Genealogy is an Art & Science
A Deep Minded Exploration of Our Psychophysical Roots
Non-Existent but Consequential
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy
What makes us free is the Gnosis
of who we were
of what we have become
of where we were
of wherein we have been thrown
of whereto we are hastening
of what we are being freed
of what birth really is
of what rebirth really is
—Valentinus (Gnostic) You Speak for the Dead
TO BRING THE DEAD TO LIFE
To bring the dead to life
Is no great magic.
Few are wholly dead:
Blow on a dead man's embers
And a live flame will start.
Let his forgotten griefs be now,
And now his withered hopes;
Subdue your pen to his handwriting
Until it prove as natural
To sign his name as yours.
Limp as he limped,
Swear by the oaths he swore;
If he wore black, affect the same;
If he had gouty fingers,
Be yours gouty too.
Assemble tokens intimate of him --
A ring, a hood, a desk:
Around these elements then build
A home familiar to
The greedy revenant.
So grant him life, but reckon
That the grave which housed him
May not be empty now:
You in his spotted garments
Shall yourself lie wrapped.
--Robert Graves
"I know no answer to the question of whether the karma which I live is the outcome of my past lives, or whether it is not rather the achievement of my ancestors, whose heritage comes together in me.". . ."Am I a combination of the lives of these ancestors and do I embody these lives again?"
"What I feel to be the resultant of my ancestors' lives, or a karma acquired in a previous personal life, might perhaps equally well be an impersonal archetype which today presses hard on everyone and has taken a particular hold upon me an archetype such as, for
example, the development over the centuries of the divine triad and its confrontation with the feminine principle; or the still pending answer to the Gnostic question as to the origin of evil, or, to put it another way, the incompleteness of the Christian God-image." -Jung, MDR
The tree of life as a symbol of eternal life, typified in varying forms by the culture's perception of the universe.
Many early Christians saw the tree of life as a personification of Jesus Christ. In ancient Egypt and in India (as in Christianity, etc.) the fleur-de-lis was used as a symbol meaning life and resurrection. In Egypt it was also the attribute of the god Horus, and a symbol for circumcision. The fleur-de-lis was later adopted by the ruling class of the Roman Empire, probably due to religious influences. After the fall of Empire it was inherited to symbolize the sacred origin of the Merovingian dynasty; it became a symbol of the Christian French Kingdom. A modern theory about the Holy Grail is found in the fleur-de-lys as a symbol of the mythical holy origin of the French nation in the union of legendary King Meroveus with Mary Magdalene / Desposyni descendency -- the Merovingians. He who sleeps in the grave of the millennia dreams a wonderful dream. He dreams a primordially ancient dream. He dreams of the rising sun. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 272.
I am the egg that surrounds and nurtures the seed of the God in me.
~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 284.
You become the maker of the now day; you are your own sun-rise.
Until we do this, we are merely the result of the past.
But, by achieving this connection with the soul figure, you become the ruler of your own fate. ~Carl Jung; Cornwall Seminar, Pages 26-27
We asked earth.
We asked Heaven.
We asked the sea.
We asked the wind.
We asked the fire.
We looked for you with all the peoples.
We looked for you with all the kings.
We looked for you with all the wise.
We looked for you in our own heads and hearts.
And we found you in the egg.
~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Paragraphs 59-60.
Oh light of the middle way,
enclosed in the egg,
embryonic,
full of ardor, oppressed.
Fully expectant,
dreamlike, awaiting lost memories.
As heavy as stone, hardened.
Molten, transparent.
Streaming bright, coiled on itself.
~Carl Jung; Red Book, Illumination 53
The World Egg - "consider the shell of the egg as heaven."
In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul. Out of the egg — symbolized by the round cooking vessel — will rise the eagle or phoenix, the liberated soul, which is ultimately identical with the Anthropos who was imprisoned in the embrace of Physis. ~Carl Jung; Psychology and Alchemy; Page 202.
Set the egg before you, the God in his beginning.
And behold it.
And incubate it with the magical warmth of your gaze.
Christmas has come. The God is in the egg.
I have prepared a rug for my God, an expensive red rug from the land of morning.
He shall be surrounded by the shimmer of magnificence of his Eastern land.
I am the mother, the simple maiden, who gave birth and did not know how.
I am the careful father, who protected the maiden.
I am the shepherd, who received the message as he guarded his herd
at night on the dark fields.
I am the holy animal that stood astonished and cannot grasp the
becoming of the God …
I am the wise man who came from the East, suspecting the miracle from afar.
And I am the egg that surrounds and nurtures the seed of the God in me.
--C.G. Jung
“The shell of the cosmic egg is the world frame of space, while the fertile seed-power within typifies the inexhaustible life-dynamism of nature.” -- Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Womb / World Egg / Tree of Life
http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/flm/SH/MDL/GAL/GalDisChapts/galdis.ENTIRE.html
Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The tree represents a map of Creation, unfolding from the primordial Unity to the infinite diversity of manifested reality, expressed according to a certain mathematical progression based upon the square root of three, the holy Trinity http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/the-meaning-of-sacred-geometry-part-3-the-womb-of-sacred-geometry
The egg is a germ of life with a lofty symbolical significance. It is not just a cosmogonic symbol — it is also a “philosophical one”. As the former it is the Orphic Egg, the world’s beginning; as the latter, the philosophical egg of the medieval natural philosophers, the vessel from which, at the end of the opus alchymicum, the homunculus emerges… the spiritual, inner, and complete man. --Jung, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
Set the egg before you, the God in his beginning.
And behold it.
And incubate it with the magical warmth of your gaze.
Christmas has come. The God is in the egg.
I have prepared a rug for my God, an expensive red rug from the land of morning.
He shall be surrounded by the shimmer of magnificence of his Eastern land.
I am the mother, the simple maiden, who gave birth and did not know how.
I am the careful father, who protected the maiden.
I am the shepherd, who received the message as he guarded his herd
at night on the dark fields.
I am the holy animal that stood astonished and cannot grasp the
becoming of the God ..
I am the wise man who came from the East, suspecting the miracle from afar.
And I am the egg that surrounds and nurtures the seed of the God in me.
C.G. Jung, The Red Book, http://jungcurrents.com/jung-god-egg-red-book/
Heritage Quest for Buried Secrets
& The Holy Grail of the Unconscious
"Where Your Loyalty Lies"
A Deep Minded Exploration of Our Psychophysical Roots
Non-Existent but Consequential
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy
What makes us free is the Gnosis
of who we were
of what we have become
of where we were
of wherein we have been thrown
of whereto we are hastening
of what we are being freed
of what birth really is
of what rebirth really is
—Valentinus (Gnostic) You Speak for the Dead
TO BRING THE DEAD TO LIFE
To bring the dead to life
Is no great magic.
Few are wholly dead:
Blow on a dead man's embers
And a live flame will start.
Let his forgotten griefs be now,
And now his withered hopes;
Subdue your pen to his handwriting
Until it prove as natural
To sign his name as yours.
Limp as he limped,
Swear by the oaths he swore;
If he wore black, affect the same;
If he had gouty fingers,
Be yours gouty too.
Assemble tokens intimate of him --
A ring, a hood, a desk:
Around these elements then build
A home familiar to
The greedy revenant.
So grant him life, but reckon
That the grave which housed him
May not be empty now:
You in his spotted garments
Shall yourself lie wrapped.
--Robert Graves
"I know no answer to the question of whether the karma which I live is the outcome of my past lives, or whether it is not rather the achievement of my ancestors, whose heritage comes together in me.". . ."Am I a combination of the lives of these ancestors and do I embody these lives again?"
"What I feel to be the resultant of my ancestors' lives, or a karma acquired in a previous personal life, might perhaps equally well be an impersonal archetype which today presses hard on everyone and has taken a particular hold upon me an archetype such as, for
example, the development over the centuries of the divine triad and its confrontation with the feminine principle; or the still pending answer to the Gnostic question as to the origin of evil, or, to put it another way, the incompleteness of the Christian God-image." -Jung, MDR
The tree of life as a symbol of eternal life, typified in varying forms by the culture's perception of the universe.
Many early Christians saw the tree of life as a personification of Jesus Christ. In ancient Egypt and in India (as in Christianity, etc.) the fleur-de-lis was used as a symbol meaning life and resurrection. In Egypt it was also the attribute of the god Horus, and a symbol for circumcision. The fleur-de-lis was later adopted by the ruling class of the Roman Empire, probably due to religious influences. After the fall of Empire it was inherited to symbolize the sacred origin of the Merovingian dynasty; it became a symbol of the Christian French Kingdom. A modern theory about the Holy Grail is found in the fleur-de-lys as a symbol of the mythical holy origin of the French nation in the union of legendary King Meroveus with Mary Magdalene / Desposyni descendency -- the Merovingians. He who sleeps in the grave of the millennia dreams a wonderful dream. He dreams a primordially ancient dream. He dreams of the rising sun. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 272.
I am the egg that surrounds and nurtures the seed of the God in me.
~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 284.
You become the maker of the now day; you are your own sun-rise.
Until we do this, we are merely the result of the past.
But, by achieving this connection with the soul figure, you become the ruler of your own fate. ~Carl Jung; Cornwall Seminar, Pages 26-27
We asked earth.
We asked Heaven.
We asked the sea.
We asked the wind.
We asked the fire.
We looked for you with all the peoples.
We looked for you with all the kings.
We looked for you with all the wise.
We looked for you in our own heads and hearts.
And we found you in the egg.
~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Paragraphs 59-60.
Oh light of the middle way,
enclosed in the egg,
embryonic,
full of ardor, oppressed.
Fully expectant,
dreamlike, awaiting lost memories.
As heavy as stone, hardened.
Molten, transparent.
Streaming bright, coiled on itself.
~Carl Jung; Red Book, Illumination 53
The World Egg - "consider the shell of the egg as heaven."
In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul. Out of the egg — symbolized by the round cooking vessel — will rise the eagle or phoenix, the liberated soul, which is ultimately identical with the Anthropos who was imprisoned in the embrace of Physis. ~Carl Jung; Psychology and Alchemy; Page 202.
Set the egg before you, the God in his beginning.
And behold it.
And incubate it with the magical warmth of your gaze.
Christmas has come. The God is in the egg.
I have prepared a rug for my God, an expensive red rug from the land of morning.
He shall be surrounded by the shimmer of magnificence of his Eastern land.
I am the mother, the simple maiden, who gave birth and did not know how.
I am the careful father, who protected the maiden.
I am the shepherd, who received the message as he guarded his herd
at night on the dark fields.
I am the holy animal that stood astonished and cannot grasp the
becoming of the God …
I am the wise man who came from the East, suspecting the miracle from afar.
And I am the egg that surrounds and nurtures the seed of the God in me.
--C.G. Jung
“The shell of the cosmic egg is the world frame of space, while the fertile seed-power within typifies the inexhaustible life-dynamism of nature.” -- Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Womb / World Egg / Tree of Life
http://sulcus.berkeley.edu/flm/SH/MDL/GAL/GalDisChapts/galdis.ENTIRE.html
Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The tree represents a map of Creation, unfolding from the primordial Unity to the infinite diversity of manifested reality, expressed according to a certain mathematical progression based upon the square root of three, the holy Trinity http://sacredgeometryinternational.com/the-meaning-of-sacred-geometry-part-3-the-womb-of-sacred-geometry
The egg is a germ of life with a lofty symbolical significance. It is not just a cosmogonic symbol — it is also a “philosophical one”. As the former it is the Orphic Egg, the world’s beginning; as the latter, the philosophical egg of the medieval natural philosophers, the vessel from which, at the end of the opus alchymicum, the homunculus emerges… the spiritual, inner, and complete man. --Jung, Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious
Set the egg before you, the God in his beginning.
And behold it.
And incubate it with the magical warmth of your gaze.
Christmas has come. The God is in the egg.
I have prepared a rug for my God, an expensive red rug from the land of morning.
He shall be surrounded by the shimmer of magnificence of his Eastern land.
I am the mother, the simple maiden, who gave birth and did not know how.
I am the careful father, who protected the maiden.
I am the shepherd, who received the message as he guarded his herd
at night on the dark fields.
I am the holy animal that stood astonished and cannot grasp the
becoming of the God ..
I am the wise man who came from the East, suspecting the miracle from afar.
And I am the egg that surrounds and nurtures the seed of the God in me.
C.G. Jung, The Red Book, http://jungcurrents.com/jung-god-egg-red-book/
Heritage Quest for Buried Secrets
& The Holy Grail of the Unconscious
"Where Your Loyalty Lies"