Pymander's ghost
@pymandersghost
relic seeker.
"I suppose you're right," Socrates said. "Of course I'm right," the priestess Diotima said. (Symp. 206e)
The beginning of recorded history is roughly the beginning of the present Kali Yuga, and it has been downhill ever since then. What gods roamed the earth before our declension into historical man, the old poets give a faint remembrance of.
Oh good it’s just this post again
When someone asserts that mind is reducible or epiphenomenal to the body, don't argue with them. They are simply telling you that they are a bug-man automaton, and you should rather pity than confute them.
'human marriage is regarded as an initiation of the cosmic hierogamy. "I am Heaven," the husband proclaims in the Brihadāranyaka Upanishad (VI, 4, 20), "thou art Earth!"' Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane p. 146
John Bauer
Detail from "Alexander Visits the Sage Plato in his Mountain Cave", Folio from a Khamsa of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi (1597–98)
'Unless you consider that your body is joined to you as the outer covering to the child in the womb and the stalk to the sprouting corn, you cannot know yourself' (Porphyry, Ep. ad Marc. 23)
