The history of the circulation of blood may be summarized as follows:

4 → 2 + 2 → 3 + 1

Blood is made up of four constituent parts. In the beginning, these were united in a single corpuscle, the 4-corpuscle, which you can picture as four small spheres agglomerated together into a single body, like a ...

I was at a restaurant, and the Alan Walker song "Faded" came on. I've heard it before but never paid enough attention to the lyrics to realize that it's actually about Atlantis:

Where are you now?Where are you now?Where are you now?Was it all in my fantasy?Where are you now?Were you only imaginary?

Where are you ...

Earlier today, I ended my post "Decorations from a Tree of Acorns" with two lines from "The Allansford Pursuit" by Robert Graves, for no other reason than that they had popped into my head, despite the fact that I last read that poem in 2001.

Cunning and art he did not lackBut aye her whistle would fetch him ...

Bill left a comment at 12:22 p.m. on "The white caribou" relating a dream he had had:

I was sitting in a church chapel, which also seemed to be some kind of library or study hall, as I was sitting toward the back at a large table, while trying to read or study or something like that. At the front of the chapel ...

Here is a detail from Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Conjurer, which I most recently posted here in "The hermit, the magician, the owl, and Hieronymus Bosch" (July 4).

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And here is a photo I took today (July 11) of a decoration on the exterior wall of a vegetarian restaurant.

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I dreamt that I had bought secondhand a very rare privately published hardcover book titled Decorations from a Tree of Acorns: A Version of "The Paper". Its orangish-brown cover, with the title written in gold inside a black rectangle, seemed to be imitating the aesthetic of the first edition of the Book of Mormon. No ...

​Youth is wasted on the young.

Everyone has heard the phrase and understands what it expresses. The seemingly limitless vitality, energy, vigor, time, curiosity, bravado, and optimism inherent in a stage of life are also tainted by a glaring failure to capitalize on those attributes due to a lack of experience ...

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From today's church-hunting at St Michael and All Angels, Felton, in Northumberland.

What is very unusual is that the whole tracery design at the top, including an eight-pointed flower, was carved from a single piece of sandstone.

A lovely and architecturally fascinating (surprisingly large, ...

I took this photo this past Wednesday (July 8) outside Caribou Cafe, which is also where I took the June 15 photo is "Humanoid deer creatures."

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The white hart -- or white caribou, I suppose -- is stationed in front of a door, or portal.

The fact that it's specifically a caribou, or reindeer, led ...

There is a sentence in the Fourth Gospel that contradicts the argument and multiple statements of the rest of the Gospel, and which I assume was a later and alien addition...

But which (with, perhaps, a terrible and malignant inevitability) became standard orthodox compulsory dogma in many Christian churches (at ...

Does History unfold according to a plan?

I think not.

But History does have a direction, and this direction is a bottom-up kind of thing: I mean the shape of History is a consequence of the cumulative development of individual Beings.

And that development of Beings is a matter of increasing consciousness.

God ...

There is a very strong tendency among anti-Establishment radicals (and indeed among Establishment-supporting radicals - the legions of deluded Leftists) - that true information can, and shall, defeat the distortions of censorship and untruthful propaganda.

That is the theory, but you may have noticed that this does ...

I am sometimes asked "What are you?", meaning am I a Christian, a Buddhist, Theosophist, esotericist or pagan of some kind, whatever it might be. I always find it difficult to give a proper answer to this question since in a way I am all of these and yet none. That is to say, I have learned from many spiritual ...

The juxtaposition of a hermit with a hart, sometimes merged into a single "humanoid deer creature," has been a sync theme recently. Thus this sign caught my eye as I passed it on the road this morning:

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It says DeerHer, written as a single word with no space. If Her is understood to be a truncated ...

It is striking (to me) how the ideal values of worship and obedient service have declined to feebleness - or else to a legalism of worship and obedient service that disguises a pleasure-seeking/ fear-motivated loyal conformity to societal power.

Worship-of and obedience-to God are the Old Testament ideal that ...

I have seldom seen more of a a blog blitz on synlogos.org, than the past few days of Roman Catholic bloggers debating the Pope's actions towards SSPX (The Society of St Pius X).

It's all a bit sad; because although the SSPX deserve defending as a "lesser evil" in context of the global decline of Christian churches ...

one benefit of publishing is that your audience might also consist of resurrected people. and through that, perhaps friendship, and learning. but it seems intuitively right through analogical scaling that until you have a relation with resurrected people, they can only access you through what is made public, like ...

In my mid-twenties I graduated from medical school and started work; at first as a doctor, then in research for a doctorate. These were years in which I experienced the power of that "alienation" so characteristic of modernity.

And, as always in "this life", fundamental problems to do with ultimate purpose and how ...

Franz von Stuck is usually referred to as a Symbolist painter, which he is. However, he easily qualifies as a Romantic painter as well and is sometimes classified as such (Late Romantic).

​His Falling Stars is a good example of his Romantic side on full display. A simple, straightforward painting depicting von ...

In yesterday's post "The hermit, the magician, the owl, and Hieronymus Bosch," I revisited an old 2019 post in which a book titled Serendipities manifested "a strange sort of anti-serendipity": The book caught my eye because the cover art was a painting I had recently posted about, but it turned out to be a version of ...

The problem of entropy is one that presses upon us the average mortal life perhaps more strongly than evil.

By "entropy" I mean the universal tendency for beings to experience cumulative adverse change with time: dysfunction, degeneration, disease - and the ultimate manifestation of entropy is death.

All of these ...

This evening, I saw a textbook article, for reading comprehension practice, about the Ethiopian calendar and how it differs from the Gregorian.

About an hour later, I saw a /pol/ thread titled "TIL Africa has its own time," with a screenshot of an article about "African time" as a reference to Africans always being ...

The Hermit card of the Tarot has been in the sync stream recently, including this "Hermit Portal" painting by Laura Bruno, which features an owl -- a bird which does not appear on most Hermit cards.

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In "Hart, hermit, skeleton" (July 1), the Hermit card was discussed in conjunction with the ...

I've been reading Trish MacGregor's novel White Crows. Hal is a person from the distant future who has time-traveled back to c. 2022.

Sometimes, when they'd been preparing for this trip, they'd gotten -- or remembered -- data that had contradicted what they currently had known about the twenty-first [century]. He ...

At the moment, the last post in the algorithm-generated "Poplar posts" list at the bottom of this blog is "Chubby Checker, god of quads" (August 2025). I clicked on it and, scrolling through the comments, found this one from Gondola:

It's weird how old themes take on new meanings as time passes. Those Temperance and ...

Long-term (six year plus) readers will know of my recurrent "obsession" with the subject of evil; and the nature and definition of evil.

This is because I believe that the nigh-universal lack of understanding of evil has rendered almost-everybody helpless in the face of a very powerful class of persons who have ...

Morality does not derive from Laws.

Morality derives from God: from the nature, purposes, and methods of God; as manifested in divine creation.

The morality of Men derives from their personal affiliation to God*.

*The morality-enabling affiliation to God must be personal; it may or may not also be collective in ...

For many people in the modern materialistic world psychology has replaced religion, but how can you heal the mind if you don't acknowledge the soul? And most forms of psychology, despite the name, do not acknowledge the soul except sometimes when it is envisaged as an aspect or extension of the mind.Human beings ...

I don't know why I happened to remember such a thing, but when I looked at the calendar this morning, it occurred to me that today would have been the 99th birthday of the late great Gene Ray, commonly known as the Greatest Thinker and Wisest Human, the discoverer of Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous Four-Day Time Cube. ...

Yesterday, I featured a Franz von Stuck painting called The Wild Chase (The Wild Hunt).

The following two renditions of The Wild Hunt of Odin (Åsgårdsreien) by Norwegian Peter Nicolai Arbo (1831 -1892) offer clearer examples of what Odin's (Wotan's) wild hunt was about.

Excerpted from Wikipedia:

"The ...

If there is one area of life in which discussion is futile, it is when trying to persuade a Moral Legalist in a situation where somebody has transgressed a law, rule or principle, that he regards as both absolute and primary.

Such people cannot be made to recognize that the crucial move in their argument has been ...