Kay Nielsen, The Queen Did Not Know Him from East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North, 1914
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Kay Nielsen, The Queen Did Not Know Him from East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North, 1914
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“The right motive for seeking self-knowledge, is the attainment of knowledge, and self-knowledge is worth seeking by virtue of its being knowledge, and not by virtue of its pertaining to self. The main requisite for acquiring self-knowledge is pure love. Seek knowledge for pure love, and self-knowledge eventually crowns the effort. The fact of someone growing impatient, is proof positive that they work for reward, and not for love.“
~ H.P. Blavatsky: Isis Unveiled
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As Above, So Below, “The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception”, Max Heindl, 1909.
The World, the Man, and the Atom are governed by the same Law. Our dense Earth is now in its 4th stage of Consolidation. The Mind, the Desire Body, and the Vital Body are Less Solid than our 4th Vehicle, the Dense Body. In the Atomic Weight of the Chemical Elements there is a similar Arrangement. The 4th group marks the acme of Density.
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Great bodhisattvas know that the birth of all sentient beings is fundamentally birthless because they comprehend that birth cannot be grasped: yet they know causes, know conditions, know events, know objects, know actions, know birth, know extinction, know speech, know confusion, know freedom from confusion, know delusion, know freedom from delusion, know defilement, know purity, know birth and death, know nirvana, know graspability, know ungraspability, know attachment, know nonattachment, know rest, know movement, know departure, know return, know origination, know nonorigination, know dissolution, know emancipation, know maturity, know faculties, know how to civilize—they teach beings according to needs, never forgetting the deeds of all bodhisattvas. Why? Because bodhisattvas set their minds on complete perfect enlightenment for the sole purpose of helping sentient beings. Therefore, bodhisattvas always edify sentient beings without tiring, in harmony with what is to be done in all worlds. This is called the insight of practical knowledge of interdependent origination.
Avatamsaka Sutra - Flower Ornament Scripture 1041
Note on the image: Bodhisattva Samantabhadra from the Chinese tradition.
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Images from “Two Grimoires” by Austin Osman Spare:
- “Self Portrait in Prayer”
- “I & Myself in Yoga”
- “The Key to the Minor Arcana”
- “The Key to the Major Arcana”
- “AOS Rampant”
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Max Heindel - The Seven Days of Creation and the Four Great Initiations, ‘’The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception’’, 1909.
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