When understood and practiced, the 7 Hermetic Principles are said to be the answers to leading a fulfilling and meaningful life that’s completely in your control.
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December 2020. The end of an indescribable year in which everything has happened and, at the same time, in the repetitive routine of confinement, it seems that nothing happens. That nothing will happen ever again. A continuity of grey skies, and light completely hidden by four in the afternoon. It is like walking among ghosts, or being a ghost myself. I have taken to listening to what decades ago was my favourite music. I don’t know if it’s a masochist joy, for delight comes hand in hand with a conviction: “All that is gone now. The world where this had a place, where it was created, where it stirred an echo, doesn’t exist anymore”. I don’t even know if it is a real conviction or just a pandemic delirium. If I enjoy the music, and it stirs an echo in me, it cannot be completely finished. Unless, of course, I have indeed become a ghost.