Sense Knowledge Sense knowledge is known through the senses and mediated by thought. There are three inner aspects involved in knowing. Sensation. The senses apprehend an object Imagination. The mind forms and image of the object Intellect. The intellect knows what the object is What the intellect knows is the … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Turning Back from the Gates of Hell
Notice that meaning comes with understanding; through misunderstanding, the world is experienced as meaningless. But that is intolerable. That is why ordinary man (hylic man and psychic man), holds onto a belief system, as Dr. Lilly describes. The effect is that the world is misunderstood and its true meaning is obscured in a web of prejudices, etc., that are merely projections of his own thoughts. Continue reading
Ecce Ancilla Domini
All magic is the putting into practice of the maxim: the subtle rules the dense, writes Tomberg. He quotes the words of Mary to the angel Gabriel at the head of the chapter. The empress symbolizes the super-consciousness ruling the consciousness (which rules force, which rules matter). The crown on … Continue reading
The Knight as a Bibliophile
This post is In response to a “challenge” on to name 10 influential books. The primary criterion used in this selection is that the book provoked a fundamental change in world view. That is why I have seldom been able to reread any of these books, since a change like … Continue reading
Why How What
Howbeit we speak wisdom among the perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, neither of the princes of this world that come to nought; But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which is hidden, which God ordained before the world, unto our glory: ~ … Continue reading