The Infernal Method of Printing: Guild Initiations & The Faust Legend
Printing, the ‘Black Art’, and its initiatic rituals within the traditional guilds, possess an esoteric significance echoed in the Faust legend and in Blake’s mythology
Printing, the ‘Black Art’, and its initiatic rituals within the traditional guilds, possess an esoteric significance echoed in the Faust legend and in Blake’s mythology
Mythos (myth, symbol and ritual) and Logos (science and reason) are complementary. Karen Armstrong’s essay explains how modernity’s conflation and imbalance of these approaches has been detrimental to faith and religion.