Antoine /Symbology

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At 07:57 AM 5/2/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>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

 

 

[a few thoughts]

As, for example, the word 'there'; it creates a point of origin and is an

invocation. We are all magicians and have taken for granted the power of

words and thereby have lost their true meaning.

 

Words do reveal Truth through the symbology of meaning. Answers to our own

individual questions can be found all around us, all we need do is let them

reveal themselves.

 

>He who _denies_ the life of symbols, kills them in thought.

 

That is an incredibly powerful statement.

 

I have a brother that reads very slowly, but I can only stand in awe as the

words he reads takes on a depth of meaning that I have long forgot.

 

Paul