Eques Peregrinus

*Sheath my sword* False alarm. No dragons here. Only (pseudo-)skeptics being skeptic of new-agers doing new-age stuff.

Here is my take on it: If you can take a matter as seriously as a child who is playing, you have become child-like. That does not mean the matter should be taken lightly. In contrary, for a child, playing is a extremely important business.

Well that's not really a taboo, the reason taxes are not equitable (a rich guy will be taxed far more than a poor one, well except for fiscal paradises or countries without taxes for its citizens), is an attempt to rebalance this economic problem. However, the gap in salaries is currently widening, which is going to become a major problem in the future. An other economic problem, which is going to concern us far sooner is the public debt, and the consequences of prolonged negative interest rates (that cheap money favorise dangerous speculations).

Since we are speaking about Paracelsus, in his Philosophia Sagax, he mention humans having multiple souls, namely mineral, vegetable, animal and human... I should reread it, I really do not remember what he was saying about them... In his Paramirum, he also mention an Ens Seminis which constitute the human body, which provides its complexion and temperaments, etc... without any influences from planets or stars, because children inherit their Ens Seminis from their parents, which inherited it from theirs, up to Adam and Eve.

I had no idea this thread existed when I registered! Quite surprisingly, the work became more convenient in our modern western society than in previous centuries: Idiots who want to prevent us questing to slay dragons, save the princess, or find the grail are no longer taken seriously. It also far more easier to take care of the horses, their health and life expectancy increased, so it is possible to quest more. The number of maps available has also skyrocketed. They are also way better research available. Therefore getting lost in the quest due to a bad map is less common today than before. In fact the biggest problem which have risen is the number of distractions, it became easier to forget the quest due to our inattention.

I had a SQL error recently on the index page, it persisted for a few days before I tried to access to an other sub forum (by mistake while browsing my history), and the page got displayed correctly. This pushed me to experiment a bit. I sniffed my traffic with Wireshark, while trying to fetch the index page which displayed an SQL error, and observed there were no connection to the server, therefore that was likely a caching problem. So I tried to reload the page while bypassing the cache (generally by pressing [Ctrl] + [F5], or with developer tools) and the page reloaded normally without SQL error. Normally, a web resource (html pages, images, ...) is send with an ETag* (a field in the HTTP headers) or at least an expiration date**. I suppose that these HTTP headers are missing from the server response when it has to send the SQL error page. The same behaviour occurs for the page indicating the server is offline (the page with the guy sitting in lotus). *In the case of the ETag, the web browser establishes a connection with the server to send the ETag, and the server responds either by telling the resource is up-to-date or with the updated resource. **In the case of an expiration date, it is just a date, and the browser consults its cache until the date is reached, afterward, if the resource is requested, the browser is going to consult the server normally.

no way

A myth is a story which can be real or a fiction, that alone is not relevant. The important part of the myth is the mystery it contains, that is a message, hidden by its author, which can be interpreted by a meditation on the symbols, puns or sometimes by the etymology of the words used in the text. Of course, a text being often re-used (and re-written) across different traditions using different symbolism, or different views of the world, would lead to different interpretation of the myth. It is always a bit dangerous to mix symbolisms, like identifying the serpent with kundalini. Maybe it is still adequate due to cultural exchanges which happened in mid-eastern part of the word during antiquity, I really do not know. The Tree of Life as it is often represented (that is the schema containing 10 spheres which are the 10 sephiroth) was invented by the rabbi Isaac Luria, who lived in the 16th century. Therefore it might not be reasonable to assume the tree of life spoken in the Genesis is the same tree. Something which is closer to a way of divine ascend, which appears in the Bible, is the Ladder of Jacob. By meditating on the symbols, anatomical images, and puns in a famous passage of this book, we can link it to the staff of Moses, to the choosing of Aaron as High Priest, and even to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Now there are common things among creation myths, like the divine origin of Mankind. In the Genesis (or Bereshit), Elohim is creating the Universe by speaking, then is creating Adam in its own image, and later, in this story Adam names the animals. There is more or less a consensus among mystics that this insistence on spoken words is about the ability of humans to take part in the creation of the world. (And that this is the Word spoken by John.) I do not know the opinions of other mystics about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but I interpret eating its fruit as entering in the world of duality (hence my emphasis on Good and Evil).

Nah, now, radioactive wastes are just thrown in the sewers. http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-most-radioactive-place-in-new-york-city-is-now-a-superfund-site

Greetings, I humbly thanks everyone for their contributions to this forum. I found many good insights and directions in this place. I am interested in western system of magic and mysticism, by studying them, and comparing them to eastern techniques, it is quite noticeable that they are lacking when it comes to the development of the "spiritual" bodies. Naturally, I looked at the east to complete them, just like the orientalists did at the end of the XIXth century. About my practice, I am still struggling to establish a meditation routine. (Because, you know... knowledge of God, immortality, Christ consciousness, Nirvana and all that stuff is nice, but there is some chocolate in the cupboard.) With Love. Eques Peregrinus

Thank you! A void-mind meditation would not suits me the best, huh? That may be the case. Thank you! Great! A compatriot. I read a few of your posts, it seems that we indeed share a few interests in common, like astrology or alchemy.