Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Whatever may have been the teaching of Orpheus (if he existed), the teaching of the Orphics is well known. They believed in the transmigration of souls; they taught that the soul hereafter might achieve eternal bliss or suffer eternal or temporary torment according to its way of life here on earth.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Lower World (Underworld) Below the Middle World is an inner earth, an underworld that truly has nothing to do with the Christian concept of hell, but is a place of the ancestors and primal beings. This Lower World is a place of testing and facing fear. Beings of…
Christopher Penczak • Ascension Magick
We start in the depths of time and soul, in the collective archetypal lands of equally bright light and darkness, the depository of humanity’s psychic inheritance.
Allyson Grey • Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine
Jesus (a good person) still had to die for the Christ (the universal presence) to arise. It is the pattern of transformation . . . What has to die is not usually bad; in fact, it will often feel good and necessary.2
Can you see the necessity of healthy and mature religion? Why else would you take the jump from a safe, comfortable sense of self into
... See moreMythology is the authentic record of those periods of transition when the diviner sparks were gradually assuming the bodies of mortality.
Manly Hall • What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples: A Study Concerning the Mystery Schools
The Risen Christ is, as Teilhard de Chardin tried to describe it, the divine lure, a blinking, brilliant light set as the Omega point of time and history that keeps reminding us that love, not death, is the eternal thing.
Richard Rohr - Immortal Diamond
Considered from the wider perspective of the history of the human spirit, alchemy and its goal appeared not only as physical processes leading to chemistry, but also as a religious discipline whose goal was the transformation of earthly man into an illuminated philosopher.
Stanton Marlan • Jung’s Alchemical Philosophy: Psyche and the Mercurial Play of Image and Idea (ISSN)
The uroboros, traceable in all epochs and cultures, then appears as the latest symbol of individual psychic development, signifying the roundedness of the psyche, life’s wholeness, and perfection regained. It is the place of transfiguration and illumination (illus. 11 ),of finality, as well as the place of mythological origination. Thus the Great
... See moreErich Neumann • The Origins and History of Consciousness (Princeton Classics Book 9)
The cult of the Goddess goes right back to those early caves. There, She is the cave itself, so that initiates who passed through the rites deep under the earth were returning to and reborn from Her womb.