BANU UDHRA (“THE SONS OF VIRGINITY”)
One of the greatest connoisseurs of medieval Arabic and Occitan erotica is the Frenchman René Nelli. His book The Troubadours Erotica is an essential reference...
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BANU UDHRA (“THE SONS OF VIRGINITY”)
One of the greatest connoisseurs of medieval Arabic and Occitan erotica is the Frenchman René Nelli. His book The Troubadours Erotica is an essential reference...
The path to overcoming the Fall, what we call Evolution, has to necessarily go from Something to Someone, since the Fall consisted of the inverse transition (although actually, the starting point, as...
When Dante refers to Beatrice as “quella che imparadise la mia mente”, he uses a made-up verb, which will also occur to Milton. Milton paints Adam and Eve’s perfect union before the Fall as their...
In the course of his astral travels through the Otherworld, Swedenborg had the chance to admire couples of Heavenly married angels: and while at first, these angels seemed to be individuals, soon,...
Nicolás Flamel found what all the alchemists were looking for but few obtained; the famous Philosopher’s Stone. At least that’s what he says in his The Book of Hierogliphic Figures, a book he...
Like in the Kabbalah, the subject of conjugal love abounds in Gnosticism. “Great is the mystery of marriage!” claims the Gospel of Philip. In the text, there are plenty allusions to the bride and the...
Truly advanced Buddhist monks are not supposed to suffer anymore. After hard work of detachment from the world, through years and years of meditation, they have withdrawn to the depths of...
THREE DROPS OF BLOOD IN THE SNOW
A quest is an adventurous, dangerous journey undergone by an hero in order to complete an important task. The word comes from the Latin questa, “search”. Usually,...
Sophiology is a modern school of thought based on an ancient notion, that of Sophia, understood as the feminine aspect of God. Its theological framework is Russian Orthodox Christianity and Vladimir...
SALAMAN & ABSAL
Persian literature is rich in love stories featuring couples of androgynous children who, having grown up together, are traumatically separated, and then spend the rest of their...
Do atheists believe in love? If so, how can love exist without a God?
Can not. The existence of the feeling that we call "love" is in fact the unequivocal proof that God exists. Because love is...
The Holy Grail appears in an enchanted castle, a castle of uncertain location and difficult access, inhabited by a King who has lost his Integrity as well as his Kingdom. The scenography of these...
Far from worrying exclusively about their personal Quest, the Arthurian hero is committed to the fate of the entire Universe. Nothing and no one is foreign to him. Perceval’s initiation stages in his...
THE HIDDEN WIFE
For many ancient sages, man's twin flame is the Eve before the Fall, the Eve that was contained in Adam before God removed her from his side. Let's take a look at a group of...
THE PHOENIX AND TURTLE
This poem by William Shakespeare deals with the souls’ ascension to Divinity, the return of the multiple Two to the single One. It’s a poem rich in alchemical symbolism. We...
GOD'S X-RAY
We could say that the Androgyne is an “x–ray” of God since, in Him, we cannot see (with the naked eye, let's say) anything other than the One, while the Androgyne reveals an “x–ray”...
The marital status is specifically mentioned in the first page of the Quran: “O mankind, fear your Lord, who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them...
A few years ago I became an altruistic kidney donor and it's one of the most rewarding things I've ever done. I want to contribute my testimony to encourage other people to take this life-saving...
The following testimony was told by Mr. Joseph Zimmerman. I limit myself to reproducing his story in his own words:
Ok. Well I think that it’s time to let my experience out of the bag. I have...
“COINCIDENTIA OPPOSITORUM"
Christian theologian Nicholas of Cusa, in the fifteenth-century (although the concept was universal and much older), defined the Divine Being with the formula...