#sacred teachings

[thetempleoftheone]

That which can be named is not The One. No image may contain It, nor word describe It. It cannot be grasped in thought nor in form, yet everywhere it is found. The One is neither a book, a collection of scrolls, nor even the knowledge of every age. The One is not the idolatry of laws, creeds, cultures, or countries. The one whose name can be spoken is not The One. All that may be said of The One is false, yet The One’s truth is undiminished. Though The One evades perception, It is everywhere found. None may comprehend The One, and none may reveal It but Itself. The One demands no worship: all that does is not The One. The One does not require the mediation of clergy: it has no priests, only poets. By Its nature, The One bonds together and makes whole: It is the essence of Unity, and Love is its highest expression.

©️ JM Tiffany

#The One #The Nameless One #all is one #spirituality #truth #the oneness #unity #whole #wholism #sacred texts #sacred teachings #holy #holy words #metaphysics #panpsychism #pantheism #panentheism #trust in the oneness

[sluterastede]

the way that after the teaser dropped every season 2 edward babygirl teach playlist suddenly had hozier on it

and everyone is right for that bc you know the kraken would have hozier’s entire discography on repeat

#it’s part of his sacred auxiliary closet time #i think hozier knew what was coming and dropped his newest album within a month of the trailer to get people ready #edward teach #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd s2 #ofmd #our flag means death

[this-should-do]

a lil redraw of this baller sfm by @gearbroth​

it just enamored me so,,,, they all look so cute <3<3

featuring close up gordon and wrong lambda big foot because thats the vibes gordon giving in this one lol

#gordon freeman #barney calhoun #alyx vance #half life #half life 2 #i ended up thinking of a lil story while drawing #my interpretation is that this is barney teaching alyx the sacred tradition of taking the worst candid pictures of gordon #he did it all the time in black mesa had tons of pictures of gordon looking the most unphotogenic anyone could #too bad they all got blown up in the nuclear blast :( #hes gotta build up his collection again and ensure someones there to continue his lifes work lmao #did u know? its human nature to take funny pictures of ur friends looking weird when theyre not expecting it lol #idoindeeddraw #anyways thank u gear for that masterpiece of an sfm <3 #it really is just superb

[deoidesign]

Are you slowly going insane over your OWN ocs?

No, I've been infected by brainworms the entire time. Nothing slow about it.

But honestly, no... It's not really about my characters to me. I love my characters, of course, and I love telling stories, and I hope to keep making art of my characters every day until I die.

But it's not about them! They're not REALLY what I love, what I love is people! And I hope I can leave the world with a hundred different love letters so my readers can feel how much I love them for even one day longer than I am here.

My characters are a conduit through which I can give that to people. I want nothing more than to make someone feel a little more loved, a little more seen, and a little less alone. And my characters are the best way I know how to do that.

So for that, they're incredibly important to me... But they're not for me. They're for you!

So I hope you enjoy them

and I hope you can feel that I love you through them.

#personally I dont like to use the word insane to describe myself or others #I struggle with many things but when it comes to my characters #I am nothing but concrete #determined #and absolutely positively headstrong through and through. #I don't take myself too seriously #And I don't hold too much sacred that I do #I really just want to make the world slightly better #for even one person #anyways. #asks #izzy-fishy #oh this is also why I hate like... advertising #and locking anything behind a paywall #and just. all of that stuff #I wish I could just make money drawing whatever and everything I do were free with no issues #but the best way for me to pay my bills and make more art is for some of it to be for money... so. #unfortunately I dont get to truly live my dream #where I spend all day teaching people how to draw and making them art they love #ALAS!!! #capitalism

[waitineedaname]

reading the novel, i love how blatantly indulgent of the juniors lan wangji is. when he was their age, he was duelling wei wuxian over broken rules and lived his life by behaving as precisely as what was expected of him, and now as an adult, he's basically letting the juniors do whatever they want as long as it isn't unsafe and generally letting the kids act like kids

which leaves wei wuxian to have to be the one playing bad cop. wei "has never followed anyone else's rules in his life" "bane of lan qiren's existence" "public enemy number one" wuxian has to be the one being like "oh my god don't burn money on someone else's doorstep, don't you know that's rude. you kids need to focus on your studies more, why isn't anyone teaching you anything useful, do i have to do everything myself around here"

#mdzs #it's really cute tbh #and not at all what you'd expect from a surface level impression of them #lwj has spent so much of his life being restrained and basically never got to be a kid #so he's so indulgent of these kids so they don't have to grow up miserable like he did #meanwhile wei wuxian was very unrestrained and then suffered because of it #so he's like you kids need to learn how to do things properly or else you are going to be Killed #they make a good teacher duo tbh #I love how much wwx seems to enjoy teaching them #I just love the bit when they're burning money on someone's yard #and wwx is like ''aren't you going to tell them to stop??'' #and lwj is like ''you do it'' #and so wwx is the one to go over and scold them #can you imagine being the lan juniors #you go to the mo estate and meet this guy who is notoriously gay and insane #who messes with your spiritual tools and sics some corpses on each other #and then he's hanging off of your esteemed hanguang-jun #who as far as you know has never had any friends #except this guy apparently #and then suddenly hanguang-jun is parading the notoriously insane guy around with his sacred forehead ribbon around his wrists #and the notoriously insane guy is very seriously scolding you for not knowing more about ghosts and is definitely doing necromancy #while hanguang-jun makes heart eyes at him #what would you even do with that

[februarys-wednesday]

never understanding y'all who hate shakespeare or studying shakespeare because ONE shakespeare fucks very hard and TWO if you are in like middle school high school it is the easiest shit to study i mean the EASIEST if you don't like to read shakespeare you can go to YOUTUBE DOT COM and type in ANY OF SHAKESPEARES WORKS and you will find a FULL PRODUCTION OF IT for FREE you SHOULD follow along with your book but you don't HAVE TO because you're experiencing shakespeare in the WAY IT WAS MEANT TO BE EXPERIENCED and you will ENJOY YOURSELF and you will LEARN SOMETHING and this is the ONE OPPORTUNITY YOU'LL EVER HAVE IN LIT/ENGLISH/WHATEVER TO WATCH THE "MOVIE" VERSION OF THE BOOK I CANNOT BELIEVE PEOPLE BITCH AND MOAN ABOUT HOW BORING AND DIFFICULT SHAKESPEARE IS!!!

#insufferable theatre freak nonsense #i fucking LOVE shakespeare #as literature but first and foremost as THEATRE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE EXPERIENCED!!!!!!!!! #and it's the easiest shit to study #like hello it is pretty much word for word translated onto the stage #these writings are so sacred that people won't fuck with any characters lines or plot points #it's way better to study shakespeare watching in tandem with reading you will understand it so much better #i could go on forever #hate hate hate how schools teach shakespeare because he fucks heavily and is way cooler than the way we're taught it #it is a DAMN SHAME that i was the only person in most of my classes who actually enjoyed studying shakespeare #because i was already into theatre and i actually understood it #you have to be able to UNDERSTAND it to ENJOY it and the way we teach it doesn't teach understanding!!!!! #i'm being 100% fucking serious if ur studying shakespeare rn cause you have to for school look up a production on youtube and read along #you will actually understand what they're saying because it's being ACTEEEEDDDDDDDD #LIKE IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE!!!!! #okay anyways #theatreposting #shakespeare

[the-owl-tree]

It’s very obvious that the Erin’s are unwilling to actually write in the perspective of characters whose beliefs/values/customs/structure of life don’t conform to the status quo of the Clans. Or even value the different cultures/values in the same way, as evidenced by both the Sisters and the Tribe.

When we do get a perspective from the Sisters, it can’t be of someone who is immersed in the culture they grew up in and value it, no it has to be someone who views the culture as inherently wrong despite being raised in it. It makes no sense and just serves to say “wow the Clans really are so great and the pinnacle of cat society” without a hint of irony.

It’s just gross. And bad writing. And a bad way to view different cultures. Please they need to understand cultural relativism, like I get it’s fictional, but still. It wouldn’t be as bad if there was some sort of commentary on how the Clans are so intolerant to other ways of life but there isn’t. It’s without a hint of irony that they’re somehow superior.

^^ nail on the head

#nothing to add that's it! #and i think it's bad to teach young readers to be so dismissive of other cultures #every now and again i think about how one of the plot points in the books is the clan cats forcing the tribe to give up- #an ancestral and sacred place to them #and stoneteller is treated as unreasonable for not wanting to give it up

[sparklyslug]

But hear me out: maybe it ISNT immature to block someone just because they were condescending to me in reblog tags about pumping gas

#MAYBE its in keeping with the sacred teachings of my home state! #it is immature to subtweet about it u got me there lmaooo

[pathofregeneration]

Gilbert Williams, The Vortex (1982)

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The Teachings of the Adepts, part II

“There is an invisible universe within the visible one, a world of causes within the world of effects. There is force within matter, and the two are one, and are dependent for their existence on a third, which is the mysterious cause of their existence. There is a world of soul within a world of matter, and the two are one, and caused by the world of spirit. And within these worlds are other worlds, visible and invisible ones. Some are known to modern science, of others she does not even know that they exist; for, as the material worlds of suns and planets and stars, the worlds of animate and inanimate beings, from man the lord of creation down to the microscopic world with its countless inhabitants, can only be seen by him who is in the possession of the powers necessary for their perception, likewise the world of the soul and the realms of the spirit can only be known to him whose inner senses are awakened to life. The things of the body are seen through the instrumentality of the body, but the things of the soul require the power of spiritual perception.

This power of spiritual perception, potentially contained in every man, but developed in few, is almost unknown to the guardians of science in our modern civilization, because learning is often separated from wisdom, and the calculating intellect seeking for worms in the dark caverns of the earth cannot see the genius that floats towards the light and it cannot realize his existence. And yet this ancient science, which the moderns ignore, is perhaps as old as the world. It was known to the ancient prophets, to the Arhats and Rishis of the East, to initiated Brahmins, Egyptians, and Greeks. Its fundamental doctrines are found in the Vedas as well as in the Bible. Upon these doctrines rest the fundaments of the religions of the world. They formed the essence of the secrets that were revealed only to the initiated in the inner temple where the ancient mysteries were taught, and whose disclosure to the vulgar was forbidden under the penalty of torture and death. They were the secrets known to the ancient sages and to the Adepts and Rosicrucians of the Middle Ages, and upon a partial understanding of their truths rests the system of modern Freemasonry.”

— Franz Hartmann, The Life of Paracelsus

#Gilbert Williams #The Vortex #Art #Beauty #Painting #Visionary #Franz Hartmann #The Life of Paracelsus #The Teachings of the Adepts #Adepts #Wisdom #Brahmins #Arthats #Vedas #Bible #Spiritual Perception #Man #Evolution #Sacred Mysteries

[hyper-voice]

@skullkxd said: BE GAY DO CRIME!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!! KICKS OVER A TRASH CAN!!!!!!!!

"Gotta pass our sacred teachings on to the new generation."

#sacred teachings of disrespect your surroundings #skullkxd

[appalachianmike]

Title: Embracing Ancient Wisdom: The Enchantment of Old Growth Trees in the Appalachian Mountains

In the heart of the ancient Appalachian mountains, amidst the towering old growth trees, lies a reservoir of wisdom as old as time itself. These majestic giants, rooted in the earth for centuries, are not merely symbols of strength and endurance, but repositories of ancient wisdom passed down through generations. Inspired by Celtic pagan traditions, we uncover the profound teachings hidden within the enchanted embrace of these venerable beings.

This gouache painting of a wise old tree serves as a portal to the timeless wisdom found in the depths of the Appalachian forests. Just as the Celts revered the sacred groves as places of divine communion, so too do we honor these ancient woodlands as sanctuaries of spiritual insight and enlightenment.

In Celtic pagan tradition, trees are regarded as sacred beings, each with its own unique energy and essence. The old growth trees of the Appalachian mountains, with their gnarled branches and weathered bark, exude a palpable sense of wisdom and ancient knowing. They stand as silent sentinels, bearing witness to the passage of time and the cycles of nature.

As I share my painting, I hope we are reminded of the interconnectedness of all life and the importance of honoring the wisdom of the natural world. Just as the roots of the old growth trees are intertwined with the earth, so too are we connected to the web of life that sustains us all. By attuning ourselves to the rhythms of nature and seeking guidance from the ancient wisdom of the trees, we can find clarity, purpose, and direction on our spiritual journey.

In the quiet stillness of the forest, away from the distractions of the modern world, we can hear the whispers of the ancient ones—the rustle of leaves in the breeze, the creaking of branches in the wind, the murmuring of the streams and rivers. These are the voices of the old growth trees, speaking to us in the language of the earth, offering us guidance, solace, and inspiration.

As modern Celtic Pagans, we have much to learn from the ancient wisdom of the Appalachian forests. By immersing ourselves in nature and communing with the spirits of the land, we can tap into a wellspring of spiritual insight and transformation. Let us honor the sacred groves of the Appalachian mountains as temples of divine wisdom, and let us draw strength and inspiration from the ancient teachings of the wise old trees.

My painting of this wise old enchanted tree serves as a reminder of the profound wisdom that lies hidden within the ancient forests of the Appalachian mountains. May we heed the call of the old growth trees, and may we walk with reverence and humility upon the sacred earth, honoring the interconnectedness of all life and seeking guidance from the wisdom of the natural world.

#Appalachian wisdom #Celtic paganism #Old growth trees #Ancient wisdom #Spiritual insight #Nature's teachings #Sacred groves #Wisdom of the forest #Enchanted forests #Spiritual connection #Natural spirituality #Appalachian mountains #Celtic traditions #art #gouache #sketchbook #painting

[blueheartbookclub]

"The Initiates of the Flame: Illuminating the Path to Esoteric Wisdom"

In "The Initiates of the Flame," Manly P. Hall takes readers on a captivating journey into the profound realms of esoteric knowledge and spiritual enlightenment. Hall's meticulous exploration of ancient mystical teachings serves as a beacon, guiding readers through the intricate tapestry of secret wisdom. With eloquence and depth, the author unravels the symbolic language of the initiates, revealing timeless truths that resonate with seekers of spiritual understanding.

Hall's narrative is a tapestry woven with threads of mystery, unveiling the sacred rites, hidden symbols, and spiritual allegories passed down through the ages. The book becomes a key unlocking the doors to higher consciousness, inviting readers to contemplate the esoteric principles that underpin the universe. As Hall delves into the teachings of the initiates, he sheds light on the transformative journey one must undertake to unlock the secrets of the flame—the eternal source of spiritual illumination.

The Initiates of the Flame is not merely a book; it is a profound meditation on the esoteric traditions that have shaped humanity's quest for spiritual enlightenment. Hall's insights are a testament to his deep understanding of the ancient mysteries, offering readers a glimpse into the hidden dimensions of existence. This work is a must-read for those who seek to unravel the mysteries of the flame and embark on a transformative journey toward higher knowledge and self-realization.

"The Initiates of the Flame," Manly P. Hall is available in Amazon in paperback 10.99$ and hardcover 18.99$ editions.

Number of pages: 167

Language: English

Rating: 9/10                                           

Link of the book!

Review By: King's Cat

#Esoteric Wisdom #Spiritual Illumination #Ancient Mysteries #Initiatic Teachings #Hidden Symbols #Symbolic Language #Higher Consciousness #Spiritual Transformation #Sacred Rites #Mystical Traditions #Secret Knowledge #Spiritual Allegories #Metaphysical Exploration #Initiatory Journey #Universal Truths #Occult Wisdom #Hermetic Philosophy #Alchemical Insights #Transcendental Knowledge #Self-Realization

[shortguyswag]

current thought for a video essay: The future is atheist (but we'll still celebrate christmas?)

#Idk #I'm just reading enders game and thinking about how even though religions kinda been abandoned by the sound of it #enders dad gave all of them saints names #his mom gave him a priesthood blessing #How the french daring to not teach english until age 4 is oh the prideful french #and alai saying salaam to ender was almost... Intimate is the wrong word #but sharing that piece of culture was like a huge thing #looked up the line in the book ender says he knew it was sacred #vs for example who watches the watchers in tng where they (iirc) imply that the proto vulcans growing out of ~superstitious religion~ #was a huge step forward in the advancement of their culture which sure vulcan cousin society ultra logical bla bla bla #but idk I feel like religion and logic aren't entirely at odds #and tbf I am saying this as a kinda religious person #but the abandonment of all religion in sci fi- especially when they maintain idk christmas as a cultural hallmark - kinda rubs me the wrong #Cause does that not seem really fucking dystopic to literally anyone else?

[sacredwilderness]

He was a god amongst us

Alan Watts- letting go

#sacred #teaching #spiritual alignment #spirituality #master #♡✩ #Youtube

[brightgnosis]

Note Dump on 'Land, Respect, and Belonging: A Teaching on Sacred Responsibility', Hosted by Dr. Daniel Foor and the Ancestral Medicine Team

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#Daniel Foor #Land Respect and Belonging Ritual #Land Respect and Belonging #A Teaching on Sacred Responsibility #Personal #Religion and Magic #2022 #Ancestral Connections #A Direct Look At My Practice #Natural Connections #Witchblr #Paganblr #Wiccablr

[waffliesinyoface]

i think its extremely funny in naruto fanfiction whenever the author decides* to include a scene with hidan proselytizing, or extolling the virtues of jashinism. i love when he stops mid-rampage to try and explain his close and personal relationship with his god to his unfortunate captive audience.

*by "decides," i of course mean "they put hidan in the scene and were unable to prevent him from stealing the show"

"We have no reason to stay here. We fulfilled the client's request," Kakuzu ground out, the vein in his forehead throbbing angrily. "Stop messing around. Time is money-"

"Yeah, yeah, shut up with that horseshit. If you wanna report to Leader so bad, you can head back without me. I'm fucking teaching here, asshole! These heathen shits don't know their ass from their elbows, what kind of priest would I be if I didn't offer them moral guidance?"

Kakuzu grunted in response, then gestured to the few remaining civilian stragglers. "And what, exactly, are you attempting to teach them. They're clearly already terrified. Just get on with it so we can leave."

Hidan stared at Kakuzu incredulously. "...the fuck? What kind of shitty ass school did you go to? They don't cover fear in ethics class," he scoffed.

Kakuzu stared at Hidan, his darkened and skull-patterned skin slick with blood, and watched as he began to slowly disembowel himself. "Ethics class." He paused, letting the unspoken question hanging in the air.

Nearby, the last of the village elders continued to bleed out, his screams having long since dissolved into pained gasps.

"Yeah, ethics class!" Hidan agreed, his eyes wild. Satisfied, he yanked the kunai out, and placed the tip directly on top of his sternum, above his heart. "After all," he said, grunting with exertion, "one of the core tenets of Jashinism is empathy."

#naruto #fanfiction #akatsuki #kakuzu #hidan #tagged for violence and stuff because uhhhh its hidan #''your suffering is sacred'' says hidan ''we're sharing a human connection right now; isnt that beautiful'' #to be clear i also think its fun when he goes on a killing spree for shits and giggles. i just think its also fun when hes like: #''wait wait wait hang on; this is a teaching moment. i need to offer some life advice'' and then proceeds to be just as violent #kakuzu is really not paid enough for this but he never thinks he's paid enough so maybe it balances out #i still dont know how to do readmores correctly on tumblr mobile so i had to get out of bed to post this. upsetting.