The Wonder of Futility (Paul)

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"It seems the day words started to make sense, the world stopped to make

any."

 

Paul Misiunas <misiunas@s...>

 

< I am drawn to your words, as the bee to the flower, enabling

nourishment to exist in worlds undreamed of.

 

Where words fail, I am There. >

 

I came to read this last night, a flower among others:

 

"The Hermeticist is essentially an _iconophile_. For him symbols are not

obstacles that must be eliminated in order to arrive at knowledge of the

truth, but rather means of receiving revelation. The "clothes" - the

symbols - of truth are for him not what _hides_ it, but rather what

_reveals_ it. The entire world, in so far as it is a series of symbols,

does not hide, but reveals the Word. The divine commandment: _Thou shalt

not kill, is also applicable to the domain of knowledge. He who _denies_

the life of symbols, kills them in thought. The iconoclast is an

intellectual murderer. The Hermeticist is, in contrast, an iconophile

and traditionalist. This means to say that he does side with the

successive waves of iconoclasm - the waves named "reformation",

"enlightement", scientific faith" - which set fire to forest of symbols

protecting the intellectual sun of humanity agaisnt barrenness and

erosion. this means to say, also, that he has as basic principle not

only the commandement _Thou shalt not kill_, but also the commandment,

growth, development and evolution - the commandment: _Honour thy father

and thy mother_." (Meditations on the Tarot, anonymous).

 

Antoine