Plato talked of what he called the World of the Forms. Unlike Aristotle, who would say a chair (or whatever item you choose) is called a chair and is recognizable as a chair because it is the essence of chairness, that it's very existence makes it what it is, Plato would say we recognize it as a chair because it is modeled after the ideal chair in ( Read more... )

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Yesterday, I listened T. Thorn Coyle's Elemental Castings podcast interview with Ellen Francik of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn.  Part of the discussion included the process of elemental purification.  You spend a month on each element.  She described it as taking yourself apart and putting yourself back together.  She described the ( Read more... )

The next symbol is the twelve-rayed Sun.  I find it interesting that Cochrane lists the Sun for the masculine, but not the moon for the feminine.  Both are shown on the Menhir.  On the Instruments of the Passion that I posted, the sun is not present, unless the halo behind the bust on top of the Pillar (which the identify as Veronica's Veil, oddly ( Read more... )