Cosmic Edges

Cosmic Edges

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Cosmic Edges
Cosmic Edges
false infinities

false infinities

Inferno XXI; heads and tails, Simone Weil, creatures; alchemy; passing thru death; Mercury

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“Evil is limitless but it is not infinite. Only the infinite limits the limitless.”

“A double movement of descent: to do again, out of love, what gravity does. Is not the double movement of descent the key to all art?”

(Simone Weil)

Woodcut, Splendor Solis, 1599

The Death card, but also Simone Weil, Dante, and the ancientest alchemists say we must pass thr…

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