TODAY>>Cloudy with snow showers developing for the afternoon. Temps nearly steady in the mid to upper 30s. Winds light and variable. Chance of snow 60%.
TONIGHT<< Intermittent snow showers, especially early. Low 26F. Winds NNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 40%.
 

The year of no winter or I should say little or no winter cause winter will be here today and tomorrow. No winter is the main reason I haven’t left for the keys. or further south, on the puffin.

At least I’ll be sailing some this April as I’m planing on taking the asa 106, 107, and 108 and finishing the courses on learning to sailoff shore and at night.

Looking forward to that at least and thankful that the puffin in sound and ready for blue water in the fall.

This summer the boat and crew may sail north and enjoy the waters off of New England while visiting Boston and my daughter. At least after the cruise for 108 certification the blue waters of the Atlantic will not seem so daunting… – - – …

Ancient sagacity viewed high spiritual culture in a different light from that in which it is envisaged today. While modern intelligence aims to disseminate its blessings over the widest popular area, hoping that it may edify the mass body of people generally, the sages of old acted upon a different estimate of the possibilities in the case. They appraised the cultural potential of the “vulgar masses” as practically nil, and therefore deemed it a sacrilege to cast the precious jewels of esoteric truth and knowledge to the “swine” that would trample them in the mire of unconscionable crudity of misunderstanding. It may be said that the history of religious cultism over many centuries has demonstrated the practical wisdom of this conservatism. The perversion, corruption, materialization and literalization of the lofty mystical sense of ancient cryptic literature, has caused perhaps the most colossal debacle in the culture of spiritual values in the course of known history. Its easily discernible evil fruitage has been the positive derationalization of the Occidental mind as regards all things religious, theological and Scriptural. It has deprived that mind of the cardinal advantage of knowing the sublime meaning of the splendid Jewish-Christian Scriptures, which are a collection of ancient mythographic portrayals of spiritual truth, sadly and calamitously mistaken for history.
Not only were the Sages constrained to adopt methods of crypticism of varied forms to safeguard precious cosmic and anthroogenic truth from desecration by the “rabble,” but they employed a technique which found its basic authentication in nature itself. As the world below is a mundane reflection and copy of an overshadowing world of spiritual truth, they strove to portray the structural forms of that higher truth by representing it under the forms of its counterparts everywhere existent in the natural world. Even supposed history was oriented into the form of archetypal ideologies. But everywhere, in drama, ritual, choral dance, festival institution and in language the astute formulators aimed to incorporate their figures of fundamental archai. A great structure compounded of the elements of the cosmic logic of creation was inwrought into the pattern of all these modes of human cultural expression. Finally, if not perhaps initially, its structural design was woven into the formation of the alphabet.
If this cryptic organic form was the structural principle determining the arrangement of the alphabet, it must be seen to have made its significance definitely basic in all literature.

For thus the words themselves, carrying the elements of the original letter components would constantly represent the forms of the archaic thought which as symbols they portrayed. So that in reconstructing the hidden outlines of meaning form in the alphabet, we are piercing to the heart’s core of the most recondite connotations of all literature.

It is a commonplace of present educational theory to say that letters of the alphabet are symbolic representations of the sounds universally possible to the human vocal organs. It is hardly as generally known that in shape they are more than mere algebraic x’s or sheer onomatopoetic imitations. They are in fact evident forms shaped to picture basic ideas. They are true ideograms. The capital letter A, for instance, is obviously the cardinal letter I, the symbol of primordial unity (since it is also the number 1), split apart from the top into the creative duality of spirit and matter, the cross-bar indicating the interrelation which dynamically subsists between them. The U (V) symbolizes, exactly as it is drawn, the descent of spirit into matter and its return above. The W pluralizes it, and we find, not strangely, the W to be the letter that pluralizes words in the Egyptian hieroglyphics. The O readily symbolizes the endlessness of matter and of eternity. So that the Gnostics, when they named the unit of deity in the cosmos the IAO, had condensed in the triadic name a sermonette in full,signifying the initial bifurcation of the first unit divine consciousness, the I, apart into the duality, A, and running the round of an eternal cycle, O. And so even Revelation has it: “I (am the) A (and the) O, the beginning and the end, the first and the last,”–IAO. (The almost breath-taking significance of the M, when the spirit says “I AM,” will be introduced later.) It is possible now to discern a whole new world of meaning in many common words never dreamed to have come down from so divine a lineage.
It is seen first in such words as anchor, that which ties a boat to a fixed place; knit, knot, link, gnarled, gnaw, gnash (accounting for the odd spelling); ankelosis, a growing together of two bones; anger, anguish, anxiety, a tightening up of feelings. But most interestingly it seems to have given name to at least four joints or hinge-points (hinge itself seems to be another) in the human body: ankle, knee, neck and knuckles. Lung, as being the place where outside air unites with the inner blood could perhaps be added. {From

THe ESOTERIC STRUCTURE OF THE ALPHABET by Alvin Boyd Kuhn.

God built the universe on number.”

Pythagoras
“God built the universe on the letters of the alphabet.”
The Zohar

I think I see the puffin or someone puffin….

He’s puffin…..

He’s puffin and thinking…..

She’s puffin…..

Their puffin….

This guys is new crew and he’s cleaning his puffining…..

Their gonna start puffin……

Is this majic puffin….

I got your pipe smoke…… start puffin…—…

George is puffin…..

Capt. Puffin at the tiller…..puffin…—…

Thats about enough puffin.

The weather is changing here in Virginia next week. Indian summer is coming and we will be in the 60’s all week next week and with any luck the next week also. So the new plan is to install the transducer and paint the bottom and put her back in the water and take off south down the ICW over Xmas. Arriving in the keys over the new year. Any of you who want to contact me about the sailing possibilities over Jan., Feb., and Mar. do so through the comments to the plog. That is how I plan on communicating on the boat in nearly real time.

I’m just hoping for the best and looking for a cold beer in the crab nebula………

Damm the crab nebula seems like it is oceans away.