The primary division of the universe drives further polarization and brings forth the quaternity of the Prima Materia.
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We have already mentioned the notion “The Great Stream of Power” many times, treating it as a perceptual given; however, different schools understand “Stream of Power” in different ways.
Everyone is well acquainted with the consuming sensation of intrusive memories. More often than not they are tied to unpleasant events which, instead of fading and being forgotten, return again and again, filling the soul with a slightly sour, bitter taste.
“Cromlechs” usually refer to megalithic stone circles. The stones that make up a cromlech can be elongated in the style of menhirs, or completely shapeless boulders. Sometimes cromlechs have a more complex structure—their constituent stones may be overlapped in pairs or in threes by horizontal slabs on top, like a roof.
“Galdr” or “Galdor” (Galdr, Galdor) in Old Norse originally meant “to cry” or “a cry”, i.e. a “spell” or “magical song”. Later it came to mean magic in general.
However, in its original sense Galdr is precisely verbal magic.
Any life’s Way, however it is presented, consists in the continuous accumulation of experience — awareness — that is, the incorporation of ever-new elements into the picture of the world.
The Tauri — Indo-European first-settlers of Crimea — also revered the Great Goddess. What the Great Goddess was called in the Tauri tongue we do not know; the Greeks called her Parthenos — the Maiden. She was the great goddess of the earth, of the waters, and of all animal and plant life — sovereign of every life and every birth.
Tabiti was called “the Queen of the Scythians”; she appears as the Lady-goddess of the subterranean fire. She is a formidable, “enkindling” Goddess, whose various functions were those of the household fire, the sacrificial fire, and, consequently, of prayer.
Although, according to Herodotus, “Among the Scythians there are many diviners who predict by means of numerous willow rods as follows: bringing large bundles of rods and laying them on the ground, they spread them apart and then, moving the rods one by one, they divine; speaking the predictions, they at the same time gather the rods again and lay them out one by one. Such is their ancestral method of divination,” the most venerated of the seers were precisely the Enarei, for the Great Goddess had given them this faculty.
Based on the beliefs of the peoples of Dahomey (now Benin, located in the region between the modern states of Togo to the west and Nigeria to the east) and their synthesis with Catholicism in Haiti several centuries ago, a system of beliefs emerged — Voodoo. A similar religion, Santería, based on the beliefs of the Yoruba people, arose in Cuba; macumba, likewise rooted in Yoruba beliefs, appeared in Brazil.
As we have already said, the kabbalists hold that the two world-principles—Attractiveness and Expansiveness—are not equivalent. Attractiveness is regarded as a created quality, while Expansiveness is an attribute of the Absolute. Nevertheless, when the Light of the Absolute enters the Vessel of Creation, that Vessel acquires certain properties of the Light. This phenomenon—the form of the Absolute’s presence in the world—is called the Shekhinah.
Alongside the well-known and indisputable wisdom of the druids, the literature about them often contains indications—almost bashful hints—of human sacrifices practiced by them.
It is well known that the druids and the religion they represented had, by the beginning of the 1st century CE, become the target of successive measures of suppression carried out by the Roman authorities.
Alongside the legends of Atlantis, the classical tradition preserves a legend of Hyperborea — a land where a sacred people with superhuman gifts once lived. According to ancient authors’ descriptions, this mythical country lay somewhere far to the north of the Mediterranean.