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A Little Etienne Perrot Sampler: Part 1- Introduction

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on August 16, 2024. Posted in Ancient Science and Medicine, Art, Books, Concepts, Early Science and Medicine, Hermetism, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Etienne Perrot Sampler: Part 1- Introduction

Etienne Perrot, picture page 84 of the special edition of ‘Le Monde Inconnu’, dedicated to Alchemy. October 20 1978 issue. * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an introductory sampler, first of a planned series, dedicated...

Elie-Charles Flamand: Introduction To ‘Erotique de l’Alchimie’ With A Foreword By Eugène Canseliet

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on August 13, 2024. Posted in Art, Bodywork, Books, Concepts, Early Science and Medicine, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Elie-Charles Flamand: Introduction To ‘Erotique de l’Alchimie’ With A Foreword By Eugène Canseliet

Elie-Charles Flamand in 1981, picture by Gwen Garnier-Duguy. * ‘Alchemy claims the necessity of a material foundation in order to support the building of a spiritual work.’ Elie-Charles Flamand. 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of...

Count Cagliostro And The 2 Forty Days Retreats -The Key Source Texts

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on August 5, 2024. Posted in Ancient Science and Medicine, Bodywork, Books, Christianity, Concepts, Hermetism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Count Cagliostro And The 2 Forty Days Retreats -The Key Source Texts

Frontispiece engraving for the 1791 ‘Biography of Count Cagliostro’, extracted from the Inquisition file opened at the time of his trial in Rome. * Portrait’s legend says: ‘Of this friend of Humanity recognize his features, Every...

United Society of Believers (a.k.a. the Shakers): From ‘A Summary View’ – A Brief Illustration Of The Necessity Of Divine Revelation

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on July 23, 2024. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Meditation, Mennonites & Shakers. No Comments on United Society of Believers (a.k.a. the Shakers): From ‘A Summary View’ – A Brief Illustration Of The Necessity Of Divine Revelation

Hannah Cohoon, The Tree of Light or Blazing Tree, 1845 * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is an extract from ‘A Summary View of the Millennial Church or the United Society of Believers, commonly called SHAKERS. General Principles...

Rabbi Chayyim of Volozhyn: From the ‘Nefesh haChayyim’ – Is Sorcery A Contestation Of The Absolute?

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on July 22, 2024. Posted in Ancient Science, Books, Concepts, Judaism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Rabbi Chayyim of Volozhyn: From the ‘Nefesh haChayyim’ – Is Sorcery A Contestation Of The Absolute?

VOLOZHINER, CHAIM, ‘Nephesh HaChaim’. First edition. ff. (63), 4to. Vinograd, Vilna. Vilna & Grodno: Partners Mann & Zimmel 1824. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is chapter 12 from the third Gate, ‘Is Sorcery...

Louis Ménard: The Legend Of Saint Hilarion

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on July 17, 2024. Posted in Books, Christianity, Monasticism & Anchoritism, Philosophy, pre-christian, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Louis Ménard: The Legend Of Saint Hilarion

Saint Hilarion, Franciscan Breviary, Savoy, XV th Century. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is ‘The Legend Of Saint Hilarion’, excerpted from Louis-Nicolas Ménard’s ‘Les Rêveries d’un Païen Mystique’. Paris, George Cres, 1911. From p....

Sylvain Marechal: From ‘Les Voyages de Pythagore’ – A Chaldean Hymn To The Moon

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on July 10, 2024. Posted in Concepts, Hermetism, Meditation, Philosophy, Poetry, pre-christian, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Sylvain Marechal: From ‘Les Voyages de Pythagore’ – A Chaldean Hymn To The Moon

King Ur-Nammo offers libations to the Tree of Life to the Moon Goddess Ningal from Leonard Woolley ‘s ‘Excavations at Ur’ published in 1954. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, an extract from Sylvain Marechal’s...

Ocke de Boer & Maurice Nicoll: We Have To ‘Make Moon In Ourselves’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on July 6, 2024. Posted in Ancient Science, Bodywork, Books, Concepts, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Ocke de Boer & Maurice Nicoll: We Have To ‘Make Moon In Ourselves’

‘Night Sky’, artwork by Kayla (Shifting Destiny at deviantart.org) * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, are two texts that are about to ‘Make Moon in Ourselves‘, coming from two specific currents of the Gurdjieff Work....

Thieleman van Braght-A Selection From The “Martyrs’ Mirror or The Bloody Theater”

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on July 5, 2024. Posted in Anabaptists, Books, Concepts, Mennonites & Shakers, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Thieleman van Braght-A Selection From The “Martyrs’ Mirror or The Bloody Theater”

A 1743 portrait of Tieleman van Braght by Jan Maurits Quinkhard. From the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a small selection from Thieleman Jansz van Braght‘s ‘Martyrs’...

A Little Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Sampler – Part II

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on July 2, 2024. Posted in Christianity, Concepts, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Sampler – Part II

Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, a.k.a. Paracelsus. A 1927 reproduction of an etching by A. Hirschvogel, 1538. In the collections of the Welcome Trust. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is the second part of our Little Aureolus...

A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 4 – Chapters XI & XII From The ‘Venetian Virgin’ (1555)

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on June 27, 2024. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Quietism & Chiliasm Christianity, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 4 – Chapters XI & XII From The ‘Venetian Virgin’ (1555)

Sitting portrait of Guillaume Postel, French linguist, astronomer, Cabbalist, diplomat, professor, and religious universalist, engraved on a copperplate by Esme de Boulonois; from the book ‘Académie Des Sciences Et Des Arts’ by Isaac Bullart, published...

A Little Antoinette Bourignon Sampler: Part 2- How We Ought To Speak Out Evil & The Psychology Of Its Nine Gates

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on June 22, 2024. Posted in Books, Concepts, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Quietism & Chiliasm Christianity, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Antoinette Bourignon Sampler: Part 2- How We Ought To Speak Out Evil & The Psychology Of Its Nine Gates

Posthumous portrait of Antoinette Bourignon, engraved by Batterby & Son for the ‘Light of the World’ 1786 abridged edition, edited by Joseph Whittingham Salmon for the Society for Promotion of the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem (a.k.a. The...

A Little Hendrik Niclaes & The Familia Caritatis Sampler: Part 1-Introduction + ‘A New Balade Or Songe Of The Lambs Feaste’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on June 17, 2024. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Family of Love, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Quietism & Chiliasm Christianity. No Comments on A Little Hendrik Niclaes & The Familia Caritatis Sampler: Part 1-Introduction + ‘A New Balade Or Songe Of The Lambs Feaste’

A portrait of Hendrik Niclaes, engraving by Christoffel van Sichem, from the collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is the first part of a planned series dedicated to the memory of Hendrik Niclaes,...

Emma Hardinge Britten: From ‘The Lyceum Manual’- A Selection Of Core Spiritualist Values

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on June 12, 2024. Posted in Books, Concepts, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology & Education, spiritualism, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Emma Hardinge Britten: From ‘The Lyceum Manual’- A Selection Of Core Spiritualist Values

Cover of the 1905 Lyceum Manual * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a selection of core spiritualist values from Emma Hardinge Britten’s ‘The Lyceum Manual‘ written in collaboration with Reverent Alfred Kitson and Harry Augustus...

John Lacy: From ‘The General Delusion Of Christians’- Concerning Revelation By Voice In Scripture

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on June 11, 2024. Posted in Books, Concepts, French Prophets, Judaism, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology & Education, Quietism & Chiliasm Christianity, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on John Lacy: From ‘The General Delusion Of Christians’- Concerning Revelation By Voice In Scripture

Title page of the 1713 edition of ‘The General Delusion of Christians’. * Today’s sharing from the blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an excerpt from ‘The General Delusion of Christians, Touching the Ways of God’s revealing Himself,...

Mansour Al-Hallaj: From The ‘Book of Tawasin‘-About Moses & The Forty Stations

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on June 4, 2024. Posted in Books, Concepts, Islam, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Mansour Al-Hallaj: From The ‘Book of Tawasin‘-About Moses & The Forty Stations

This is the tenth figure from the ‘Tawasin’, notice in the center of the circle of transcendance, the ‘circuit of completion’, locked-in itself. The ‘La‘s that surrounds it represent negation (nafi) of all directions (jihat). The two ‘Ha‘s on the sides...

Louis Ménard: The Origin Of Insects

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on May 31, 2024. Posted in Books, Hermetism, Judaism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Louis Ménard: The Origin Of Insects

Louis Ménard, painting by his nephew Emile-René Ménard. 1893. Picture by Hervé Lewandowski. In the collections of the Musée d’Orsay. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is ‘The origin of insects, a rabbinical tradition’,...

Azizuddin Nasafi – From ‘The Book Of The Perfect Man’: ‘Of The Rules of Mystical Retreat’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on May 23, 2024. Posted in Bodywork, Books, Concepts, Hermetism, Islam, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Azizuddin Nasafi – From ‘The Book Of The Perfect Man’: ‘Of The Rules of Mystical Retreat’

Illustration from the ‘Marifet Name’, written by Ismail Hakki Erzurumi in 1756. It includes astronomy, mathematics, anatomy, psychology, philosophy, Islamic mysticism and Islamic subjects all brought together as an encyclopedic work. From the...

Arcade d’Orient Vial: From ‘Philosophie Naturelle’ – A Panorama Of Alchemy Throughout The Ages-Part II & Conclusion

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on May 17, 2024. Posted in Ancient Science and Medicine, Books, Christianity, Concepts, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Arcade d’Orient Vial: From ‘Philosophie Naturelle’ – A Panorama Of Alchemy Throughout The Ages-Part II & Conclusion

Title page, ‘Philosophie Naturelle’ by Arcade d’Orient Vial * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is the continuation and conclusion of the ‘Panorama of Alchemy throughout the Ages’, of which we published the first part some time earlier,...

A Little Antoinette Bourignon Sampler: Part 1- Introductory texts

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on May 10, 2024. Posted in Books, Concepts, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Quietism & Chiliasm Christianity, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Antoinette Bourignon Sampler: Part 1- Introductory texts

Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’–The System of the Scale-Part 3-Hierarchy

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on April 27, 2024. Posted in Ancient Science, Books, Concepts, Hermetism, Judaism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’–The System of the Scale-Part 3-Hierarchy

Francis Warain, picture frontispiece in ‘La Théodicée de la Kabale’, Editions Véga, 1949. * With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we continue our selections from Francis Warrain’s ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’, posthumously published by...

A Little Antoine Madrolle Sampler: Part 1- A Marial Classical Genealogy & Exegesis

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on April 20, 2024. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Philosophy, pre-christian, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Antoine Madrolle Sampler: Part 1- A Marial Classical Genealogy & Exegesis

A portrait of Antoine Madrolle, origin unknown. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is part 1 of a planned sampler-series devoted to Antoine Madrolle (May 29 1791-April 14 1861) with excerpts from his seminal work, ‘Les Magnificences...

A Little Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Sampler – Part I

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on April 15, 2024. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Early Science and Medicine, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Sampler – Part I

A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 3 – ‘The Great Victory of the Women of the New World’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on April 3, 2024. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Gnosticism, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 3 – ‘The Great Victory of the Women of the New World’

Charles Mopsik – Of the Androgynous Nature of the Soul according to Jewish Qabbalah

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on March 19, 2024. Posted in Books, Concepts, Hermetism, Judaism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Charles Mopsik – Of the Androgynous Nature of the Soul according to Jewish Qabbalah

Charles Mopsik picture by Marc Attali. * With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we offer the continuation of the excerpt devoted to the concept of soulmates with the thorough study of the concept of the androgynous nature of the soul...

A Little Simone Weil and Classical Exegesis Sampler–Part IV: About Friendship

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on March 14, 2024. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Philosophy, pre-christian, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Simone Weil and Classical Exegesis Sampler–Part IV: About Friendship

Simone Weil (1909–1943), a French philosopher, * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, the Sampler-Part IV, dedicated to the French Philosopher Simone Weil about ‘Friendship‘ and with a little more. Our little sampler’s text source is: ‘Intuitions...

Henry Corbin & Suhrawardi: From ‘The Incantation of the Simurgh’ – About the Sakina & the state of Fana

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on March 12, 2024. Posted in Ancient Science, Books, Concepts, Hermetism, Islam, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Henry Corbin & Suhrawardi: From ‘The Incantation of the Simurgh’ – About the Sakina & the state of Fana

‘Zal Rescued by the Simurgh’-Attributed to Sadiqi Beg (1533–1610)-Part of the ‘Shahnameh’ of Shah Abbas. In the collections of the Chester Beatty Library, in Dublin. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, are chapter...

Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’–The System of the Scale-Part 2-Bilateral Balance

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on March 11, 2024. Posted in Ancient Science, Books, Concepts, Hermetism, Judaism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’–The System of the Scale-Part 2-Bilateral Balance

A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 2 – The Doctrine Of The Golden Century

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on March 6, 2024. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 2 – The Doctrine Of The Golden Century

From A 1754 Moravian Church Hymnal: The ‘Faith, Hope & Love’ Triptych

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on February 25, 2024. Posted in Books, Christian Moravian-Unitas Fratrum, Concepts, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on From A 1754 Moravian Church Hymnal: The ‘Faith, Hope & Love’ Triptych

Engraving II from the French translation of David Crantz’s ‘Brève et fidèle exposition de l’origine, de la doctrine, des constitutions, usages et cérémonies ecclésiastiques de l’église de l’Unité des Frères, connus sous le...

Thomas Bromley – Two Examples Of A 17th Century English Theosophical Exegesis Of The Bible

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on February 20, 2024. Posted in Christianity, Hermetism, Judaism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Thomas Bromley – Two Examples Of A 17th Century English Theosophical Exegesis Of The Bible

Biblical Patriarchs, Duomo Baptistry in Florence Picture by Matthias Kabel * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an extract from Thomas Bromley’s ‘Journeys of the Children of Israel, as in their names and historical passages,...

Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’–The System of the Scale-Part 1-Fundamental Relationships

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on February 18, 2024. Posted in Ancient Science, Hermetism, Judaism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’–The System of the Scale-Part 1-Fundamental Relationships

Francis Warain, picture frontispiece in ‘La Théodicée de la Kabale’, Editions Véga, 1949. * With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, we are continuing our selections from Francis Warrain’s ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’, posthumously published...

A Review of Ronnie Pontiac’s ‘American Metaphysical Religion’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on February 14, 2024. Posted in Books, Via-HYGEIA Bibliotherapy-Book Reviews. No Comments on A Review of Ronnie Pontiac’s ‘American Metaphysical Religion’

The author, Ronnie Pontiac. * * E PLURIBUS UNUM ‘E pluribus unum’ (‘From many, one‘) is the motto of the United States of America. It is also the driving force that composes Ronnie Pontiac’s latest ‘tour-de-force’,...

Irene Vallejo – The Era of Anger, at the sources of the ‘Aeneid’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on February 8, 2024. Posted in Books, Concepts, Meditation, Philosophy, Poetry, pre-christian, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Irene Vallejo – The Era of Anger, at the sources of the ‘Aeneid’

A 1750 painting describing ‘Aeneas fleeing from Troy’, by Pompeo Batoni (1708–1787) at the Galleria Sabauda in Torino, Italy. Source: Wikimedia commons. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is the English translation of...

A Review of Peter Mark Adams & Christophe Poncet’s ‘Two Esoteric Tarots’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on January 22, 2024. Posted in Books, Via-HYGEIA Bibliotherapy-Book Reviews. No Comments on A Review of Peter Mark Adams & Christophe Poncet’s ‘Two Esoteric Tarots’

Today’s Via-Hygia Bibliotherapy-Book review is ‘Two Esoteric Tarots‘, a 2023 Scarlet Imprint Publication, which is the transcript of a discussion held online between two leading tarot experts, Peter Mark Adams & Christophe Poncet and...

A Review of Tamra Lucid and Ronnie Pontiac’s ‘The Magic of the Orphic Hymns’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on January 15, 2024. Posted in Books, Via-HYGEIA Bibliotherapy-Book Reviews. No Comments on A Review of Tamra Lucid and Ronnie Pontiac’s ‘The Magic of the Orphic Hymns’

It is fascinating to discover a book on ‘The Magic of the Orphic Hymns‘ written by American experimental rock musicians, Tamra Lucid and Ronnie Pontiac and published by Inner Traditions (see link below), and one cannot stress enough how fitting...

A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 1- An Introductory Triptych

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on December 25, 2023. Posted in Christianity, Hermetism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Guillaume Postel Sampler: Part 1- An Introductory Triptych

Henri Coton-Alvart: About The Septenary

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on December 19, 2023. Posted in Ancient Science, Books, Concepts, Hermetism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Science, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Henri Coton-Alvart: About The Septenary

Henri Coton-dit ‘Alvart’, collection particulière, Editions Le Mercure Dauphinois. * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is another excerpt from Henri Coton-Alvart’s posthumous collection of writings, ‘Les Deux Lumières’ (The Two Lights),...

Honoré de Balzac – A Foreword To The ‘Mystical Book’

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on December 14, 2023. Posted in Books, Christian Swedenborgians, Concepts, Hermetism, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Honoré de Balzac – A Foreword To The ‘Mystical Book’

Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850). Daguerréotype de Louis-Auguste Bisson (1814-1876). Paris, Maison de Balzac. * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a foreword written by Honoré de Balzac published in his edition of his ‘philosophical...

Henry Corbin: About The Chivalric Service Of The Philosopher

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on December 7, 2023. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Hermetism, Islam, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Henry Corbin: About The Chivalric Service Of The Philosopher

‘Space and Time’, a painting by Bo Yin Ra * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an excerpt from Henri Corbin’s ‘Man & his Angel’, Fayard_1983 from which we shared already with: ‘Some Convergences Between The Johannite...

Charles Mopsik – About Soulmates According To Jewish Qabbalah

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on December 5, 2023. Posted in Books, Concepts, Meditation, Movie, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Charles Mopsik – About Soulmates According To Jewish Qabbalah

Charles Mopsik picture by Marc Attali. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA was prompted by the viewing of a movie released in 2020, ‘Hereafter’-also called ‘Faraway eyes’, starring Nora Arnezeder, Christina...

A Little Emanuel Swedenborg Sampler: Part I-Of Divine Providence & The Celestial Spheres

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on November 30, 2023. Posted in Books, Christian Swedenborgians, Concepts, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Emanuel Swedenborg Sampler: Part I-Of Divine Providence & The Celestial Spheres

Emanuel Swedenborg, a portrait by Carl Frederik von Breda (16 August 1759 – 1 December 1818) * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEiA is the first part of a little sampler dedicated to Emanuel Swedenborg (29 January 1688 – 29 March 1772)...

Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’ – About Metaphysical Anthropomorphism

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on November 23, 2023. Posted in Bodywork, Books, Christianity, Concepts, Hermetism, Judaism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Francis Warrain: From ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’ – About Metaphysical Anthropomorphism

Francis Warain, picture frontispiece in ‘La Théodicée de la Kabale’, Editions Véga, 1949. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is an excerpt from Francis Warrain’s ‘La Théodicée de la Kabbale’, posthumously...

François-Jean Daillant de La Touche – About Emanuel Swedenborg & Animal Magnetism

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on November 21, 2023. Posted in Bodywork, Books, Concepts, Early Science and Medicine, Hermetism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Science, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on François-Jean Daillant de La Touche – About Emanuel Swedenborg & Animal Magnetism

1780 colored engraving describing a gathering of the ‘Society of Harmony’ founded by Anton Mesmer, consisting of patients and assistants to Mesmer’s animal magnetism therapy, showing use of the special tub at his clinic. From the French...

Fernando Pessoa – Emperor Julian’s Last Winter In Antioch

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 31, 2023. Posted in Books, Christianity, Philosophy, Poetry, pre-christian, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Fernando Pessoa – Emperor Julian’s Last Winter In Antioch

Emperor Julian’s final campaign into Persia, to confront the Sassanid forces, would prove his downfall. Source: f.409v, ‘Commentaries of Gregory of Nazianzus’, Byzantine, 879-883AD, BnF Grec 510. * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue...

Charles Mopsik – About the human body as a field of experience in Qabbalah

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 30, 2023. Posted in Books, Concepts, Hermetism, Judaism, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Charles Mopsik – About the human body as a field of experience in Qabbalah

Charles Mopsik picture by Marc Attali. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an another excerpt from Charles Mopsik’s final work, ‘Le Sexe des Ames, aléas de la différence sexuelle dans la cabale‘, Editions de l’Eclat, Paris, 2003 &...

Cesare Pavese – About Myth, Symbols And Other Subjects

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 26, 2023. Posted in Books, Concepts, Philosophy, pre-christian, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Cesare Pavese – About Myth, Symbols And Other Subjects

Cesare Pavese, Fototeca Storica Nazionale, Getty Images * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an article written by Italian writer Cesare Pavese between 1943/44 and published in ‘Fiera d’Agosto‘ in 1946 by Einaudi in Turin, an heterogeneous...

Emma Hardinge Britten: From ‘Ghost Land’- Celestial Epiphanies

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 25, 2023. Posted in Ancient Science, Books, Concepts, Hermetism, Meditation, Philosophy, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Emma Hardinge Britten: From ‘Ghost Land’- Celestial Epiphanies

‘Ghost Land’, Chicago Edition, 1897 * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is our continuation of the (re)discovery of Emma Hardinge Britten’s seminal works, this time-as promised-from ‘Ghost Land’, which is a thrilling...

Christopher Walton – The Ground & Geniture Of Deity & Nature

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 21, 2023. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Gnosticism, Hermetism, Meditation, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on Christopher Walton – The Ground & Geniture Of Deity & Nature

🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a table of symbols and their explanations by Christopher Walton, found in his 1856 ‘Notes and Materials‘, ‘designed by the editor of the ‘Introduction to Theosophy, as First of Three...

A Little Simone Weil and Classical Exegesis Sampler–Part III: The Lost Keys of Interpretation in Christianity

Written by Nicolas for Hygeia on October 14, 2023. Posted in Books, Christianity, Concepts, Meditation, Philosophy, pre-christian, Psychology & Education, Symbols, Archetypes & Mythology. No Comments on A Little Simone Weil and Classical Exegesis Sampler–Part III: The Lost Keys of Interpretation in Christianity

Simone Weil (1909–1943), a French philosopher, * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, the Sampler-Part III, dedicated to the French Philosopher Simone Weil with the sole subject of the ‘lost keys of interpretation in Christianity‘....

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