There are four kingdoms or realms of Nature: the mineral, plant, animal and human. The human realm incorporates all four realms in its being. Continue reading
Category Archives: Psychology
The Animus and Mrs Muir
The young widow Lucy Muir moves to the English seashore only to discover that the cottage she rented is haunted by the ghost of Captain Daniel Gregg, a rough and tough seafaring man. Undaunted, she develops a relationship with him. His crude and direct manners contrast with her prissy upbringing. Continue reading
Spiritual Man and the Tyrant
The highly intelligent are less interested in success by worldly standards and are more attracted to abstract thinking. In other words, they take the water path rather than the earth path. Continue reading
The Soul of a Woman
Cologero has been experiencing writer’s block regarding his upcoming posts on the esoteric meaning of Romance. So he called me last night for help in overcoming that block. We had a long talk — or rather he talked and I listened — about Dante, Malory’s novel on King Arthur, Donne’s love poetry, Charles Williams, and a few other lesser known figures. Continue reading
Psychic Distortion
The True Will, on the other hand, means that a person is acting according to his real, unfallen nature. This is the purified will, because it will only one thing. In this case, what one believed through custom, habit, conditioning, and so on, no longer suffices. Such a person chooses his beliefs because he wills them. Continue reading
Demonic Possession
The Fall introduced distortions into the three functions of the soul: Thinking, Feeling, Willing. The centre of gravity fell from the Real I to the I of the personality. Continue reading
The Bondage of Spirits
Ahriman In the essay On Magic, Giordano Bruno discusses the existence and action of non-human spirits. The practice of invoking god, demons, and heroes is the branch of magic called theurgy. He calls this the “magic of the hopeless” because they often become the vessels of evil demons. A safer … Continue reading