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Aurora now had left her saffron bed, And beams of early light the heav'ns o'erspread. Rutilius Claudius Namatianus mentions in his 5th century poem De reditu suo: [7] Saffron Aurora had brought forward her fair-weather team: the breeze offshore tells us to haul the sail-yards up.
According to spiritual beliefs, an aura or energy field is a colored emanation said to enclose a human body or any animal or object. [1] In some esoteric positions, the aura is described as a subtle body. [2] Psychics and holistic medicine practitioners often claim to have the ability to see the size, color and type of vibration of an aura. [3]
The Augustan poet Ovid, in the Ars Amatoria and again in the Metamorphoses, introduces Aura into the tragic story of Cephalus and Procris, perhaps playing on the verbal similarity of Aura and Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn (Greek Eos), who had briefly been Cephalus's lover before he returned to his wife.
Spiritual evolution, also called higher evolution, [1] is the idea that the mind or spirit, in analogy to biological evolution, collectively evolves from a simple form dominated by nature, to a higher form dominated by the spiritual or divine. It is differentiated from the "lower" or biological evolution.
The Ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or wholeness. In the age-old image of the Ouroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself. The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the ...
Jakob Böhme (/ ˈ b eɪ m ə, ˈ b oʊ-/; [2] German:; 24 April 1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian.He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal.
The sky itself is understood as four to five layers of celestial realms. Each layer is a separate land of the dead and its own world. The aurora borealis bears special significance as the place where spirits who died from blood loss, murder or childbirth dwell. Legends warn Inuit against wrongdoing and taboo acts by telling the stories of ...
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