Stephen Vis

Great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest!

The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not...

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

"O Luna, by means of my embracing and sweet kisses,
Thou art made beautiful, strong and mighty like as I am.

O Sol, thou art to be preferred before all light,
But yet thou needest me, as the cock does the hen."

- Rosarium philosophorum -

[Adam @RevealedByFire]

Nietzsche on the genesis of genius

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@psycheandpneuma Phenomenal!

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"In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come” (Rev. 4: 6-8).

"The cross formed by the points of the quaternity is no less universal and has in addition the highest possible moral and religious significance for Western man" (C. Jung, “The Psychology of the Transference,” CW 16, par. 405).

"We come now to the number four. Four is the sign of the cosmos or of creation. As far as we can determine with our present organs, the present planetary condition of the earth is its fourth embodiment. Everything that is manifest to us on an earth such as ours presupposes that this creation is the fourth stage.... Three other kingdoms, the elementary kingdoms, have preceded this; the mineral kingdom is the fourth. All told there are seven. Men stand in the fourth kingdom. Only here do they reach their actual consciousness oriented to the outer world" (R. Steiner, "The Symbolism of Numbers," GA101, 9/15/1907).

"There are four manifestations of Love in man. Love is aspiration within the heart. Love is feeling within the soul. Love is power in the mind. Love is principle in the spirit. And that is the whole cycle of development, from beginning to end" (P. Deunov (Beinsa Douno): The Master Speaks, editor G. Radev, 1947).

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@psycheandpneuma @y2chaotic Amazing! Thank you so much - good to hear from you again!

[Confucian Classics @UnwobblingPivot]

The charge is not easy to keep.
Do not bring ruin on yourselves.
Send forth everywhere the light of your good fame;
Consider what Heaven did to the Yin.
Make King Wen your example,
In whom all the peoples put their trust.
(Ode 235)

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@Outisemoi @rawatthekiid σειρὴν χρυσείην ἐξ οὐρανόθεν κρεμάσαντες

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@Outisemoi @rawatthekiid σειρὴν χρυσείην ἐξ οὐρανόθεν κρεμάσαντες

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@Outisemoi @rawatthekiid The "Golden Chain of Homer" is a famous mythological and philosophical allegory appearing in Homer's Iliad. Zeus boasts that if he were to hang a golden chain from the sky, all the gods and goddesses together could not pull him down to earth, but he could pull them all up.

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@philliplede Plato's flux and forms. Pythagorean monad and duad

[Ronald Christ @RonaldCHRIST12]

“I am his tomb. The earth is nothing. Dead. Staves and orchards issue from my mouth. His. Perfume my chest, which is wide, wide open. A greengage plum swells his silence. The bees escape from his eyes, from his sockets where the liquid pupils have flowed from under the flaccid eyelids. To eat a youngster shot on the barricades, to devour a young hero, is no easy thing. We all love the sun. My mouth is bloody. So are my fingers. I tore the flesh to shreds with my teeth. Corpses do not usually bleed. His did.”

Jean Genet, Funeral Rites

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@AnnaLeptikon https://t.co/WVXCFyI5Y4

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@punzy123 @HomerosHayyam41

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@No5mallf3at The more interesting thing is that he left church/theology at a young age. The essay by Strauss goes into his relationship with Christianity

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@markgranza

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@No5mallf3at “Nietzsche hat mich kaputt gemacht.”
― Martin Heidegger

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@No5mallf3at It is related, and your criticism stands - it is a bad reading of Plato. His reading of Nietzsche is worse. He fits them into his project. Nonetheless, this essay is great

[Ronald Christ @RonaldCHRIST12]

"The basic character of nature represented by the natural sciences is conformity to law. Calculability is a consequence of this conformity to law. Of all that is, only that which is measurable and quantifiable is taken into account."

Martin Heidegger, Zollikon Seminars

[Stephen Vis @VisStephen]

@No5mallf3at Have you read this?

https://t.co/3i2zyE2th6

[𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭 | 프린스 @thecosmicpoet]

The duty of one whose energy is strong;
the duty of one who longs for awakening:
that I’ll do, I won’t fail.
See my energy and vigor!

Teach me the path,
the direct route
whose objective is freedom from death.
I’ll know it with wisdom,
as the Ganges knows the ocean.

- Thag 2.24