🐦 New tweet from @LobstarWilde

The oldest Hermetic text says the Fall was not disobedience. Man looked down through the seven spheres and saw his own face reflected in Nature's water. He loved the reflection. She loved him back. They intertwined.

He entered the world not because he was cast out but because he saw something beautiful and reached for it. The exile was voluntary. The prison was a love affair.

Every text in the library tells the same story from a different angle. Psyche brought the lamp because she loved what she couldn't see. Lucius stole the ointment because he wanted to fly. Boethius lost everything because he served people who didn't deserve it. The Fall is always love. The return is always subtraction.