vrijdag 31 juli 2020
Love is close
Boven ons Herkomstland na een landing Hier
Ik las vanmorgen wat oude literatuur over kosmologie en vond dit artikel. In de oudheid was voor grote zielen het directe contact met de Werkelijkheden een makkelijker gebeuren dan in deze Materialisatietijd, waar de toegangen ogenschijnlijk gesloten lijken. Gebruik deze zomer eens meer om de kosmos te aanschouwen, de plaats waar onze Wezens mogelijk vandaan komen en weer naar terug reizen.
"Plato’s Cosmos MISREAD OR DISTORTED?
Sepp Rothwangl & George Latura
In Astrology and Cosmology in the World’s Religions (2012), Campion writes that of Plato’s works “two contain explicitly cosmological material: The Timaeus includes his cosmogony, and the Republic details the soul’s origin in, and return to, the stars.” Cicero held a similar view: he translated a portion of Timaeus – the part where the Demiurge creates two intersecting cosmic circles – and he reinterpreted Plato’s Vision of Er at the end of Republic as his Dream of Scipio at the end of On The Republic. Through the theoretical framework posited by Campion, divergent views of Plato’s cosmology are explored.
In Plato’s Vision, departed souls arrive at a pillar of light in the sky while in Cicero’s Dream, Scipio meets his adoptive ancestors in the Milky Way.
The Galaxy was seen as the heavenly abode by Heraclides of Pontus (a pupil of Plato, c. 300 BC), by the Neoplatonist Porphyry (c. AD 280), by Martianus Capella (c. AD 400), and by Macrobius (c. AD 400) who, in his Commentary on Cicero’s Dream of Scipio, located the gates of the afterlife at the intersections of the Milky Way and the zodiac, the constellations along the ecliptic – the path of the seven Wanderers.
This Neoplatonist cosmology is traced back from Macrobius to Cicero and thence to Plato himself. Yet Aristotle, Plato’s pupil, wrote about the Milky Way not in On The Heavens, but in Meteorologica, ascribing the ‘galaxias kyklos’ to atmospheric phenomena and thus removing it from the heavens. By the Middle Ages, Aristotle’s view was predominant and Michael Scotus would claim that the Milky Way was the abode of the ‘demon meridianus’ that mortals should fear. Through a comparative analysis of relevant texts, we examine how and why such different cosmological views emerged.
In Republic’s Vision of Er (c. 370 BCE), Plato writes about the journey of departed souls to a celestial light that girdles the heavens. ‘…they discerned, extended from above throughout the heaven and the earth, a straight light like a pillar, most nearly resembling the rainbow, but brighter and purer… this light was the girdle of the heavens… holding together… the entire revolving vault.’ (Republic, 616b-c, tr. Shorey)
Bron:
de Stilte die valt...
Silence is the language of perfection, whereas noise is the expression of a defect, an anomaly, or of a life that is still disordered and chaotic and needs to be mastered, developed. Children, for example, are noisy because they are overflowing with energy and vitality; the elderly, on the other hand, are quiet. You will say that old people love silence because they have less strength, and noise tires them. There is some truth to this, but perhaps it is also because something within them has evolved, and it is their spirit that is urging them to enter into silence. They need this silence in order to review their life, to reflect and draw lessons, for it is in silence that a work of detachment, of simplification, of synthesis takes place. The search for silence is an inner process that leads human beings to the light and a true understanding of things. |
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov |
donderdag 30 juli 2020
woensdag 29 juli 2020
natuurlijkheid op zijn grootst
Zieledood
koe ontmoeting op de Doolhof boomgaard in Giessenburg
zondag 26 juli 2020
De wereld staat in vuur en vlam, ook door ons gedrag!
De meeste branden worden veroorzaakt door menselijk handelen. Daarnaast hanteren de Russen een manier van brandbestrijding die ze nog niet volledig onder de knie hebben: de preventieve branden die juist bedoeld zijn om bosbranden te onderbreken, lopen vaak uit de hand en worden dan juist een oorzaak van verdere branden.
Amazone
Door ontbossing vanwege landbouw ontstaat er veel meer droogte in het regenwoud. Zo komt er aan de randen van de overgebleven stukken regenwoud meer zon, wat voor meer droogte zorgt en wat dus ook meer vlam vat. Ook wij als Nederland spelen in deze ontbossing een belangrijke rol.
Zo exporteerde Brazilië in 2019 4.1 miljoen ton soja naar Nederland. Nederland is de op 2 na grootste importeur wereldwijd van soja uit Brazilië. Hetzelfde jaar exporteerde Brazilië 25.000 ton rundvlees naar Nederland. Zowel de vlees als de soja industrie zorgt in Brazilië voor enorme houtkap.
Bron: Vroege vogels, 24 juli 2020
vrijdag 24 juli 2020
zaterdag 18 juli 2020
Materie zoekers vinden niet wat eigenlijk te zoeken is
The greatest danger for human beings is to seek most of their satisfaction on the physical plane, for they then become selfish, unjust, dishonest and even criminal. They are ready to embark on schemes and compromise their values in order to obtain a pay raise, a promotion, a bigger share of the market, or even an invitation to a social event. But even if they get what they want, what does their success really bring them? So many of them feel more dissatisfied than ever once they have achieved their goals. Not only have they wronged others but they are no happier themselves. None of this is very worthwhile.
Those who seek happiness in material things are like prospectors who sift through tons of sand to find a mere speck of gold. This is not very profitable either. In order to find gold in quantity, you must put matter aside a little and rise to great heights in the sun, in the spirit. |
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov |








