Feeding the Moon

"And so, my dear Hassein, when it appeared that the instinctive need for conscious labor and intentional suffering in order to be able to take in and transmute in themselves the sacred substances Abrustdonis and Helkdonis and thereby to liberate the sacred Askokin for the maintenance of the Moon and Anulios had finally disappeared from the psyche of your favorites, then Great Nature Herself was constrained to adapt Herself to extract this sacred substance by other means, one of which is precisely that periodic terrifying process there of reciprocal destruction."

Gurdjieff

Word Becoming Flesh

We must all carefully examine our collective addictions to text-based mysticism. Man is engaged in a vigorous worldwide enterprise of turning flesh into words. Instead, we must consider how words can become flesh. The essential mystery of the Christ lies within this question.

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Gurdjieff, Hypnosis, Faith

Gurdjieff's work can be viewed as one man's experimental search for a new Christianity which was (simultaneously) the actual old one. Likewise, "Faith" can be seen as an exercise in self-hypnosis, induced by the split & deformed old personality in a desperate bid to re-unite the soul to the higher "self". Rather than seeing all religion (and by extension, most of man's real faculties as psychoses or neuroses - the more modern one is neuroses), we can view religion as an effort to establish 'rites' which can assist man in a path of self-hypnosis designed to aim at re-establishing inner (and outer) Paradise. The cunning man (as he might say) will not rely on one path alone (and one can apply this to "Faith alone") but will pursue whatever line of attack is appropriate to his nature (thus the need to "take heaven by storm"). Obviously, excesses, dangers, and perversions could abound here, but where do they not?

Quotes from Mouravieff's Gnosis

Gleanings from Book III, posted at Gornahoor.

When I Exist

When I exist...

Marsilio on the Celestials & Super-Celestials

Ficino's observations on those who practice the art of astrology, & how he would renovate it.

Friday Post at Gornahoor

From Russia with Love.

Rosiya

Holy Mother Russia

Is it possible to do for a nation, & then the world, what our spirit and reason can do for our soul? What would the vehicle be?

Do Nations have a divine destiny? What if (like the USA) we have decided to be a commercial corporation, rather than even a commonwealth?