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“But I must hope that books possess a life of a more varied kind than their authors' myopia concedes to them. A book is a kind of of machine which the reader can freely use as a generator of intellectual stimulation. It is enough that the book should be truly a machine for thinking, that it should generate a variety of possible conclusions without its author's ordaining and limiting them in advance.”
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“The purpose of birth is learning
The purpose of learning is to grasp the Divine
The purpose of apprehending the Divine
is to maintain the endurance of one who apprehends
with the joy of apprehending”
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The purpose of learning is to grasp the Divine
The purpose of apprehending the Divine
is to maintain the endurance of one who apprehends
with the joy of apprehending”
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“Maybe when people take their eyes off them, inanimate objects become even more inanimate.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre.”
― Diary of a Drug Fiend
― Diary of a Drug Fiend
“Language can never adequately render the cosmic symbolism of music, because music stands in symbolic relation to the primordial contradiction and primordial pain in the heart of the primal unity, and therefore symbolizes a sphere which is beyond and prior to all phenomena. Rather, all phenomena, compared with it, are merely symbols: hence language, as the organ and symbol of phenomena, can never by any means disclose the innermost heart of music; language, in its attempt to imitate it, can only be in superficial contact with music; while all the eloquence of lyric poetry cannot bring the deepest significance of the latter one step nearer to us.”
― The Birth of Tragedy
― The Birth of Tragedy
Traditional Studies
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— last activity Jan 21, 2021 03:32AM
For readers of the Traditional School including such authors as Rene Guenon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, Mar ...more
Arthurian Legends and King Arthur
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— last activity 10 hours, 21 min ago
A group for people who love reading arthuriana be it novels or essays! The novels are added and divided into different shielves. c stays for "charact ...more
Ouroboros Gnostic Circle
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— last activity Mar 09, 2017 11:18PM
A place to discuss the many forms of Gnostic theology and practices, especially as represented in our modern world. We are concerned first and foremos ...more
Black Maven
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— last activity Aug 24, 2018 04:12AM
Black Maven is discussion group dedicated to the discovery and exposition of occultist literature that would appeal to the late Aleister Crowley. Ever ...more
The Invisible College
— 141 members
— last activity Jan 11, 2024 09:52PM
A venue to discuss traditional and new books on the occult arts, including but not limited to ceremonial magick, enochian, goetia, thelema, golden daw ...more
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