The “great fish” represents the darkness of ignorance which engulfs man

By Manly P. Hall – The story of Jonah is really a legend of initiation into the Mysteries, and the “great fish” represents the jonahwhaledarkness of ignorance which engulfs man when he is thrown over the side of the ship (is born) into the sea (life).

The custom of building ships in the form of fishes or birds, common in ancient times, could give rise to the story, and mayhap Jonah was merely picked up by another vessel and carried into port, the pattern of the ship causing it to be called a “great fish.” (“Veritatis simplex oratio est!”) (more…)

The Golden Ratio of Life

It is the divine mathematical code of all life, the universe and whom some call God. The fibonacci spiral of the creator of the soul of the universe which forms the Golden spiral or Phi spiral. In geometry, it is known as the logarithmic spiral whose growth factor is φ, the golden ratio.

This pattern is found everywhere in nature and on every scale.

All life originates from this divine code in which our roots truly reach to the stars.

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Eve the Serpent in Images

The English name Eve is derived from the Hebrew word Hevia. Clemens Alexandrinus had said that the name Hevia signifies a female serpent.

The name Eve is connected with the same Arabic root which means both “life” and “a serpent,” and the Persians called the constellation Serpens “the little Ava,” that is Eve, a title which is still given to it by the Arabs. (more…)

All souls are one in essence, whatever forms they may ensoul

In pluribus Unum et Unum in pluribus; One in many and in many One. “The essential unity of all souls with the Over-Soul” is aQuote - soul fundamental postulate of the Wisdom of all ages.

That is to say all souls are one in essence, whatever forms they may ensoul.

But what is more; what is almost an overpowering thought, necessary though it be to universal progress; not only the human soul, but even the soul of the very grain of dust has the potentiality of expanding its consciousness into the All-consciousness.

Every soul is endowed with the power of giving and receiving with respect to every other soul; of passing through every stage of consciousness; of expanding; just as the One, the All-Soul, so to say, contracted itself into manifestation, into the Many, subordinating itself to itself, that every soul might know and become every other soul, by virtue of that Love which is the cause of existence. – GRS Mead