[Source: Gaffiot]
page 97 of Artificii chymistici physici, metaphisicique, secunda pars & tertia, quarum summarium versa pagella dabit Accessit etiam tertiae parti, de praeparationibus metallicis in vtroque lapidis philosophorum opere maiore minoreque tractatus excellentissimus.
Gerardo Dorn authore, 1569 [seen in French on 5th June 2020.]
Okay, okay, in English the above quote could be translated as follows:
‘Study breeds knowledge. Knowledge obeys to love. Love to likeness. Resemblance to communion, itself to trust. Trust [yields to] virtue. Virtue to dignity. Dignity to power. And power performs the Miracle.’
Gerald Dorn, The Arts of Chemistry, Physics and Metaphysics, volumes II and III [...]
And that you could, for example, have the power within one night to dream 75 years of time; or any length of time you wanted to have.
And you would, naturally, as you began on this adventure of dreams, you would fulfil all your wishes. You would have every kind of pleasure you could conceive.
And after several nights of 75 years of
total pleasure each, you would say ‘Well, that was pretty great.
But now let’s have a surprise: let’s have a dream which isn’t under control, where something is going to happen to me that I don’t know what it’s going to be’.
And you would dig that and come out of that and say ‘Wow that was a close shave, wasn’t it?’
Then you would get more and more adventurous and you would make further and further out-gambles as to what you would dream.
And,
finally, you would dream where you are now.
You would dream the dream of living the life that you are actually living today.
That would be within the infinite multiplicity of choices you would have of playing that you weren’t God because the whole nature of the godhead, according to this idea, is to play that he is not.
The first thing he says to himself is ‘Man, get lost’ because he gives himself away.
The nature of love is self-abandonment, not clinging to oneself – throwing yourself out, as in, for example, basketball, you’re always getting rid of the ball.
You say to the other fellow ‘Have a ball; see!’
And that keeps things moving.
That’s the nature of life.
So in this idea then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality; not God in a politically, kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down, basic ‘whatever there is’.
And you are all that; only you are pretending you are not!An abominably dark pearl of a quote
More than six months have passed since I last uploaded anything on to this page. It was certainly not for a lack of interesting quotes. In fact, I had stumbled across so many interesting pieces of information or so many passages with real ‘margarita-sentences’ containing thought-provoking statements that I felt that I would only be able to do such quotes justice by giving them a stand-alone status as a single blog entry each... However, a couple of hours ago, I came across a quote so important in the light of what has been happening to humanity since January of this year that I felt compelled to include it here. It is copied from the concluding paragraph of chapter V of a book entitled The First Global Revolution – A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome, by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider and published in 1991. The excerpt is as follows:
The Common Enemy of Humanity Is Man
In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which demands the solidarity of all peoples. But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.
Quote seen and added on the penultimate day of the now infamous year 2020.
