https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence daily 0.75 2026-04-11 https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/remembering-the-sacred-center monthly 0.5 2026-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/87707129-b9cd-4f24-ab1c-663668e2f7c9/181fbb_f66b6c9a514f4b6a889c5dfed2c53085%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Remembering the Sacred Center - "Women and Children in the Woods with Vesuvio in the Background," Gonsalvo Carelli (1818- 1900), Italian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/73f96c28-8828-447a-b7cd-a6ccfe64fb0d/181fbb_81942138b8764db98a392cf94437072e%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Remembering the Sacred Center - "The Vestal Virgins Making an Offering in a Roman Temple", Wood engraving, 19th century. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/dd5822f3-885f-44b1-8102-b9d18b970232/French_School_-_Enjoying_Coffee_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Orpheon - Remembering the Sacred Center - Make it stand out Enjoying Coffee. Painting by unknown artist in the Pera Museum https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/al-insn-al-kabir-the-anthropology-of-cosmos monthly 0.5 2026-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/842cb4f4-5730-4259-b932-be44c97e48e7/adada.jpg Orpheon - Al Insân Al Kabir - The Anthropology of Cosmos - "The Breath of Creation", Faydoon Rassouli "The Breath of Creation", Faydoon Rassouli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/06664dfe-f4fc-427c-aa20-e7347d76a08f/ada.jpg Orpheon - Al Insân Al Kabir - The Anthropology of Cosmos - Art on the left: Mahmoud Farshchian (1930), Iranian "As for the Angels (of whom there is some mention in the Koran’s account of Adam’s creation), they represent certain faculties of this ‘form’ of the world which the Sufis call the Great Man (al-insân al-kabir) so that the angels are to it just as the spiritual and physical faculties are to the human organism. Each of these (cosmic) faculties finds itself as if veiled by its own nature; it conceives nothing which is superior to its own (relative) essence; for there is in it something which considers itself to be worthy of high rank and in the state nearest to God. It is thus because it participates (in a certain manner) in the Divine Synthesis (al-jam’iyat al-ilâhiyah) which governs that which appertains, be it to the Divine side (al-janâb al-ilâhî), be it to the side of the Reality of Realities (haqîqat al-haqâiq), be it again – and by this organism, support of all the faculties, — to the Universal Nature (tabî’at al-kull); this encompasses all the receptacles (qawabil) of the world, from its peak to its foundation." — "Fusus al-Hikam", Ibn Arabi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/5beadd8c-cd35-4ab9-8a7a-279c734aaef8/ADAD567.jpg Orpheon - Al Insân Al Kabir - The Anthropology of Cosmos - Art on the left: Gülçin Anmaç So sings the first line of the Rilke's poem, and it then continues: "When I, your pitcher, broken, lie? When I, your drink, go stale or dry? I am your garb, the trade you ply, you lose your meaning, losing me. Homeless without me, you will be robbed of your welcome, warm and sweet." The poem very vividly reflects the Divine Compassion. A human, in this case Rilke, feels the God's sorrow in being alone and non-manifest. He feels the sorrow of God left without a mirror, a pen left without its tablet. For what can a pen do if there is nothing to write on? The pen's purpose loses its purpose without a tablet. How can God be Lord through His names without an object to lord over? From this position, "Know Your Lord to Know Yourself", gets a meaning, rather than being a phrase that many repeat without any substantial content. To know yourself here means to know your Lord, that is, to know which Divine attributes and Names have want to be manifest through you. This is not narcissistic preoccupation with one's self, it is quite the opposite - it demands surrender, a lack of rigidity, a lack of attachment to philosophies and concepts, so that the Lord may be heard. In order to borrow the Great Man's ear, one must cease to be preoccupied with news and tomorrow's dinner. Inner dialogue demands inner presence, not preoccupation with outer forms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/83fc8c67-4e8e-4797-93d9-201a125a77bc/dada.jpg Orpheon - Al Insân Al Kabir - The Anthropology of Cosmos - Art on the left: A Sun-bearing Peri Rides a Composite Lion "To deny this individualization is that takes place in the world of Mystery is to deny the archetypal theophanic dimension specific to each earthly being, to deny one's Angel. No longer able to appeal to his Lord, each man is at mercy of single undifferentiated Omnipotence, from which all men are lost in the religious or social collectivity. When this happens, each man tends to confound his Lord, whom he does not know as He is, with the Divine Being as such, and to wish to impose Him upon all. As we have seen, this is what happens in the unilateral monotheism characteristic of the "God created in faiths." Having lost his bond with his specific Lord-archetype (that is having lost knowledge of himself), each ego is exposed to a hypertrophy that can easily degenerate into spiritual imperialism; this kind of religion no longer aims to unite each man with his own Lord, but solely to impose the "same Lord" upon all." — "Alone with Alone", Henry Corbin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/719b3f40-0f63-40c2-9c89-a0a2ba122e0e/efesfesfs.jpg Orpheon - Al Insân Al Kabir - The Anthropology of Cosmos - Make it stand out "Beyond Reality", Faydoon Rassouli https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-lady-of-the-underworld monthly 0.5 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/d53d1c23-81ca-4a4e-b08a-461eae9fc8ef/sfsfs.jpg Orpheon - The Lady of the Underworld - "Lilith", John Maler Collier ( 1850 – 1934), English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/e2e7f4e7-143a-4175-a1f5-09c31a40e729/add.jpg Orpheon - The Lady of the Underworld - Make it stand out “Ghismonda with the Heart of Guiscardo” (Detail), Bernardino Mei (1612/15 – 1676), Italian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/7184e1ac-8f99-415d-bfdb-67d00eb3b662/adad.png Orpheon - The Lady of the Underworld - Art on the left: "Idyll of the Sea", Abbey Altson (1864 - 1950), British "Inanna brings differentiated awareness and activity to stir up Ereshkigal's realm, to effect a conscious suffering, perhaps a birth. In return she receives her own death and rebirth, the capacity to witness, and a new strength in introverted presence. Above ground Inanna is like a cornucopia, pouring forth, passionately initiating. Below she is passive, herself an initiate. She is dissolved and the receiver of life's processes decay as an underworld gestation, not of child but of Being itself in its seemingly most negative mode. Simultaneously, Ereshkigal becomes active and aware. The cross-fertilization between the two goddesses has a profound effect on each of them and on their creative capacities; it ultimately changes the relationship between upper and lower worlds and creates a new masculine-feminine balance in the upper world. In the analytic container such profound cross-fertilization between the two goddesses has a profound effect on each of them and on their creative capacities; it ultimately changes the relationship between upper and lower worlds and creates a new masculine-feminine balance in the upper world." — "Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women", Sylvia Brinton Perera https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-fathers-daughter monthly 0.5 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/3b286f06-15c7-4931-a3d6-e4b2edc35b00/482246434_618825944363561_2957631885223148020_n.jpg Orpheon - The Father’s Daughter - "Wotan's Farewell to Brunhilde", Ferdinand Leeke (1859 – 1923), German https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/b6027b44-8825-4e54-9063-38043cba8f8e/181fbb_b546ab1106a7420c9bb0ee83381bb099%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Father’s Daughter The most well-known mythological father's daughter in the Western mythological heritage is Athena. She, born out of the head of Zeus is perfectly and completely his. She is fierce and combative, ready to punish anyone who goes against her and her father's ideals - she punishes Medusa, she punishes Arachne, punishes Ajax and she is glad to help Zeus chain his wife. He is the only one she never goes against. She guides warriors and heroes, she picks her favourites and stands by them in the battle. Athena is fully in the "world of men". A father's daughter who lives in the physical world, occupying physical space, may have a mother, but she is indeed the product of her father's psyche. She is the one who studies and reads while very young and who approaches her father asking: "Dad, teach me." She may be interested in her father's business, in his books, in his values and ideals, anything that is part of the "Fatherworld". Her creativity and her curiosity are sustained by her father. She is moving along him. The father and daughter may eventually develop a psychic, unconscious allegiance against the mother, never allowing her space in the psychological intimacy that the daughter and the father maintain. In the words of psychoanalysis, this intimate microcosm that the father and daughter inhabit creates a psychological incest bond. That does not mean that subconsciously, the daughter wants to sleep with her father or vice versa - it simply means that between the father and the daughter there is an unconscious exchange of creative and sexual psychic energy. He is the one who sustains her and nourishes her and his is the scorn and rejection she fears the most. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/eb1e6100-aebf-4238-9c0c-1e1e32f194d6/wrwr.jpg Orpheon - The Father’s Daughter - Make it stand out "Siegfried (Sigurðr) awakens Brunhild (Brynhildr), a scene from Wagner's Ring", Otto Philipp Donner von Richter (1828 - 1911), German https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/1d1e7011-dba1-4b52-8e42-a24d8c10eb8f/sfsf.png Orpheon - The Father’s Daughter - "Peresus and Andromeda", Hendrik Jacob Hoet (1693 - 1733), Dutch "Peresus and Andromeda", Hendrik Jacob Hoet (1693 - 1733), Dutch https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-matter-and-the-feminine monthly 0.5 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/51e094d6-f344-44db-9cfa-1f9707eb9e51/401839mt.jpg Orpheon - The Matter and the Feminine - "Bacchante", Joaquín Sorolla (1863 – 1923), Spanish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/e98669d9-4afc-423f-b228-c53c92646c02/wfsf.jpg Orpheon - The Matter and the Feminine - Mahavidya Bhairavi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/11e3adc2-0da8-455a-94ef-ff9cd1f072ec/etet.jpg Orpheon - The Matter and the Feminine - "Shakti Tripura Sundari" Vrindavan Das https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/501c7092-af7c-44a4-8a36-a8460e977e3d/efefr.jpg Orpheon - The Matter and the Feminine - Make it stand out “Female Figures with Tiger”, Aleardo Villa, (1865 – 1906), Italian https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/dwelling-in-emptiness monthly 0.5 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/2c21dc2f-93bd-42f3-b5ea-867873066172/181fbb_04530e6500c344b29b84616d3f2afd4d%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Dwelling in Emptiness - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/gods-defiant-lovers monthly 0.5 2026-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/d8e5f87d-dd1b-42ff-bb45-f15f21f05edb/erererr.jpg Orpheon - God’s Defiant Lovers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/add2e825-2bd5-4a8f-829e-6d8147ff1dfb/sdsfs.jpg Orpheon - God’s Defiant Lovers Muslim confession of faith begins with a negation, not affirmation. It says: "There is no God" first, and then continues with: "except Allah". Allah is not a deity, Allah is, as Ibn Arabi says "The Real", the supreme Reality, the True Essence of everything. Every existence is His existence, for He is The Sustainer (Ar - Razzaq), The Vast (Al - Wasi), The Unique / The One and Only (Al - Wahid), The First (Al - Awwal), The Last (Al Akhir), The Manifest (Az - Zahir), The Unmanifest (Al - Batin) and there is nothing in existence that is not sustained by His existence, the ultimate existence is only His, or Hers, as many mystics have claimed the feminine essence of the innermost aspect of Divine, since God is "The Unifier" (Al - Jami) who at the end of the Times, will unify everything into own existence. God is also is the only who unifies all the Names into One, pointing to the receptive and expansive, which corresponds with the metaphysical feminine. The myth of original sin, which exists in Islam as well as in other Abrahamic traditions, is not taken as "sin". The whole event was also the act of God's Will, for "I was a hidden treasure, and I wished to be known, so I created a creation (mankind), then made Myself known to them, and they recognised Me" (Hadith Qudsi). Separation, that is creation, was itself act of God's self-manifestation. The One, the Unity, wanted to be known through Multiplicity and has created everything for no other reason but own "self satisfaction". This is where the mad mystic who challenges God appears. A mystic thinks: "You have created everything for Yourself. I am nothing but another mirror You have placed for You to marvel at Your own reflection & majesty. How cruel You are!". Dervish is the One who sees the both hands, the right through which God is The Exalter (Ar - Rafi), The Giver of Honor (Al - Mu'izz), The Giver of Life (Al - Muhyi), and left hand through which God is the The Humiliator (Al - Khafid), The Giver of Dishonor (Al - Muzill) and The Bringer of Death (Al - Mumeet). It is not only that appears to our minds as "good" that comes from God, it is that which appears to it as "bad" that comes from God as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/945d6bd0-130f-4d72-b9ea-64f521dc3a41/fsfw.jpg Orpheon - God’s Defiant Lovers Once I was told by another mystic, that looking at a beautiful face was "ibadat" (devotion, submission to God). I wondered, was not looking at a woman's beauty a distraction from spiritual pursuits? The response was: "Yes, if one gazes with a human eye, but if one looks with the the eye of the heart (Ayn Ul Qalb), there is only devotion." Whole my adult life I have felt the same. When it comes to human body - I am a pagan, I can't see sin or prison. And yet, despite my great love for gazing at a beautiful body, I never want it as a tool for satisfying my need - I want to pray, I want the body to be my prayer mat. While I was studying traditional Tantra, I found a Vajrayana Buddhist text called: "The Tantra of Canḍạmahārosạna", in this text, there are details and sadhanas on the worship of the Vajradhātvīśvarī, a dakini. As dakini or the feminine is seen as embodiment of Emptiness & Wisdom (masculine is Compassion and Skillful Means), the women are greatly regarded in the whole text. What text also describes however, is the sexual sadhana and yoga. It says: https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-sacred-prostitute monthly 0.5 2026-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/491ef06d-6564-49dc-b470-534e44be854a/1280px-artemisia_gentileschi_-_sleeping_venus.jpeg Orpheon - The Sacred Prostitute - Make it stand out "The Sleeping Venus", Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – 1656), Italian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/22fbfe95-2a7b-4dbb-9047-aa10f417e541/181fbb_025d6793eba14c7f900ab8e88dd731dd%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Sacred Prostitute - Make it stand out "L'Attente", Andriy Bilichenko & Mariya Bukhtiyarova Bilichenko https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/ed565355-33e6-495b-9ed6-a9286ea73a1f/181fbb_c7617728801140db9810f2af705adb9e%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Sacred Prostitute - "Agra Fort", Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1894 – 1975), Pakistani https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/nature-sacred-amp-romantic-perspective monthly 0.5 2026-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/c2719e96-b00a-4970-9969-043d1bf35320/181fbb_4882ecaf440e4e6a9e28a1d3cdafc2da%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Nature, Sacred & Romantic Perspective - Make it stand out "Idylle", Eduard Lebiedzki (1862 – 1915), Austrian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/abe6fc06-1e0b-4dd0-acd2-0bde4b36a193/maximilian_lenz_dance_fawn.jpg Orpheon - Nature, Sacred & Romantic Perspective - Make it stand out "Allegory of Spring", Maximilian Lenz (1860 - 1948), Austrian https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-beauty-of-grotesque-and-ugly monthly 0.5 2026-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/176ac56f-e497-4ca6-9587-7610b7e83fe3/181fbb_a1ac7f1133bb42ff95cbf263553d82c9%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Beauty of Grotesque and Ugly - Make it stand out "Saturn Devouring His Son", Francisco Goya (1746 - 1828), Spanish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/2de1b391-1e14-478d-9707-7586f6f4daf2/181fbb_27ee2ba681e44a6780ca55a49e49e6cb%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Beauty of Grotesque and Ugly Scenes of St. Bartholomew's Skinning Depicted in Classical Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/e5976218-5eb6-4788-b0ff-b2e4df5bce4c/181fbb_72d5b44a454440308306b388bc6494bb%7Emv2.gif Orpheon - The Beauty of Grotesque and Ugly Saint Christopher as Cynocephaly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/a1929d31-104d-4d51-9f97-77d50cac6950/181fbb_9187a4ff2afe4650ac3a45ef118d9acf%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Beauty of Grotesque and Ugly - Make it stand out "The Fall of the Rebel Angels", Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 - 1569), Flemish https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/woman-anaisnin-sappho monthly 0.5 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/8f68e5f8-e58a-4412-b961-9095bac65010/181fbb_376149a557f64278972d27472753af56%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Woman to Woman - "Andromeda" (Detail) Vlaho Bukovac (1855–1922), Croatian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/736c1317-4c12-4c64-b53f-e8487915a1ea/181fbb_c3c94b9cee9f4503b6a32ac94b142169%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Woman to Woman - Make it stand out "Callisto and Diana", François Boucher (1703 - 1770), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/faf04dbf-9cee-4e6e-8b27-fb49140953a3/nude-reclining-1932.jpg.webp Orpheon - Woman to Woman - Make it stand out "Nude", Zinaida Serebriakova (1884 - 1967), Russian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/b5062c1a-c8fc-4072-80ab-a44eae959c7b/181fbb_246b3697540a4d64aaf376719b772ff8%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Woman to Woman - "Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene", Simeon Solomon (1840 – 1905), British https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/e015f847-4001-42f8-8376-f274221b0645/181fbb_aaf7eb71402d4046a33774ee921cb91c%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Woman to Woman - Make it stand out "Girl with Gloves", Tamara de Lempicka (1898 - 1980), Polish https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-great-devouress monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/39bd149a-2284-401b-89fd-6ff2221e2941/181fbb_c0dc22ef4517493fba64f43306a9efe1%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Great Devouress - Make it stand out Venus, Ceres & Juno, Raphael Sanzio (1483 - 1520), Italian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/f8078bbf-6236-48a3-84e7-d1fa66f9d405/181fbb_1633ac8c99894686bed601d5897b228b%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Great Devouress - Art on the left: Fresco from Castello di Torrechiara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy "He (Darwin) thinks of it (Nature) as creative power and source of all forms of life - "through her prodigious fertility, her powers of spontaneous variation, and her powers of selection, she could do everything God did". In other words, Darwin imagines Nature a sort of Goddess. (...) The disparity between his initial ecstasy and professional duty begin to tell. His journal changes tone. (...) It is a decisive moment - the moment Darwin gets up to embrace Nature in all her wholeness, wonder and fecundity; and, from fear of "chaos", begins to armour himself against her with labeling and facts. This is we recall the trouble with Mother Nature. She is not the fixed entity that scientsts, who view her through literalistic spectacles, would have us believe. She is the sea of metaphors which reflect back at us the face we show her. We characterize her by whatever perspective we look at her through - as an implacable enemy, for instance or as a ast harmonious rhythm; as a wild creature that must be tamed, or a nymph that must be left unspoilt, or a wild animal, red in tooth and claw. As Darwin quails in face of dizzying Nature, and fends her off, so she comes back at him hostile and sickening." — "The Philosopher's Secret Fire: A History of Imagination", Patrick Harpur https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/f2ac6de6-5b05-4043-a45f-eea497c6eec6/181fbb_a867bd571deb4ab5852c5dc35d36f1b4%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Great Devouress "The Fisherman and the Siren", Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896), English https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-symbolic-code monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/79176e22-9858-42de-a833-d638ac9d57bf/181fbb_73a96950204c44dda379ef2e81c43c94%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Symbolic Code - Make it stand out "Pegasus Constellation", Johannes Havelius (1611 - 1687), Polish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/954def26-6200-4f09-bad0-4413498bd37a/181fbb_5a8f0dd5e9b64a3f9acc40b2b14dde28%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Symbolic Code - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-transcendence-of-love monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/9279128c-b1b0-40f0-ae38-0f29c3d40bc7/181fbb_3371d2251259475992abfba5df4026e3%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Transcendence of Love - "Sigillum", Roberto Ferri (1978), Italian "Sigillum", Roberto Ferri (1978), Italian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/90d3fb05-6006-4a5b-be67-62acc78282f7/181fbb_ee7f43516b6644efb9075f1e7685bcf5%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Transcendence of Love - Art on the left: "Venus and Mars", Luigi Acquisti (1747 - 1823), Italian "There is only one power which can from within undermine egoism at the root, and really does undermine it, namely love, and chiefly sexual love. The falsehood and evil egoism consists in the exclusive acknowledgment of absolute significance for oneself and in the denial of it it for others. (...) Recognizing in love the truth of another, not abstractly but essentially, transferring in deed the center of our life beyond the limits of our empirical personality, we by doing so reveal and realize our own truth, our own absolute significance, which consists just in our capacity to transcend the borders of our factual phenomenal being, in our capacity to live not only in ourselves, but also in another." — "The Meaning of Love", Vladimir Solovyov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/34824ca0-4e32-4932-a6a9-f41977db9d1c/181fbb_04591a8a61f34908ad7771d934c9204e%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Transcendence of Love - "Loss of Innocence", Henri Pierre Picou (1824 - 1895), French "Every kind of love is manifestation of this capacity, but not every kind realizes it to the same degree, nor does every kind as radically undermine egoism. Egoism is power not only real but basic, rooted in the deepest center of our being, and from thence permeating and embracing the whole of our reality - a power, acting uninterruptedly in all aspects and particulars of our existence. In order genuinely to undermine egoism, it is necessary to oppose to it a love equally concretely specific, permeating the whole of our being and taking possession of everything in it. (...) Moreover, in order to really be another it must in everything be distinguished from us i.e., possessing all the essential content which we also posses, it must posses it in another means or mode, in another form. In this way every manifestation of our being, every vital act would encounter in this other a corresponding, but not identical, manifestation, in such a way that the relation of one to other world would be a complete and continual exchange, a complete and continual affirmation of oneself in the other, with perfect reciprocity and communion. Only then will the egoism be undermined and abrogated; abolished, not in principle alone, but in all its concrete reality. Only under the action of this, so to speak, chemical union of two beings, of the same nature and of equal significance, but on all sides distinct as to form, is creation possible (both in the natural order and the spiritual order) of a new human being, the real realization of true human individuality. Such a union, or at least, the closest approximation to it, we find in sexual love, for which reason we attach to it exceptional significance, as the necessary basis of all further perfection, as the inescapable and permanent condition under which alone human can really be in truth" — "The Meaning of Love", Vladimir Solovyov https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/seduction-carmen-eros-sensuality monthly 0.5 2026-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/3c21988b-a228-4d95-ac80-60d393a1af02/181fbb_5f077dff84244171b71910165b290223%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Seductress and the Eros - "Rosario Guerrero As Carmen", Friedrich August Von Kaulbach (1850 - 1920), German https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/99235872-de92-46ec-8cb2-d2453f1feb2c/181fbb_493c28fd3b5d47bfa66e211b9b4a1849%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Seductress and the Eros Lillie Langtry (1853-1929) as Cleopatra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/590516e6-c5a5-401a-ba92-40f588d151bc/181fbb_eda323b3f1aa4262bc670452e8dffeba%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Seductress and the Eros - "Salomes Dance of Seven Veils", Andrea Marchisio (1850 - 1927), Italian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/f518170b-32df-4f01-b577-63740914dcdd/181fbb_3ef3cd4da5814817a40ccbbd9c1f4f1b%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Seductress and the Eros "Vastra Haran: Gopis demanding their clothes from Krishna", 1800 CE, Kangra School of Art, National Museum, Delhi. https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-maid-of-orleans-joanofarc monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/1aae0336-37e8-47cb-b685-46929d7212f1/181fbb_419bd0b6c1ca49f790b226b82feefa22%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Maid of Orleans - Ellaline Terriss as Joan of Arc, 1900′s. Ellaline Terriss as Joan of Arc, 1900′s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/79286eb6-7507-4436-944d-e579f438c47d/jeanne-darc-by-albert-lynch-engraving-from-figaro-illustre-magazine-1903-public-domain-via-w-c.jpg Orpheon - The Maid of Orleans - Joan of Arc, Albert Lynch (1851 - 1912), French Joan of Arc, Albert Lynch (1851 - 1912), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/14f6c09b-ad3d-43a1-9b04-338d44ffe96f/202340-Hundred-Years-War.jpg Orpheon - The Maid of Orleans - "The Entrance Of Joan Of Arc Into Orleans", Jean Jacques Scherrer (1855 - 1916), French https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-heroines-journey-cinderella-psyche-bolen monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/6c352f09-e804-43d0-98bc-e64833c8a018/181fbb_701f099d760a466b8a988f70a9ddc32c%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Heroine’s Journey - Make it stand out Vasilisa the Beautiful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/34b0c285-73ae-4c43-8b43-4927b1fdfe1d/181fbb_a714ffccce68419cbe37c37d68309a9a%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Heroine’s Journey - Make it stand out "Psyche Discovering the Sleeping Cupid", Joseph Goupy (1689 - 1769), English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/1774269760558-72L6GWZ4TICR2MKG27V3/181fbb_647c71b0b1fa47e4b439e2881a6977d5%257Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Heroine’s Journey - "Psyche in the Underworld", Eugene-Ernest Hillemacher (1818 - 1887), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/1774269811244-FIU53DRH76RHV6WCEI1L/181fbb_69d71809329d489e90118fb210522c95%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Heroine’s Journey - "Psyche Gahtering the Fleece of the Rams of the Sun", Charles Joseph Natoire (1700 - 1777), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/1774269911294-73LXUXJZ6UUSK7SZ9GTT/181fbb_bf8d8003b8f846e7916535328c13e502%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Heroine’s Journey - "Eagle Brings Cup to Psyche", Benjamin West (1738 - 1820), Anglo-American https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/1774270004954-W0NT1ZFKIEBP9BJM5GL0/ma-249267-WEB.jpg Orpheon - The Heroine’s Journey - "The Reunion of Cupid and Psyche", Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours s (1708 - 1773), Swiss https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/a8f60f4e-7aa1-4f28-9aab-51b4c2c35c01/181fbb_aa593cf5e2e04c1da03af2aab7625016%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Heroine’s Journey - Make it stand out "Juno and Argus", Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640), Flemish https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-ethics-of-logos-and-eros monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/f8cff654-d41e-4790-987c-0d5bfb068ef2/181fbb_3d82916ff674431bafaf76cf51366b16%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Ethics of Logos and Eros - Make it stand out "Dagr", Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831 - 1892), Norwegian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/6badf2ab-189a-4698-aa0c-ab4c471b96ed/181fbb_b18881bb87a542b5a658c83acb8952f4%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Ethics of Logos and Eros - Make it stand out "The Statue of Olympian Zeus", Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656 - 1723), Austrian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/8c889aae-f693-4c9f-a0d9-7ba6b5be35f9/960px-Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_The_Birth_of_the_Milky_Way%2C_1636-1637.jpg Orpheon - The Ethics of Logos and Eros - Make it stand out "The Origin of the Milky Way", Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640), Dutch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/919bd521-30d5-4897-827f-51d02eb55409/181fbb_9ede89a2ac184ae18638724cbb4ec68b%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Ethics of Logos and Eros - Make it stand out "Statue of Zeus and Hera", Vienna, Austria https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-bulbul-and-the-rose monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/c92b7dde-5b87-47ec-8e4f-d11ab842129c/A_bird_perched_in_a_rose_bush%2C_with_butterflies_round_about_%28Gul-o_Bulbul%29%2C_signed_by_Muhammad_%27Ali%2C_Qajar_Persia%2C_dated_1856-57.jpg Orpheon - The Bulbul and the Rose - Make it stand out A bird perched in a rose bush, with butterflies round about (Gul-o Bulbul), signed by Muhammad 'Ali. Qajar Persia https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-gentle-hedonism monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/8fa7b3d9-7438-4843-b7e8-6b224b47b101/181fbb_b9e4c56bca0042b981d8238839690731%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Gentle Hedonism - Make it stand out "The New Favorite", Filippo Baratti (1849 - 1936), Italian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/403ed638-7182-4918-a327-71aec99c88af/Paul_bouchard%2C_gli_alm%C3%A9e%2C_1893_ca_%28cropped%29.JPG Orpheon - The Gentle Hedonism - "Les Almées", Paul Louis Bouchard (1853 - 1937), French "Les Almées", Paul Louis Bouchard (1853 - 1937), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/d290d966-a8b7-40b8-b989-3fbb9a88d1cf/71K-RlV-VYL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg Orpheon - The Gentle Hedonism - Make it stand out "Court of the Harem", Paul-Albert Girard (1839 - 1920), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/37a1bc36-9bcd-41fc-9955-59fe8bbd5edf/181fbb_c362199eab9a412c930765ae38556bfe%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Gentle Hedonism - Art on the left: "Omar Khayam", Sri Bhuwan The images that come as a personificiation of Khayyam's and Hafiz's poems in Orientalist art show another side of hedonism. In such a hedonism, one does not seek to numb himself or herself down from their feelings, but rather to intensify them. The goal is more life, more feeling, not less of it. The perfumes, the music, the beautiful interior, the sound of water in the pool — they all add to this complete sensual immersion. The pursuit of such a pleasure is not to go outside but to go deeper within, deep into the Dionysian depths of our primordial unity. Such pleasure is itself an art. It requires a life force and vitality that can go into fire and endure. It requires a sensitivity for the subtle, the non-obvious. Us modern people have forgotten what it is to take time for anything — to take that date, that fruit and truly devour it, feel it, to truly listen to music, to truly feel the texture, the smell of beloved's skin as we touch them. This hedonism, blessed by sacred light, serves to connect rather than alienate and if we learn it, we might heal ourselves from repression of our senses or from oppression of our souls, through the gift of senses. https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/the-meaning-of-pain monthly 0.5 2026-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/38178e14-ef6e-4a4e-a365-4b01528f911d/181fbb_3c9d2303b24849aca95a1922de07ba89%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Meaning of Pain - Make it stand out "Lucretia", Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1656), Italian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/1f823ed1-25d7-472c-acd7-0ecd6d12c473/Anne-Boleyn-in-the-Tower-of-London-1835-by-%C3%89douard-Cibot--scaled.jpg Orpheon - The Meaning of Pain - "Anne Boylen in the Tower", Édouard Cibot (1799 - 1877), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/ce4e93fe-8935-4dc7-aaef-0c25680673bb/181fbb_3c53d0d6f0374ba6953868d7af8d6ebb%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Meaning of Pain - "Alexander taming Bucephalus", François Schommer (1850 - 1935), French "Alexander taming Bucephalus", François Schommer (1850 - 1935), French https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/poetry-sacred-primordial monthly 0.5 2026-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/572fe28f-1c6f-4770-91fa-4be7abce522d/181fbb_0d33e38b0d924c189c562ef930101548%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Primordiality of Poetry - Make it stand out "Sappho", Jean Baptiste Regnault (1754 - 1829), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/d838bd67-7769-428e-ae3f-791bcb5edb66/181fbb_56941f0dbbee4ad694a80e3fed08eb68%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Primordiality of Poetry - Make it stand out "The Youth of Bacchus", William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/567e10ca-5414-490d-9b3d-558589808d7e/181fbb_108c1396d7d4432b93649ce901b5ad18%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Primordiality of Poetry - Make it stand out "Apotheosis of Homer", Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780 - 1867), French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/8b2d1491-b2a3-4d94-86b4-e959467d535f/181fbb_3073835f3c1241e6ac384ce7369009bd%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - The Primordiality of Poetry - Make it stand out "Erato Serenading Thalia, Euterpe, and Melpomene", Charles Joseph Natoire (1700 - 1777), French https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/levin-and-kitty-annakarenina-vronsky-tolstoy monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/996d5ed6-9c33-4620-a114-2d4a338a2156/181fbb_1b523b1f66f14b4a82cf31e59eb8605c%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Levin and Kitty - Art: "Evgeniy Ongein", Lidiya Timoshenko (1903 - 1976), Russian "Levin and Kitty were particularly happy and conscious of their love that evening. And their happiness in their love seemed to imply a disagreeable slur on those who would have liked to feel the same and could not—and they felt a prick of conscience. " — "Anna Karenina", Leo Tolstoy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/56bc8c32-5430-47fe-a0dc-3a9c7d0791a4/9404135%402x.jpg Orpheon - Levin and Kitty - "Romance", Vladimir Pervuninsky (1957), Russian “I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”― "Anna Karenina", Leo Tolstoy https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/knight-chivalry-tarot-grail monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/df0b688f-f9e7-4c96-8861-7311c7042470/Sir_Frank_Dicksee_-_The_Two_Crowns_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Orpheon - Knight in Shining Armour - Make it stand out "The Two Crowns", Sir Frank Dicksee (1853 - 1928), English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/d51efb39-5b48-4036-adda-d641bb35062f/181fbb_abfcbc21fa8a4ef6835bff0c325a491a%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Knight in Shining Armour - Make it stand out "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", Arthur Hughes (1832 - 1915), English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/d6df43cf-d8a5-49de-923b-f81f3be55324/181fbb_9a3cc77d01664291af11390222195d98%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Knight in Shining Armour - Make it stand out "Vigil", John Petite (1839 - 1893), Scottish https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/172c9a80-fb0f-4009-84b6-e1a009e9c361/181fbb_f36a7b366f924f3fa4f6bec4ccfcce43%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Knight in Shining Armour - Make it stand out "Sir Galahad", Arthur Hughes Arthur Hughes (1832 - 1915), English https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/b8fe3aef-6adf-4b43-96ec-d79dd9fc1968/181fbb_610958230a4244828de8a800f9b14c4c%7Emv2.jpg Orpheon - Knight in Shining Armour - Make it stand out "The Dedication", Edmund Blair Leighton (1852 - 1922), English https://www.theorpheon.com/inscendence/a-womans-life-maiden-mother-crone-kristinlavransdatter monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/3334b0e5-208f-42e1-9b8e-fbf4fad7f3c2/66089_0.jpg Orpheon - A Woman’s Life Saga - Make it stand out “A Young Girl in a Norwegian Fjord”, (1849 – 1937), Norwegian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/77947989-78a9-4ab6-b4f0-4ae81a656196/550235714_10161945727686713_4387439547291301628_n.jpg Orpheon - A Woman’s Life Saga - Art: "Apple Orchard", Hans Dahl (1849 - 1937), Norwegian "They did not imagine that they might be stronger than the world. But if they had only known, they could have taken all the mountains and flung them out into the sea like tiny pebbles. No one and nothing can harm us, child, expect what we fear and love." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/c817d490-e6f5-4af6-8c00-fb0b4fa0b8aa/181fbb_52a89f2d7ebf412f9bfffb57631b2d22%7Emv2_d_2378_3000_s_2.jpg Orpheon - A Woman’s Life Saga - Art: "Brudepynting", Adolph Tidemand (1814 - 1876), Norwegian "At sunset Kristin was sitting up on the hill north of the manor. She had never seen the sky so red and gold. Above the opposite ridge stretched an enormous cloud; it was shaped like a bird's wing, glowing from within like iron in the forge, and gleaming brightly like amber. Small golden shreds like feathers tore away and floated into the air. And far below, on the lake at the bottom of the valley, spread a mirror image of the sky and the clouds and the ridge. Down in the depths of the radiant blaze was flaring up-ward, covering everything in sight. (...) She sent a last sigh after her prayers; an appeal for forgiveness because her thoughts had been elsewhere while she prayed. The beautiful large estate lay below her on the hillside, like a jewel on the wide bosom of the slope. She gazed across alll the land she had owned along with her husband. Thoughts about the manor and its care had filled her soul to the brim. She had worked and struggled. Not until this evening did she realize how much she had struggled to put this estate back on its feet and keep it going - how hard she had tried and how much she had accomplished. She had accept it as her fate, to be borne with patience and straight back, that this had fallen to her. Just as she had striven to be patient and steadfast no matter what life presented, every time he learned she was carrying yet another child under her breast - again and again. (...) They were her children, these big sons with their lean, bony, boy's bodies, just as they had been when they were small and plump that they barely hurt themselves when they tumbled down on their way between the bench and her knee. They were hers, just as they had been back when she lifted them out of the cradle to her milk-filled breast and had to support their heads, which wobbled on their frail necks the way a bluebell nods on its stalk." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68502a1fb530c15d7a1755a2/26ae0968-35da-45bb-9f9b-a1f435b739d8/181fbb_3ebac8c057254c9b8b52841a7536a920%7Emv2_d_3204_2449_s_4_2.jpg Orpheon - A Woman’s Life Saga - Art: "Et Gravöl", Adolph Tidemand (1814 - 1876), Norwegian "She had finally come so far that she seemed to be seeing her own life from the uppermost summit of a mountain pass. 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