January 2009
2 posts
“He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the monarch’s silken stool;
His...”
– Bartleby.com
November 2008
8 posts
“Eventually, he became the popular Greek god of wine and cheer, and wine miracles...”
– http://www.kreweofbacchus.org/html/mythology.htm
“Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful...”
– http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates
“A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing;...”
– Lord Acton
“Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.”
– Joey Adams
October 2008
18 posts
“Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.”
– African proverb
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Tell Me About It
Has the Archetypal Fool inspired you? Drop me a line: ArchetypalFool@gmail.com
“The Fool begins at the end of a life-long relationship between a child who...”
– http://www.thefool.ca/story/index.html
“The ancients understood the ephemeral and advised their students not to take...”
– “Laughter” from “Everyday Tao”
Deng Ming-Dao
http://home1.gte.net/uusara/minister/don53.htm
“Saint Francis is an example that we often cite, rightfully looking to him as an...”
– http://missional.blog.com/2541571/
“The clown knows what it is to be the underdog, to be out of a job, done down by...”
– http://personalpages.lightspeed.ca/~danvie/instructions.html
“The blind man is the atheist or materialist, and the man is so absorbed in...”
– http://www.rootwerx.com/tarot/decks/brotherhood-of-light/the-fool/default.htm
“I went to the rabbi to get some advice. He said, “It is written, better...”
– http://www3.telus.net/Gimpel_Family/Gimpelthefool.html
September 2008
14 posts
“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Till Eulenspiegel
The literal translation of the High German name gives “owl mirror”, two symbols that identify Till Eulenspiegel in crude popular woodcuts (illustration). However, the original Low German is believed to be ul’n Spegel, meaning “wipe the arse”. In the eighteenth century, German satirists adopted episodes for social satire, and in the nineteenth and early...
Ramon Troubadour, the Fool
“Beyond the amusing fool, the medieval jester is the stunning archetypal fool. Every hero’s quest — from Lord of the Rings to the Iliad — is the fool’s quest, mapped out in the cards of the tarot. Ramon is this archetypal hero, fearless, full of humor, beyond simply likeable. Enemies adore him. Friends love him. He makes everyone laugh. Yet he is the true questing hero, on the...
“He is following a road that few choose. His dress suggests a court jester, but...”
– http://methodius.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html
“Finally, there is another sense of the holy fool, less a matter of conscious and...”
– http://www.reckonings.net/reckonings/2006/10/the_holy_fool.html
“Total humility bestows invulnerability.”
– http://www.tarothermit.com/fool.htm