Eunoë
Eunoë:
The name, meaning "good mind," is also applied to a river described in the Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri. Before they may proceed to Paradise, souls who have completed their appointed course of suffering must drink first from the River Lethe, causing them to forget their sinful ways, and then from the River Eunoë, which strengthens and purifies the remembrance of their good deeds and honourable intentions.
Lethe is easy to find, and what most of us seek so damn often. Who ever speaks of Eunoë? Who yearns for revitalisation, purity and remembrance of all the good things one has done? The times when you've been a bloody good human being, to yourself and the world? The quickening of that inner flame, instead of suffocation?
This is why I post about my discovery of such a river. So I can remember. So others can remember as well and perhaps, perhaps hold their head a few tiny millimetres higher thanks to it--the true pride of honesty. I need to start running pentacles again to remind myself of the essentials, oh yes.
The name, meaning "good mind," is also applied to a river described in the Purgatorio of Dante Alighieri. Before they may proceed to Paradise, souls who have completed their appointed course of suffering must drink first from the River Lethe, causing them to forget their sinful ways, and then from the River Eunoë, which strengthens and purifies the remembrance of their good deeds and honourable intentions.
Lethe is easy to find, and what most of us seek so damn often. Who ever speaks of Eunoë? Who yearns for revitalisation, purity and remembrance of all the good things one has done? The times when you've been a bloody good human being, to yourself and the world? The quickening of that inner flame, instead of suffocation?
This is why I post about my discovery of such a river. So I can remember. So others can remember as well and perhaps, perhaps hold their head a few tiny millimetres higher thanks to it--the true pride of honesty. I need to start running pentacles again to remind myself of the essentials, oh yes.