Back To Basics (Life)
“I adjure you by the living God Almighty and by your duty to our Order and by the love you …
Category Archives: Joseph Campbell
A Mask Of God
“Symbols hold the mind to truth but are not themselves truth, hence it is delusory to borrow them. Each civilization, …
A Poets Line
No, not what passes for poetry these days. Satire, lamentation, misty longing, erotic yearning, or even fleeting exuberance, verbose and …
An Indictment Of Modern Education
I knew the day would come when I would have to include these quotes in the Omphalos Cafe record. …
Rave On Thy Holy Folk
–Dying Days… of Winter “So I have not declared all that appears and is necessary in this work, because there …
Jottings…From The Foot Of The Mountain
“The art required is to make sounds, words, and forms, whether of base or of noble provenance, open out in …
Four (ok five) Quotes Around An Unseen Center
“God is in all things as being, as activity, as power.”—Meister Eckhart, c. 1300 “Eckhart, of course, was excommunicated: by …
Better Late Than Never, I Suppose
“And the second [Spenglarian pseudomorphoses] might be termed the Levantine revenge; namely, the massive diffusion of Pauline Christianity over the …
Proust’s Recapturing Of Time Lost
“…I would make as if to put away the book which I imagined was still in my hands, and to …
Failure Of Nerve?
“Professor Gilbert Murray has termed the centuries between the flowering of classical Athens and the growth of the radically different …
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