#pleroma

[ranuchakraborty]

Another addition to the garden, the nursery guy told me her name was pleroma but apparently her name is Tibouchina urvilleana. She loves full sunlight and the whole plant is full of flowers. Needs watering daily and a lot more care than my other plants. Also doesn't like being touched and super fussy about the compost 🙄. My daughter is already complaining that I give the plant more attention than her 😁😁😁. Her flowers are so pretty and the colour is to die for. I love this shade of rich purple. Another fact about her is that she is a super magnet for bees and other pollinating agents. Also mealy bugs and aphids don't like her. So it the best plant to grow. Wishing you a smiles happiness and health. #flowers #floral #flowerstagramer #flowerstagram #flowerphotography #flower_from_my_garden #flowerstalking #flowermagic #flowerstalker #naturephotography #ranuchakrabortyphotography #purple #pleroma #tibouchinaurvilleana #gardening #gardeningtips #garden #loves_garden #picoftheday #macro #macro_holic #macrophotography #mobilephotography #igscflower #igers #pune #puneinstagramers #punekar #pune_ig #fabulous_shots (at Pune, Maharashtra) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPur6BwrkoE/?utm_medium=tumblr

[lookingforgnosis]

Eve and the Serpent, in a painting by William Blake (1799): in Gnostic cosmology, Eve is a personification of Sophia or Gnosis, the divine mother who represents wisdom as the (feminine) aspect of God

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 28 November 2024

The purple flowers and velvet foliage of Pleroma urvilleanum (glory bush, purple glory tree, Tibouchina) make this tender perennial an eye catching container plant for the summer but it needs winter protection. The tree will require pruning to keep the plant under control.

Jill Raggett

[funkwitz]

Farsight & Morning Star

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

Pleroma, physical embodiment of creation and destruction, strongest of the aeons! Amazing intelligence and knowledge, can be understood by anyone (though its messages are typically through mysterious visions), and can see through all illusion and darkness. It also has magic to create anything at any time, overwhelm you with the majesty of a god, shape or create various materials...and cast literally any spell of 9th level or below. So it has all the magic. can also create black holes or orbs of pure creation, so if you want a field of wildflowers just give it a minute.

Oh yeah, and for size, somewhere in the 8-16 ft (2.4-4.9 m) range. At least in PF1. PF2e leaves size a bit more up to interpretation, more caring about the space it takes up on the grid unless specified. So go a bit taller or smaller if that's your jam. It's creation incarnate, if it wants to be 30 ft tall then sure. EDIT: fixed where I'd called them inevitables. That's what I get for cranking these out for a few days straight to prepare for the holidays!

[idol--hands]

Sisko: I know you’re a genocidal madman. Lore: Boring. Old news. I’ve grown, Benjamin. I’ve changed and evolved. If you can’t see that, I don’t know why I’m even wasting my time. Sisko: I know that The Prophet’s will never hand over the power of The Emissary. As do you. Lore: Oh, ho! Do I now? Sisko: And I know that all they see is the end of reality. An end to time. Lore: Let me volley that back, then. Do you think The Prophets are lying? Do you think they’re mistaken? After all this time…have they ever not told you the truth?

[mnemotechnicstoo]

Creation of the Pleroma (after Marsden Hartley)

A4 collage, foil, pencil frottage, digital collage

From early Christian Gnosticism and the Nag Hamaddi library, the Pleroma is the Gnostic spiritual superstructure. It includes divine female spiritual elements, such as Sophia and, particularly, Barbelo, which resonates with me. In some versions of the Creation of the Pleroma, god gazes onto the sea (which serves as a mirror) and his reflection manifests as another, female, being – Barbelo. Out of this gender fluid, narcissistic moment, God’s son materialises and the Holy Trinity is formed. My version is even queerer still, including 50s and 70s male pinups and an image by Marsden Hartley, an under-appreciated gay American painter, who was working at the turn of the last century.

[riotouseaterofflesh]

A warning to anyone trying out the fediverse/Mastodon

There's a large cluster of people who are basically an alliance of photomatts and (if you're on Twitter) Jai orbiters who try to police the various servers to isolate people they deem to be undesirables.

They are deeply transmisogynistic and unhinged, in ways that make photomatt's recent behaviour seem downright enlightened in comparison.

A recent good summary of what's going on is posted here.

A much lengthier history of this drama (which has been going on for years) has been put up by a kindly anon here.

The fediverse isn't all like this, but you do need to watch out which server you make your account on.

General red flags to avoid:

any involvement with "The Bad Space"

mastodon.art

users who frequently post to the #FediBlock hashtag

use of automated or shared blocklists (these are for entire servers blocking other servers, not individual accounts)

reasons for blocking a server mentioning "oliphaunt" or "tier" anything

As a general rule, you will want to coordinate with your mutuals which servers you go to as much as possible, to minimize the chances that you end up on different instances and end up getting cut off from each other until at least one of you makes an alt so you're both on servers that communicate with each other. This takes a bit of trial and error but unfortunately that is the nature of a decentralized social networking system.

So all that said... I really hope staff smarten up, Matt gets put in his place by his and Tumblr's lawyers and we can all stay where we are.

[darnellclayton]

I typed a message to the @tumblr team about copying a feature from @wordpress & @wordpressdotcom that allows the latter two to automatically post snippets with links to Mastodon.

I know activating ActivityPub within Tumblr is currently expensive…

…so a better option would be to flirt with the Fediverse instead via auto share. At least until ActivityPub support comes to the Tumblverse (I still believe ActivityPub activation should be a premium feature for those with custom domains as an anti-spam measure).

It would also be cool if Tumblr could embrace other platforms beyond Mastodon such as:

Misskey

Pleroma

Firefish

Threads (in the future)

…but that might be asking too much. Maybe…it would be cool if they supported the others though.

[andmaybegayer]

I'm looking at getting back on Fedi. Are there any Fedi servers with like, a well used Admin Patreon. Having both run and been on instances that have died due to lack of admin interest, I'd like to just pay an admin for the simplicity of a server that is at some level a job, not a hobby.

[lookingforgnosis]

Body, Mind, Soul.

Differently from the common knowledge, the holy Trinity is not a concept related only to Christianity. Throughout history, many cultures have embraced the concept of divine trinities, seeing the sacred in groups of three.

In ancient Egypt, the gods Amun, Re, and Ptah formed a powerful triad. A hymn from the Leiden Hymns declares: “All gods are three: Amun, Re, and Ptah.” Similarly, the Babylonians revered the trio of Nanna, Shamash, and Ishtar, each representing different celestial and life forces.

Hinduism presents the Trimurti, where the supreme god, Brahman, manifests in three forms: Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer. The Padma Purana affirms this, stating: “He who is that eternal God became the three gods—Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.”

The Greeks honored Hekate, a deity often depicted as triple-headed and associated with crossroads and magic. The Romans similarly venerated Diana as “Diva Triformis”, the three-formed goddess, as reflected in Horace’s Odes: “O three-formed goddess, to thee I dedicate the pine-tree.”

In Northwestern Europe, tribes worshipped the Matronae, a group of three mother goddesses symbolizing fertility, protection, and fate. Meanwhile, in Persia, a divine triad of Ahura Mazda, Mithra, and Anahita was central to spiritual life. A royal Achaemenid inscription invokes their protection: “May Ahura Mazda, Anahita, and Mithra protect me and my building against evil.”

These trinities reflect a widespread belief in the power of three—a sacred number embodying balance, completeness, and divine harmony across civilizations.

[mateuscosme]

[negreabsolut]

[drhoz]

#1955 - Pleroma urvilleanum - Glory Bush

AKA Tibouchina urvilleana, lasiandra, princess flower and pleroma. The specific refers to 19th-century French explorer and botanist Jules Dumont d'Urville who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. The plant, on the other hand, is from Brazil.

Yet another ornamental left to its own devices at Lake Mangamahoe. Naturalised in NZ since 1977, and a weed in Queensland, Australia.

[path-to-gnosis]

Divine Duality: The Syzygy of Valentinian Gnostic Thought

Preface: I am currently obsessed and fascinated by the early christian movement known as Gnosticism where various branches sprouted in the early 2nd and 3rd centuries before the foundation of the Roman Catholic Church and modern Christianity. These teachings and followers were ultimately deemed heretical, and thus persecuted, though their unorthodox Christian teachings survived.

In Valentinian Gnosticism, syzygy refers to the divine pairing of masculine and feminine forces, which are essential for maintaining balance in the spiritual universe. According to this belief, reality originates from the Pleroma, the spiritual realm of divine perfection, where Aeons (energies/powers personified) exist in harmonious pairs called syzygies. Each Aeon represents a different aspect of divine consciousness, and together, they uphold cosmic order.

At the highest level, the Monad (the One) emanates the first syzygy: Bythos (Depth) and Sige (Silence). From them come more divine pairs, such as Nous (Mind) and Aletheia (Truth), followed by Logos (Word) and Zoe (Life). These syzygies continue, forming a structured spiritual hierarchy. The system remains balanced until Sophia (Wisdom), the last Aeon, attempts to create without her syzygy, leading to distortion. This act results in the birth of the Demiurge and the material world.

When souls descended into the material realm, they experienced an unnatural separation from wholeness to deficiency. Splitting off in two humans, one embodying the divine masculine and the other the divine feminine soul. Early Valentinian Gnostics believed that spiritual enlightenment required reuniting with one's divine counterpart, restoring the original state of wholeness before the fall. Because of this belief, marriage and sacred union were not just physical relationships but spiritual acts meant to repair the soul’s division. True salvation was not an individual pursuit but a syzygial process, a journey to reunite with one's lost half and transcend the flawed material world, returning to the divine perfection of the Pleroma.

Have you ever heard of soulmates? Twin flames? Do you align with these labels? What do you think about this gnostic mythos? What resonates with you? Let's discuss in the comments below!

[idol--hands]

STAR TREK #23: Pleroma PART 4 [pt.1/2]

LORE: “It’s impossible for you to know how much I’ve anticipated this moment…your petty faces, your disdain…and even better your confusion. Not big on surprises your kind of organics. Even you Kardashevs. Not big on thinking things through. I mean, really, if there were an award for resting on your laurels, this little space time pimple of yours would win every year! And that’s why I’ve come. To blast it all to hell. As I said at the top…I really have been looking forward to this.

LORE: “Make me the emissary.”

LORE: “And that is why I brought a bomb. It’s amazing how people change their tune when the beat becomes a countdown.”