Thursday 12 November 2015

Wednesday 11 November 2015

Review 7: Freemasonry, A Journey through Ritual and Symbol


Engrossing Symbolism—A Review of Freemasonry, 
A Journey through Ritual and Symbol by Kirk MacNulty

After providing a brief if convincing history of the origins of Freemasonry, MacNulty, in what is a sympathetic treatment of this mystery tradition, reveals Freemasonry to be an effective, inspiring, and even addictive symbolic system for developmental psychology, that is to say, the ascent from base to higher consciousness, within a tight framework of self-labour, ritual, and interpretation.

This is a small volume but I felt greatly enriched within the small amount of time it took me to read its thirty or so pages of text and seventy pages of beautiful illustrations. 

This is a most unpretentious work, requiring only open mindedness and curiosity, and I felt greatly empowered by this brief overview of what is in effect a psychology of the self, but far more sophisticated and inspiring I found than modern popular psychology. 

This book is an excellent resource therefore on a subject which by its nature is esoteric and the knowledge of which is hard to come by. 

Tuesday 10 November 2015

Art 15: Tom

Monday 9 November 2015

Sunday 8 November 2015

Saturday 7 November 2015

Thought 82: The Meaning of Courage


Confrontation.

Friday 6 November 2015

Art 12: Papa

Thursday 5 November 2015

Thought 81: Evil Never Sleeps


Evil never sleeps
because power
never sleeps.

Wednesday 4 November 2015

Thought 80: Being and Modern Life


Modern life inundates
with things seeking
our trust.

Why not
trust in
Being?

Tuesday 3 November 2015

Monday 2 November 2015

Thought 79: My Brand of Elitism


To point the
finger at
myself.

Sunday 1 November 2015

Art 11: Mama