“The most exciting thing in Orkney, perhaps in Scotland, is going to happen Dec 21, 2010 in the afternoon at sunset, in few other places even in Orkney can you see the wide hemisphere of sky in all its plenitude. The winter sun just hangs over the ridge of the Coolags. Its setting will seal […]
Author: Hermesphilus
Aspirant Neopythagorean Neoplatonic Arithmologist, exploring the religion of the mind.
Geomantie
In Glastonbury I saw a Tarot reader in a very similar looking caravan.
Alectryomancy. Divination by chicken, a very common mode of divination in the ancient world. To perform it, the diviner marks out a circle, dividing it into segments corresponding to the letters of the alphabet. A grain of wheat is placed on each letter while an incantation is recited. A white chicken is then set in […]
It is evidently an absurdity to believe that any system could be true, unless it contained the truth. But it is equally evident that a thing cannot be true and false at the same time. The truth can only be one. The truth never changes; but we ourselves change, and as we change so changes […]
Punches leave a mark: (The I Ching theory)
writeformorethanabite: Qian (Heaven) is suprahuman, cosmic law. Enduring, he determines the nature and development of all things: from the movement of the stars, to the cycle of the seasons, to causing each individual seed to grow into its own kind of plant. Punches leave a mark: (The I Ching theory)
Hermetic Rambling 