Ancient

 

What do we know about Cereals

The most important cereals are wheat, rice, corn, buckwheat, barley, rye and oats. They are plants of the family Gramineae grown since the dawn of time which have provided most of the food for mankind. We have news of the probable existence of cereals since the Neolithic age. The cereals were cultivated in China five [...]

The Hexagram of the Kabbalah

Throughout the previous sections I have developed the mathematics using several different philosophies. In each of these the basic starting point is opposing properties. It is by a series of complementations of the harmonic oscillations of these opposites that produce the qualities and actions of the higher dimensions. When we compare Astrology to the I [...]

The Construction of an I Ching/Astrological Natal Hexagram

One of my major interests in the study of the mysteries is the investigation of parallels between various disciplines. Whether these parallels are the result of independent orgin or by communication between the different cultures in most cases is a gray area that cannot be precisely pinpointed. This is very prominent between Eastern and Western [...]

The I Ching – Trigrams

Click on the Trigram to see its Qualities (Binary Arrangement) Fu Hsi Arrangement | King Wen Arrangement Khwan (K’un) CONCEPT: Docility / Submissive / Earth. QUALITIES: Passive – Earth – Female – Receptive – Weak – Responsive – Yielding – Devoted – Flexible – Soft – Calm – Wife – Patient – Moderate – Empty [...]

The I Ching or the Book of Changes – Introduction

One of the most prominent books in the history of Oriental culture is the I Ching, usually called the Book of Changes. Since the time of Confucius it has never lost its importance, either as a book of divination or as one of Oriental philosophy. Beside its importance in Oriental studies, the I Ching has [...]

Fantastic Fauna – myths about animals

Paying little attention to the alleged habits of animals, learn a lot about the man … Symbol of jealousy, the cuckoo is very much a symbol of laziness, because it makes the eggs in another house and suspect that it unable to make their own nest (do not say “lazy like a cuckoo?). However, in [...]

Symbolic and myths about animals

Whether due to all the peoples of the imagination, be they rooted in reality, there is a flora and more neliniştitoare. For example, the striped: “if it comes to watch a man or a dog sleeping, stretching as far as e long with him and if her body exceeds the body of the fell asleep, [...]

Aromatherapy is an ancient art

Aromatherapy is an ancient art using the essences of herbs, plants, flowers, roots, grasses and barks to enhance the body, mind and spirit and has been practiced for centuries. It dates back over 5,000 years, emerging in Egypt, being the birthplace of perfumery, medicine and pharmacy. The essence is extracted, captured, and considered, by some, [...]

REINCARNATION: EGYPTIAN STYLE

To the ancient Egyptians a person had two memories: one was permanent, as long as the body was preserved after death; the other was transitory, and left the body upon death. The permanent memory was called the KA, and was thought of much like our DNA. It contained all that was necessary to recreate the [...]

Mercury: The mysterious liquid metal

” After that period, in the place where I had seen every secret sight, I was snatched up in a whirlwind, and carried off westwards.” Thus begins a chapter in The Book of Enoch. It continues, “There my eyes beheld the secrets of heaven, and all which existed on earth; a mountain of iron, a [...]