The festival of the 25th of December, was celebrated by the Druids in Britain and Ireland with great fires

The festival of the 25th of December, was celebrated by the Druids in Britain and Ireland with great fires lighted on the tops of the hills. druids-christmasThe festival was repeated on the twelfth day, or what we now call the Epiphany. In some parts the fires are still continued.

Godfrey Higgins, commenting upon this, says, “We have not now remaining “any documents to inform us what, amongst the British Druids, was “the object or name of this festival, but perhaps we may gather it from “circumstances.”It was the great festival of Frey, and this is evidenced by the words of the Venerable Bede, who wrote in the 7th. century; he states that this very night was observed by the heathen Saxons. (more…)

What is the Serpent? Adam or The Devil Genesis 3:1?

Question from a reader: What is the Serpent? Adam or The Devil Genesis 3:1Michelangelo-The-Fall-and-Expulsion-of-Adam-and-Eve-Sistine-Chapel

My Answer: In Christianity, it is the devil. Dante called the devil, a worm.

Reader comment: Some Christians believe that Satan The devil is a personification of human nature this is not an abstraction but that physical principle of the animal nature, which is the cause of all its diseases, death, and resolution into dust. (more…)

Alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism

“Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on CARL JUNG alchemythe other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.” – Carl Jung

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter

“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too noam chomskyindependent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on –because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.” ―Noam Chomsky

It is only possible to live as we should, if we live according to our own nature

“It is only possible to live as we should if we live according to our own nature.Carl Jung at Work

But in these days we live by our brains alone and ignore the very definite laws of our body and the instinctive world.

We damage ourselves severely when we offend against these, and this is what our patient has done in her efforts to live rationally.” ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture, 7 June 1935.