Eudaimoniae

All the misery the world contains
comes from wanting pleasure for oneself.
All the joy the world contains
comes from wishing happiness for others.

- Shantideva

The Kybalion hoax The fake hermetic handbook that keeps conning beginners

The fake hermetic handbook that keeps conning beginners.

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Her replacement MarkWayne Mullin will be even worse. He’s the Nazi ex-MMA fighter who threatened to beat up another man on the House floor, before being stopped by Bernie Sanders. Trump picked him precisely because he’ll eagerly go along with their strategy of intimidating American citizens.

5 easy prayers to start practicing Hermetic philosophy The Way of Hermes, also known as Hermeticism or Hermetic Philosophy, is a spiritual tradition that originated in ancient Egypt and was later embraced by the Greeks. It involves the study and practice…

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3 Easy hermetic meditations on the Sun as the Demiurge The sun has been used as an allegory for many things throughout history, from the giver of life and light to a symbol of power and majesty. Hermetic meditation is a powerful practice that has been…

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Image: A Sky Full Of Stars / Joshua Earle / Wikimedia Commons (orig. Unsplash) / Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication. A silhouetted figure stands on a slight rise between two silhouetted hills, looking out at a sky full of stars with light in the distance near the horizon.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The soul that rises from within us, our life’s star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.

~ William Wordsworth, from “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”.

Also, an audio file has been leaked in which Trump says to start a war to distract from the Epstein files, and warning that if he goes down, he’ll take everyone else down with him.

And according to modern theologians like M. David Litwa, current evidence seems to suggest that the Gnostic gospels of Thomas and Mary Magdalene predate the canonical gospels. As well, the first Bible canon was created by Marcion, who is widely considered to have been a teacher of Gnostic thought.

All his goddesses were versions and virtues of the Great Mother, all his gods were aspects of the creating and destroying power, and all of these resolved into One: light, life, Love.

- Orpheus: The Song of Life, Ann Wroe

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“I am Protennoia, the Thought that is in the Light…She who exists before the All…I move in every creature…I am the Invisible One within t... “I am Protennoia, the Thought that is in the Light…She who exists before the All…I move in every creature…I am the Invisible One within the All. I am perception and knowledge, uttering voice by means...

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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awaken from dreams.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Image: "Garden of Allah" by painter Maxfield Parrish

If anyone becomes a child of the bridal chamber, he will receive the light. If anyone does not receive it while he is here, he will not b... If anyone becomes a child of the bridal chamber, he will receive the light. If anyone does not receive it while he is here, he will not be able to receive it in the other place. He who will receive th...

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How then can men describe the universe, except by their inscribing of themselves upon the fields of space? To describe the universe as it... How then can men describe the universe, except by their inscribing of themselves upon the fields of space? To describe the universe as it is they must become the universe, and then they will describe ...

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If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like. Leap clear of all that is corporeal ... If then you do not make yourself equal to God, you cannot apprehend God; for like is known by like. Leap clear of all that is corporeal and make yourself grown to a like expanse with that greatness w...

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I am the one whose praise echoes on high. I adorn all the earth. I am the breeze that nurtures all things green. I encourage blossoms to ... I am the one whose praise echoes on high. I adorn all the earth. I am the breeze that nurtures all things green. I encourage blossoms to flourish with ripening fruits. I am led by the spirit to feed t...

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If you do not know yourself, you will not be able to know all of these. Open the door for yourself, that you may know the One who is. Kno... If you do not know yourself, you will not be able to know all of these. Open the door for yourself, that you may know the One who is. Knock on yourself, that the Word may open for you. Knock on yourse...

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When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same... then you will enter the kingdom.

- The Gospel of Thomas

Go sweep out the chamber of your heart,
Make it ready to be the dwelling of the Beloved.
When you depart love will enter;
In you, void of yourself, God will display His beauty.

- Mahmud Shabistari, 13th-century Sufi

If they ask you "What is the sign of your Father in you?" tell them "It is movement, and rest."

- The Gospel According to Thomas (Saying 50)

Know that the outward form passes away, but the World of Meaning remains forever. How long will you make love with the shape of the jug? ... Know that the outward form passes away, but the World of Meaning remains forever. How long will you make love with the shape of the jug? Leave aside the jug’s shape: Go, seek water! Having seen the fo...

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Jesus said, "the man old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child seven days old about the place of life, and he will live. For many who are first will become last, and they will become a single one."

- Gospel of Thomas

Anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe is as good as a burned-out candle.

- Albert Einstein

Holy Sophia

She is a breath of God's power, a pure and radiant stream of glory from the Almighty. Nothing that is defiled can ever steal its way into Her. She is a reflection of eternal light, a perfect mirror of God's activity and goodness.

- Wisdom: 25-26

The urban mystic surrenders skin to the Indomitable Spirit, which temporarily permeates, penetrates and eclipses bone, flesh, blood and s... The urban mystic surrenders skin to the Indomitable Spirit, which temporarily permeates, penetrates and eclipses bone, flesh, blood and sinew, as well as their products, thought and emotion. Like chal...

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I am a Voice speaking softly. I exist from the first. I dwell within the Silence, within the immeasurable Silence. I descended to the mid... I am a Voice speaking softly. I exist from the first. I dwell within the Silence, within the immeasurable Silence. I descended to the midst of the Underworld, and I shone down upon the darkness. It is...

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O gentle, O kind, O blessed Sophia: we, Thy children on earth, call unto Thee. We pray Thee, our beloved Mother, to cast forth Thy net of... O gentle, O kind, O blessed Sophia: we, Thy children on earth, call unto Thee. We pray Thee, our beloved Mother, to cast forth Thy net of woven starlight. Fling it wide across the ocean of the univers...

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There is a need to dance the cosmic joy of Shiva. The real breakthrough of joy only happens when we are moved to the core of our being - when we are shattered by our encounter with meaningfulness.

- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan