Today, for the first time in a long while, I knelt at my shrine and felt around for the faux velvet bag that keeps the prayer beads I purchased for Hermes five and a half years ago. They are made of bright metal and white-gray spiderweb jasper, and I bought them on Etsy a bit … Continue reading Reconnecting with old prayer habits
Month: March 2024
A Measure of Beauty from Proclus’ Euclid commentary
There is left only the conclusion that soul draws her concepts both from herself and from Nous, that she is herself the company of the forms, which receive their constitution from the intelligible patterns but enter spontaneously upon the stage of being. The soul therefore was never a writing-tablet bare of inscriptions; she is a … Continue reading A Measure of Beauty from Proclus’ Euclid commentary
Two Interesting Books and a Few Other Things
I have been fairly quiet lately, and there are several reasons for that. First, the more I reflect on Proclus' passages about using one's voice to speak hymns and on speech/disclosure, the more I am conscious of needing to spend the time and energy that I have on what is worthwhile. I'm finding myself reluctant … Continue reading Two Interesting Books and a Few Other Things
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