Philosophy Poems
Archangel Raphael
by Michael Rufman
Despite the wide popularity and veneration of the “Solar” and “Lunar” Archangels - Michael and Gabriel, respectively, the “essential” features of the hierarchy of the Guardians of the Tree are expressed in the less striking, but no less significant figure of the Lord of Glory - Raphael. Just as Gabriel “props up” the Middle Pillar of the Tree, Raphael and Uriel support the Paths of Severity and Holiness, respectively, and it is Raphael, as the Guardian of the foundations of the Left Column, who acts as the “first outpost” on the path of destructive forces
The sphere of Mercury, which is controlled by Raphael, is the sphere of free creative thinking, describing the world, noticing and formulating its laws and features. The air spheres, also related to the symbolic field of the Archangel, acquire lightness, mobility and speed from his influence
All those demonic, destructive forces that Raphael opposes penetrate into consciousness precisely through defects of the mind, and the name of the demonic sphere “Samael” - “poison of God”, that is, “Lie”, indicates that it is often a conscious or unconscious substitution concepts, distortion of ideas and concepts, underlies the destruction of consciousness
The name of the Archangel goes back to the root "rapha" - to heal and can be translated as "Healer of God", which also indicates Raphael's advanced position in the confrontation of forces. The number of the name of the Archangel - 311 - and its root - 5 - connect the Angel with free will and the pentagram as a sign of the Microcosm, which indicates the “borderline” position of Raphael, strengthening the microcosm in the manifested state. Thus, the Divine Healer - Raphael - is the power of “transparency”, “health of flows”, manifested both at the Macro and psychocosmic levels by the system’s desire for self-control, self-defense, self-organization and self-differentiation
Empty
by Richard Randolph
I think that I think.
Therefore, I think that I am.
If I didn’t think, I wouldn't be.
I’d be like a hive without a bee.
Empty.
LONELINESS - ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
by alexis karpouzos
Loneliness, Emotional pain, walks with us through the day,
and sleeps with us through the night,
Tears that is not visible to the naked eye,
silent screams that no one can hear,
feeling of relentless distress,
Trapped with nowhere to turn,
life is changing beyond our control,
someone else is pulling the strings,
causing this deep ache in the bottom of our soul.
but remember, for every soul there is a soul that touches yours –
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I Drank from an Hourglass
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
It has long ceased to rain here.
The embers of drought are fanned by the merciless
Hands of hell.
The air is stifling,
The heat insufferable.
I cringe from a long wait on a queue in the narrow
Trench at a fast-drying
Brook.
I wait from the crack of dawn to vespers time,
But not an iota of liquid
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Night at the Necropolis
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
Night,
Ageless and porous,
Sang screeches of fireflies of
Crescendo-diminuendo sparks.
What hour?
In the midst of the hustles, I lost my hoursight
Different, tonight, is my eyesight, seeing even
Through the darkest foliage of gentle, but sinister
Caress sway.
On the broken, cracked slabs, squatting, dark torsos!
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Empty
by Richard Randolph
I think that I think.
Therefore, I think that I am.
If I didn’t think, I wouldn't be.
I’d be like a hive without a bee.
Empty.
Magical activity is not an entourage
by Michael Rufman
The magician lives not in the usual flabby and rarefied state, suitable only for the endless and dull repetition of the same lessons, which is “ordinary” life, but in an intense “training center”, where every action is called upon to “squeeze” the maximum out of consciousness. what it is capable of, to realize its aspirations and aspirations as effectively as possible
"Magical activity", rituals, spells are not just an entourage, games designed to make life "more interesting", they are ways to increase the intensity of awareness, to take it beyond the limitations imposed by upbringing and the forces behind it – Archons, predators, parasites
The key rule of Magic is: "you only need to do what you can't help doing," and all the training is needed only to find these "anchor points of consciousness," those actions that are overdue and can trigger an avalanche-like reaction of Enlightenment
By coming face to face with the players hidden behind the screen of the mundane, the magician can no longer pretend that "everything is fine" or that "everything is still ahead." The reality he is facing is so merciless and terrifying that it is impossible to simply ignore it, and then there is a state in which the magician "cannot but be a magician"
Shaping an adult
by Azaad M
If I could make my own adults,
I’d shape them gently—
after the foggy warmth of grandmothers' laps
and the way a mother tucks in the corners of a blanket like a promise.
I’d build them with leftover laughter from childhood
pressed into the hollows of their cheeks,
the kind that resurfaces when they laugh with their eyes closed.
I’d stir in a spoonful of Camus—
so they'd look at the sky and feel both lost and held.
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The Road I Frequent
by Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
If you have seen it or traipsed on it,
You would have long since observed
That it's not paved with slabs of deception;
It’s a simple, lean road, fleshed and naked
It blends well with culture and the harmony
Of peace, curved effortlessly on its western incline.
It clutches at its vegetation when storms pervade
The earth
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end’s beginning
by Rikske Kessner
end’s beginning . . . .
. . . . a seed that falls
strikes the ground and ends…
the goodness of its covering
fleshy fruit but an aftertaste…
then germinates and sprouts,
with daily nurturing sunlight
to spawn the next generation
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