by Robin Bloor | Mar 22, 2022 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A Witness of the King… Who does not know Turner’s picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the...
by Robin Bloor | Feb 18, 2022 | Readings, The Lost Herald
The donkey’s ears are difficult to conceal The god Pan was once so foolish as to compare his music with the divine music of Apollo. He even went so far as to challenge Apollo to a trial of music. Apollo accepted at once. So Tmolus, the mountain-god agreed to...
by Robin Bloor | Jan 3, 2022 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A Grand Lama had passed his whole life in idleness. Although he was surrounded by men of learning, had had excellent tutors in his youth, and had inherited an excellent library from his predecessors, he scarcely knew how to read. One day, this lama died. Now, in those...
by Robin Bloor | Sep 8, 2021 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Lee Lozowick, a teacher of Red Hawk’s said the following about Work on oneself. “Transformation is not a masculine process. The ‘Work’ is not a masculine process. Practice, Sadhana, Surrender to the Will of God are not masculine processes.” In his...
by Robin Bloor | Jul 28, 2021 | Readings, The Lost Herald
Betimes in the morning say to thyself: “This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious man; an unsociable uncharitable man. “All these ill qualities have happened unto them, through ignorance of...
by Robin Bloor | Jun 17, 2021 | Readings, The Lost Herald
A bearded Indian monk, the third son of a South Indian Brahmin king, appeared one day at the Chinese port of Canton and made his way from there to Nanking, near the mouth of the Yangtze River. He was responding to an invitation from China’s Emperor Wu of the...