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IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD
~ In the Court of the Crimson King ~ |
- chapter index -
pg. 1 - Intro: The Schizoid Man | pg. 2 - Night Sounds
pg. 3 - Welcome to the Machine | pg. 4 - The Laboratory
pg. 5 - Agamemnon | pg. 6 - Prometheus
pg. 7 - Paranoia's Poison Door | pg. 8 - Projective Identification
pg. 9 - The Promethean Rebel | pg. 10 - Aries and the Emperor
pg. 11 - Mirrors | pg. 12 - In the Beginning was the Word
pg. 13 - Death Seed | pg. 14 - I Talk to the Wind
pg. 15 - Said the Straight Man to the Late Man | pg. 16 - Epitaph
pg. 17 - Apollo | pg. 18 - The Fate of All Mankind
pg. 19 - Malkuth
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"The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen."
- George S. Arundale
"I have pursued, alas, philosophy,
Jurisprudence, and medicine,
And help me God, theology,
With fervent zeal through thick and thin.
And here, poor fool, I stand once more,
No wiser than I was before."
- Goethe, Introduction to Faust
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Not nature but the 'genius of mankind' has knotted the hangman's noose
with which it can execute itself at any moment."
- Carl Jung
"Ere silence was completed their hearts were opened, and they knew what had been important on the earth. Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven."
- E. M. Forster, The Machine Stops
"I can think of no other time when it has been more important to consider the needs of the human soul. The twentieth century has been dominated by a worldview that glorifies a mechanistic, rationalistic focus at the expense of the inner life. The ravages that have been wreaked on the planet as a result of this dissociation from the essential self have reached crisis proportions. Yet, just as the individual unconscious knows when a person's survival is threatened, I believe the collective unconscious knows when group survival is in danger. Beyond the level of the rational mind is an awareness that without our souls, we are without our power, and without our power, we will die."
- Marianne Williamson, Foreword to Handbook for the Soul
"When the great Tao is forgotten,
Kindness and morality arise.
When wisdom and intelligence are born,
The great pretense begins."
- Tao Te Ching
"In the beginning was the Creator, within whom was the word, and the word was the Lord Himself'"
- Rig Veda
'Now look at the wisdom of the Greeks, and examine it as follows. The authors of the Orphic hymns supposed Zeus to be the mind of the world, and that he created all things therein, containing the world in himself. Therefore in their theological systems they have handed down their opinions concerning him thus:'
"Zeus was the first, Zeus last, the lightning's lord,
Zeus head, Zeus centre, all things are from Zeus.
Zeus born a male, Zeus virgin undefiled;
Zeus the firm base of earth and starry heaven;
Zeus sovereign, Zeus alone first cause of all:
One power divine, great ruler of the world,
One kingly form, encircling all things here,
Fire, water, earth, and ether, night and day;
Wisdom, first parent, and delightful Love:
For in Zeus' mighty body these all lie."
- Porphyry On Images
"The first Number, then is ONE; emblem of the All-Father; the Unmanifest Mind behind all Manifestation: the First Mind."
- A Note on Genesis
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The Emperor of the Last Days
"Frederick Hohenstaufen, Emperor of the Last Days,
Left his bed under Etna's flames
To see how the world had changed its ways.
He found new devices and ancient aims,
Ignorance and terror still happily wed,
New children born from their incestuous bed,
Midwifed by learning, nursed by power:
Deadly air and gods made to order,
Pestilence sold in the market like tripe.
Some amazed the mirabilis mundi, wandering loose
Among the stars, some knotted their own noose,
Eating lotos. Frederick saw the hour was ripe,
Did not call forth Gog and Magog, did not even nod,
But returned Earth, sterile, to God."
- Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
21st Century Schizoid Man
"On the altar of his Unknown God through all the ages man pathetically offers the holocaust of his reason."
- Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion
"The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized--and it may explode into violence."
- Rollo May, Love and Will (1969, p. 17)
"I'm tired of intelligence.
Thinking wreaks havoc on the emotions.
There are horrible side-effects."
- Álvaro de Campos
"Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as
many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself,
and yourself alone, one question. Does the path have a
heart? The trouble is nobody asks the question; and
when a man finally realizes that he has taken a path
without a heart, the path is ready to kill him. At that point,
very few men can stop to deliberate and leave the path."
- Don Juan (in Carlos Castaneda's The
Teachings of Don Juan)
