Gravity grew such radiant adornments, its morbid simplicity compared to snakes, its secret wars torn from hidden promises, and all the while the only things that float defy nothing.

Gary J Shipley, Theoretical Animals [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Shipley Theoretical Animals gravity radiant adornments morbid simplicity snakes secret wars hidden promises float deny nothing

Consider also:

  1. “In an important sense, soulmaking is just the creative seeking and expression of extrarational truth. It’s what we do when we dialogue with the parts of ourselves that usually go unheard—whether it be our heart, our guides, or our genius.”
  2. “The value of a ritual is that it involves self-discipline and belonging. The ritual is pointless in itself so the doing of it is purely a matter of discipline and the willingness to do it.”
  3. “… For Mercy has a human heart, Pity a human face, And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.”
  4. “Chibi acted as she always did. Her interest was in her own natural talents, and the animal and plant kingdoms. The human world was of no concern”
  5. “at night they twinkled gaily with geometrical constellations, or else, flood-lighted, pointed their luminous fingers (with a gesture whose significance nobody in England but the Savage now understood) solemnly towards the plumbless mysteries of heaven.”