January 2012
19 posts
The Problem as an Ego Tonic
lucifelle:
The ego does not feel good, at ease, with molehills; it wants mountains. Even if it is a misery, it should not be a molehill, it should be an Everest. Even if it is miserable, the ego doesn’t want to be ordinarily miserable; it wants to be extraordinarily miserable! People go on and on, creating big problems out of nothing. I have talked to thousands of people about their...
The Ninth Circle:
Ninth Circle (Treachery) The ninth circle is ringed by classical and Biblical giants, who perhaps symbolize the pride and other spiritual flaws lying behind acts of treachery.[50] The giants are standing on a ledge above the ninth circle of Hell,[51] so that from the Malebolge they are visible from the waist up. They include Nimrod, as well as Ephialtes (who with his brother Otus tried to storm...
December 2011
17 posts
“The awakening of a new basic attitude towards existence is not the first thing...”
– Ernst Schertel, Magic: History, Theory, Practice (via lucifelle)
“Talking to you is a maze that is only natural for me to enter..”
– -B.
“Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and...”
– sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley
November 2011
27 posts
The Eighth Circle:
Eighth Circle (Fraud) The last two circles of Hell punish sins that involve conscious fraud or treachery. These circles can be reached only by descending a vast cliff, which Dante and Virgil do on the back of Geryon, a winged monster traditionally represented as having three heads or three conjoined bodies,[33] but described by Dante as having three mixed natures: human, bestial, and...
“Everybody can’t go, but I’ma take who I can. -”
– - Trey Songz
The Seventh Circle:
Seventh Circle (Violence) The seventh circle houses the violent. Its entry is guarded by the Minotaur, and it is divided into three rings: Outer ring: This ring houses the violent against people and property, who are immersed in Phlegethon, a river of boiling blood and fire, to a level commensurate with their sins: Alexander the Great is immersed up to his eyebrows, although Dante praises...
