.
It is very much the longing to be born anew, the way nature is. All these elements fit together.
Easter is calculated as the Sunday that follows the first full moon after the vernal equinox. It is evidence of a concern centuries before Christ to coordinate the lunar and solar calendars.
What we have to recognize is that these celestial bodies represented to the ancients two different modes of eternal life; one engaged in the field of time, like throwing off death - as the moon it’s shadow - to be born again; the other, disengaged and eternal.
The dating of Easter according to both lunar and solar calendars suggests that life, like the life that is reborn in the moon and eternal in the sun, finally is one.
—Joseph Campbell
Thou Art That
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.
This
is the essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to
your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the
consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die
to the vehicle and become identified…with that of which the vehicle is
but the carrier.
–Joseph Campbell
.
.
The ultimate nature of the experience of life is that
toil and pleasure, sorrow and joy, are inseparably mixed in it. The very
will to life that brought one to light, however, was a will to come
even through pain into this world; else one never would have got here.
And that is the notion underlying the oriental idea of reincarnation.
Since you came to birth in this world at this time, in this place, and
with this particular destiny, it was this indeed that you wanted and
required for your own ultimate illumination.
That was a great big
wonderful thing that you thereupon brought to pass; not the "you", of
course, that you now suppose yourself to be, but the "you" that was
already there before you were born and which even now is keeping your
heart beating and your lungs breathing and doing for you all those
complicated things inside that are your life.
You are not now to lose
your nerve!
Go on through with it and play your own game all the way!
–Joseph Campbell
Myths to Live By
.
.
It is very much the longing to be born anew, the way nature is. All these elements fit together.
Easter
is calculated as the Sunday that follows the first full moon after the
vernal equinox. It is evidence of a concern centuries before Christ to
coordinate the lunar and solar calendars.
What
we have to recognize is that these celestial bodies represented to the
ancients two different modes of eternal life; one engaged in the field
of time, like throwing off death - as the moon it’s shadow - to be born
again; the other, disengaged and eternal.
The
dating of Easter according to both lunar and solar calendars suggests
that life, like the life that is reborn in the moon and eternal in the
sun, finally is one.
—Joseph Campbell
Thou Art That
.
.
This is the essential experience of any mystical realization. You die to your flesh and are born into your spirit. You identify yourself with the consciousness and life of which your body is but the vehicle. You die to the vehicle and become identified…with that of which the vehicle is but the carrier.
–Joseph Campbell
.
