Symbols of Transformation
C. G. Jung
archetypes are rendered by increasing the passage of time's speed which reveals a given figure or subject matter's most distinctive & consistently recurrent traits as they reappear & reinforce a distinction over time. any perceived archetype in the present is, thus, the very countenance of primordial history itself since the beginning, looking back.
A stone marker at a holy site dedicated to the dual lunar cult of Tanit and Astarte; Phoenician night goddesses worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity, alongside their horned consort Ba'al Hammon, “Lord of Braziers”, classically associated with Saturn.
Figure of hand from Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros ~1775
The natural method involves seeking consistency and equilibrium among different modes of analysis applied to the study of some mental phenomenon…In the case of dreams, phenomenology, will supply us with first-person reports about how dreams seem, especially how particular dreams seem from the point of view of the person who has the dream.
The mental sciences—psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience—are needed to provide answers to a host of questions that are not answered by how things seem, even if we take how they seem to be as how they really are for the dreamer. The mental sciences will tell us about the objective side of dreams.
—Owen Flanagan, Dreaming Souls
thinking about angels...