Eternal return

Another way of describing this process is to say that these stages represent the descent of consciousness into form. Taoist practitioners, using various Inner Alchemy techniques, are able to reverse this sequence of events, to return to the realm of Tao. Taoist cosmology was shaped by the way in which the Chinese traditionally understood the world. Taoists believe that when the world began, there was only the Tao. This energy eventually developed two complementary aspects: yin, which is dark,…

throughout his journey towards immortality. When he lost his companion, Enkindu, Gilgamesh mourned for several nights and days. This lost forced him into a depression and drove him further to find the gods to grant him eternal life. While Gilgamesh never receives the power of eternal life, he gains the power and strength for his city. The translated work displays Gilgamesh with several incidents where he receives wisdom from those around him, specifically from one women, Siduri. While…

A famous flood comes from Hinduism mythology called Manu. In this story a fish came to Manu while he was washing his hands. The fish asked Manu to be placed in a larger body of water so he could live, and in return the fish would save Manu from a great flood. Manu agreed and put the fish in a larger container. The fish grew so fast that it had to be moved to a tank and later to the ocean. When the fish was put into the ocean he had grown into a god, Vishnu and told Manu to build a boat for the…

necessary to control the flow of history with a kind of time machine called kettle, while the people recruited from various times throughout history for particular desired skills, from the 27th century, all the way up to the 30,000th and beyond, called eternals, can minimize human suffering.Harlan is assigned to teach a newcomer to the Eternity named Copper some specific knowledge under the instructions of Twissell.Meanwhile in another mission he meet Noÿs, a woman from 482 th century, and fell…

declared that the souls of the dead could no longer remain on Earth. Instead, the souls of the dead would be sent to the “dark, dismal Underworld” (91). These changes mark the end of the Golden Age on Earth and no prior generation has been worthy of a return to the Golden Age. In fact, the generation succeeding the race of silver were worse still. This generation was known as the race of bronze and was terribly cruel and lived only by the sword. This race chose Aries, god of war, as their patron…

Kierkegaard highlights one important difference between the knight of infinite resignation and the night of faith: the knight of faith goes one step farther. In his own words, both kinds of people have passed though the mindset of the Aesthete into that of the Ethical and transcended by means of a leap of faith into the religious. Even the knight of faith experiences the view of the knight of infinite resignation, but he can move one step farther by virtue of the absurd. The knight of infinite…

Human Beings. (Quote from the Article ‘The Cause of Fate of Terrestrial Men’ chapter #10) • However, Experience of Life consists of experiences of contrasts. Being’s eternal faculty for experiencing life is based on two main contrasts Darkness & Light or as perceived by terrestrial men – ‘evil’ & ‘goodness’ respectively. The Eternal Creative Power Principle or “Mother Energy” causes living being to live through epoch of life where primary factor is the extreme exposure and experience of ‘Dark…

reason behind knowledge is a sufficient condition for faith. To have faith, one can advance upon the Socratic reason and go beyond: philosophize, limit to paradox, and cease to think. But this is not unwilling passivity, because the subject actively returns to immanence and transcends the unknown. Therefore, the subject unifies the paradoxical opposites and has faith in the faith itself, despite the existence of any object or ultimate other, i.e. God. In this paper, I will respectively discuss…

Lewis, in his essay “The Weight of Glory”, talks of our duty to help our neighbor in the pursuit of eternal happiness. Because man is prideful by nature, it is possible for one to become too prideful in his potential glory, but one cannot think of each other’s salvation enough. God created all things in an order with man at its pinnacle with dominion over…

are two different realms within reality: the visible world of being, and the intelligible world of Being. In the world of Being, there exists what Plato calls the Forms. The Forms are Plato’s First Principle; he claims that the Forms are perfect, eternal, and non-changing objects in the intelligible realm, and these are the essences of the physical world; these are how things ought to be (INCLUDE CITATIONS). Examples of the Forms include the concepts of beauty, justice, and…