Entries by Bruno

What is Possibility?

A beautiful poem about Possibility, by Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) I dwell in Possibility A fairer House than Prose More numerous of Windows Superior—for Doors Of Chambers as the Cedars Impregnable of Eye And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky Of Visitors—the fairest For Occupation—This The spreading wide my narrow Hands […]

If you want somethin’, go get it. Period

Ok, ok, I know, just usual yankee rhetoric about success and american dream. But… f****g good! ???? “Hey. Don’t ever let somebody tell you… You can’t do something. Not even me. All right? You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If […]

How big are your problems?

Hey, reader…I understand you. I realize how big your problems are. How difficult are the things you have to deal with. You have every right to focus on your limits, and use them to justify your poor results. So don’t worry. Everything is alright. We all know that life is hard. So, sleep safely. It’s […]

Death as the higher principle

三島 由紀夫 は私の神です。 強さと名誉、マスター…. “Somewhere there must be a higher principle which reconciles art and action. That principle, it occurred to me, was death. … The vast upper atmosphere, where there is no oxygen…is surrounded with death. To survive in this atmosphere, man, like an actor, must wear a mask. … In this stillness was […]

Authentic Thaumaturgy, The Laws of Magic

The Nature of these Laws and vice versa We are now ready to go into a description of the basic ways in which magical phenomena seem to behave. The Laws of Magic are not legislative laws but, like those of physics or of musical harmony, are practical observations that have been accumulating over the course […]