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A Little Simone Weil and Classical Exegesis Sampler–Part II: About ANANKE

Simone Weil (1909–1943), a French philosopher, * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, the Sampler-Part II, dedicated to the French Philosopher Simone Weil with the sole subject of Ananke, Necessity, a key concept developed in Plato’s...

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Isabelle de Steiger Translating Karl von Eckartshausen: From ‘The Cloud upon the Sanctuary ‘ – Letter V

Isabelle de Steiger circa 1880 * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is seminal Letter V, excerpted from Karl von Eckartshausen’s highly influential 1802 ‘The Cloud Upon the Sanctuary’-here in Isabel von Steiger’s...

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Eugène Canseliet – A Few Words About Karl von Eckartshausen

Eugène Canseliet, picture in I.n.c.n. magazine, volume 2. * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is the English translation of a small article by Eugène Canseliet about Karl von Eckartshausen, published in 1964 in ‘Alchimie-Etudes...

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Karl von Eckartshausen – A Christian Vision Of The Golden Age Restored

The ‘ Adoration of the Magi’, painting by Gentile da Fabriano. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House is a rarely seen text by Karl von Eckartshausen, ‘‘Heaven on Earth or Jesus-Christ in the heart of men’, published as an appendix to the ‘Cloud...

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A Little LOTUS DE PAINI Sampler – Part II

Artwork: School of Andrea Mantegna,  woodblock engraving by Jean Cousin and Jean Goujon for the 1553 Kerver edition of ‘Le Songe de Poliphile’, * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is another selection from the collected...

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Emma Hardinge Britten: From ‘Art Magic’ – How Traditions Become Scriptures

‘Art magic’-1898 Chicago edition title page. * With today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, (as a immediate follow up to Henri Coton-Alvart’s study on the Zodiac just  published) we continue our discovery of Emma Hardinge Britten’s...

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Henri Coton-Alvart: The Alchemical & Chemical Zodiac

Henri Coton-dit ‘Alvart’, collection particulière, Editions Le Mercure Dauphinois. * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a substantial study by Henri Coton-Alvart, published in the 1999 collective publication, ‘Ces Hommes...

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A Little Jacob Boehme Sampler On Prayer

Engraving frontispiece from the ‘Alphabetum Divini Amoris’, published by the Carthulian Order, Jehan Petit-Paris, 1499. * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a little Jacob Boehme Sampler on Prayer in 3 parts🌿’What...

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Jacob Boehme: From ‘De Signatura Rerum’ – Now wilt thou be a Magus ?

‘De Signatura Rerum’ frontispiece, for the 1730 third German edition, also called the second Gichtel edition * 🌿Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an key extract from Jacob Boehme’s ‘De Signatura Rerum’, John Sparow’s...

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A Review Of ‘Les Sârs De La Rose-Croix’ By Serge Caillet

Serge Caillet with a copy of ‘Les Sârs De La Rose-Croix’. * English Version This present book is the fulfilment of a long search and is the second edition of a book published forty years ago, in 1986, by éditions Cariscript, managed by the late...

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Henri Coton-Alvart: From ‘The Two Lights’ – Hermes, The Mediator

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

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Henry Corbin & Suhrawardi: ‘The Epistle Of The High Towers’ – Chapters I and II

‘Remember, even though you are mortal, that you rose by the contemplation  of nature up to the infinity of space and time‘. Artwork by Aurélien Lepage. “L’infinité de l’espace et du temps” (série “Les luminaires”),...

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John Pordage: From ‘Theologia Mystica’- Of The Opening Of The Inner Eye

Frontispiece for Jacob Boehme’s ‘ Way to Christ’, in the 1630 Gichtel Leiden edition. * Another sharing from the blue House of Via-HYGEIA, an extract from Dr. John Pordage’s ‘Theologia Mystica’, in the ‘Treatise of Eternal Nature, with...

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Henry Corbin & Suhrawardi: ‘The Epistle Of The High Towers’ – Chapters III and IV

From Jacob Bryant’s 1775 ‘Mythology’, volume 1, page 411. Engraving by James Basire. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an excerpt from one of Suhravardi’s treatises, ‘The Epistle of the High Towers’, chapter III and...

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Mansour Al-Hallaj: From The ‘Book of Tawasin‘- About The Triple Enclosure

An example of ‘triple enclosure’ in Islam: The dome of the Rock, plan of the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in the old city of Jerusalem. (Source: page 194 of Bruno Etienne’s biography of Abdelkader, Hachette, Paris-1994) * Today’s...

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Simone Weil – Sketches Of A History Of Greek Science

Portrait of Simone Weil, (1909–1943), Wikipedia Commons. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a text by Simone Weil, ‘Sketches of a History of Greek Science’, published posthumously in ‘Intuitions Pré-Chrétiennes‘,...

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Azizuddin Nasafi – From ‘The Book Of The Perfect Man’: On Confident Abandon

‘JOB-covered with sores’, statue on the left altar wall at the ‘Marienkapelle’ in Langscheid, Sundern-North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany,  Picture by Thomas Hummel. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is another...

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Thomas Vaughan: From ‘Lumen de Lumine’ – About Thalia & Viridity

‘Thalia, Muse of Comedy & pastoral poetry with face of Poppaea’; wall paintings from ‘triclinium A’ in the luxury inn in Agro Murecine (modern Moregine); first century CE. This inn, with five triclinia (dining rooms), may have...

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Meister Eckhart – ‘Adolescens,tibi dico: surge’- Sermon XVIII

Meister Eckhart witch a student, sculpture by Lothar Spurzem, in Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria, Germany. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is ‘Sermon XVIII’ by German mystical luminary Meister Eckhart, as a follow up of our...

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Charles Mopsik – A Few Words About The Sephirot

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

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A Little LOTUS DE PAINI Sampler – Part I

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs in Farmington, New Mexico. Picture by Steven Yabek. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is the first of a planned few little samplers dedicated to Elvezia Gazzotti, better know under her pseudonym of ‘Lotus...

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Dr. Syafaatun Almirzanah: A Selection From ‘When Mystic Masters Meet’

Palm Tree motif from the book cover * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a selection from Dr. Syafaatun Almirzanah’s  impressive 2011 book, ‘When Mystic Masters Meet, Towards a new matrix for Christian-Muslim Dialogue’...

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Mansour Al-Hallaj – The Orchard Of The Gnostics

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...

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Henry Corbin & Suhrawardi: From The ’Book Of The Symbols of Faith of the Philosophers’- The Procession of the ten Intelligences-

Detail from the entrance of the St. Petersburg Mosque, Russia. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is an excerpt from one of Suhravardi’s treatises, the ‘Book of the Symbols of Faith of the Philosophers’, chapter 4, pages 16 to 17...

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Simone Weil – Letter To Déodat Roché

Photos credits: Wikimedia Commons * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is a letter written by French Philosopher Simone Weil to Déodat Roché (1877-1978) who was an historian of Catharism (See link in source section) who founded the...

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A Little Simone Weil and Classical Exegesis Sampler – Part I

Simone Weil (1909–1943), a French philosopher, * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is another of our little samplers, this time dedicated to the French Philosopher Simone Weil-part I of a forecasted few. ‘Weil was a precocious student,...

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A Little ChatGPT and Classical Lore Sampler

  Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is one of our little samplers, here dedicated to ChatGPT answering some typical questions about classical lore. There are not disappointing, but are not impressive too. Why have we engaged in...

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Emir Abd El-Kader – The Reasons That Prevent The Mind From Knowing The World

  Emir Abd El-Kader, by Hocine Ziani * Today’s sharing from the blue House of Via-HYGEIA is the continuation of a text from Emir Abdelkader we published a while ago, excerpted from the forewords of his 1848 ‘Letter to the French People’ (Lettre aux...

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Charles Mopsik – Colors As Outlines Of The Divine World

Charles Mopsik picture by Marc Attali. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is the text of a conference given by Charles Mopsik at a symposium devoted to the theme of colors at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris...

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Max Planck – Thoughts Upon Religion

German physicist Max Planck, circa. 1930. picture credited to Transocean Berlin. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is the central part of a speech Max Planck gave in May 1937-“Religion and Natural Science”-and published...

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Charles Mopskik – Qabbalah Is A Mistagogy Not A Mysticism

Charles Mopsik picture by Marc Attali. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is an excerpt from the foreword of Charles Mopsik’s trailblazing ‘Les grands Textes de la Cabale’, Verdier, 1993. With this short text we...

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From Porphyry’s ‘Philosophy of the Oracles’- Hymn To The Ineffable Father

Choir of angels, detail from the 15th century ‘Assumption of the Virgin’ by Francesco Botticini. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is an hymn shared by Porphyry- here in Hans Yohanan Lewy’s English translation...

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Hans Yohanan Lewy – About The Supreme Being in the ‘Chaldaean Oracles’

M31: The Andromeda Galaxy Image Credit: Subaru (NAOJ), Hubble (NASA/ESA), Mayall (NSF); Processing & Copyright: R. Gendler & R. Croman. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is another excerpt from the ‘must have’ posthumous publication...

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Jean Mallinger – Plutarch Of Chaeronea & The Erythraean Cosmosophy

‘The Sibyl of Erythraea’, detail from a 1564 triptych, by Maerten van Heemskerck, In the collections of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. * And another (late) sharing for the day from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, chapter III of ‘Les Secrets...

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Jacob Boehme: From ‘Aurora’ – The Tree of Life Parabola

‘Aurora’ frontispiece from the 1682 German Gichtel Edition. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is an ‘slightly modernized’ excerpt from Jacob Boehme’s ‘Aurora’, from our library’s John Sparrow’s-1656-first...

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Henry Corbin & Abd al-Karim al-Jili – The Journey of the Stranger & the Conversation with Khidr

Cover of the Suhail Academy 2000 English edition of Titus Burckhardt’s extracts and French translation of Jili’s ‘Universal Man’ * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of VIa-HYGEIA, is text translated by Henry Corbin, taken...

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Fernando Pessoa – In the Tomb of Father Rosenkreuz

The grave of Christian Rosenkreuz, depicted as the Philosophers’ Mountain, published in the ‘Geheime Figuren Der Rosenkreuzer’ in Altona in 1785. Here in the French AMORC 1985 edition. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA...

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Louis Ménard: Socrates In The Underworld- Standing Before King Minos

The Underworld judges, from the left, Rhadamanthys – Minos – Aeakos_ Apulian red-shaped krater4 th century B.C. Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich, Germany. * Today’s sharing  from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is a very timely dialog...

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Anna Kingsford: Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus – The Virgin Of The World

Artemis of Ephesus, Restored Roman alabaster statue from the second half of the 2nd century CE. Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Italy. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, is Anna Kingsford & Edward Maitland’s English...

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Mother Ann Lee & Maria de Naglowska’s Sacred Feminine

Artwork by Yann Legendre, used for the cover of the album called ‘Tikkun’, by Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi, released in May 27, 2014. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, are texts taken from two different traditions...

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Jean-Marie d’Ansembourg – About The Eternal Feminine

‘Philosophy suckling Boethius’, in the ‘Consolation of Philosophy’. 14th century miniature. Library of Besançon, France. Cliché IRHT © CNRS. * And the last sharing for the day from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA-as a follow up with our recent post regarding...

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Boethius: From the ‘Consolation of Philosophy’ – The Acquisition Of Happiness

‘Philosophy conversing with Boethius’, in the ‘Consolation of Philosophy’. 14th century miniature. Library of Besançon, France. Cliché IRHT © CNRS. * Another sharing for the day from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, the chapter pointed...

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Cassiodorus – The Natural Powers of the Soul

 Frontispiece showing Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (seated opposite Theodoric), fol. 2r of Leiden ms. vul. 46 (Gesta Theodorici), Manuscript on vellum. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA is another quote from Cassiodorus’ work: ‘On...

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Francis Lee – Concerning Divine Wisdom

‘Divine Wisdom between Mary and John the Baptist’, Anonymous 19th century icon from the Yaroslavl oblast, Russia. * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA-also a follow-up of our preceding posts-is a captivating in-depth exposition...

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Heinrich Khunrath: From The ‘Amphitheatrum Sapientiæ Æternæ’- About Divine Wisdom

The ‘Eagle or Phenix Spirit of Divine Wisdom’, detail from the ‘Cosmic Rose’ plate from the ‘Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Æternae’, by Heinrich Khunrath, copy from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Libraries. Department...

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Albéric Magnard: ‘Guercœur’- An Opera in III Acts

The allegorical figures of Justicia, left, and Veritas, right, by Walter Seymour Allward, c. 1920. Installed in front of the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa in 1970. (Photos by Carol L. Douglas) * Today’s sharing from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA...

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John Pordage: From ‘Theologia Mystica’-About Divine Wisdom’s ART

Detail from the base of the Celsian Sophia statue at Celsus’ Library in Ephesus, Türkiye. * Another sharing for the day from the Blue House of Via-HYGEIA, an excerpt from Dr. John Pordage’s ‘Theologia Mystica’, in the ‘Treatise of Eternal Nature,...

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