Author: Mary A. Osborne

Rising Above

Augustus Tolton. From William Simmons’s Men of Mark (G.M. Rewell, 1887)

From slavery to the priesthood

O Little Town of Riverside, by Mary A. Osborne

Downtown Riverside, Illinois, looking toward the Arcade Building and Town Hall, 2015. Photograph by Nmaviano Wikimedia Commons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en.

Frederick Law Olmsted’s village in the woods

A Turning Point in the Cosmos, by Mary A. Osborne

Nun, god of the waters of chaos, lifts the barque of the sun god Ra (represented by the scarab and the sun disk) into the sky at the beginning of time. From The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by Richard H. Wilkinson, 2003. Artwork c. 1050 B.C. Wikimedia Commons.

Owen Barfield and the history of consciousness

Looking for Gold: The Alchemy of Cinderella, by Mary A. Osborne

Cinderella. Carl Offterdinger, nineteenth century. From My First Book of Fairy Tales. Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Harke

The hidden teachings of a beloved fairy tale