Historical Mirrors
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🌒 When Wisdom Kneels
Reading the Gospel of Thomas as an Initiation There are texts you study…and then there are texts that quietly begin studying you. The Gospel of Thomas feels like the latter for me. Not a gospel in the sense of doctrine… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors: Hannah Arendt — Thinking as a Moral Act 🕯️🧠
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-Néel 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. XVI: Dorothy Parker — The Sacred Trickster
“Tell the truth, but tell it slant — preferably with gin.” 🜂 The Laugh That Burned at Both Ends Perhaps Dorothy Parker never wanted to be anyone’s muse. Maybe she preferred to be the match — and sometimes, the smoke… Continue reading
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Historical Mirrors, Vol. 15 — Nikola Tesla: The Light-Bearer and the Lonely One
✴️He dreamt in storms.He walked among bolts of blue fire, whispering to the unseen.They called it madness — but the thunder called him home. In the flicker of lamps, in the pulse of the modern age,his name hums beneath the… 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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