slowmutant wrote:
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"Understand you foolish ones, and mark the parable and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their mysterious sayings; for the wise have used diverse manners of speech in making comparison with everything that is upon the earth, and beneath the sphere of the moon they have multiplied parables in this science."
"For the wise have not spoken to the foolish, seeing that he that speaks with a fool speaks with one that is asleep. If I were to unriddle all things as they are, there would be no further place for prudence, for the fool would be made equal to the wise; nor would any mortal under the sphere of the moon bewail in stepmotherly poverty the pangs of hunger, for in this science the number of fools is infinite."
Is this prose or poetry? Whichever it is, I am intrigued.
I'm glad you are intrigued..
I feel the same way about all genuine occult writings..
They fascinate me.. because I enjoy problem solving..
Like the bible.. Aurora is a mix of prose and poetry.. (inspired by the holy scriptures).
The introductory pages are fairly straight forward to understand.. but then it slips into deep occultism.. and the verses sound more like a drunken monk refering to the scriptures.. but they are not as crazy as they might sound to the casual reader.
Unfortunately I haven't included the commentary by Carl Jung.. and even with it.. Thomas' writings can be a real struggle to understand.
It is the most difficult book I have ever read.. but once you grasp what he is really saying.. it leaves you in awe.
I remember once I spent four hours working to decifer a single page..
The bible.. which is also an occult book.. is written in much the same cyptic style as well.. so it needs decifering.
Go beneath the symbolism.. and you will discover a wonder of wonders.. hidden within the well considered words.
Anyway.. this is all I have from the Aurora.. online.
The rest is still on my book-shelf.
http://www.apocatastasis.net/OccultLibr ... uinas.html
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“For one to know wisdom and discipline, to discern the sayings of understanding, to receive the discipline that gives insight, righteousness and judgment and uprightness, to give the inexperienced ones shrewdness, to a young man thinking ability.”
“A wise person will listen and take in more instruction, and a man of understanding is one who acquires skilful direction, to understand a proverb and a puzzling saying, the words of the wise persons and their riddles.”
Proverbs 1:2
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