If identity (self) can be dissolved, along with personal history (antecedents), and time and place, then what exists actually? The difference between YHWH and Brahman is that the former speaks (this includes writing): he has personal identity despite his Brahman-like ubiquity. This self-disclosure in verbal form permits a dialog between him (the macrocosm) and differentiated micro-cosmos. […] Sankara believed there were not plural selves but just the one self which could be identified with Brahman. This fits in with my line of thinking supra. Also, YHWH differs from Brahman in that he is involved in history — human history, what is involved is the evolution of human freedom. And the universe is real: seeing it we are seeing the field (web) in which YHWH operates. Not (as Sankara believes) mere maya. Human history represents successive levels of self-disclosure by YHWH — meaning self-awareness. Human history is the deity waking up. The opponent to YHWH at any moment is his antecedent self: he is dynamic (in process), not static. He must eternally surpass himself.

Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

Customs, rites, myths, and taboo are a language. As in language, where the sounds which make up words are, taken in themselves, meaningless, so the parts of a custom or a rite or a myth (according to Lévi-Strauss) are meaningless in themselves. When analyzing the Oedipus myth, he insists that the parts of the myth (the lost child, the old man at the crossroad, the marriage with the mother, the blinding, etc.) mean nothing. Only when put together in the total context do the parts have a meaning — the meaning that a logical model has.

Susan Sontag, “The Anthropologist As Hero”

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"Was he one or many, merging

Name and fame in one,

Like a stream, to which, converging,

Many streamlets run?

Who shall call his dreams fallacious?

Who has searched or sought

All the unexplored and spacious

Universe of thought?

Who in his own skill confiding,

Shall with rule and line

Mark the border-land dividing

Human and divine?

Trismegistus! Three times greatest!

How thy name sublime

Has descended to this latest

Progeny of time!"

— Hermes Trismegistus, a Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The Relative Strength of Signs and Planets" by Colin James III

"This volume presents fresh and innovative concepts for the student of astrology. Careful analysis of the dignities explores the merits of the ancient-dual and modern-single and -joint sign rulership theories. A numerological approach clarifies the exaltations, once confounding to scholars. Step-by-step deductive reasoning generates the relative strength of planets, signs, and houses. From this follow symmetrical polychordic figures and the relative compatibility of planets and signs. New active and passive keywords appear for each planet in each sign. Detailed tables explain the theory of decans. Appendices aid the understanding of retrograde planets and sign blends. A brief history of ancient astrology and investigation of the history of science problem of ancient zodiacs enhance astrology’s great tradition. An index and extensive bibliography provide the reader with easy access for applying these concepts to simplify horoscope delineation in electional, synastric, and natal astrology."

Lucas Jennis, Museaum Hermeticum,1625