Mysticism, Psychology and Science

Is it possible that the human mind in some way reflects the workings of the universe that created it? Well, of course there are thought-processes and instincts that easily can be reduced to hands-on evolutionary conditions. But I'm thinking of more abstract ideas... Let's have a look at some pre-science ideas about reality, shall we? - The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. Conceived of as having no name, it is the originator of the heaven and earth, conceived as having a name; it is the Mother of all things.                                                                                                             ...

Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam He, who looks in the mirror of the water, first sees his own image. He, who looks at himself, risk to meet himself; and the mirror does not flatter, it shows accurately what is reflected in it, namely that face that we never show the world because we hide it by the persona, the mask of the actor. This is the first test of courage on the inner path, a test, which is enough to frighten most people, because the encounter with oneself belongs to those unpleasant things one avoids as long as one can project the negative onto the environment. Go to the Deeps of the Earth, and through Purification you will find the Secret Stone which is the true Medicine.

The Egyptian Diety Djehuti ( dhwty ) is known also by other names: Thoth, A'an and Hermes (Greek). He was the God of Knowledge, the Moon, Wisdom, the Alphabet, Records, Measurement, Thought, Intelligence, the Mind, Logic, Reason, Reading, Magic, Secrets, Meditation and Writing. According to the Egyptian historian Manetho (3rd century BC) Djehuti was the creator of writing, and his son, Hermes Trismagestus, the inventor of the Hieroglyphs. This Hermes Trismagestus is the alleged author of  a mysterious alchemical text known as The Emerald Tablet . The ancient Egyptians were well advanced in alchemy; a Greek Christian historian, Eusebius of Ceasarea (3rd century AD) wrote: The Egyptians say that Isis and Osiris are the Moon and the Sun ; that Zeus is the name which they gave to the all-pervading sprit, Hephaestus of fire and Demeter to earth. Among the Egyptians the moist element is named Ocean and their own River Nile; and to him they ascribed the origin of the Gods. To Air,...