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17=evil.
My sources* inform me that Plutarch (c.40CE-120CE) wrote that the Pythagoreans** disliked (”abominated” in one translation) the number 17 for barricading 16 from 18. Why single out 17: doe… more »
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At a Glance
Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 day ago: Even in this world, we know a great deal about people even when they are silent, through their eyes … more »
On Quiet and Other Ramblings
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Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 week ago: It’s really quiet here. I don’t mind it at all. It reminds me a bit of my old cell back … more »
The Tenderness of Vision
Arturo Vasquez wrote 2 weeks ago: Hadot Reads Plotinus [Plotinus] gently accepted the multiple levels of our being, and all he tried … more »
Vanum est vobis ante lucem surgere
Arturo Vasquez wrote 2 weeks ago: For the Sun signifies all these things, and simply all essential truth and prophecy and kingship. I … more »
Apollo - Part II
Arturo Vasquez wrote 4 weeks ago: Above: a scene from the Balanchine ballet, Apollo Indeed in the same way that this sensible ligh … more »
Pico's 900 Theses
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Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 month ago: Part II- Banging on the Gates of the Apocalypse Did Pico believe that his Vatican debate would en … more »
Plato's Angel
Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 month ago: …[L]ater Neo-Platonists thought that Aristotle and Plato agree, are ‘harmonised’, … more »
Plotinus on Beauty and Form
Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 month ago: Sylvie Guillem in Kitri’s Act I Solo (rehearsal) Like a dancer taking up different poses, th … more »
On Being Corporeal in the Modern World
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Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 month ago: …Or: The Luxury of Monday morning theological quaterbacking When I was a teenager, one of the … more »
Apollo - Part I
Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 month ago: Above: Peter Martins in the Balanchine ballet, Apollo How to read this book: But meanwhile, most ca … more »
Pico's 900 Theses
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Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 month ago: Image credit: “Circles within circles” by Nicolas LeFevre illustrating Pico della Miran … more »
All Christians are equal. Some are just more equal than others.
Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 month ago: (Some reflections on the hierarchical nature of Christianity) Even the perfect soul is imperfect wh … more »
De Vita Stellarum
Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 month ago: If the former view, which Thomas allows to be compatible by the Platonists and many Fathers, and wh … more »
Omnia in omnibus modo suo
Arturo Vasquez wrote 1 month ago: Above: King Louis XIV as the Sun from the film, Le Roi Danse Proclus give us precise examples of su … more »
Don Marsilio el Curandero
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Arturo Vasquez wrote 2 months ago: Or… The Fifteenth Century Translator of Plato Confronts Modernity with Christianized Shaman … more »
On the Oneness of Truth
Arturo Vasquez wrote 2 months ago: But this single truth, embodied in many different virtues, cannot be the first truth of all, since … more »
Tetraktys Spread
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Starweaver wrote 2 months ago: This article on the tetraktys tarot spread is reprinted from an earlier incarnation of my web site. … more »
Galilee and Parnassus
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Arturo Vasquez wrote 2 months ago: This was just too good not to post. While reading an excellent essay by the Catholic writer, monarc … more »
To gaze upon beauty is to gaze upon the Divine itself...
Arturo Vasquez wrote 2 months ago: -Pas de deux from Maurice Bejart’s Romeo and Juliet Hence it always happens that lovers fear … more »
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