View from the Big Hills

"The real battle lines are not between East and West, "Socialism" and "Capitalism", or even between "a-theism" and "theism"; but between enlightenment and ignorance, between imagination and blind short-term greed, between vision and bigotry; and in this battle it is vital that the forces of Light should join hands at every possible point, and stand together in whatever context they operate." ~ Zachary Cox Deep in the hubbub of North London during 1988, Zachary Cox published No. 26 of  Aquarian Arrow , with the Shield of Gaia shining brightly out of its pages. As I've reflected on Zach's life in the past few days, my memory of this edition of Arrow has perhaps been one of the strongest in light of what many of us did as a result of it. Now Arrow was a forward thinking journal published by the  Neopantheist Society from 1978 until the early 1990s, featuring occult thinking of the time, wicked satire, poetry, letters, decent

Fare thee well friend... "Life is too short for endless haggling. Take Reason's sword in hand and dare to cut the Gordian knot of language. Leap to the truth, if you can, if you dare, within the confines of a single page. Glance down in passing at the tortured labyrinth of twisted words where generations of philosophers have wandered. Glance down, but do not fall. Do not swoop. Life is too short, and our need too urgent now."  ~ Al Ewigkeit Photograph (c)Ruth Bayer, from Tanya Luhrmann's Persuasions of the Witch's Craft