A Greek Initiate of the sixth century B.C., known as the Son of Apollo the Sun God, or Son of the Sun, and the first to take the name of Philosopher, lover of Wisdom, Pythagoras publicly recognized the power of woman to achieve Initiation by associating his wife Theano with him in the teaching of a brotherhood which he founded at Crotona, and by entrusting the conduct of this work to her at his death. Continue reading “Numbers of Pythagoras”
The Great Mystery
“Quod tanto impendio absconditur etiam solummodo demonstrare destruere est.” Tertullian
When a thing is hidden away with so much pains, merely to reveal it is to destroy it.
Inner Work
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born
and not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn;
and the cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain
unless within thyself it be set up again…
Quiet Desperation
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.