A Mask Of God
“Symbols hold the mind to truth but are not themselves truth, hence it is delusory to borrow them. Each civilization, …
Category Archives: Omphalos
Facts? What Facts?….Or, Women, Would You Find Love? Listen Up!
“To get beneath the facts I would have had to be an artist, and one doesn’t become an artist overnight. …
Mead Of The Muse
“Will you be as gods? Gaze in your omphalos.”—Stephen Dedalus, A.K.A. James Joyce, Ulysses No long winded disquisition here. …
Words With A Certain Ring Of Truth
“The contrast between a tribal community and an eminently modern, urban agglomeration is one of extremes—from a spiritual, metaphysical standpoint …
Words Flowering From A Quiet Place
Quiet words issuing from a quiet place So quiet and still They cannot be heard Except By the quietest hearts …
When ‘The Medium Is The Message’, Is There Really Any Message At All?
Hiatus. Back to the proverbial drawing board. Years ago I published two issues of a crude forerunner of the Omphalos …
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 …
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 …
These? These Are Not My Truths….
The Omphalos. The Hub around which it all revolves. “Around which what revolves?” I hear someone say. It. Everything. Life, …
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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