The Mothers

Mephistopheles:    

A glowing tripod will finally show you

that you are in the deepest, most deepest ground.

By its light you will see the Mothers:

the one sits, others stand and walk,

as it may chance. Formation, transformation

the eternal mind's eternal recreation.

Covered in images of all creatures,

they do not see you, since they only see shades.

They hold your heart, since the danger is great,

and go straight to that tripod,

touch it with a key!

(From Goethe's "Faust")

Aghora

  "Ghora is darkness, the darkness of ignorance. Aghora means light, the absence of darkness.

Under the Tree of Knowledge is an Aghori, a follower of the path of Aghora. He has gone beyond ignorance thanks to the Flame of Knowledge which billows from the funeral pyre.

The funeral pyre is the ultimate reality, a continual reminder that everyone has to die.

  Knowledge of the ultimate reality of Death has taken the Aghori beyond the Eight Snares of Existence. The Aghori plays with the human skull, astonished by the uselesness of limited existence, knowing the whole world to be within him though he is not in the world."

("AGHORA, At the left hand of God"  by Robert E. Svoboda)

I sing the body electric

'This man was of wonderful vigor, calmness, beauty of

  person,

The shape of his head, the pale yellow and white of his

  hair and beard, the immeasurable meaning of his

  black eyes, the richness and breadth of his manners,

These I used to go and visit him to see, he was wise also,

He was six feet tall, he was over eighty years old, his sons

  were massive clean, bearded, tan faced, handsome,

They and his daughters loved him, all who saw him loved

  him,

They did not love him by allowance, they loved him with

  personal love,

He drank water only, the blood show'd like scarlet

  through the clear- brown skin of his face,

He was a frequent gunner and fisher, he sail'd his boat

  himself, he had a fine one presented to him by a ship-

  joiner, he had fowling-pieces presented to him by

  men who loved him,

When he went with his five sons and many grand-sons to

  hunt or fish, you would pick him out as the most

  beautiful and vigorous of the gang,

You would wish long and long to be with him, you

  would wish to sit by him in the boat that you and he

  might touch each other.'

(from Walt Whitman's  'I sing the body electric')

Pansofic Theocracy

Γιατί είναι σπάνιο σε μια Δημοκρατία να υπάρχει ταυτόχρονα και μια θεοκρατική κοινωνία;

Δεν έχω προβλημα με κάθε ένα ξεχωριστά, αλλά και τα δύο μαζί δεν γίνεται να υπάρχουν στην Ευρώπη του 21ου Αιώνα. Όπως έχει αποδείξει η Ιστορία (στο Θιβέτ και σε άλλα μέρη), αυτό δεν είναι δυνατόν. Ο φόβος μυρίζεται τον κίνδυνο και χάνεται έτσι, πολλές φορές, η έννοια της εθνικής κυριαρχίας.

 Αλλά ακόμα και στην Ινδία, όπου θρησκείες και δημοκρατική διακυβέρνηση προσπαθούν να συνυπάρξουν, εκεί, πρώτον, το στοίχημα δεν έχει παιχτεί και δεύτερον έχει αρχίσει ήδη και χάνεται σε πολλές θρησκευτικές φυλές με αποτέλεσμα την απώλεια αυτών των ιδίων. Φτάνουμε δε και στην Ελλάδα όπου η θρησκευτική προκατάληψη ανθεί (μέχρι θανάτου πολλές φορές), με αποτέλεσμα μια κρίση που δεν είναι οικονομική και μόνον πια. Η αριστερή κυβερνηση και οι συν αυτώ το έχουν, πλέον, κάνει τουμπεκί με την Εκκλησία, ενώ άλλα είχαν υποσχεθεί.

 Τιθεται πλέον ένα σαφές ερώτημα: Δημοκρατία ή δικτατορία στα πιστεύω των ανθρώπων;

The return of Dionysus

"According to the doctrine of the Tantras, the cult of Shiva-Dionysus and the practices of Tantrism are the only ways open to mankind in the Age of Conflicts -in which we are at present- to approach the divine. Without a return to the respect of nature and to the practice of erotico-magic rites allowing the self-realization of man in harmony with all the others forms of being, the overall destruction of the human species cannot be long delayed. Only the followers of the god will survive to give birth to a human race."

("'GODS OF LOVE AND ECSTASY, The traditions of Shiva and Dionysus" by Alain Daniélou)