esoteric_study_of_holy_texts Mahayana text often contains subtle secrets, which can be revealed by a mage. Gematria consists of calculating the number of a word by giving each letter a value [for example A=1, B=2 and so on] and adding this together. this number represents the word, and words that have the same number have some connection. For example in Hebrew, AChD (Unity)=13=AHBH (Love) 041228 ... epitome of incomprehensibility A memory: stripping a branch of bark to reveal its white bone, my fingers sticky with sap. 200627 ... unhinged he wrote the sadhana_of_mahamudra in a practice cave in bhutan for centuries these caves have housed serious seekers of the way while they find the absolute truth for years new_moon full_moon i was the sadhana_of_mahamudra girl at the center here in seattle (they say that every image has a secret meaning behind the surface meaning) the charnel_ground is everywhere at all times in all actions death is always with us hum_hum_hum 200628 ... unhinged death is always with us hum_hum_hum 220729 ... dafremen I'm reminded of the Time Life series of books called "Mysteries of the Unknown", not sure which volume. Inside was a Masonic charter which had the images of a Bull, a Lion, a Man and an Eagle on its top, bottom left and right edges. The narrator of the book goes on to explain that these represented Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the authors of the traditional Gospels. Apparently this expert on esoteria had forgotten about the Fixed signs of the Zodiac: Taurus the Bull, Leo the Lion, Aquarius the Water Bearer and Scorpio the Eagle. (Scorpios have three symbols: The Scorpion being the least evolved of the three, the Eagle being the most evolved. And then there's the poor Gray Lizard somewhere in the middle.) The fixed signs had been placed in a cross shape on the Lodge Charter, in the hopes of adding permanence to the Lodge. Someone must've neglected their esoteric studies. 220731 what's it to you? who go blather from