04-10-2014, 10:02 AM
On your puzzle about Marlowe, have you considered his membership to the secret society the School of Night which is said to have been close to the Rosicrucians?
I mention this only as an aside, but it was/is certainly the case in Freemasonry that important esoteric possessions of a brother who has passed are gathered together by his Lodge members and taken away.
Of course, Walsingham was a highly secretive man, as the Queen's spymaster and the forerunner of 007. :
hock:: I have often pondered the question of whether he was, himself, a member of the Rosicrucians? I can find nothing to even hint that he was, so probably not. But it is self evident that the British Secret Service - which grew from him - have a long history of occult connections, as witnessed by their "eye in the triangle" logo:
I mention this only as an aside, but it was/is certainly the case in Freemasonry that important esoteric possessions of a brother who has passed are gathered together by his Lodge members and taken away.
Of course, Walsingham was a highly secretive man, as the Queen's spymaster and the forerunner of 007. :
hock:: I have often pondered the question of whether he was, himself, a member of the Rosicrucians? I can find nothing to even hint that he was, so probably not. But it is self evident that the British Secret Service - which grew from him - have a long history of occult connections, as witnessed by their "eye in the triangle" logo:The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
