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Transfigured Light: Philosophy, Science And The Hermetic Imaginary
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“The idea that the world was a gigantic living
organism was central to Hermeticism: trees and vegetation were the hair of this
great being, rivers and streams the arteries and veins that carried its blood. It was a
worldview celebrated by poets and natural scientists alike.”
― Transfigured Light: Philosophy, Science And The Hermetic Imaginary
organism was central to Hermeticism: trees and vegetation were the hair of this
great being, rivers and streams the arteries and veins that carried its blood. It was a
worldview celebrated by poets and natural scientists alike.”
― Transfigured Light: Philosophy, Science And The Hermetic Imaginary
“The combination of technological mastery and the
Darwinian concept of “survival of the fittest” has brought the world to the brink of
ecological catastrophe. If the organism and its environment are not seen to be in-
eluctably connected as a single site of exchange, a place of “virtually stable turbu-
lence within the flow”⁴⁷ rather than the organism attempting domination of its
environment according to the Baconian command/obedience couplet, then the
scientistic ideology of mastery will simultaneously see its closure with the in-
evitable destruction of all negentropic systems.”
― Transfigured Light: Philosophy, Science And The Hermetic Imaginary
Darwinian concept of “survival of the fittest” has brought the world to the brink of
ecological catastrophe. If the organism and its environment are not seen to be in-
eluctably connected as a single site of exchange, a place of “virtually stable turbu-
lence within the flow”⁴⁷ rather than the organism attempting domination of its
environment according to the Baconian command/obedience couplet, then the
scientistic ideology of mastery will simultaneously see its closure with the in-
evitable destruction of all negentropic systems.”
― Transfigured Light: Philosophy, Science And The Hermetic Imaginary
