Month: February 2013

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Odin

In Norse mythology, Odin was a one-eyed god, the wisest of the Aesirs and their leader, displacing Thor. Odin was also a god of the dead. He helped to slay Ymir. Odin was accompanied by two ravens who informed him of the doings of the gods, giants, dwarves, and men. He lost his eye in exchange for a drink from a sacred well full of knowledge and learned songs and runes by hanging onto Yggdrasil for nine days. At Ragnarok, Odin dies while fighting Fenrir.
Odin is also known as Woden among the Teutons.

The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

Eliphas Lévi (via fraterlux)

There are two important consequences of globalization. First, it extends the Third World model to industrial countries. In the Third World, there’s a two-tiered society-a sector of extreme wealth and privilege, and a sector of huge misery and despair among useless, superfluous people.

That division is deepened by the policies dictated by the West. It imposes a neoliberal “free market” system that directs resources to the wealthy and to foreign investors, with the idea that something will trickle down by magic, some time after the Messiah comes.

Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)