10/27/11

"'Not all powers have to be discovered, some have to be regained.'" (pg. 191 The Magus)
Nicholas is reading the Society for Reason pamphlets that Conchis gave him to read. The pamphlet this quote came from is the On Communication With Other Worlds, which talks about telepathy. Which basically talks about how everyone can have a telepathic experience, they just have to relearn what they "already" know. The person must be aware of their own conscious beings to rediscover telepathy.

Class Notes:

• When the words, "The great Pan is dead" were spoken, the whole mythological world died too.
• When one story ends, another story begins.
• Every 2000 years a new story is started that involves a bird and a woman. The bird visits the woman and then impregnates her, which produces a child that changes the world.
• Mary was impregnated by a bird (the holy spirit) 
• Mentomony- end of mythological phase

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

       THE SECOND COMING

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
    The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation is at hand;
    Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
    Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
    Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

    The darkness drops again but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

• Revelation- The End
• Sprites Mundi- spirit world; sprit of the world
• The Nature of Secrecy- it is not the thing that is sacred- names something and it becomes that
• The strength of belief creates the thing

• The Black Stone is a Muslim relic which according to Islamic tradition dates back to Adam and Eve. The stone became a place of worship during the pre-Islamic pagan times. The ritual is to rub and kiss the stone. If they cannot reach the stone then they point at it each of the seven times they walk around it.

Gerard Hopkins (1844-89)                         7. God's Grandeur
THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;	5
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent;
There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;	10
And though the last lights off the black West went
Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

• The Mind has Mountains

• We need to change the way we see things, they way we think, they way we say things, the way we do things and the way we hear things. We are without depth, mythology is gone.
• Looking and seeing are two different things.
• Myers Briggs Personality Test
• Extraverted- the exterior world
• Thinking
• Sensation
• Introverted
• Intuition
• Feeling
• Zeus' story is very extraverted. He represents thinking (up). He gained knowledge and wisdom when he hate his wife. He also figured out how to keep his position as head god and not get overthrown by his children.
• Athena represents sensation (out). She is connected with the birth of Athens.
• Demeter represents intuition (in). The secret of the mother and the daughter- Eleusinian Mysteries
• Dionysus represents feeling (down). Moist, liquid, here today and gone tomorrow, deepest bodily needs, stop thinking, intoxication, god of the double door (Dionysus was born first from a woman and then Zeus' thigh), part of something that is not you. Dionysus drives you out of your mind when it is time. If you don't do what he says then you will go crazy. Always go with Dionysus.
• Ecstasy- possessed

• Carl Jung was a student of the soul. He came up with the theory of typology, which is a type of human behavior. It is based on behavioral tendencies. 
• Soul
• dreams 
• fantasy
• Cupid and Psyche
• there story shows up in a lot of disney movies such as: beauty and the beast, snow white and cinderella
• Psyche- the study of the soul