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The Perception of the Divine – II
Восприятие Божественного - II This article comes as continuation and completion of the first part which, under the title "The Perception of the Divine – I", was published on the 9th of October 2024 here (amongst others): https://megalommatis.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/the-perception-of-the-divine-i/ The Shuyet ('middle spiritual body', also known as 'shadow') of Irynefer; wall-painting from his tomb at Deir el-Medina (Tomb of TT 290); being apparently dark, the 'shadow' was the higher (or more important) part of the soul that could eventually be represented...
The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce
1. Statement of Joel Hetman, Jr. I am the most unfortunate of men. Rich, respected, fairly well educated and of sound health — with many other advantages usually valued by those having them and coveted by those who have them not — I sometimes think that I should be less unhappy if they had been denied me, for then the contrast between my outer and my inner life would not be continually demanding a painful attention. In the stress of privation and the need of effort I might sometimes forget the sombre secret ever baffling the conjecture that it compels...