rune logix

The Ecstoicism of Zos vel Thanatos

The Ecstoic has no fear of reincarnation, karme, 'last judgements', nor of the earth itself giving way beneath his feet.  If he is injured - it is acquittance.  His sole effort is to do no injury to others.  He is acceptive of Nature and mainly negative to Man.  He faces life and death with open eyes, and if he seeks suicide as relief for a while, he goes forth to meet death with a smile knowing he will come again.  How cautious he is in doing good - delicately, like a funambulist.  He has no morals, beliefs, or ideals that are not tactual to life, possibility, and human nature thus heaven and hell are within his hand.  He neither parays, begs, nor borrows (if possible), but works be the sweat of his mind and body, therefore why should he pray - or prey?  He expects nothing for nothing yet often gives.  He is too proud to believe merely for rewards - or punishments.  He acts and believes in the way he considers wise and healthy: neither Devils nor Gods, or his Ids, can corrupt him.  If he seeks sanctuary, he is tired, unfit to accept unequal gods, be he always comes back...

Zos Speaks! Encounters with Austin Osman Spare, Kenneth and Steffi Grant

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It's not easy to keep the same young spirit when you grow older, but you can always be young at core.

~Anonyomus

Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil

"Whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable. Might not nothing less than the opposite , be the proper disguise for the shame of a god? A questionable question: it would be odd if some mystic had not risked something to that effect in his mind. There are occurrences of such a delicate nature that one does well to cover them up with some rudeness to conceal them; there are actions of love and extravagant generosity after which nothing is more advisable than to take a stick and give any eyewitness a sound thrashing: that would muddle his memory Some know how to muddle and abuse their own memory in order to have their revenge at least against this only witness: shame is inventive.

It is not the worst things that cause the worst shame: there is not only guile behind a mask - there is so much graciousness in cunning. I could imagine that a human being who had to guard something precious and vulnerable might roll through life, rude and round as an old green wine cask with heavy hoops: the refinement of his shame would want it that way.

A man whose sense of shame has some profundity encounters his destinies and delicate decisions, too, on paths which few ever reach and of whose mere existence his closest intimates must not know: his mortal danger is concealed from their eyes, and so is his regained sureness of life. Such a concealed man who instinctively needs speech for silence and for burial in silence and who is inexhaustible in his evasion of communication, wants and sees to it that a mask of him roams in his place through the hearts and heads of his friends. And supposing he did not want it, he would still realize some day that in spite of that a mask of him is there - and that this is well. Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is growing continually, owing to the constantly false, namely shallow , interpretation of every word, every step, every sign of life he gives."

- Nietzsche (aka The Antichrist)

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quote of the day

"I need an Iron to fix my intentions."

Soror T.'.

[ Note: Iron = 56 ]

quote of the day

"i'm fantastic because i choose to be."

--a certain nobody who wishes to remain anonymous

i do not want to father a flock

"I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools, and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whoses followers are content to echo my opinions.  I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle."

-- Aliester Crowley, The Confessions

a spell

"When I'm with you, no words can express how easily I become ecstatic."

Akhet viz Theda

(a spell on Self)

love is the law, love under will

"They try to seperate it [love] from those powerful and primitive elements that sway the soul, that shake it to it's depths, and make it an instrument by which man is idetified both with the Most High God and with the lowest of the brutes."

Aleister Crowley, The General Principals of Astrology

comte de gabalis, discources on secret sciences

"...if I have not sufficient greatness of soul to strive to become the Master of Nature, overthrow the Elements, hold communion with Supreme Intelligences, command demons, become the father of giants, create new worlds, speak with God upon His formidable Throne, and compel the Cherubim who guards the gate of terrestial Paradise to let me stroll now and then in its aIleys, it is I, and I alone, who am to blame or to be pitied."

Abbé N. Montfaucon de Villars, 1670

Will of Dune

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

Thufir Hawat

david lynch, dune