Re: Antoine/the hungry arrow of time

11-23-1999, 09:37 AM

At 01:14 PM 11/23/99 -0500, you wrote:
>From: Antoine
>
>I must say thank you Dan,
>
>In being my mirror in this process of digesting things. The energy as
>always moving into itself, could be seen in a symbolic way as a dragon,
>the cosmic whale, in certain cultures.
>
>"According to Hermetic doctrine...' if the dragon reappears in the
>center of the "Citadel of Philosophers" of Khunrath, it is still a
>dragon which has to be conquered and slain: it is that which
>everlastingly devours its own self, it is Mercury as an image of burning
>thirst or hunger or the blind impulse towards gratification'...

Ah - when the thirst for gratification no longer has objects, it
no longer can project "satiation" to a future date.
When desire realizes itself as its own satisfaction,
then any arising moment is perfectly satisfying as is.
If desire meets itself for who it is and from whence is comes,
there is no split into desirer-desire-desired object.
In this sense, desire can become a fire that roasts only
and always itself, its endless burning transforms to eternal light...

>Maybe the Arrow of Time could be seen also as this process of self
>gratification of eating everything and be eaten by everything, that
>which everlastingly devours its own self.

Oh yes, indeed. Your thoughts on this are beautiful. I picture
an arrow that only has a direction when our memory images
imagine themselves to have continuity over this moment to moment
self-immolation...

Dan