Historical Mirrors
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🌿 The Tree of Life and the Nervous System
Symbol, Structure, and the Courage to Stay Accurate There’s an image that keeps circulating lately—one that overlays the Tree of Life onto the human brain, often the cerebellum or the nervous system. It’s visually compelling. Familiar. Almost comforting. And yet…… Continue reading
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From Covenant to Consciousness
On the Evolution of the Divine Image ✨📜🕯️ There comes a moment on any sincere spiritual path when the old questions no longer suffice. Not “What does this text say?”But “What kind of consciousness does this text arise from?”And perhaps… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors: Hannah Arendt — Thinking as a Moral Act 🕯️đź§
Some figures in history don’t descend into the depths of the psyche through visions or dreams — they arrive there through thinking. Not abstract thinking. Not cleverness. But the kind of thinking that refuses numbness, refuses slogans, and refuses the… Continue reading
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✨🕯️Sacred Counterparts: Marguerite Porete & Jakob Böhme 🔥🌑
There are mystics who speak about God.And then there are mystics who speak from inside the rupture where language fails. Marguerite Porete and Jakob Böhme never met, never read one another, and never belonged to the same spiritual moment —… Continue reading
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🪞 Historical Mirrors:
Simone Weil — When the Mirror Refuses Comfort Some mirrors do not reflect beauty.They do not reassure.They do not console. Some mirrors strip the soul bare. Simone Weil (1909–1943) was a philosopher, mystic, laborer, activist, and reluctant saint whose life… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. 18
Proclus of Athens — The Soul That Remembers Its Own Light There are thinkers whose minds become ladders — not merely across ideas, but between worlds. Proclus of Athens, the 5th-century Neoplatonist, mapped a cosmology of consciousness that did not… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. 17
🔥 The Centaur’s Laugh: Alexandra David-NĂ©el as a Sagittarian Mirror Sagittarius season always blows in like a warm wind after a long night — not polite, not quiet, but alive. This is the month when truth stops whispering and starts… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. XV — William Blake
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.” 🕯️ The Furnace of Vision They called him mad.He called himself awake. William Blake saw angels in the trees of Peckham Rye and devils in the engines of empire.… Continue reading
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✨ Sacred Mirrors, Vol. 14 — Marguerite Porete: The Mirror and the Fire
🌑 The Silence That Sings There are souls whose devotion cannot be contained by creed, whose love burns too brightly for the walls built to protect it.Marguerite Porete was one of these — a woman of France who spoke of… Continue reading
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Sacred Mirrors Vol. 13 — Mother Shipton: The Prophetess of the Threshold
🌑 The Crone Who Spoke in Riddles In the sixteenth-century market town of Knaresborough, a crooked-nosed woman was said to have been born in a cave, amid lightning and laughter. She would later be called Mother Shipton—born Ursula Southeil—England’s most… Continue reading
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