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, approach them as gentle meditations. Let them reveal that which your own Inner Heart knows. Perhaps they invite you to dream or to look at Reality with an expanded gaze.
[The articles from the old website, Orphic Inscendence, are here too.]
Wisdom Carries a Sword
In the Western lore, the image assigned to wisdom, is often the one of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, warfare, justice and law, and who was also the sponsor of arts, trade and strategy. Sometimes, she, besides her shield, and helmet, is also carrying the "sword of justice".
The Womb That Bears Love
Love seems to be not only the highest principle, but rather, the only principle, and everything that turns its face away from Love, reasonably, fears the Judge.
The Music of Everything
The quick journey around the world showed how different peoples saw and resonated with the idea of music as the language or form of everything. It also showed how mathematics, geometry and music are deeply connected. That’s perhaps why no other form of art is as addictive - for as Strauss says, “we enter into a kind of immortality” through it - we bring emotions, feelings, images from the realm of pure Imagination even if we just daydream listening to our favourite music.
The Joy of Being Sad
By the time song, or evening is finished, the discomfort, the pain, subdues, as song may be about a love that has betrayed or gone away, about death, loss, or just general life weariness. Indulged and shared, it offers catharsis - the pain is not dwelled on or overly psychoanalysed, rather the feelings are felt, and given to music and wine to cure — or perhaps it is Dionysus who transforms these boundaries breaking feelings into a transcendent experience.
The Divine Androgyne
Puer Aeternus is also an image of the unity of the both masculine and feminine. He looks like a man but is barely differentiated, his features are still in many ways, soft, his bones are lean and narrow, his muscles elongated, he lacks a beard and if someone were to put make up on him or give him a long hair, he could easily pass for a girl.
The Lady of the Death
When life brings up our own skeleton woman to surface, we may like the fisherman, be inclined to run and to hide, but ultimately, there's no hiding from any Saturnian force, as there's no escape from death, that's at the very core of any Saturnian theme.
Die Zeit in Gedanken Erfasst
Relation becomes important for the different modes of time as well. Dahr is the Absolute Time. This is the Time before any manifestation and before any attribute. That is why Ibn Arabi calls it "non-entity". In the Absolute, the Time is product of the Imagination of the Divine & just like Divine in its Absoluteness, is free from any attribute or entity. Or, beyond having any attribute, name or entity. Since us humans, cannot grasp something that has no attribute we call it imaginary. But because something is imaginary, that does not mean it is not real. This is a common misconception. The dream one dreams may be a product of imagination but the dream is real, as is the experience of the dream.
The Salvation Through Love
The mystic who is on the path of Love, may experience both and know the feeling of both very strongly. When the Beloved is distant, and shows no sign, the lover experiences hell, because the lover cannot see his own self. The spiritual agony the lover feels can be so painful that the physical pain in that moment would serve as a relief. The lover, likewise, experiences Heaven every time the Beloved is near and when the lover recognises him. Every time the lover forgets, the lover experiences hell, every time the lover remembers, he experiences heaven. Some lovers may desire a perpetual remembrance, or a perpetual heaven but there are those, like Mirza Ghalib who do not. These love their yearning, their pain, their fire in desiring the Beloved, as much as they love the meetings, because it is in the absence, that they become aware of the extent of their love:
Feminine as the Initiator
This fluid which arises spontaneously is the symbol of the goddess, because the goddess is constantly emanating, giving fluid, the whole reality is sustained and created by it.
The Gods Who Dream
I opened my eyes, the rainbow, bigger than any rainbow seen before, was in front of me, I let a breath out and thought: "O rainbow - coloured gods".