My friend Anna Kippervasser, artist and filmmaker, has a blog up detailing some of the magical coincidences and human connections she encounters in her five week trip to Cairo. Anna is an awesome gal, a woman of many worlds, cosmopolitan, with an international soul able to find connections with, and meaning in, the remarkable souls […]
Month: January 2010
Are you… a betting man?
“that’s a weak hypothesis… So.. you’re probably a betting man.” -Satan, as played by Tom Wait’s in the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnessus “.There is no black magic, only cheap tricks..” -Doctor Parnessus, in the same movie. The old yarn “life imitates art” makes no logical sense, of course waking life cannot imitate art, the work […]
Pithy quote from Rene Guenon, on modern Western civilization
“..most extraordinary of all is perhaps the claim to set up this abnormal civilization as the very type of all civilization, to regard it as Civilization with a capital letter, and even as the only one which deserves the name…” – Rene Guenon, in East and West
Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian Freemasonry, and the British Mandate
A list of sources, and commentary: I first heard rumors of Muhammad Abduh, Rashid Ridha, and their ideological father – Jamal al-din al-Afghani, having been high degree Freemasonic initiates about 16 years ago. Initially I dismissed the idea, it seemed to make little sense at the time, but I ran into this historical bugbear now […]