Translator: Nalan

Azizuddin Nasafi – From ‘The Book Of The Perfect Man’: About Angels

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on December 19, 2022. Posted in Books, Islam, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Azizuddin Nasafi – From ‘The Book Of The Perfect Man’: About Angels

Archangel Gabriel. Persian Miniature, around 1375–1425. From the manuscript, “The Wonders of Creatures and Peculiarities of Things” by Zakariya al-Qazwini (c. 1200–1283). In the collections of the British Museum in London. * Another sharing for the day...

Fernando Pessoa – Initiation

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on November 29, 2022. Posted in Books, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Fernando Pessoa – Initiation

‘Initiation well’. Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra-Portugal. Picture by Afton Halloran @Flickr.com * Another sharing for the day from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, a poem from Fernando Pessoa, ‘Initiation’, here excerpted from : ‘Fernando...

From the Pythagorean Tradition: Theages – On The Virtues

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on November 12, 2022. Posted in Books, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on From the Pythagorean Tradition: Theages – On The Virtues

Frontispiece from volume 5 (of 6) of Sylvain Marechal’s ‘ Voyages de Pythagore’ Paris, 1798, Engraving by Louis-Michel Halbou, from our Via-HYGEIA library. * With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we continue our (Neo)Pythagorean...

From the Pythagorean Tradition – The Attitude Towards Life & The World

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on November 11, 2022. Posted in Books, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on From the Pythagorean Tradition – The Attitude Towards Life & The World

Frontispiece from volume 6 (of 6) of Sylvain Marechal’s ‘ Voyages de Pythagore’ Paris, 1798, Engraving by Dambrun, from our Via-HYGEIA library. * With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we continue our little Pythagorean Cycle with...

James Christie The Younger-About The Four Agents Of The Ancient Initiation Rites

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 27, 2022. Posted in Books, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on James Christie The Younger-About The Four Agents Of The Ancient Initiation Rites

Engraving by Antoine Cardon from Ouvaroff ’s ‘Essay on the Eleusinian Mysteries’. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an excerpt from James Christie’ s ‘Observations occasioned by Mr. Ouvaroff’s ‘Essay on the Eleusinian...

Louis Ménard: ‘Emperor Julian’s Last Night’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 27, 2022. Posted in Books, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Louis Ménard: ‘Emperor Julian’s Last Night’

“The Bridegroom of Wisdom: Apotheosis of Julian” by Marianne M Gilchrist. * Another sharing for the day from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, a poem by Louis Ménard, ‘The last evening of Julian’ excerpted from ‘Les rêveries d’un paien mystique’. Paris- George...

Proclus-‘Hymn To God’ & ‘Epigram To Dionysus’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 23, 2022. Posted in Books, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Proclus-‘Hymn To God’ & ‘Epigram To Dionysus’

‘Those that have the Light, must transmit it to others.’ (Caption translation from the Greek by Lefteris Immanuel Heretakis.) * Another sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, two poetic works by Proclus Lycius, also called Proclus the Successor....

Anna Kingsford-‘Concerning The Gods’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 7, 2022. Posted in Hermetism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Anna Kingsford-‘Concerning The Gods’

‘Night Sky’, artwork by Kayla (Shifting Destiny at deviantart.org) * ‘A true Idea is the reflect of a true Substance. It is because religious ideas are true ideas that they are common to all ages and peoples; the differences being of expression...

Michael Sebastian Noble-From Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s‘Hidden Secret’-Part 3: Perfect Nature: The Blue Print of Individual Souls

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on January 19, 2022. Posted in Hermetism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Michael Sebastian Noble-From Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s‘Hidden Secret’-Part 3: Perfect Nature: The Blue Print of Individual Souls

Seyyed Mosque, Isfahan. Picture by Iranian photographer Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of HYGEIA is the third part of a series devoted to some key excerpts from Fakr al-Din al-Razi’s ‘Hidden Secret’ (al-Sirr al-Maktüm),...

Jon Kabat-Zinn: About Change

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on December 15, 2021. No Comments on Jon Kabat-Zinn: About Change

Poets and scientists alike are aware that our organism pulsates with the rhythms of its ancestry. Rhythm and pulsation are intrinsic to all life, from the beating of bacterial cilia to the alternating cycles of photosynthesis and respiration in plants,...

From The Backcover Of The Treatises Of Ihvan-i Safa

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on December 15, 2021. No Comments on From The Backcover Of The Treatises Of Ihvan-i Safa

Translation: Nalan Özkan Lecerf It is narrated that a philosopher from the Ihvan-i Safa group said the following: “Religion is concerned with the treatment of the sick, philosophy on the treatment of healthy people. The prophets treat the sick so that...

Viriditas – Which Green Is Yours?

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on December 13, 2021. No Comments on Viriditas – Which Green Is Yours?

Saint Hildegard von Bingen, who lived in Germany in the 11th and 12th century and is known for her healing treatise uses the Latin word ‘viriditas’ meaning greening power for special cases. She uses the word to refer to all living things, the...

In A Nutshell: In Statu Nascendi

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on November 19, 2021. No Comments on In A Nutshell: In Statu Nascendi

Polish theatre director and theorist Jerzy Grotowski (Grotowski’s Poor Theatre and Via Negativa) was using the term ‘in statu nascendi’ very often. Roughly it means ‘a state of constant development/birth’. If this becomes a part...

Grotowski’s Poor Theatre and Via Negativa

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on November 19, 2021. No Comments on Grotowski’s Poor Theatre and Via Negativa

Translation into English: Nalan Özkan Lecerf Polish theatre director and theorist Jerzy Grotowski had an important impact on the 20th century theatre. Mentioning Grotowski we immediately think about the Laboratuary Theatre and its expression the Poor...

In A Nutshell: The Psoas Muscle and Trauma

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on November 19, 2021. No Comments on In A Nutshell: The Psoas Muscle and Trauma

“When faced with danger, muscles contract to protect the person from harm. The psoas muscles (so-called “connectors”) are the muscles that play the most important role in the fight/flight response in humans. The psoas muscles remain contracted until...

Mankind in the Process of Escaping Nature – Are We Aware of the Danger?

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on October 25, 2021. No Comments on Mankind in the Process of Escaping Nature – Are We Aware of the Danger?

Written (in Turkish) and translated into English by: Nalan Özkan Lecerf I haven’t finished the book “Last Child in the Woods” by Richard Louv (reading the Turkish translation by Ceyhan Temürcü) yet, but was excited by a concept I came across in the...

The Throat Center, Relationship Between Heart and Brain

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on October 21, 2021. No Comments on The Throat Center, Relationship Between Heart and Brain

Tatoo by Francesca Vendola Translation into English: Nalan Özkan Lecerf The psycho-spiritual centers in our physical body are linked to the nervous system and hormone producing glands in certain regions. These regions are also projections of our...

From the Book: “Rhythms of Change” – Elements

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on October 15, 2021. No Comments on From the Book: “Rhythms of Change” – Elements

The purpose of our trainings and sharings offered under the umbrella of Via Hygeia is to establish a connection between the ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal.’ What does this mean? When we look at the history of humanity, we can clearly...

A Correspondence: Mucilage in the Sea of Marmara & Inflammation in the Human Body

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on June 15, 2021. No Comments on A Correspondence: Mucilage in the Sea of Marmara & Inflammation in the Human Body

Written by Nalan Özkan Lecerf We try to include correspondences in our courses and most of our posts. Perhaps the most important of the Hermetic principles, “As above, so below. As inside, so outside” is often pronounced (mentally), but we wonder when...

Shared Responsibilities In The Process of Soul Development

Written by Nalan for Hygeia on January 5, 2021. No Comments on Shared Responsibilities In The Process of Soul Development

Written by: Nalan Özkan Lecerf With Nico, we are sharing ‘soul development teachings’ since 2011. Let me explain first why I put the wording ‘soul development teaching’ into quotation marks: The word ‘spiritual’ has many associations nowadays and, according...