Today’s Readings
BY: Mark
In the beginning there was one. From this came two and three. Two and three were polar: yin and yang. As they came from one they were the energetic expressions of the creative force, perpetually changing into each other and, through change, evolving. However, their changes needed to be controlled by some higher consciousness. Looking closer at the yin and yang symbol it is evident that its dynamic form is kept in place by a circle. This circle represents the first idea–the prima materia, the word, the origin of duality, the source of creation yet also the limitation of creative expression.
- Dr. Josef Margraf “Morphogenesis and Plant Signature: The Tao of Connectedness” (Alchemy Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, p. 8 )
The grimoire is a palingenesis. The hack and paste of overlapping ages. Some made to look old, others seeming younger in candlelight than the centuries make them. These texts are the lost, the rediscovered, the rescued from flames, and the outright invented. It is a dog-eared tarot gallery.
- Peter Grey, from his Introduction to Howlings [Scarlet Imprint]
Scarlet Imprint is putting on an event called the Summer of Love. In Brighton, on August 20th. In case you were wondering what to do on a summer evening while in the UK.
On the second night, I called out to my soul.
“I am weary, my soul, my wandering has lasted too long, my search for myself outside myself. Now I have gone through events and find you behind all of them.”
- Carl Jung, The Red Book, Liber Primus, folio ii (r).
I really need a second desk, just so I can leave The Red Book out. Let myself get lost in it a few times during the course of the day . . .
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