A sacrament is not a symbol. The day they were able to sell people on the notion that the sacrament is a symbol, they severed the umbilical connection to the logos. Then it all ran off the track and screwed everything up.
—Terence McKenna on the difference between direct and indirect experience.
Spring’s hidden voice softly speaks a solemn prayer for the crone. She has passed in peace and the infant Sun, still nestled in a newborn dream, now nurses from the breast of the maiden. May we enjoy our cozy awakening as well, with stardusted eyes and visions only the inner sight can see. As we emerge from winter’s long shadows, may that warm new light nurture the seeds of our dreams and illuminate our path’s forward.
<3 VESSEL OF THE GREAT WORK <3
(Source: denisforkas, via holy-mountaineering)
That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above, corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing
—The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
The idea that educated men at the time of Columbus believed that the earth was flat, and that this belief was one of the obstacles to be overcome by Columbus before he could get his project sanctioned, remains one of the hardiest errors in teaching.
—Members of the Historical Association 1945, pp. 4–5 In this pamphlet the Historical Association listed “Columbus and the Flat Earth Conception” second of twenty in its first-published pamphlet on common errors in history.




