Living the Dream

Living the Dream

Your life is what remains after you die and that life is eternal. That, then, is the life you are creating and there can be no doubt about it. Truth resides in the interior of man, hence restoration must begin in the interior. Therefore, changing the persons, places, conditions, and events of our outer life will amount to nothing if we don’t first address the disorder in our inner life. Continue reading

Hexad

The Hexad is the first perfect number: it arises, by multiplication (rather than addition) from the Dyad and the Triad, and is hence termed “marriage” (whereas the Pentad is androgynous). That is, the Hexad unifies Male-Female through “blending” and harmony, rather than sticking them together through addition in the Pentad, … Continue reading

Pentad

It is worth while reminding the reader that Iamblichus was not merely a mathematician and a philosopher, in the idealistic fashion: he was of a princely line, and well-educated, and his caste seems to have been that of Brahmin. Iamblichus wrote a life of Pythagoras, an autobiography of his great … Continue reading

A Beautiful Day to Die

A Beautiful Day to Die

In Japanese legends, the last thoughts of a dying man were believed to have irresistible powers. Lafcadio Hearn tells the story of a samurai who condemned one of his slaves to death by beheading. The slave, convinced of the injustice of the sentence, bitterly told his master, at his execution, that he would take revenge. The samurai’s family were terrified, because they understood the power of a dying man’s final thoughts. Continue reading

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