Comments on: Image of the Day : The Griffin http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/ updated on Monday, Wednesday, Friday Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: maria http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-266207 maria Mon, 25 May 2009 12:37:43 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-266207 The ultimate coagulation is the stone itself, capable of transmuting<br>base metals into gold and humans into the divine The ultimate coagulation is the stone itself, capable of transmuting
base metals into gold and humans into the divine

]]> By: mariangela http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-50772 mariangela Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:17:13 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-50772 Muito linda. Muito interrante. Adorei . Obrigada por compartilhar conosco. Beijos, Mari Raphael. Muito linda. Muito interrante. Adorei .
Obrigada por compartilhar conosco.
Beijos,
Mari Raphael.

]]> By: THELMA http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48665 THELMA Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:08:43 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48665 Dear Pandora,thank you for sharing 'The flowers of Nature and Birds'This is the only thing that I could understand and, of course, the pictures. If only there was only one...language in the world!!! LOVE, THELMA Dear Pandora,thank you for sharing ‘The flowers of Nature and Birds’This is the only thing that I could understand and, of course, the pictures. If only there was only one…language in the world!!! LOVE, THELMA

]]> By: austere http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48584 austere Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:11:44 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48584 Clean power. Somehow. Clean power. Somehow.

]]> By: Pandora http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48570 Pandora Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:49:59 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48570 Whilst searching the web, a thread I unearthed bizarrely led me to this, which is the source of this picture, so in the spirit which the World Wide Web was given to us by its inventor, I thought i'd share: Jacob van Maerlant : Der Naturen Bloeme Link: http://www.xs4all.nl/~adcs/NatBl/NatBl03a.html#Gryphis (Not that I can understand a word because its all Dutch to me!) (note to self: must take a holiday) Whilst searching the web, a thread I unearthed bizarrely led me to this, which is the source of this picture, so in the spirit which the World Wide Web was given to us by its inventor, I thought i’d share:

Jacob van Maerlant : Der Naturen Bloeme

Link: http://www.xs4all.nl/~adcs/NatBl/NatBl03a.html#Gryphis

(Not that I can understand a word because its all Dutch to me!)

(note to self: must take a holiday)

]]> By: Satora http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48521 Satora Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:48:21 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48521 There is also the Minoan Griffin - She is feminine just like the Sphinx and symbolizes the Moon - Goddess in her death aspect. On both sides of the throne in Knossos are Griffins. There is also the Minoan Griffin – She is feminine just like the Sphinx and symbolizes the Moon – Goddess in her death aspect.
On both sides of the throne in Knossos are Griffins.

]]> By: Heart http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48407 Heart Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:07:41 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48407 A new inspiration,the Griffin. A protector of monogamous relationships. Certainly I don't believe in sexual promiscuity. Divine True Love is when God gives two people to each other, and the love will last for all eternity. However, we are not going to be husbands and wife's in heaven? Love exceeds way beyond two people, right! As have been pointed out in this blog previously, most species are not monogamous, and what married couple have success sexually. May I tell a joke? I heard Dustin Hoffman tell it in an TV interview. It was the husband who asked his wife why she never tells him when she has an orgasm. "Because you are never there when it happens" she answered! A new inspiration,the Griffin. A protector of monogamous relationships. Certainly I don’t believe in sexual promiscuity. Divine True Love is when God gives two people to each other, and the love will last for all eternity. However, we are not going to be husbands and wife’s in heaven? Love exceeds way beyond two people, right! As have been pointed out in this blog previously, most species are not monogamous, and what married couple have success sexually.

May I tell a joke? I heard Dustin Hoffman tell it in an TV interview. It was the husband who asked his wife why she never tells him when she has an orgasm. “Because you are never there when it happens” she answered!

]]> By: rosa de los vientos http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48391 rosa de los vientos Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:53:03 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48391 Tank you very much Thelma. I like thid information. I like the Griffin. Tank you very much Thelma. I like thid information.
I like the Griffin.

]]> By: maria http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48326 maria Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:40:53 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48326 Abraham, Lyndy. A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998. Abraham, Lyndy. A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998.

]]> By: maria http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48325 maria Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:40:10 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48325 physical “wedding” of opposites is also a metaphysical union. Its explication begins with the Platonic assumption that humanity is divided against itself, separated into two sexes. Often enough, it is depicted as the marriage of the masculine sun and the feminine moon. Invariably, it unites willful power (the active male force) and wisdom (the receptive female force) to produce pure love, the philosopher’s stone or the “philosophical child.” This metaphysical union leads to death of the alchemist, as the soul leaves the body to unite with the eternal spirit, but out of this death emerges new life. For the soul’s departure cleanses the body, and its return, now united with the spirit, resurrects the body. Dissolution and coagulation take place simultaneously. The body dissolves into spirit, and the spirit coagulates into form. (Abraham physical “wedding” of opposites is also a metaphysical union. Its explication begins with
the Platonic assumption that humanity is divided against itself, separated into two sexes.
Often enough, it is depicted as the marriage of the masculine sun and the feminine moon.
Invariably, it unites willful power (the active male force) and wisdom (the receptive
female force) to produce pure love, the philosopher’s stone or the “philosophical child.”
This metaphysical union leads to death of the alchemist, as the soul leaves the body to
unite with the eternal spirit, but out of this death emerges new life. For the soul’s
departure cleanses the body, and its return, now united with the spirit, resurrects the body.
Dissolution and coagulation take place simultaneously. The body dissolves into spirit,
and the spirit coagulates into form. (Abraham

]]> By: maria http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48323 maria Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:35:11 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48323 The ultimate coagulation is the stone itself, capable of transmuting base metals into gold and humans into the divine The ultimate coagulation is the stone itself, capable of transmuting
base metals into gold and humans into the divine

]]> By: maria http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48322 maria Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:34:37 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48322 sulfur and mercury, hot and cold, dry and moist, fixed and volatile, spirit and body, form and matter, active and receptive, and male and female sulfur and mercury, hot and cold,
dry and moist, fixed and volatile, spirit and body, form and matter, active and receptive,
and male and female

]]> By: maria http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48318 maria Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:29:53 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48318 Pure love, union of opposites Pure love, union of opposites

]]> By: barcelona_20_euros_en_un_cafe http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48310 barcelona_20_euros_en_un_cafe Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:54:12 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48310 La unión de la tierra y el cielo. The union of the earth and the sky La unión de la tierra y el cielo.

The union of the earth and the sky

]]> By: Alexandra http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48288 Alexandra Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:58:56 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48288 hmmm.I must study more.sorry hmmm.I must study more.sorry

]]> By: THELMA http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/08/05/image-of-the-day-the-griffin/comment-page-1/#comment-48178 THELMA Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:58:43 +0000 http://paulocoelhoblog.com/?p=1563#comment-48178 The griffin/gryphos with the body of a lion and a beak and wings of the eagle. The union of the strongest animal with the strongest bird. The symbol of divine power and a guardian of the Divine. It was regarded as an animal of the Sun and pulled Apollo's chariot accross the sky. Being a union of a terrestial beast and an aerial bird it was seen in Christianity to be a symbol of Jesus Christ. It appears in all ancient religions, the Sphinx in ancient Egypt, in pre-Olympian Gods in Greece but in Medieval times and ..Masonic temples too, guarding the gold of Divine knowledge. LOVE, THELMA The griffin/gryphos with the body of a lion and a beak and wings of the eagle. The union of the strongest animal with the strongest bird. The symbol of divine power and a guardian of the Divine. It was regarded as an animal of the Sun and pulled Apollo’s chariot accross the sky. Being a union of a terrestial beast and an aerial bird it was seen in Christianity to be a symbol of Jesus Christ. It appears in all ancient religions, the Sphinx in ancient Egypt, in pre-Olympian Gods in Greece but in Medieval times and ..Masonic temples too, guarding the gold of Divine knowledge. LOVE, THELMA

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