Astaroth’s breath becomes the very atmosphere of modernity — that cold light in which everything seems visible, and precisely for that reason one feels less and less inclined to go further.
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When the element of feelings is distorted, it is not only “emotional life” that is subjected to destruction—the very mechanism for moving toward knowledge is warped.
The cosmos becomes heimarmene when law is declared the ultimate truth, measurement the only way to define things, and the clarity of reason the sole kind of light.
The Great Departure is a radical transition from a world where the boundary was alive and inhabited to a world where the boundary became merely a technical seam and a zone of risk.
Apollo (nomos/reckoning), Dionysus (the vital continuum), and the Fairies’ flux — the krus, a living form reducible neither to discursive reason nor to the passions — constitute three self-subsistent primal principles.
Far from everything commonly called “soul” is immortal.
As soon as a person enters some “closed circle”—becomes a monk, a priest, a member of an Order, and so on—an obsessive desire arises to “hide” and “guard” the access they have gained to power, to the divine, to wisdom, to place themselves between the Higher and the lower.
Any directed attention, any focusing of the mind may be regarded as a kind of “act of payment.
Mind seized by destructive tendencies (or by a predatory vortex) often ceases to distinguish the cause of its destruction from the source of relief and meaning.
By distinguishing laziness, paralysis of will, and genuine lack of energy, a person step by step regains their freedom.
Among all the forces and beings influencing the development of humanity and life on Earth in general, the most ambiguous role belongs to the Grigori
The Eleusinian initiation is the attainment of an inner form that makes the soul more whole and less mortal than it once was
Demonization is less an act of assault on a person than an act of that person’s own blindness.