as-above-so-below

The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly.

We make fiction because we are fiction ... It lived us into being and it lives us still.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Inside each one of us there is a mostly hidden, mostly golden, mostly eternal image or aspect of being, similar to the gold that is buried in the earth. We are the earthlings, the children of the earth, and therefore we are a replica, in a sense, of the earth itself. One of the ideas that is important is: As above, so below. As outside, so within.

The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.