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Clockmaker (apprentice) | blob mysticism | Sophiology "For the mystical is not concealment of a secret, or ignorance, but consists in the self knowing itself to be one with the divine being or that this therefore is revealed"
Okay so this is kinda cool: this is an old German striking clock, with a signature from 1851. It's a really bizarre mechanism, too; it counts the quarters (like you'd expect), but every single quarter it also strikes the hour! And yes, that gets annoying quite fast.
02.10.2025 22:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some good ol' mystical Bible reading on the dial of this old English longcase clock.
02.04.2025 02:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Real
13.03.2025 04:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0TradBros saying tolerance is a sin because St. Nicholas supposedly assaulted Arius (likely a myth from the later Middle Ages) are beyond dull.
The same legend indicates St. Nick prayed for forgiveness for his fault.
Wittgenstein: the eye is not contained within the perceptual frame; it "shrinks" to a supernal point beyond individuation. "Das Ich des Solipsismus schrumpft zum ausdehnungslosen Punkt zusammen, und es bleibt die ihm koordinierte Realität."
22.02.2025 06:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My article on the Textual Criticism of the Quran can now be downloaded from the Leiden University Repository!
hdl.handle.net/1887/3761723
(this time with working URL)
Just as a spider spreads and withdraws its thread, so out of the Immutable does the phenomenal universe arise
Muṅdaka Upaniṣad 1.1.7
Dionysius on the sustaining, eternal act of the Good:
10.02.2025 21:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Anyone who tells you to deny yourself is from Satan”
- Paula White, Donald Trump’s faith advisor
“Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”
- Jesus of Nazareth
Just when I thought I couldn't love Agrippa anymore...
09.02.2025 09:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Perhaps the most hauntingly beautiful work of Christian mysticism ever written.
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