CHESMAYNE
Change - flux, stability
01 Everything keeps turning into
something else. This is the trick of
the universe in order to renew itself, and stay the same. This is a recurring theme in symbolism,
not only in the form of magical transformations, but also in all the different symbols
which contrast the ephemeral with the enduring.
Change to us is ‘fear’. Various pressures are directed against
anyone who tries to push against familiar limits. Because they are pushing, new boundaries
open. Butterfly: symbol of
change/transformation - it follows the wind yet arrives at the flower - its
flight is spontaneous and free and does not wear itself out fighting the forces
of nature.
To change one’s hat: to change your view.
“Even a god
cannot change the past”.
“Vorsprung durch Technik” – “Progress through
technology”.
02 Proteus: could change his
shape and figure, like later magicians and witches. Symbolism speeds
up the process, as the magician who can change one thing into another. It changes continuously in order to renew
itself, in order to stay the same. The
main principle of this change is the parts separating and regrouping. Distinguishing the different parts in order
to reassemble them in different combinations.
“Vintage
at Chateau La Grange”, Jules Breton
“If we want things to stay as they are, things
will have to change”.
03 Time: the Father of the Gods: it is time which effects the
changes.
04 Edmund Burke: “A state
without the means of some change is without the means of its
conservation”. “Change is the law of
life and those who only look to the past or present are certain to miss the
future” – J.F. Kennedy.
05 “Now, here, you see, it takes
all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must
run at least twice as fast as that!” - Lewis Carroll.
06 Richard Hooker: “Change is not made without
inconvenience, even from worse to better”.
07 Emerson: “Motion or change
and identity or rest are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and
Rest. The whole code of her laws may be
written on the thumbnail”.
08 “Growth may mean change and
change can be painful”.
09 Cauldron: Symbol of change,
renewal, initiation, transformations - full of boiling and bubbling substances.
“The quickest way to change the world is to be of
service to others. Show that your love
can make a difference in the lives of people and thereby someone else’s love
can make a difference in your life. By
each of us doing that and working together we change the world one inner person
at a time”. Dannion Brinkley, a near-death
experiencer.