin Mother.

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”

~ Stephen King (art by Dmitry Rublev)

“You are doing what is best and most beneficial for you if, you persevere in moving toward excellence of mind. How silly it is to pray for that! It is a wish you yourself can grant. You need not raise your hands to heaven; you need not beg the temple keeper for privileged access, as if a near approach to the cult image would give us a better hearing. The Absolut is near you - with you - inside you. I mean it. A sacred spirit dwells within us, and is the observer and guardian of all our goods and ills. However we treat that spirit, so does the spirit treat us. In each and every man resides an Absolute: which remains unknown.“

~ Seneca (Letters, 41.1-2)
Art:,The Watchers‘ by Marc Potts

△“Gnosis is universal. You will see others asleep try and individualize gnosis, woe to those who try and separate themselves from the universality of the effects created by that which is gnosis! Be ye not fooled. Karmic law dictates there is cause and effect. The Involution and evolution is the shiva and the shakti. We are all made of the same structure, spine, nervous system, reproductive organs, and creative energy; this being true would also prove the fact that going into evolution or involution would produce the same effects on all of every man. If our anatomy is identical, which assuredly so, it is identical to all of everyone; the metaphysics and quantum physics would effect all of man in an identical fashion on all levels, whether it be atomically, cellularly, or psychologically.”▼

~ from net (Pics: 1. Yang - sacred masculine principle, 2. Late Hellenistic silver tetradrachm with God and Goddess of the island of Tenedos (off the northwestern coast of Anatolia), 3. Yin - sacred female principle) 

Visum et RepertumbyBenjamin A. Vierling (2003)