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Qabalistic diagrams illustrating the Garden of Eden before and after the Fall. From Macgregor Mather’s notebook. These informed the rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn a 19th century occult order than drew many members from artistic and literary circles

Mandala design from Carl Jung’s Red Book Tarot card from the Crowley/Harris Thoth deck

‘We are still seeking the goat that should bear our sin’. CARL JUNG Art: William Holman Hunt: The Scapegoat, 1854.

Qabalistic Tree of Life by Steffi Grant

Seen on my walk yesterday…

The The Enchanter, carved Hawthorn wood and gold Leaf, by Tach Pollard takes us to another realm where anything is possible. #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #scuplture #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art

It’s good to have a bit of weirdness in your life Art: love by petra

Theosophy poster in an abandoned section of the London Underground

Leila Waddell, a highly skilled violinist and occultist, whom Aleister Crowley immortalised as Laylah in his 1912 text ‘The Book of Lies’. She performed in Crowley’s ‘Rites of Eleusis’ at London’s Caxton Hall. From The Sketch, 1910 and The Book of Lies, 1912

‘Come, Great Pan, and bless us all; Bless the corn and honey-bee. Bless the vine and bless the kine, Bless the vales of Arcady: Bless the nymphs that laugh and flee, God of all fertility.’ — Dion Fortune, ‘The Goat-Foot God’ (1936) 🎨Gustave Moreau (1894)

Why don’t occultists dress like this any more? (Dion Fortune)

Seen on my walk today…

Ready for the weekend?…

Renaissance Enlightenment Industrial Revolution Information Age Age of the Grifter [how have we arrived here?]

‘No man can serve two masters... Ye cannot serve God and Mammon’ Matthew 6:24 Art: left- Mammon from A Book of Images, by William Thomas Horton (1898), a mystical artist. Mammon is a demon, the worship of money and political power, towering over a city. He has crowned himself king. Uncanny, yes?

“The way is within us, but not in Gods, nor in teachings, nor in laws. Within us is the way, the truth and the life.” CARL JUNG The Red Book Art: Intimacy by Thomas Blackshear

Wednesday’s are always tricky. The day of Mercurius/Hermes, duplicitous trickster that he is. No wonder he’s the god of business, commerce, communication and magic. A slippery customer, like the metal mercury. Art: Crowley/Harris Thoth tarot deck, 1940s, personal photo

Seen on my walk today…

Hermes Trismegistus says ‘Forget the depressing news read about alchemy instead’

The Philosophers Stone. From the Scottish arts journal The Evergreen 1896-97. Artist unknown

ㅤ my Good Babys 💜 my favourite Foxxie picture ㅤ

“Originally [before the Fall] man was created an immortal being and holy, like the angels." “After the Fall man with his interior body lived only in time; the precious gold of heavenly corporeity, which should tincture, penetrate and bless the external body, had lost its colour." JAKOB BOEHME

Ready for the weekend?…

Ready for the weekend?…

A prancing PAN to cheer you up

‘Four Universes round the Mundane Egg remain Chaotic, One to the North, named Urthona: One to the South, named Urizen: One to the East, named Luvah: One to the West, named Tharmas: They are the four Zoas that stood around the Throne Divine’ WILLIAM BLAKE

“Down the mountain walls From where Pan’s cavern is Intolerable music falls. Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear, Belly, shoulder, bum, Flash fishlike; nymphs and satyrs Copulate in the foam.” W.B. YEATS News from the Delphic oracle

Remember the Witches

SOPHIA HOLY WISDOM “I rely upon her faithful promise when she appeared to me that she wanted to change all my sorrow into great joy. As I was prostrate upon the mountain around midnight and many kinds of storms engulfed me, she came to comfort me and wedded herself to me.” JAKOB BOEHME 1575-1624

“The four elements are actually only qualities of the true one element, which is hidden behind the external four elements. That which we call at present four elements are in fact not elements, but merely qualities of the one true element." JAKOB BOEHME Art: Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians

THE EYE IN THE HEART from John Pordage’s Theologia Mystica, 1698

‘If you’re not being called an actual heretic you’re doing mysticism wrong.’ God - pers. comm.

“We have both mysteries within us, the divine and the demonic…what we make of ourselves, that’s what we are.” JAKOB BOEHME (1575-1624) ‘The Teutonic Theosopher’ Art: The Way I See Myself, By LucaPonsatoArt

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The Capitalist Vampire by Walter Crane, 1895

Seen on my walk today…

Seen on my walk today…