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Lethe
"Forgetfulness" the Water of Oblivion in the Greek underworld, a spring giving rise to the River Lethe.
Dark Lethe is a collaborative story environment in which writers can create stories that interconnect, conflict, and conjoin in a new hyperlinked structure.
"They concelethe the arte of kepynge secrettes, that soe the worlde mayeth nothinge concele from them.
A similar revolution is alluded to by the Pythagorean poet, when he says: All these, where the wheel of a thousand years comes round, a god summons to the river Lethe in vast train, so that they may begin again to desire the return to the body.
By the Pythagoreans monad was called chaos, obscurity, chasm, Tartarus, Styx, abyss, Lethe, Atlas, Axis, Morpho (a name for Venus), and Tower or Throne of Jupiter, ...
Plotinus, who said that our body was the true river of Lethe, for "souls plunged into it forget all," meant more than he said. For, as our terrestrial body is like Lethe, so is our celestial body in Devachan, and much more.
Cleareyed love can leap across death's abyss, across birth's Lethe-stream, and find and clasp its own unerringly though new and alien form be casket for the jewel-soul it knows.
I came westward with every nerve shuddering and jarred, wondering whether anything can be done with some parts of London save swallowing them up in an earthquake and starting their inhabitants afresh, after a plunge into some purifying Lethe, ...
 See also: World, Spirit, Light, Christ, Death
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