AethyrOr

Tentative dances with spirituality, philosophy, mysticism, kabbalah, chaos, art and inspiration.

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[aethyror]

"Eternal, unconfined, unextended, without cause and without effect, the Holy Lamp mysteriously burns. Without quantity or quality, unconditioned and sempiternal, is this Light."

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[aethyror]

The Ain Soph Aur Kabbalah postulates that Kether, the Point from which expansion began through the Sephiroth into existence, is in itself the Malkuth of a "negative existence", a limitless "being" which contracted to a point in Kether. Kether itself is the Malkuth of the absolutely unknowable, from which all things proceed. The infinite being is viewed as having three veils which cover its essential essence and by which it is known : AIN -Nothing, nought AIN SVPh -Infinite (SVTh - End) AIN SVPh AVR -Limitless Light (AVR - Light, fire)

http://www.kabbalahcourse.com/

[melissacposts]

Andy Goldsworthy’s art

[aethyror]

Here humanism shades into transhumanism – an ardent belief in an indefinite, perhaps endless vista of possibilities that are supposed to lie open to our species. Our faith in technology, especially medical technology, is backed here by a deeper message that, as humans, we are virtually exempt from earthly conditions anyway and ought to take advantage of that exemption. Both actual technological successes and science-fiction’s images of further technology have impressed us so much that we are no longer sure that anything is actually impossible. As Arthur C.Clark pointed out, it is quite hard now to distinguish between technology and magic, and magic has no limits. Prophets urge us to believe that we have moved right outside the bounds of nature – that we are now effectively supernatural and ought to live up to that status.

Interesting article on transhumanism and death by philosopher Mary Midgeley Death And The Human Animal | Mary Midgley

[c-isnenegro]

[aniggainrio]

After a 20-minute flight over the city of New York, Stephen Wiltshire, diagnosed with autism, draws the whole town with only his memory.

[heyfunniest]

that’s hardcore

[magictransistor]

(Unknown). Surya the Sun God Receives Worship from the Multitudes. Tanjore School, India. 1800’s.

[magictransistor]

The Sun, the Moon and a Basilisk. Wilibald Pirckheimer manuscript. (c.1513) [x]

[thatonesuheirhammad]

Actually, art and magic are pretty much synonymous. I would imagine that this all goes back to the phenomenon of representation, when, in our primordial past, some genius or other actually flirted upon the winning formula of “This means that.” Whether “this” was a voice or “that” was a mark upon a dry wall or “that” was a guttural sound, it was that moment of representation. That actually transformed us from what we were into what we would be. It gave us the possibility, all of a sudden, of language. And when you have language, you can describe pictorially or verbally the strange and mystifying world that you see around you, and it’s probably not long before you also realize that, hey, you can just make stuff up. The central art of enchantment is weaving a web of words around somebody. And we would’ve noticed very early on that the words we are listening to alter our consciousness, and using the way they can transform it, take it to places we’ve never dreamed of, places that don’t exist.

alan moore (via thatonesuheirhammad)

[magdalenapyzio]

[interceptings]

[bwansen]

(via Kraftfuttermischwerk)

[whitepaperquotes]

[aethyror]

To realize that all your life—you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain—it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there's a monster at the end of it. (via True Detective: 13 Rust Cohle Quotes for the Ages - IGN)

[aethyror]

Back then, the visions...most of the time I was convinced that I'd lost it. But there were other times, I thought I was main-lining the secret truth of the universe.

[jewist]

Atlantic Ocean by Marek K. Misztal on Flickr.