Monthly Archives: May 2021

Soma

The word soma stands for the corpse in Homer, and only later acquires the meaning of body. So the following verse is attributed to Euripides by Plato: “Who knows whether living is not being dead, while being dead is living?” … Continue reading

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Dark Night of the Unborn

Being a paraphrase of John’s Dark Night In the Darkness of Night, Enlightened with whisperings untold -O’ Luminous Wonder- Mind fled the charnel house unchecked, My spirit at last cloaked in stillness. In this verse, the Spirit-Mind bespeaks its escape … Continue reading

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