Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Chapter 29 -- The Underground River as Metaphor
be Light Tomorrow? The History of the Greatest Conspiracy Man Has Ever Known," internet
posting
The "UNDERGROUND STREAM," the hidden mysteries of western esotericism. From Merlin
to Nostradamus, from Parzival and the Holy Grail to Alchemy and the mystery of the cathedrals,
from the origins of the Tarot cards to the Hebrew/Druidic /Arthurian cabala, most of the major
currents flowing through the UNDERGROUND STREAM surface, or have their origin, within a
few miles of the lost Roman city of Glanum.... From the answers to these question arise a vast
untold story of the UNDERGROUND STREAM in the west, from Jason and the Argonauts to
the Gnostic Christians, the Cathars and the legends of the Holy Grail, down to the true identity
of the Knights of the Rosy Cross. -- Weidner and Vincent Bridges, The UNDERGROUND
STREAM and Fulcanelli's Message, 1888
Experience
In all melodrama, heightened emotion and exaggerated gestures or, in the case of television,
extended camera play on facial expressions represent the invisible life, the SUBTERRANEAN
RIVER of experience. -- Mary S. Mander, "Dallas: The Mythology of Crime and the Moral
Occult," Journal of Popular Culture 17:2, Fall 1983
Faith
Faith in the immortality of the soul exists deep down in their own souls like a SUBTERRANEAN
RIVER, neither seen nor heard, but watering the roots of their deeds and their motives. --
Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life (1921)
Fear
You are walking in a dark cave, a vast subterranean string of passageways, unmapped. You
have both a lantern and torch and you’re an experienced explorer. There’s a sense of joy,
then. Caution, wisdom, but joy, in your exploration. As you move around a sharp corner,
suddenly the ground gives way beneath you and you begin to slide. You drop your lantern, you
drop your torch; your hands reach out trying to grab some surface to try to stop the slide. You
find yourself falling literally into space and then splash! You are in cold water. Deep water.
Moving water. -- "Wednesday Evenings with Aaron at Deep Spring Center," internet posting,
May 3, 2000
Foundation
The editors have been deeply attracted to the vivid movement and activity of his poetry, which
seem to flow up from an UNDERGROUND RIVER that lies beneath mere speech, as though
written in some pre-verbal language of which all later languages have proved to be a mere
translation. -- Peter Davison, "A Reflection on Poet W.S. Merwin," Atlantic Monthly, August 28,
1997
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York
(1917)
Q: What was Freemasonry prior to the London Conference of 1717?
A: An UNDERGROUND RIVER, with tributaries in widely scattered sections of Great Britain.
Hidden
My life is like the SUBTERRANEAN RIVER in the Peak of Derby, visible only where it crosses
the celebrated cavern. I am here, and this much I know; but where I have sprung from, or
whither my course of life is like to tend, who shall tell me? -- Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
(1824)
The work an unknown good man has done is like A VEIN OF WATER FLOWING HIDDEN
UNDERGROUND, secretly making the ground green. -- Thomas Carlyle, Essays -- Varnhagen
von Ense's Memoirs (1838)
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