A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awaken from dreams. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Image: "Garden of Allah" by painter Maxfield Parrish

When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same... then you will enter the kingdom. - The Gospel of Thomas

Go sweep out the chamber of your heart, Make it ready to be the dwelling of the Beloved. When you depart love will enter; In you, void of yourself, God will display His beauty. - Mahmud Shabistari, 13th-century Sufi

If they ask you "What is the sign of your Father in you?" tell them "It is movement, and rest." - The Gospel According to Thomas (Saying 50)

Jesus said, "the man old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child seven days old about the place of life, and he will live. For many who are first will become last, and they will become a single one." - Gospel of Thomas

Anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe is as good as a burned-out candle. - Albert Einstein

Holy Sophia She is a breath of God's power, a pure and radiant stream of glory from the Almighty. Nothing that is defiled can ever steal its way into Her. She is a reflection of eternal light, a perfect mirror of God's activity and goodness. - Wisdom: 25-26

There is a need to dance the cosmic joy of Shiva. The real breakthrough of joy only happens when we are moved to the core of our being - when we are shattered by our encounter with meaningfulness. - Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

No eye ever saw the sun without becoming sun-like, nor can a soul see beauty without becoming beautiful. - Plotinus

Be yourselves refiners and saviors for your soul which abides in every place, that you may lead it to the dwelling of the Fathers of the Light.... You are the Sons of the Day and the Sons of Light; fight yet a little while, O Sons of Light, and you will be victorious. - The Prophet Mani

If your esotericism is at all informed by ancient Greek or Rome, you might want to check out this podcast featuring a classical scholar on why white nationalists love to use Ancient Greece to justify their hate. www.audible.com/pd/B0GF98KNRN

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.” - R. Buckminster Fuller

“If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.” - Raymond Inmon

Eternal truth, you surround me with your rays, but dark shadows constantly rise from my soul and prevent me from looking to you. - Jean-Baptiste Willermoz

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves. - Terry Tempest Williams

My latest essay on the complementary nature of faith and reason. 🙏 qr.ae/pC6r4y

You will always find an answer in the sound of water. - #Zhuangzi ( #Chuang-Tzu )

The burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Recently, I received baptism into our local parish of the Ecclesia Gnostica. The baptismal font contained holy waters from the Jordan River, the Ganges, and Glastonbury. The golden column of light that descended through my crown remained visible to me for hours. 🙏🧘‍♂️📿http://www.gnosis.org/portland/

In the secretive halls of the Per Ankh, the Ancient Egyptian House of Life, the act of writing was not a mere recording of history, but a ritual of cosmic maintenance. wayofhermes.com/hermeticism/...

I heard mine speak audibly the other day.

“Equal” to God in the qualitative, but not the quantitative sense; in other words, in the sense of continuity with God, like a wave is not the whole ocean but is continuous with, and therefore connected with it’s entire being.

One must become an ocean to receive a dirty stream without becoming unclean. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments. - Manly P. Hall

What is innermost in a person is the Fullness (Pleroma), and there is nothing further within. And this is what they call uppermost. - - The Gospel of Philip

The magic of nature holds hope for the New Year, best wishes to all! 🕊️ …

These words of Plato seem relevant to the idea of Artificial Intelligence: “Nothing intelligent can exist apart from soul. - Plato

Is anyone reading this familiar with the 16th Century Swiss grimoire called the Arbatel?