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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted May 03, 2013 07:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Discernment of Spirits

"The gods have become diseases."
~ C.G. Jung

"To see the angel in the malady requires an eye for the invisible,a certain blinding of one eye and an opening of the other to elsewhere... Our modern passages are so narrow and with such low ceilings, the invisibles must twist themselves into freakish shapes in order to come through."
~ James Hillman

There is a form of mysticism entirely devoid of imagination. All invisibles are collapsed into unmentionables. The void is purely void. Spirits do not climb and crowd out of the abyss, or, if they do, they have, like the devil Legion, but one body and one name -- and that is "Abyss". Nothing speaks, nothing is revealed; visions are hallucinations and words are lies, "pure and simple". There is no mediating the abyss. Between God and man, there is no bridge and no bridgekeeper, no way and no wayshower; only a fearful chasm belching bad breath. Between God and man, there are no gods, no planets, no stars in open space. God Himself does not exist. (No, nor man either, though by our smile we seem to say so.) Emptiness gives emptiness, and not shape to forms. It is a spiritual wasteland to which no materialistic universe can compare. The enlightened man is a headless horseman, more dismissive than any hard-headed cynic could hope to be. Whereas, for some, the abyss is pregnant with mysteries, for him, it is pregnant only with errors to be aborted; and he is first among them. To me, he is a sign among signs, a wisdom among wisdoms, a mystery among mysteries. His silence speaks, and does not deafen; or deafeningly reduce all sounds into itself; but surrounds, penetrates, and gives profound sense and definition to what is said.

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Vision without action is a dream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.
~ Japanese Proverb

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mirage29
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posted May 05, 2013 01:28 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What profound joy it is for me to have found someone who understands the same spaces and vocabulary.... At last!

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Heart--Shaped Cross
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posted May 05, 2013 07:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Heart--Shaped Cross     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I appreciate the appreciation.

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