As a child I felt myself to be
alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things
which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do
not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people
about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that
seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which
others find inadmissible.
The blind Poet that sees within the souls of men.
Poetry~from the greek poiesis-ποίησις~ “a making”.
Since a poet is a maker, he creates new worlds within the known world.
“Homer and His Guide” by William Adolphe Bouguereau.
The Antikythera Ephebe is a bronze statue of a robust young man found in 1900 by sponge-divers
in the area of the ancient Antikythera shipwreck off the island of
Antikythera, Greece. The Ephebe is
1.94 meters
tall, and his identity remains a riddle, is he Paris, Herakles or Perseus? One may assume, one thing is for sure though that this is a remarkable statue of idealized human proportions.
Date: 340 B.C. Location: National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
According to Euripides, the message of Dionysus is to call to joy in communion with nature and simplicity of heart. Those who pretend to assert the superiority of reason and refuse to heed his call will be confounded. The god inspires into them the madness with which they destroy themselves.
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St John the Baptist in the desert or Bacchus, 1510-1515, attributed to by Leonardo da Vinci.
~Deep into the dream, into the mythical and the wondrous, the oneiric realm of the paintings of Odilon Redon, straight out of the unconscious, its depths and powers of transcedence. Redon’s work is profoundly spiritual and revealing of an inner vision.
Mystical Conversation, Muse on Pegasus and The Black Pegasus by the great Odilon Redon.
Ancient neoplatonic philosopher Proclus describing his experience in the Greater Mystery of the Eleusinian Mysteries:
“They cause the sympathy of the souls with a ritual in a way that is incomprehensible to us, and divine, so that some of the initiates are stricken with panic, being filled with divine awe; others assimilate themselves to the holy symbols, leave their own identity, become at home with the gods, and experience divine possession”.
A clay group of two women, possibly Demeter and Persephone sitting on a couch, said to be from Myrina on Lemnos; ca. 100BC;
Hermes is considered to be Trismegistus in mysticism, not just because he’s able to move among different planes and dimensions, but cause he’s also associated with other deities or personalities and becomes enriched and expanded this way. As first Hermes the Egyptian god Thoth emerges, he’s the “Source of Logos”, the one forming the nature of reality, the things he utters become instantly true, his speech is a powerful spell of creation. He’s the sublime mind, the fountain of inspiration. The mystical wisdom that springs from the pages of the sacred books, the god of hermeneutics, new meanings and insights.
This tradition presents as second Hermes the reformist and for some heretic Pharaoh Akhanaten. He was the one abandoning the traditional Egyptian pantheon to focus his worship on the glorification of the solar disk that takes the name of “Aten”. Ancient art depicts Akhenaten as rather otherworldly and androgynous, he’s perhaps some kind of Hermaphroditus (son of Hermes). Akhenaten saw the sun as the Source of all things, of all creative power and initiative. Behind the sun as planetary body there was a refined essence hiding responsible for a spiritual nutrition of the highest form and frequency, one surpassing earthly limitations. Some claim that Akhenaten discovered the Emerald Tablet, Hermes’ deepest work and contribution and that he based his religion on this revelation and grace.
Apollonius of Tyana appears to be the third aspect or face of Hermes Trismegistus. A personality legendary and enigmatic. It is said that Apollonius found the Emerald Tablet inside a cave and that Alexander the Great had hidden the tablet there. Apollonius is considered to be a great master of humanity, a great avatar. The oldest translation of the Emerald Tablet into Arabic is attributed to Apollonius. Hellenistic Alexandria was his field of action.
Hermes embodies the guiding spirit over the centuries, he’s the air of change and information, the one providing higher insights if one is ready and synchronized to accept his guidance. He acts from afar and in depth, he’s the god of analysis in general and of psychoanalysis in specific, a force of intuition and fertility, metaphorically or literally. A god of unifications beyond polarities suggesting us to be adaptive and with a rather wicked sense of humor, that sees underneath the surface connecting us with the Source, the One Thing of the alchemists.
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Image: An Allegory of Alchemy by the Circle of Bartholomaus Spranger, between circa 1546 and circa 1611.
~Night with a Moon~
Selene, Greek goddess of the moon associated with the Triple Goddess archetype, inspiration, fluidity and a peak of the senses while in her fullness.
Drawing by Sir William Russell Flint.
Irene Papas as Helen of Troy in Michael Cacoyannis’ “The Trojan Women”, 1971.
The Lady of Elche, sometimes interpreted as an Atlantean priestess, is also believed to be related to the Carthaginian goddess Tanit. Greco-Iberian bust from Alicante (αρχαία Ελίκη), Spain, c.400-350 BC.
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Liv Ulmann about her relationship with Ingmar Bergman.
photo credit the movie: Liv & Ingmar
