Monday, February 28, 2022

"There is then..."

 

"There is then, oh Tat, a Creator and a Lord of all this Universe. The place, the number, the measure, could not be kept without a creator.

The order cannot be made without a place or a measure, a Lord is needed then, oh my son.

The disorder has need of Him in order to reach and order, and it obeys that who has not ordered yet.

If you could have wings, fly in the air, and there between the sky and the earth, the fluidity of the sea, the course of the rivers, the lightness of the air, the subtlety of fire, the course of the heavenly bodies and the movement of the sky which wraps them, oh my son, in this magnificent spectacle you would see, in an instant, the inmutable move and the invisible appear in the order and the beauty of the world. 

If you want to contemplate the Creator, even in the mortal things, which are on the earth or in the deep, reflect, oh my son, on the creation of man in his mother's womb; examine with attention the art of the Great Worker, learn to know it from the Divine Beuty of his Work.

Who has made round the sphere of the eyes?

Who has bored the opening of the nose and ears?

Who has opened the mouth?

Who has spread and linked the nerves?

Who has drawn the channels of the veins?

Who has hardened the bones?

Who has wrapped the flesh in skin?

Who has separated the fingers and members?

Who has widened the base of the feet?

Who has formed the pyramid of the heart?

Who has widened the hips?

Who has dilated the liver?

Who has formed the caves of the lungs, the cavity of the belly?

Who has put in evidence the honourable parts and has hidden the others..?

Look how much art there is in mere matter! What effort in a single piece of work! Everywhere beauty, everywhere proportion, everywhere variety.

Who has made all these things? Who is the mother, who is the father; but the unique and invisible God who has created everything for his Will.

Nobody imagines that a statue or a painting can exist without a sculptor or a painter. And shouldn't this creation have a Creator? Oh blindness, oh impiety, oh ignorance! Keep yourself, Tat, my son, from denying the Work of the Great Worker; give God the name which is more propitious, call him the Father of everything, because He is unique, and his own function is the one of being Father; and using a daring expression I would say that his essence is the one of engendering and creating. And as nothing can exist without a creator, the same way Himself would not exist if he did not create nonstop, in the air, in the earth, in the deep, in the universe, in every part of this, in what exists and in what does not exist.

Because there is nothing in the whole world that is not Him.

He is what is and what is not, because what he is has been manifested and what is not is contained in himself.."

(words of Hermes Trismegistus; Ernesto Baron - The Magical Lnds of the Celts)

Saturday, January 1, 2022

Merry & Peaceful


Christmas pictures traditionaly a bit late (hey, it's still Christmas until 6. January!). Happy New Year everyone, may this year exceed your expectations in every way, especially spiritual.

Holiday Market - Roy Trower


Cherished Memories - Geno Peoples


Do Not Open (Or Tear) Until Christmas - Lucie Bilodeau


Holiday Cheer - Tuula Burger


What Would You Like for Christmas - Tatiana Dorotina


Christmas Has Come to Town - Carol Dyer


Under the Mistletoe - Mick McGinty


Candy Cane Lane - Ruane Manning


A Bit of Everything - Tony Ryan


Saturday, December 25, 2021

Merry Christmas!

 Krásne a požehnané Vianoce všetkým, prichádza Vianočná Hviezda s novou silou, láskou a Svetlom..

Happy and blessed Christmas everyone, the Christmas Star has new energy, love and Light for us all...


Sunday, November 28, 2021

Watermill theme 2

 ...by various artists: 

Bob Peters


A. S. Kreutz


Koukei Kojima


Charlotte Joan Sternberg


Tom Antonishak


unknown


Patrick J. Costello


Charles Wysocki


Related link:
Watermill Theme 1

Sunday, October 31, 2021

The Road Not Taken


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 

(Robert Frost)

Sunday, October 17, 2021

Past Times: Autumn Town

 ...by the incredible Charles Wysocki:







Tuesday, September 14, 2021

House


A house is a face
that wears expression,
with eyes and smile
and silent voice that speaks.

A house is a face,
strong or broken,
happy or sad,
wise or reckless.

A house is a face -
modern or antique,
steady or patched up,
proud or humble,

crumbling or settled,
owned or abandoned,
blending in crowd or standing out,
beautiful or plain.


A house is a face,
familiar or strange,
and the most welcoming and precious
is called home.

Its eyes are warm,
lit with inner light
that shines into darkness.
It is part of the evening.

It goes to sleep,
eyes closed,
snuggled under blanket of stars
and lullaby of trees.

Wakes up in the morning,
bathes in sunrise,
lets busy day through the door
as a welcomed guest.

A home is a face
with understanding smile,
with fire in its hearth
that's endlessly burning,

endlessly warm and cosy,
with hearts that resonate together -
a safe haven for weary soul,
a happy haven for busy soul.

A home is a face
that makes you smile back,
with life-giving roots,
a place you call your own.

 

© Ludmila 

(Picture by Richard Burns)