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[Sirius]

The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all at once, but must be content to wait for the discovery of its beauty, and symmetry, little by little, as it gradually comes to be more and more unfolded.
—Robert Boyle, seventeenth-century natural philosopher and chemist




Every leaf of the tree becomes a page of the sacred scripture once the soul has learned to read.
—Sa’di Shirazi, thirteenth-century Persian poet



It was the Book of Nature, written by the finger of God, which I studied . . .
—Paracelsus, sixteenth-century physician and philosopher



The texture of the world, its filigree and scrollwork, means that there is the possibility for beauty here, a beauty inexhaustible in its complexity, which opens to my knock, which answers in me a call I do not remember calling, and which trains me to the wild and extravagant nature of the spirit I seek. . . . The whole creation is one lunatic fringe.
—Annie Dillard

[UltraBudgie]

I need a new book and inspiration, open to book suggestions

Three Books of Occult Philosophy, by Agrippa
A Confederacy of Dunces, by Toole
Alan Mendelsohn the Boy from Mars, by Pinkwater

[Sirius]

Three Books of Occult Philosophy, by Agrippa
A Confederacy of Dunces, by Toole
Alan Mendelsohn the Boy from Mars, by Pinkwater

I tried Agrippa, just can't... the language, i'll try again. maybe even post something from all those here while I'm busy

pretty sure I got enough books now to make this thread, 12 or something...current one is interesting

[Nerb]

I've said a few times one should be making their own happiness with what's available to them, instead of trying to control control control people and environments to achieve what are personal desires.

The more you attempt to control in anger and hate, the more that you could've had in love will slip away....

I agree.

Those with little or no self control always try to control others because of their weaknesses.

Being the Master of the Self seems to be irrelevant for those who seem to think the world should act like a charity shop for them.

Some people are incapable of growth as they get older and stay the same for life. A child, pampered like royalty surrounded by snobbery or deprived like a beggar in a world of sympathy.

A person of little friction flows beautifully through whatever World they interact with and Acceptance, Forgiveness and the ability to Share which are some of the keys to the fluidity of a person's Time and Space. Contentment is a good goal.

And on a sidenote, the reason some pets love their "crunchies" so much is because of the "appetisers" used in the creation of pet junk food made of inferior products and every scrap that can be used from the source.

[Sirius]

Quid est quod ascendit, nisi quod prius descendit, ut repleret omnia?

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Tei...de_Chardin

His mainstream scientific achievements include his palaeontological research in China, taking part in the discovery of the significant Peking Man fossils from the Zhoukoudian cave complex near Beijing. His more speculative ideas, sometimes criticized as pseudoscientific, have included a vitalist conception of the Omega Point. Along with Vladimir Vernadsky, he contributed to the development of the concept of the noosphere.

SIC DEUS DILEXIT MUNDUM
For those who love the world


i. Above all I feel that you must resign yourself to taking me as I am, that is, with the congenital quality (or weakness) which ever since my childhood has caused my spiritual life to be completely dominated by a sort of profound * feeling ' for the organic realness of the World. At first it was an ill-defined feeling in my mind and heart, but as the years have gone by it has gradually become a precise, compelling sense of the Universe's general convergence upon itself; a convergence which coincides with, and culminates at its zenith in, him in quo omnia constant, and whom the Society has taught me to love.

In the consciousness of this progression and synthesis of all things in Xristo Jesu, I have found an extraordinarily rich and inexhaustible source of clarity and interior strength, and an atmosphere outside which it is now physically impossible for me to breathe, to worship, to believe. What might have been taken in my attitude during the last thirty years for obstinacy or disrespect, is simply the result of my absolute inability to contain my own feeling of wonderment.

Everything stems from that basic psychological condition, and I can no more change it than I can change my age or the colour of my eyes.

2. Having made that clear, I can reassure you about my interior state of mind by emphasising that, whether or no this is generally true of others besides myself, the immediate effect of the interior attitude I have just described is to rivet me ever more firmly to three convictions which are the very marrow of Christianity.


Ephesians 4:9-10 , "Now what does 'he ascended' mean except that he also first descended to the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe with his presence".


Little by little, stage by stage,
everything is finally linked
to the supreme centre in quo omnia constant.
The streams which flow from this centre
operate not only within the higher reaches of the world,
where human activities take place
in a distinctively supernatural and meritorious form.
In order to save and establish these sublime forces,
the power of the Word Incarnate

penetrates matter itself; it goes down into the deepest
depths of the lower forces.
And the Incarnation will be complete
only when the part of chosen substance contained
in every object-given spiritual import once in our souls
and a second time with our souls in Jesus-shall have
rejoined the final centre of its completion

[Sirius]

whether spying a giant water bug suck up a frog or watching a praying mantis lay eggs:
timeless epiphanies. It’s all in how you see.

The whole show has been on fire from the word go. . . .
That which isn’t flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames.”

https://denyignorance.com/Thread-Mass-mental-crisis














The very meaning of Creation is seen to be an act of worship,
a devoted proclamation of the splendour, the wonder,
and the beauty of God.

In this great Sanctus, all things justify their being and have their place. . . .
“Wherein does your prayer consist?” said St. John of the Cross to one of his penitents.
She replied: “In considering the Beauty of God, and in rejoicing that He has such beauty.”
 —Evelyn Underhill, twentieth-century English theologian, mystic, and pacifist

How to Be a Holy Rascal

Crisis it's the wrong book! I'm just going to end up quoting the whole thing, need to change course here and explore the others

got the dosage wrong with the tincture also, sleepy


Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred outside Your Kitchen Door

And so, when I came to the Book of Nature, I was stirred not only by my Catholicism’s sense of a deeply intimate God but also by Judaism’s finer-grained reading of the cosmos.

Put simply: God had infused the natural world with symbol and meaning, and if only we read what’s there in the trees and the storms and the stars and the hives, we might more fully comprehend the Creator. Not unlike pondering a parable, unpuzzling a proverb.

Then came the prayers: so many punctuated with celestial reference—morning star and new moon—or the earthly—the flocks and the fields, the birds of the air, the lily among the thorns. Even the mitzvot, or commands, bow to creation. At the harvest festival of Sukkot, you’re to leave open the roof of your sukkah (or makeshift shelter) so you can count the stars in the heavens.

On Shabbat, you’re to light the Sabbath candles eighteen minutes before the western horizon swallows the sun. And, according to Jewish law, Shabbat doesn’t draw to a close until three medium-sized stars (tzeit hakokhavim) appear in the inky twilight of Saturday’s dusk.


By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us, penetrates us and moulds us,” wrote Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit paleontologist and philosopher, in the opening passages of

The Divine Milieu, his 1957 text “for the waverers,”
those caught at faith’s threshold, not in or not out.

His words, apt for the Atomic Age, are apt for this moment, the Digital Age, as well.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. —Simone Weil, twentieth-century French philosopher, mystic, and political activist

the Two-Book theology, which holds that the presence of God is best apprehended through the tandem reading of creation—God’s original sacred text—alongside Holy Scripture.


the Two-Book theology, which holds that the presence of God is best apprehended through the tandem reading of creation—God’s original sacred text—alongside Holy Scripture.


But even more so, the central idea of a sacred cosmos had long been rooted in the East, infusing the teachings of Egyptian desert elders, Taoist philosophers, Buddhist Zen masters and lamas, Hindu sadhus, Muslim Sufi poets, and Jewish Hasids. Indigenous peoples the world over—Maasai in the grasslands of Kenya, Bedouin in the Syrian desert, Tamil in the Sri Lanka highlands, to name but a few—and certainly the First Nations dwellers on our own Turtle Island never abandoned the knowing that the terrestrial call—the whistling of wind, the eagle’s cry, the burbling brook, the thrashing rapids—was, in each and every syntax, the voice of God.


The Book of Nature: The Astonishing Beauty of God’s First Sacred Text
Barbara Mahany


edit: lost text here 

[Sirius]

one more, sorry

Put another way: get rid of nature to the pantheist, and you get rid of God. Get rid of nature to the panentheist, and you see God all the more clearly. It’s the stirrings and rumblings in nature that reveal the trace of the divine, that point toward the inexpressible, the immeasurable. We stare into the stars to glimpse the unfathomable.

The embeddedness of the divine in all creation is emphatically not to be confused with pantheism’s point that God equals nature, the sense that God is the wind and water, sunlight and cloud. Rather, the lens through which I’m seeing is panentheism, God in wind and water, not God as wind or water.

If I droop down
mine head, and shoot forth Venom, then is rapture of the earth

So spake th' apostate Angel, though in pain,
Vaunting aloud, but racked with deep despair;
And him thus answered soon his bold compeer

"Gatekeeper, ho, open thy gate!
Open thy gate that I may enter!
If thou openest not the gate to let me enter,
I will break the door, I will wrench the lock,
I will smash the door-posts, I will force the doors.
I will bring up the dead to eat the living.
And the dead will outnumber the living."

Send against her sixty disease, to punish Ishtar

Eye-disease against her eyes
Disease of the side against her side
Foot-disease against her foot
Heart-disease against her heart
Head-disease against her head

Against her whole being, against her entire body."

She, the one who knows sacrifice

is sacrificed
is sacrifice

Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool
His mighty stature; on each hand the flames
Driven backward slope their pointing spires, and, rolled
In billows, leave i' th' midst a horrid vale

I am the flame that bums in every heart of man and in the core of
every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the
knowledge of me the knowledge of death.

As there is a door in the soul which opens on God, so there is
another door which opens on the recremental deeps

as we forgive for love
(Older brother of mine/My older brother)

but we can not pull through
(Hands of providence/Hands of logical rite/etiquette)

if we can not forgive

for our tribute true love

as we forgive for love

and I and the earth are one

[Sirius]

Almost forgot about the bird, let's see what he actually had to say for a change

Maybe uh when the gods come back,
we are going to be in trouble for not taking care of the earth.
I think we just have to be very mindful of that.

Again, if you're not conscious, you're going to do things that don't behoove you or behoove the
others around you or the consciousness around you.

And so, that's another thing.
U a parasite by definition is only interested in itself and will take your resources.
It's not even mutualistic, which is like it kind of works with you,
but it's also it's not symbiotic, but it's not pathogenic.

You know, parasite only harms and hurts you.
So, we have a big parasite problem on this planet.
It's something I've been connecting to in a way that I wasn't
really expecting, but uh you know,

I'll I'll take it in uh because it's clearly what kind of
God is telling me to look into more.

[Sirius]

black never looks so dark as when seen beside something white

I believe we shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavouring to know God, for, beholding His greatness we are struck by our own baseness, His purity shows our foulness,

and by meditating on His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
--st. Teresa


The cat and it's uncontrolled impulses for loving attention, pawing and clawing at everything, knocking things over until his belly is scratched reminded me of a child. A four year old disabled boy that entered my life during my early 20's 

Physically abused, defiant, uncontrolled impulses coming out of a broken home, disfigured with a broken nose. Suddenly all my hopes and dreams evaporated, every ambition I ever had was naught and this child would be my life. My world shattered

Unable to form words, no understanding, the child ruled by impulse. I listened to other parents, corporal punishment was just abolished, a hot topic.  Pete was bragging at work, he just explains everything to his son with reason, if you talk the children they will understand. I despaired

[Sirius]

Three Books of Occult Philosophy, by Agrippa
A Confederacy of Dunces, by Toole
Alan Mendelsohn the Boy from Mars, by Pinkwater

Agrippa is brain rot

With hang'd down head, with eyes fixed to the ground,

His raging words bites in, and muttering sound

To Birds unlike oftimes joyned are white Doves;

Also the Bird that's green, black Turtle loves.


Philosophy teacheth the nature of those things which are in the world, searching and enquiring into their Causes, Effects, Times, Places, Fashions, Events, their Whole, and Parts, also

The Number and the Nature of those things,

Cal' d Elements, what Fire, Earth, Aire forth brings:

From whence the Heavens their beginnings had;

Whence Tide, whence Rainbow, in gay colours clad.

What makes the Clouds that gathered are, and black,

To send forth Lightnings, and a Thundring crack;

What doth the Nightly Flames, and Comets make;

What makes the Earth to swell, and then to quake:

What is the seed of Metals, and of Gold What Vertues, Wealth, doth Nature's Coffer hold.

All these things doth naturall Philosophy, the viewer of nature contain, teaching us according to Virgil's Muse.

Now the sight, because it perceives more purely, and cleerly [clearly] then the other senses, and fastening in us the marks of things more acutely, and deeply, doth most of all, and before others agree with the Phantastick spirit, as is apparent in dreams, when things seen do more often present themselves to us then things heard, or any thing coming under the other senses. 

The Heaven's Joves Roy all Palace, he's King,

Fountain vertue and God of every thing;

He is Omnipotent, and in his breast Earth, water, fire and aire do take their rest.

Both night and day, true wisdom with sweet Love,

Are all contain'd in this vast bulk of Jove.

His neck and glorious head if you would see,

Behold the Heavens high, and majesty;

The glorious raves of Stars do represent His golden locks, and's heads adornament.

God is in us, Commerces of the throne

of God, that spirit from above came down.

His tables of dividing up the universe is interesting. But otherwise he does the same of saying there must be secrecy and quotes plato or some shit, persecution is often the excuse. fuck it, I know why they want secrecy, it's so their brains doesn't get befuddled with Jesus from people like me. It's okay, Venus is here also and Satan. The magic only works when you don't understand how it works, otherwise it's not magic. Suck it cupcakes. You have no faith

The tables are used to compartmentalize the universe in your mind, lots of meditation is required. First you banish everything and then rebuild the psyche. Introduce level from oneness, one wing to the ground and one to the sky 

It doesn't mater who's book you read or how it's divided. If you only read one of these books your brain will rot with whatever was in it. Agrippa's systems doesn't look bad, just more complicated than it has to be and way to much details. Barbara Mahany makes similar mistakes but I think she is overcome with splendor and glory so it's okay

Your supposed to read the "The Divine Milieu" in real life, not in the verbosity of books, otherwise the tables will make great mediation to build the spheres, there is a bunch of them, not just these two. Could be interesting exercise to look up irl signs in his books on occasion, but such things becomes crutches