Earthly concerns are ambiguous: Aphrodite’s instruction may be the cunning of the Serpent or the Wisdom of Sophia. Cunning results from the ignorance of the vertical axis. It is the closed circle, so the cunning man is limited to past experiences and future projections. Wisdom teaches us to look with the eye of the heart. The world is Maya, illusion, but also a reflection of the Divine. Hence, Aphrodite can either entrap us or expose Reality to us. Continue reading →

The women in whom the demon lover appears are usually daughters of mothers who are devoted to the animus principle. They are the hard working women who do everything perfectly. They wake up at the right time, their schedules are always perfectly ordered and if guests are to come, everything must look as if it were in a catalogue. There is no space for flexibility or for a slow stroll in a forest, because she always thinks of things that “ought” and “must” be done. The mother herself never does anything to nourish her own being, and therefore cannot nourish the young girl’s psyche. Continue reading →

When a fire of desire to know has been lit, a human being begins to move towards the Self, that is, towards Unity and Paradise. Reaching it, a human being becomes once again what the human being was before forgetting. Continue reading →