The Cailleach's Curse
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“For it follows from this that what is really essential in things, in humanity, in the world, lies permanently and enduringly in the now, firm and immoveable; and that change of phenomena and of events is a mere consequence of our apprehension of it by means of our perception-form of time. Accordingly, instead of saying; “You have arisen through birth, but are immortal,” one should say; “You are not nothing” and teach them to understand this in the sense of the saying attributed to Hermes Trismegistus; “For that which is must always be.”- Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World
THE CAILLEACH’S CURSE
“The lamps that light a hollow world,
which state; entire within the folds
of grey, at nightly clamp they hurl
the soul, as through a lych-gate way
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Back into sleep, the sure and one,
beneath the dream of gods and men,
where purest black, and deeply runs
Lethean stream through sodden fens
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A’ murmuring till morning, or
their courses caught in reeds of strife,
unborn, ensorcelled waters turn
from freedom, brought by will to life”
For that which is must always be.
This makes total sense to me
Why is standard modern thought unwise?
There is an endless effort to meddle and manipulate with no clue of where any of it leads.
Modern thought denies the essence of all phenomena by assuming there is something to improve, and as well that it owns the key to what improvement might be.
Yet if there is an essence then there is an essential origin that all of everything emerges from, a flow into manifestation long before the mind of the meddler ever picked up the notion that it knew better than it's cause.