Blake
Doors
"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors." - William Blake
"Peeping through my keyhole I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, [...]
Energy Body
"There is..a sense in which the body is not real; but that body that is not real is the false body of the separate self, the reality-ego. That false body must be cast off… The human body is not a thing, or substance…but a continous creation… The human body is an energy system… which [...]
Giants
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton
"A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two." - George Herbert, 1593-1632
"The Giants who formed this world into its sensual existence and now seem to live in it in chains, [...]
Imagination
"An idea is salvation by imagination." - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959
"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination." - Richard Wright, 12 Million Black Voices," pub. A.D. 1941
"Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match." - Ingrid Bengis
"Imagination is the real [...]
Ox
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's." - Exodus 20:17 - a.k.a. the "Tenth Commandment"
"One Law for the Lion & Ox is Oppression." - William Blake, [...]
Paradise
"Paradise is not a place, but a state of consciousness." - Sri Chimnoy
"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better." - Laurie Anderson
"Where the tree of knowledge stands, there is always Paradise' : thus speak the oldest and the youngest serpents." - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and [...]
Systems
"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized." - Louis Aragon, 1897-1982
"That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up." - Thomas Paine
"I [...]
Tree of Life
"We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life." - Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes: Paradise
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." - William Blake
"Eating is the form of [...]
Wings
"There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings." - Hodding Carter, Jr.
"The man who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake
"Come to the edge, he said. [...]
Rev Max Interview by Tim Boucher
Rev Max (a pseudonym) is the deranged mind behind Enemies.com, the weird art website which first exposed me to gnostic myths and symbols in the late 1990’s. I didn’t actually get really into gnostic thought until several years later, but I always really loved Max’s out-there artistic vision. So I was very excited when earlier [...]
