And you, when will you begin that long journey inward?
-Rumi
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born. [Erich Fromm]
Enthroned Goddess
Statuette of an enthroned Goddess between two attendants, Period Cypro-Classical II, 4th century B.C, terracotta, 27.5 cm
The Met Fifth Avenue, Inv. 74.51.1589
When you learn about and then work with death and the underworld, it changes you at a very deep level: it completes a loop of power while you are still in life. That loop of birth and death is a pattern of all living things, but when a magician completes that loop in life, in gnosis, it takes them out of the uncontrolled endless pattern and puts them on a very different path. Passing through death while in life as an Initiate is a deep visionary process, and is one that is essential for any serious magician to do.
- Quareia; Death and the Underworld, Josephine McCarthy
"How at the Castle of Corbin a Maiden Bare in the Sangreal and Foretold the Achievements of Galahad"
by Arthur Rackham
A 1917 illustration from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, abridged from Le Morte d'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard, depicting Lady Elaine carrying the Grail through the halls of King Pelles' palace
A late 19th-century depiction of Izanami and Izanagi, by Kobayashi Eitaku. According to the Shinto religion, these two gods created the Japanese islands by stirring the oceans with a giant spear.
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God [originally published 1905]
Source: shi-saa
Jean Besancenot. Costumes et bijoux Berbères du Maroc, ca. 1960.
C.G. Jung, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis
Text ID: Seek the coldness of the moon
