david catherine
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rewilding • spiritual ecology • contemplative epistemology • mysticism • theurgy • archaeoastronomy • mythology • folklore • symbolism
"Language is a constant throughout the tumult of human history: our tool to persuade, deceive, and unite into more than the sum of our parts [...] [L]anguage can transport us into chaos just as often as it can into sublimity and harmony." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
May 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"Language is a constant throughout the tumult of human history: our tool to persuade, deceive, and unite into more than the sum of our parts [...] [L]anguage can transport us into chaos just as often as it can into sublimity and harmony." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
Also brings to mind the following from Henry Corbin:
![Henry Corbin, in his book "Alone with the Alone, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi" (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998, p.170 & 172) writes: “If the mystic thus came to exemplify the Image of the Creative Feminine, we understand how Maryam could become its prototype and how, in one of the finest pages of his Mathnawi, Jalaluddin Rumi could substitute her for the mystic. The episode of the Annunciation now becomes one of the symbols verifying the maxim that he who knows himself knows his Lord: Essentially it is the ‘sophianity’ of the mystic’s being (typified by Maryam) which conditions his vision of the Angel, that is, which defines his capacity for theophanic vision, his capacity for the vision of a form in which the invisible and the sensible are conjoined, or
symbolize one another [...]
Because it is impossible to prove God, there is no other answer than to ‘make oneself capable of God.’ Indeed, as Jalaluddin Rumi also says, each of our eternal individualities is a word, a divine Word, emitted by the Breath of Divine Compassion. When this Word penetrates the mystic’s heart (as it penetrates Maryam through the Angel’s Breath), that is, when the ‘secret of his Lord’ unfolds to his consciousness, when divine inspiration invests his heart and soul, ‘his nature is such that there is born within him a spiritual Child (walad ma`nawī) having the breath of Christ which resuscitates the dead’.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j67wdgmevsgl277uqtm66o63/bafkreiggwuabck27gbriol4onyhd7yjr4qwwhvp2uyz5kjbywfubi5ansq@jpeg)
January 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Also brings to mind the following from Henry Corbin:
♀️ Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers
♀️ Mary, High Priest and Bishop
♀️ Modes of Silencing the Past
♀️ Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Ally Kateusz, 2019, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯, 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
♀️ Mary, High Priest and Bishop
♀️ Modes of Silencing the Past
♀️ Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Ally Kateusz, 2019, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯, 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
January 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
♀️ Women Apostles: Preachers and Baptizers
♀️ Mary, High Priest and Bishop
♀️ Modes of Silencing the Past
♀️ Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Ally Kateusz, 2019, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯, 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
♀️ Mary, High Priest and Bishop
♀️ Modes of Silencing the Past
♀️ Breaking the Box of Our False Imagination of the Past
𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀: Ally Kateusz, 2019, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯, 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
This book just dropped – thought you might be interested? Book details under the ALT tab on image.
January 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This book just dropped – thought you might be interested? Book details under the ALT tab on image.
“As much as Marija [Gimbutas] was a scientist and archaeo-mythologist, she also was an intuitive seer, a mediator between our ancestors and us, between the Great Goddess and the modern human psyche–not fully forgetting of the reverence and worship of the regeneratrix. www.advaya.life/articles/app...
January 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
“As much as Marija [Gimbutas] was a scientist and archaeo-mythologist, she also was an intuitive seer, a mediator between our ancestors and us, between the Great Goddess and the modern human psyche–not fully forgetting of the reverence and worship of the regeneratrix. www.advaya.life/articles/app...
In Islamic traditions, this unveiling (Arabic 𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘧) or divine disclosure (𝘵𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪) upon the plane of manifest forms (𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘢𝘩𝘪𝘳) is also referred to as 𝘢𝘭-𝘘𝘶𝘳ʾ𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭-𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘪, “the Recitation of the Cosmos” (i.e. cosmos and nature as hierophany/theophany). According to Seyyed Hossein Nasr:
December 17, 2024 at 10:51 AM
In Islamic traditions, this unveiling (Arabic 𝘬𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘧) or divine disclosure (𝘵𝘢𝘫𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪) upon the plane of manifest forms (𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘢𝘩𝘪𝘳) is also referred to as 𝘢𝘭-𝘘𝘶𝘳ʾ𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭-𝘛𝘢𝘬𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘪, “the Recitation of the Cosmos” (i.e. cosmos and nature as hierophany/theophany). According to Seyyed Hossein Nasr:
Haven't read much Orthodox theology – thanks for the article. I agree that (𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯-based) science is an important tool for understanding, but would then propose a 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 Books Theology that includes a 𝘯𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 reading of nature/cosmos (as primordial temple of the Word). From Eastern Orthodox tradition:
December 17, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Haven't read much Orthodox theology – thanks for the article. I agree that (𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯-based) science is an important tool for understanding, but would then propose a 𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 Books Theology that includes a 𝘯𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 reading of nature/cosmos (as primordial temple of the Word). From Eastern Orthodox tradition:
1/2 “It was inevitable, really, that in time the mechanistic method should mutate into – or, perhaps, be revealed as – a metaphysics as well,
December 11, 2024 at 6:15 AM
1/2 “It was inevitable, really, that in time the mechanistic method should mutate into – or, perhaps, be revealed as – a metaphysics as well,
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
— H. G. Wells
(Image: Rodney Blackhirst)
— H. G. Wells
(Image: Rodney Blackhirst)
December 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”
— H. G. Wells
(Image: Rodney Blackhirst)
— H. G. Wells
(Image: Rodney Blackhirst)
“In European folk memories, the bear is an ancestress, a divine birth-giving mother and protectress. At certain remote places in Greece, the mother bear is still worshipped in festivals. At the cave of Akrotiri, the festival of Panagia Arkoudiotissa, “Virgin Mary of the Bear,” is celebrated Feb 2...
December 2, 2024 at 4:47 PM
“In European folk memories, the bear is an ancestress, a divine birth-giving mother and protectress. At certain remote places in Greece, the mother bear is still worshipped in festivals. At the cave of Akrotiri, the festival of Panagia Arkoudiotissa, “Virgin Mary of the Bear,” is celebrated Feb 2...
The natural world is an integral expression of the living, cosmic ‘Book’ – which is to say, the manifest self-disclosure of God: “I was a Hidden Treasure; and I loved to be Known [𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢]. So I created the creation in order to be Known [𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢].” (Hadīth Qudsī)
*𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢 is related to ʿ𝘪𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘯 (𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴)
*𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢 is related to ʿ𝘪𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘯 (𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴)
December 2, 2024 at 4:43 PM
The natural world is an integral expression of the living, cosmic ‘Book’ – which is to say, the manifest self-disclosure of God: “I was a Hidden Treasure; and I loved to be Known [𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢]. So I created the creation in order to be Known [𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢].” (Hadīth Qudsī)
*𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢 is related to ʿ𝘪𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘯 (𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴)
*𝘶ʿ𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘢 is related to ʿ𝘪𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘯 (𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴)
Conversation on the alchemical symbolism in 𝘚𝘪𝘳 𝘎𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 – a journey in the 12th century with Arthurian mythology and Christian mysticism from an alchemical perspective: thegreenknight.org/alchemical-s...
(Illustration by Julek Heller)
#alchemy #Gawain #GreenKnight #Arthurian
(Illustration by Julek Heller)
#alchemy #Gawain #GreenKnight #Arthurian
November 30, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Conversation on the alchemical symbolism in 𝘚𝘪𝘳 𝘎𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘒𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 – a journey in the 12th century with Arthurian mythology and Christian mysticism from an alchemical perspective: thegreenknight.org/alchemical-s...
(Illustration by Julek Heller)
#alchemy #Gawain #GreenKnight #Arthurian
(Illustration by Julek Heller)
#alchemy #Gawain #GreenKnight #Arthurian
Re: 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 and eros – reminded me of something Tom Cheetham wrote:
November 26, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Re: 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 and eros – reminded me of something Tom Cheetham wrote:
@visiosmaragdina.bsky.social Have you read Algis Uždavinys’ book, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘙𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩: 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘌𝘨𝘺𝘱𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘕𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮?
November 25, 2024 at 8:36 AM
@visiosmaragdina.bsky.social Have you read Algis Uždavinys’ book, 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘙𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩: 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘌𝘨𝘺𝘱𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘕𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘮?
20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3/20
#booksky
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November 24, 2024 at 5:02 PM
20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 3/20
#booksky
#booksky
“The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong.” (Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee)
November 23, 2024 at 5:24 PM
“The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong.” (Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee)
20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2/20
#booksky
#booksky
November 23, 2024 at 4:57 PM
20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 2/20
#booksky
#booksky
20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1/20
#booksky
#booksky
November 22, 2024 at 10:10 AM
20 books that have stayed with me or influenced me. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1/20
#booksky
#booksky
Pre-Islamic #mythology tells us that the #Kaaba was protected by a ‘dragon’: a mighty serpent with a black head and a black tail, and its head was like the head of a he-goat.
November 19, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Pre-Islamic #mythology tells us that the #Kaaba was protected by a ‘dragon’: a mighty serpent with a black head and a black tail, and its head was like the head of a he-goat.
“Nature, then, is a teaching, a primordial Scripture. To ‘read’ this Scripture, to take it to heart, is ‘to see God everywhere,’ to be aware of the transcendent dimension which is present in every cosmic situation, to see ‘the translucence of the Eternal through and in the temporal’.” (K. Oldmeadow)
November 18, 2024 at 11:55 AM
“Nature, then, is a teaching, a primordial Scripture. To ‘read’ this Scripture, to take it to heart, is ‘to see God everywhere,’ to be aware of the transcendent dimension which is present in every cosmic situation, to see ‘the translucence of the Eternal through and in the temporal’.” (K. Oldmeadow)