The World – Dance of Eternity

The World/Eternity

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when
life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

~ Kahlil Gibran, ‘On Beauty’ from The Prophet

 

‘Phanecone’   ©Roxanna Bikadoroff

“After all, do seeds not contain within them the very hope for continuance of the entire species that bore it? This super-saturated state of the seed, where life condenses itself down into an intensely miniaturized holographic fragment of itself, promising the formation of future worlds within itself, is the very emblem of life’s immense and immortal power.”*

 

Soprafino Tarot

“Ascend above any height, descend further than any depth; receive all sensory impressions of the created: water, fire, dryness and wetness. Think that you are present everywhere: in the sea, on earth and in heaven; think that you were never born and that you are still in the embryonic state: young and old, dead and in the hereafter. Understand everything at the same time: time, place, things: quality and quantity.”

– The Corpus Hermeticum, 1460

 

Camion-Jodo TdM

“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.”

– T.S. Eliot, ‘Burnt Norton‘ from Four Quartets

 

Maenad, 19th c cameo

Listen to the Govinda song

*Apologies, I don’t know where this seed quote originates.

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