The cult of Apollo should not be viewed as merely a curious institution of that period. It was on the one side the key monetarist financial institution of that period. On the other side it deployed two cults as covers for its intelligence
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“If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like. Leap clear of all that is corporeal, and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness which is beyond all measure; rise above all time and become eternal; then you will apprehend God. Think that for you too nothing is impossible; deem that you too are immortal, and that you are able to grasp all things in your thought, to know every craft and science; find your home in the haunts of every living creature; make yourself higher than all heights and lower than all depths; bring together in yourself all opposites of quality, heat and cold, dryness and fluidity; think that you are everywhere at once, on land, at sea, in heaven; think that you are not yet begotten, that you are in the womb, that you are young, that you are old, that you have died, that you are in the world beyond the grave; grasp in your thought all of this at once, all times and places, all substances and qualities and magnitudes together; then you can apprehend God. But if you shut up your soul in your body, and abase yourself, and say “I know nothing, I can do nothing; I am afraid of earth and sea, I cannot mount to heaven; I know not what I was, nor what I shall be,” then what have you to do with God?”
― The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy of Personal Transformation
― The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy of Personal Transformation
“Es más fácil escribir una columna de periódico criticando los excesos neoliberales que cambiar los planes de estudios de las facultades de economía, grandes responsables de sembrar precisamente el delirio neoliberal (no hay noticia de cambios que modulen la hegemonía teórica neoliberal en ningún país del mundo).”
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
“As the anger, or the fear, within a personality builds, the world in which it lives increasingly reflects the anger, or the fear, that it must heal, so that eventually, ultimately, the personality will see that it is creating its own experiences and perceptions, that its righteous anger or justifiable fear originates within itself, and therefore can be replaced by other perceptions and experiences only through the force of its own being.”
― The Seat of the Soul
― The Seat of the Soul
“Lo que da sentido a la vida no puede reducirse a la condición de mercancía.”
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
― Disfraces del Leviatán. El papel del Estado en la globalización neoliberal (Universitaria)
“Once the web has lost its charm, its terms lose theirs; suddenly they seem contingent and open to revision. For those epi-predators who work with the signifiers themselves rather than the things they supposedly signify, language is not a medium that helps us see the true, the real, the natural. Language is a tool assembled by creatures with “no way” trying to make a world that will satisfy their needs; it is a tool those same creatures can disassemble if it fails them.”
― Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
― Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
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