Tag / archetype
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The wizard’s sphere
Why does the Wizard look at the sphere? There is a well-known story of a wizard (the archetype of a Wise Old Man), who has the power to look into the sphere from which he reads the future. The sphere is a pictorial representation of Pleroma. The sphere is potency. In order to read the…
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Shadow and Tolkien
“If God is absolute, then he is complete. If he is complete, then he is finite. If he is finite, then he is limited. If he is limited, he is not Infinite.” The trap of a visual syllogism. Infinity is absolute and ultimate finiteness. Absolute finiteness includes Infinity. God is both a thesis and an…
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Spirit of the Story
People often (today) overlook the importance of a simple story. The stories we see described in Fairy Tales. Archetypal stories. Our guess is that’s because the story is not an adequate argument. Whoever invokes on “some kind of story” automatically loses credibility. Today’s intellectuals cannot read great works “merely as stories”, but their readings and…
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Shadow
Carmina Figurata Shadow, the oculus through which one looks at the downside of Persona. Dark dimensions of demonic mono-dialogues are suppressed by identity under the influence of anonymous authority (public opinion). Orphic lines in which the shadow prints its deconstructed sentences, are suggested by the persona’s anatomy. The remains of the area in which the…