Meteor

The Seba library treats Meteor in 6 passages, across 4 authors (including Wilhelm, Richard, Richard Wilhelm, Cary F. Baynes, Harding, M. Esther).

In the library 6 passages

Here the image used is that of a meteor or a straw fire. A man who is excitable and restless may rise quickly to prominence but produces no lasting effects. Thus matters end badly when a man spends himself too rapidly and consumes himself like a meteor.

The I Ching commentary uses the meteor as an explicit moral-psychological symbol for the person of restless brilliance who achieves no enduring work, exhausting vital energy in a spectacular but self-annihilating display.

Wilhelm, Richard, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950thesis

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Here the image used is that of a meteor or a straw fire. A man who is excitable and restless may rise quickly to prominence but produces no lasting effects. Thus matters end badly when a man spends himself too rapidly and consumes himself like a meteor.

A parallel transmission of the same Wilhelm commentary establishes the meteor as the canonical I Ching image for psychological over-expenditure and the failure of sustained clarity of mind.

Richard Wilhelm, Cary F. Baynes, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1950thesis

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The torrid meteor shower, a celestial event we nonchalantly observe, becomes a stark reminder of

The passage situates the annual meteor shower within a catastrophist mythic framework, arguing that ancient peoples at Göbekli Tepe encoded the memory of a cometary debris field — a cosmic firestorm — in monumental imagery.

Harding, M. Esther, Woman’s Mysteries, Ancient and Modern, 1955supporting

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the stone might not depict the great flood but rather an impact event coinciding with the onset of the cooling period.

Interpreting the Vulture Stone of Göbekli Tepe, the passage proposes that mythic flood narratives may encode actual meteor or cometary impact events rather than purely hydraulic catastrophes.

Harding, M. Esther, Woman’s Mysteries, Ancient and Modern, 1955supporting

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This biblical passage mirrors the cataclysmic events envisioned in our exploration — a celestial impact accompanied by darkness, a mighty wind, and seismic upheaval capable of moving mountains.

The passage reads Revelation 6 alongside Vedic and Mahabharata texts as convergent mythic memories of a celestial impact event, linking meteor-related catastrophism to cross-cultural sacred narrative.

Harding, M. Esther, Woman’s Mysteries, Ancient and Modern, 1955supporting

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