The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 6) The prize of all alchemical work was the philosopher’s stone which outwardly turned base metal into gold and inwardly turned the baseness inherent in man (having fallen from the Garden of Eden) into the state divine grace. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...
The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 5) In this, Jung took the view from Jewish magic that ‘guardian angels’ could be pretty much the same thing as one’s daimon. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...
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. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...
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. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...
The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 2) In line with the Persian philosophers whom he had studied, Corbin identified the human imagination as ‘an autonomous world of intermediaries, the mundus imaginals, where visions, apparitions, angels, and hierarchies occurred independently of any perceiving subject’. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...
The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 1) Jung’s work with magic and astrology demonstrates not only is there a place for esoteric traditions in modern science but also if we are to become all that we as men and women can be an important link must be made between irrationalism and progressive rationalism. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...
Astrological Anxiety (2) The upshot of this is that some people are neither cut out for astrology – be they practitioners, students, or clients. In such instances, they ought to leave astrology alone. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...
Astrological Anxiety (1) It goes something like this – now with the benefit of astrology, I know a little bit what to expect and that somehow makes everything worse. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...
The Art of Effective Authentic Communication for the 21st Century So to get on with your career, must you choose between being a fake or a failure? Professor Ibarra says absolutely not! Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...
Karmic Astrology (12) In those prior lifetimes, she developed (or adopted) an inflated – or haughty – sense of self that will all too easily slip back into play during this lifetime if she’s not careful. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailPrintLinkedInLike this:Like Loading...