Psyche comes to represent the human soul’s triumph over the misfortunes of life in the pursuit of true happiness (Bulfinch, 1855); in fact, the Greek word psyche means soul, and it is often represented as a butterfly. The word psychology was coined at a time when the concepts of soul...
1.the word mystery comes from greek mystes, which means initiate.unlike the official religions, in which a person was expected to show outward,public allegiance to the local gods of the polis, the mysteries emphasized an inwardness and privacy of worship with in closed groups. 2. the ancient...
In Greek, Psyche means soul. The true beauty Physical beauty + Spiritual beauty About the author’s feeling • 这是一首写给内心深处所爱的女 人的诗。充满了古典主义式唯美, 深刻的表达了作者对爱与美的执 着追求 • 艾伦坡对自己的诗解释就是 :为 了美而美,为了诗而诗。而他所 提到的美绝不...
COVID-19, was a pandemic and governments began to implement non-pharmaceutical interventions. These interventions included stay-at-home orders, curfews, cordons sanitaires, societal restrictions and school closures. Colloquially known as “lockdowns”, these measures meant that,...
The Hebrew word used in Psalm 121 for “life” is nephesh. The word is translated into the Greek word as psuche (also transliterated psyche), which means “soul” or “vitality” or “life.” Nephesh originally meant “throat,” which of course is connected to life because of air, food...
Psyche (religion, spiritualism, and occult) Psyche is the name of an asteroid as well as the soul or mind. Psyche, asteroid 16 (the 16th asteroid to be discovered, on March 17, 1852), was named after a beautiful woman in a Greek myth, said to represent the soul. It has an orbital...
Psyche was the ancient Greek goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros (Roman Cupid) god of love. She was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite (Roman Venus) when men began turning their worship away from the goddes
Finally, the loveliest bit of linguistic trivia I know: in Greek, the word for soul—psyche—also meansbutterfly.
However there are others who quote famous grand masons Eliphas Levi and Albert Pike to claim that the masonic G really stand for gnosis and generation. Gnosis is the Greek word for knowledge, and this fits in precisely with the masonic ideology of worshiping the light (more on this below) ...
and its perception and interpretation of life is incomplete and limited. I find it educative to remember that the Greek word “persona”, literally, means “mask”. The “mask” is an interesting image in the collective psyche, at this time, particularly at what is clearly an extraordinary tu...