Category: Philosophy
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The Celestial Way (part 2)
To loosen the grip you may have on reason, the pride of the Enlightenment as the be-all and end-all would open you up to alternative worldviews.
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Wyrd is Weird (or is it?)
The word ‘wyrd’ is an Anglo-Saxon term which literally means ‘that which has turned’ or ‘that which has become’.
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Turning Tables
So what does it ‘actually’ mean to say, ‘this is a table’?
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Finding Balance with Gemini/Sagittarius Polarity
Hermes is not so concerned with facts as he is with essential truths, truths that reveal themselves though symbols.
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A Tale of Two Heroines & The Acorn Theory
Hillman reminds us although mainstream Western society would have us believe otherwise, life was never meant to be an ego-fuelled race to the finish-line.
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My Red Dress
Naturally, my red dress is not the only particular that can instantiate the property of redness.
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A Simpler Life – ancient Greek style
Nonetheless, aspiring to αγαθός, I would never be in doubt as to what I should do.
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Man’s Relationship with his Gods
It’s interesting that our familiarity with our humanity increased as our familiarity with the gods decreased.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 4)
As Dr Liz Greene reminds us, not only was Carl Jung very familiar with Ficino’s work, but he relied on it extensively in his own work in the Liber Novus.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 3)
The primary text of Alexandrian Hermeticism is known as the Corpus Hermeticum, which itself is a collection of 17 different primarily philosophical treatises written in Greek in 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.