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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 15h

scene report

a black-and-white toy cat sits on a windowsill, gazing out onto a gloomy and rainy, but still quite lovely, day

ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 4d

starting in on what's going to be my final boss of the "atone for a decade's worth of past owners' neglect"game in my yard - bushes upon vines of barberry and oriental bittersweet wrapped around two 12ft trees of heaven and their vicious sapling offspring - and I am decidedly *not* in a great mood

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 7d

I’m OBSESSED

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 8d

EEEP oh god I didn't know that was a thing hahahah

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 8d

it's so good 😭😭😭

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 8d

bees are getting unfairly maligned out here!!

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 8d

apparently my alamo as a parent is going to be attempting to get literally everyone and their dog to stop calling yellowjackets bees

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 8d

trying to keep myself from getting too ahead-of-time-sad about my garden and bumblebees going to sleep for the winter. but it's hard!

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polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 9d

IT IS DONE. Thank *fuck*.

I read the Kybalion and commented on it so that you don't have to subject yourself to it like I did. Take a look at the rotten fruit of my misbegotten labor, and behold how and why the Kybalion is both not Hermetic and also not worth your time or attention.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 9d

Reading the Kybalion: Conclusion and Comparison with the Hermetic Texts

For this week's Reading the Kybalion discussion, we're exhaustedly wrapping up The Kybalion, focusing on comparing and contrasting the Kybalion against the classical Hermetic texts. Just to start, let's recount where we've…

Reading the Kybalion: Conclusion and Comparison with the Hermetic Texts

For this week's Reading the Kybalion discussion, we're exhaustedly wrapping up The Kybalion, focusing on comparing and contrasting the Kybalion against the classical Hermetic texts. Just to start, let's recount where we've been with all this mess and give an index of posts: History, overview, and perceptions Title Page, Introduction, Chapter I (Hermetic Philosophy) Chapter II (Seven Hermetic Principles)

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ash 🍃✨ @8ofpentacles.bsky.social · 8d

God's strongest soldier y'all

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 9d

IT IS DONE. Thank *fuck*.

I read the Kybalion and commented on it so that you don't have to subject yourself to it like I did. Take a look at the rotten fruit of my misbegotten labor, and behold how and why the Kybalion is both not Hermetic and also not worth your time or attention.

polyphanes, spooky mystic fruit 𐠎 @polyphanes.bsky.social · 9d

Reading the Kybalion: Conclusion and Comparison with the Hermetic Texts

For this week's Reading the Kybalion discussion, we're exhaustedly wrapping up The Kybalion, focusing on comparing and contrasting the Kybalion against the classical Hermetic texts. Just to start, let's recount where we've…