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“Famous people are just more interesting.” - Penny Lane

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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa - The Cosmic Tree of Universal Matter with Seven Branches and Opposing Triangles, “De Occulta Philosophia”, 1533. The symbol of the cosmic tree in both its upright and inverted forms is clearly found in the Rg Veda. Both forms of the cosmic tree are used as the basic formulation of the cosmogony and cosmology of the soma sacrifice.  In Rg Vedic cosmology, the unmanifest realm above is represented by an upright tree. The manifest world below is represented by an inverted tree. These can be graphically depicted as two triangles pointing in opposite directions and mirroring each other. This is the probable origin of the graphic representation of two triangles opposed to each other found in European alchemical and magical traditions. The soma priest used fire along the cosmic pillar/tree to invert it, making it an upward‑pointing triangle. This initiated a reunification of the manifest and unmanifest worlds. The fire (Agni) is said in the Rg Veda to be born directly from the entheogenic lotus (puskara) that induces the inner fire in the heart. When the two triangles representing the manifest and the unmanifest worlds merge in the heart as explained in the Rg Vedic soma ceremony, the formation of the six‑pointed star body of light results. Fire reverses the inverted tree of manifestation by uniting the manifest with the unmanifest, forming a union of opposites. At this stage celestial soma merges with terrestrial Agni and lights up the solar heart. The six-pointed star body is really a seven‑pointed star body. Along the trunk there are three sets of pairs of limbs, which equal six points. The central pillar is itself the seventh point of the seven‑pointed star body. The luminous solar body of light emerges from the primal waters of creation in the heart‑ocean. This inner star body formed by the union of opposites is found at the basis of many Western mystical traditions including magic, Gnosticism, Kabbalah, alchemy, Hermetic traditions, and the works of Jacob Boehme, Robert Fludd, and John Dee.

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Life and beauty.

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

G.K. Chesterton (via talisman)

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Kale sold separately. 

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Goldfish Tea Bag - Charm Villa via Mister Finch.

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Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury (via loveage-moondream)

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❤️ #Rumi ❤️

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Earth is heading towards the sixth mass extinction, and the news has adverse implications for human beings as well, say researchers.

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Octopuses ‘are aliens’, scientists decide after DNA study