It was Owen Barfield who defined Original Participation - characteristic of young childhood and the early states of Mankind's development of consciousness (roughly, the nomadic Hunter Gatherer stage); and Final Participation - which was the divinely-intended future development of consciousness that was posited to ...

John D Rateliff. The History of The Hobbit - Two volumes: Part One: Mr Baggins; Part 2: Return to Bag End. HarperCollins: London, 2007. pp. xxxix; 905.

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It is long overdue that I said something about how much I have enjoyed and learned from John D Rateliff's two volume A History of the Hobbit - ...

This system came to me in a dream ("Rolling the bones"), with the decision to rank Wands as the high suit the result of further dream experiments ("Pumping iron into a sword" and "Cat Eye forum").

You roll two ordinary six-sided dice to consult the Trumps Major and three to consult the Minor Arcana. (You get the Fool ...

On p. 208 of The Fourth Mind, Whitley Strieber writes:

The diameter of the Earth times 108 equals the diameter of the Sun. The diameter of the Sun times 108 equals the distance between the Sun and the Earth. The diameter of the Moon times 108 equals the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

The diameter of the ...

William Arkle distinguished a way above and out-from the traditional dilemma of obedience versus disobedience to God; by considering the question from the larger perspective of God's creative intention with respect to Men (discussed in the post following this).

In an letter to Jon Flint* (that I have slightly edited ...

It is the convention of map reading to place North at the top of the page. But everyone knows that this has no bearing on anything beyond convention. For example, if we ascend in a hot air balloon and look down at the fields and roads bellow, then "up" is not where north is: "Up" means ascending higher into the sky. ...

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James Tissot, La flagellation de dos (1886-1894)

This is from the Passion narrative in John 18:38-19:6.

[38] Pilate . . . went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, "I find in him no fault at all. [39] But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye ...

On a post by Wm Briggs, about artificial intelligence, a commenter with the monniker "ItsAllBullshit" writes: "AI is a smoke screen for what they really want to do, control who works where. If you are familiar with the way that algorithms work, you will understand that AI today is simply an inefficient ...

John Fitzgerald and I have compiled a book from our posts on the Albion Awakening blog and Bruce Charlton has written an introduction for it.

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The paperback version can be found here.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1708664955

for the UK market

and here for the American ...