At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.
T.S. Eliot.
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
But before all these, when he had appeared on the first day, he remained upon the earth, something like two days, and left the lower Pronoia in heaven, and ascended towards his light. And immediately darkness covered all the universe. Now when she wished, the Sophia who was in the lower heaven received authority from Pistis, and fashioned great luminous bodies and all the stars. And she put them in the sky to shine upon the earth and to render temporal signs and seasons and years and months and days and nights and moments and so forth. And in this way the entire region upon the sky was adorned.
On the Origin of the World, Nag Hammadi Text.
Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions. This has gone on for ever; will last for ever; goes down to the bottom of the world.
Virginia Woolf, diary entry, 1929.
In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul. Out of the egg - which is symbolised by the round cooking-vessel - will rise […] the liberated soul, which is ultimately indentical to the Anthropos who was imprisoned in the embrace of Physis.
C.G. Jung, The Mandalas in the Dreams.
All world was one, one windy nothing,
My world was christened in a stream of milk.
And earth and sky were as one airy hill.
The sun and moon shed one white light.
Dylan Thomas.
