PEARLS OF WISDOM - by AO members

[rockessence]

Bianca,
I am up to pages 248-9...  I have made about 50 dog-ears to go back to later and do more research .   How about p. 201: the part on Hermes staff!!  That is SO COOL!!!  For those who don't have the book... Rudbeck shows how the caduceus, encircled with 2 intertwined snakes, which are a common symbol in the north, is actually a code device, a perfect microcosm of the runes.  King says:

"In fact, on examination, each letter of the runic alphabet could actually be seen encoded in the god's emblem.  If one relied on various angles formed by the snakes around the staff, every single rune could indeed be crafted."
"Affixing numbers to various points on the staff and the snakes, Rudbeck provided directions for marking the runes by using Mercury/Hermes' caduceus."
"What a device for encoding the letters, and fortransmitting the knowledge!  Rudbeck's discovery looks even more exciting when it is remembered that Hermes was, according to traditional accounts of classical mythology, the god who brought the alphabet to many places in antiquity, from Egypt to Arabia.  So Rudbeck concluded that the "god's" staff was the handy means of teaching the art of the runes.  And along with these Hyperborean heiroglyphics, the magical, mystical, and secret learning of the north would also be transmitted to the wise men of the Mediterranean."
"Developing this insight--how, when, where, why, and what it all meant-- was to be one of the central functions of Rudbeck's ATLANTICA."

Olof Rudbeck c.1679

from FINDING ATLANTIS by David King

[Desiree]

Great work adding the pictures, Bianca!  I always meant to buy this book but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Has anyone else read it?

[rockessence]

Desiree,
See my post above!

[Bianca]

PEARLS OF WISDOM                                                                                continued



P L U T A R C H


The study and judgment of lives was always of paramount importance for Plutarch.  In the Moralia, Plutarch expresses a belief in reincarnation. 2   His letter of consolation to his wife, after the death of their two-year-old daughter, gives us a glimpse of his philosophy:

"The soul, being eternal, after death is like a caged bird that has been released.  If it has been a long time in the body, and has become tame by many affairs and long habit, the soul will immediately take another body and once again become involved in the troubles of the world.  The worst thing about old age is that the soul's memory of the other world grows dim, while at the same time its attachment to things of this world becomes so strong that the soul tends to retain the form that it had in the body.  But that soul which remains only a short time within a body, until liberated by the higher powers, quickly recovers its fire and goes on to higher things."

[Bianca]

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep
I am one thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glints on snow
I am the sun on ripened grain
I am the gentle autumn

When you awaken in the morning hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiets bird in circling flight
I am the soft starlight at night
Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there; I did not die