Inscendence as a complementary word to the transcendence brings you contemplations on various topics from the perspective of the reflective, associative and internal intelligence. A journey into depths to find, like Rumi said, the “Messiah, in my heart, I bear.” (مسيحا در دلم پيدا و من بيمار می گردم).
Enjoy the articles. Take them in. More than philosophical discussions or my attempts to convince you of anything, take them as gentle meditations and let them reveal that which your own Inner Heart knows.
[The articles from the old website, Orphic Inscendence, are here too.]
The Meaning of Pain
Perhaps the word they are looking for, or the feeling they are looking for is not happiness but rather contentment — the state of deep satisfaction, of realisation that even if life has had its sorrows, some big and some small, that you are still content, grateful and proud of the life you lived.
The Primordiality of Poetry
Poetic art is thus a principal part of many peoples' earliest heritage — Homer is a jewel of Greece, Ovid and Virgil is pride of Rome, Beowulf of the Anglo-Saxons, Kalevala is unforgettable in the memory of Finnic peoples, Poetic Edda is where the Icelandic and other Nordic people find their cosmological root; we also recall Epic of Gilgamesh, Popol Vuh, Ramayana, Shijing, and many more epics and ballads. These all eventually became part of the universal human heritage, recognised for their value in the entire world. Poetry is at once, humanity’s most primordial (even “primitive”) and highest expression.
Levin and Kitty
Anna and Alexei's love is a passionate, consuming love — it burns like a fire and just like fire, it expands. Their love is not pejoratively judged, but over the time, the jealousy, the expectations, even the selfishness, the inability to choose and leave certain attachments behind, bring a destruction and tragedy to both Vronsky and Karenina. A reader may wonder then, whether it was love, or whether they both saw in each other a moment of freedom, liberation from the social expectations and loveless life. Or perhaps it was that the love led them to freedom that their souls so eagerly desired. The burning was perhaps what they wanted. The beauty of their love was in the alchemical flame that consumed both of them and the world around them.
Knight in Shining Armour
Chivalry is only a name for that general spirit or state of mind which disposes men to heroic and generous actions and keeps them conversant with all that is beautiful and sublime in the intellectual and moral world
A Woman’s Life Saga
By completing her heart's last wishes and giving back to the world that which she had learned from it, she is ready to leave the life on earth fulfilled and with no regrets on her deathbed.
The Swan King
It embodied the notable Knight of the Swan legend — a mysterious knight who comes in a swan-drawn boat to rescue a damsel. "Lohengrin" never left Ludwig's heart, him continuing his love of swans and keeping swan figures and paintings in his castles. Very often, the King was painted himself as a Knight of the Swan. Wagner's operas inspired the fantasy loving Ludwig.
Aphrodite Urania, Aphrodite Pandemos
Beatrice's death triggered the alteration of Beatrice - from Platonic affection she became a spiritual figure, the very embodiment of Divine Love. In "Paradise", instead of Virgil, it is Beatrice who guides Dante towards God. His love for Beatrice guides him to the love for God, and his own understanding of divine love within himself "I clearly see that in thine intellect the Light Eternal is already shining, which, if but seen, always enkindles love "
Liberty Within a Structure
Johan Huizinga, a Dutch linguist and cultural theorist had an aesthetic approach to history — art, spectacle and play, for him, are not just an accidental consequence of civilisation but rather its important and often fundamental part. I have chosen an excerpt from his book "Homo Ludens", because it so beautifully illustrates how even in the children's play, there is an innate sense of structure, and it, like Huizinga suggests, reveals a profound and noble innate sense of rhythm. Children in their game, it is said here, do not have tolerance for the spoilsports. The world of game, of play is a tiny, enchanting microcosm in which the individuals communicate through rules they have created and agreed on. It is their creation and spoilsport is a deconstructionist without a vision — who takes more pleasure in separating and alienating than in communing and connecting.
The Renaissance of the Body
In that moment, the Other is not just an object of one's desire, a thrill of life or a mere biological pull towards reproduction but rather the very personification of the "Song of Songs" or Rilke's powerful angels. Only once they had been taken into Dionysian depths, do the Apollo's potent rays shine and suddenly, the object of one's desire is transformed into a source of heavenly, divine light. The darkness of Dionysus has become locus for the light of Apollo, the terror disappears and one bathes in light.
The Michaelmas
Aliens to external nature, we are also aliens to our own, internal natures.