Piercing The Shield

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“The light within the earth, what the alchemists called the lumen naturae, is a primal source of energy and power that has yet to be fully accessed by humanity. It belongs to our natural relationship to life, to creation and its sacred nature…We cannot work with earth’s light, nor will we know the real names of creation, through a consciousness of separation or duality. We need to claim the consciousness of oneness that is waiting for us…Working with this power within creation, we can reclaim our heritage as guardians of the earth, of its sacred and mysterious ways. We can once again be initiated into the deeper levels of existence, the now-hidden ways that energy flows within and around the world. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Once your first response to a dream, a bit of news, an idea divides immediately into the moral “good” or “bad,” psychologically you are Christian. Once you feel sin in connection with your flesh and its impulses, again you are Christian. When a hunch comes true, a slipup is taken as an omen, and you trust in dreams, only to shake off these inklings as “superstition,” you are Christian because that religion bans nondoctrinal forms of communication with the invisibles, excepting Jesus. — James Hillman

The quote by Vaughan-Lee is fascinating, because it concerns a vision of the world that contradicts Western…