Discovered in 1902 and dating back over 5,000 years, the Gebel el-Arak Knife is a remarkable relic from ancient Egypt’s Predynastic period.

With its finely crafted ivory handle and sharp flint blade, this artifact offers a fascinating glimpse into early Egyptian craftsmanship.

The handle is adorned with intricate carvings that reflect the artistry and symbolic concerns of the time, while the flint blade demonstrates advanced tool-making techniques.

Dating to around 3300-3200 BC, the Gebel el-Arak Knife, now housed in the Louvre Museum, stands as a testament to the sophistication and cultural depth of an ancient civilization.

Via Archeology Aesthetic

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"... If I accept the lowest in me, I lower a seed into the ground of Hell. The seed is invisibly small, but the tree of life grows from it and conjoins the Below with the Above. At both ends there is fire and blazing embers. The Above is fiery and the Below is fiery. Between the unbearable fires grow your life.  You hang between these two poles. In an immeasurably frightening movement the stretched hanging welters up and down. We thus fear our lowest, since that which one does not possess is forever united with the chaos and takes part in its mysterious ebb and flow. Insofar as I accept the lowest in me — precisely that red glowing sun of the depths, the upper shining sun also rises. Therefore he who strives for the highest finds the deepest... "

~ Carl Jung

Artwork: 'Feeding the Fire' by Aaron Nakaharabn (2016)

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The Pyrophone, also known as the "fire organ" or "fire-explosion organ," is an instrument from the 19th century. It was invented by Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner, a French physicist and musician, in the mid-1800s.

The Pyrophone produces sound by using flames within glass tubes or metal pipes. The heat from the flames causes the air inside the tubes to vibrate, creating musical notes. The intensity and frequency of the sound can be altered by adjusting the size and intensity of the flames.

The Pyrophone is a fascinating example of how scientific principles can be applied to create unique musical instruments, blending the fields of acoustics and pyrotechnics.

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Peles Castle, Romania

?: Paul Gostielean

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Azores Islands, Portugal, with their flowering summer paradise of Wild Hydrangeas - at Flores Island

?: Daniel Kordan

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We are All One, but we're not all the same.

Rudolf Steiner in 1923:

“Dr. Rudolf Steiner: That little girl L.K. in the first grade must have something really very wrong inside. There is not much we can do. Such cases are increasing in which children are born with a human form, but are not really human beings in relation to their highest I; instead, they are filled with beings that do not belong to the human class. Quite a number of people have been born since the nineties without an I, that is, they are not reincarnated, but are human forms filled with a sort of natural demon. There are quite a large number of older people going around who are actually not human beings, but are only natural; they are human beings only in regard to their form. We cannot, however, create a school for demons.

A teacher: How is that possible?

Dr. Rudolf Steiner: Cosmic error is certainly not impossible. The relationships of individuals coming into earthly existence have long been determined. There are also generations in which individuals have no desire to come into earthly existence and be connected with physicality, or immediately leave at the very beginning. In such cases, other beings that are not quite suited step in. This is something that is now quite common, that human beings go around without an I; they are actually not human beings, but have only a human form. They are beings like nature spirits, which we do not recognize as such because they go around in a human form. They are also quite different from human beings in regard to everything spiritual.

The riddle of life is not so simple. When such a being dies, it returns to nature from which it came. The corpse decays, but there is no real dissolution of the etheric body, and the natural being returns to nature. It is also possible that something like an automaton could occur. The entire human organism exists, and it might be possible to automate the brain and develop a kind of pseudomorality.

I do not like to talk about such things since we have often been attacked even without them. Imagine what people would say if they heard that we say there are people who are not human beings. Nevertheless, these are facts. Our culture would not be in such a decline if people felt more strongly that a number of people are going around who, because they are completely ruthless, have become something that is not human, but instead are demons in human form."

~ from 'Faculty Meetings With Rudolf Steiner Vol. 2', July 1923

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Man-faced Stink Bug (Catacanthus Incarnatus)

Kedah, Malaysia

?: Fender Malaya

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Artwork: 'Camellias in a Vase' by Yoshijiro Urushibara

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Courage doesn't always roar.

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying,

"I will try again tomorrow."

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Artwork: 'Glass' by Isabel Quintanilla (1969)

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Know the Distribution of English
Letters in Words! ?

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