the sacred instinct ..

Header: Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon (c. 1816) an oil painting; by John Martin (1789–1854).

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URL change! Meaning—(Latin), ‘negative way’ or ‘by way of denial’. “[...] a form of theological thinking and religious practice which attempts to approach God, the Divine, by negation, [...]” [more.]

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Found my notes; regarding Nosferatu (2024)... yes; I’ve an Ellen Hutter blog (and it’s where you’ll find me).

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The First and Second Days of Creation. Bible historiale of Guyart des Moulins. Paris, 14th c.

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Revised; topics include—The Alchemist’s Journey, a personal telling... + a magazine archive (more info., coming soon!).

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Massa Confusa by Stine Rørbech (Copenhagen, Denmark [c. 2022])

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Massa Confusa by Stine Rørbech (Copenhagen, Denmark [c. 2022])

Massa Confusa is a concept that originates from the alchemical process philosophy. According to alchemists, nature or matter (substance) was not soulless. The alchemical processes were therefore not purely chemical (e.g. production of gold in the laboratory), but were seen as a reflection of inner psychic processes. The alchemical process philosophy has therefore been seen as a way of understanding psychic change. [...] The first stage in this process is seen as a metaphor for what is called the “dark night of the soul” in psychology or mysticism. It is initiated by an ‘unfortunate’ or ‘disturbing’ event (loss or death, symbolic or concrete) that creates chaos and darkness around the individual. This is where Massa Confusa occurs; a confusing mass where things are in turmoil and in reorganization. [...] The individual cannot tell the difference between up and down, past and present, you and I, but gropes blindly, and basically have to move inward to find a firm foothold, thereby starting a breakdown of the existing structures. In the ever-deepening descent into the unconscious, the darkness is finally giving away to a clarity that slowly begins to show fragments of a new structure which finally manifests in wisdom in the rubedo or golden phase.

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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity, by David Lynch

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“Many things remain, [...] it’s just the body that’s dropped.” —David Lynch (in his Scene by Scene interview [1999]).

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The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa [c. 1982]

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(3) That self, always changing, moving, struggling—always, in fact, becoming—alive in every fibre, related at once to the unreal and to the real; and, with its growth in true being, ever more conscious of the contrast between them.

Mysticism (III. The Purification of the Self), by Evelyn Underhill, [c. 1911]

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URL meaning or, inspiration: Seraphiel (Hebrew: שׂרפיאל, meaning ‘Seraph of God/El’).

Similar to Walter Gorn Old’s nom-de-plume (“Sepharial”—after the angel [mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Enoch]).