Where does inspiration come from?

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It turns out that the word “inspiration” comes from the Latin word “inspiratus,” which essentially means “breathe into.”  https://www.osbplf.org/blog/thriving-tod...w-breath/#

This moving little word may be traced back to the Latin inspirare (“to breathe or blow into”), which itself is from the word spirare, meaning “to breathe.” https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay...of-inspire

With the shift to a more mechanized view of the universe, the word inspiration has also changed.  We never used to just breathe...The ancient Romans, along with other early cultures, believed that breath carried a life-giving or divine essence, something they often referred to as spiritus, which was thought to be the force animating the body and soul.

The Life-Giving Breath of Isis


The never-ending cycle of creation and destruction conforms to a rhythm much akin to breathing. It is this rhythm that is also one of the Hermetic principles. In the microcosm this act is periodic, but is at the same time also sporadic, ergo the rhythmic aspect. In the macrocosm this is the divine song of creation; its' accompanying melody and of course, harmony.

In the beginning Isis exhaled the breath of creation into existence, the aethereal medium, the propagating aether, the air of the universe without which nothing else could be possible. Every breath of this divine goddess is measured in eons. Every outward flow is the beginning of a new universe, and every inward flow, or return, is its end.

The ebb and flow of all that is, was, and ever will be, and also that which is not. Glory to the queen of the universe, she that breathes life into that which is dead.