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Monday, March 18, 2013
Memento Mori... print & poem.. Christina Georgina Rossetti
Memento Mori
Poor the pleasure
Doled out by measure,
Sweet though it be, while brief
As falling of the leaf;
Poor is pleasure
By weight and measure.
Sweet the sorrow
Which ends to-morrow;
Sharp though it be and sore,
It ends for evermore:
Zest of sorrow,
What ends to-morrow.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
Marcus Behmer (1879-1955) ... Ver Sacrum... illustrations
Faust and Wagner 1903
Angel of Death
Death on a tree
illustrations for Ver Sacrum ("Sacred Spring" in Latin) the official magazine of the Vienna Secession. Published from 1898 to 1903
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
Doctor Johannes Faust ... books...Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis... 1849
the classic Magia naturalis et innaturalis was known to Johann W. von Goethe, who, like Gotthold Lessing, saw Faust's pursuit of knowledge as noble; in Goethe's great Faust the hero is redeemed.
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Saturday, March 9, 2013
Pascal Beverly Randolph... Eulis “Affectional Alchemy” book covers ... 1930
The book, in German "Die sexualmagischen Lehren der Bruderschaft von Eulis", was originally
published by Randolph (1825-1875) in 1874 with the founding of The Brotherhood of Eulis ("Hermetische Bruderschaft vonLuxor"), presumably to work sex-magic. Randolph also founded the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, the oldest Rosicrucian
organization in the United States
excerpt...
So far well; but at last the world wants to know more of that wonderful fraternity, which, nameless at times for long centuries, blossomed a few centuries ago as Rosicrucia, but now has leaped to the fore-front of all the real reform movements of this wondefu1 age, and lo! the banner of peerless Eulis floats proudly—rock founded — on the breeze. We, the people of Eulis, be it known, are students of nature in her interior departments, and rejecting alike the coarse materialism of the ages, and the sham “philosophies” of the ages past and current, accept only that which forces conviction by its irresistible logic. Men who realize the existence of other worlds than this are not apt to give loose rein to passion; nor be content with fraud in any shape. We cannot take say-sos for facts, and therefore we reject much that appeals to others with the force of truth. We are ambitious to solve all possible mystery; we prefer one method to all other hyper-human agencies, knowing it to be infinitely preferable to all other modes of rapporting the occult and mysterious; and this book, and all others from the same pen, is but a very imperfect sketch or outline of the sublime philosophy of the Templars of EULIS. We know the enormous importance of the sexive principle; that a menstruating woman is an immense power if she but knew it! that a pregnant one holds the keys of eternal mystery in her hand, and that while thus she can make or mar any human fortune! We know the mystic act is one unhinging the gates alike, of heaven and of hell; and we know two semi-brainless people may, by an application of esoteric principles, stock the
world with mental giants. But where shall we find students? Are not all the people, nearly, the slaves of lust, place, gold? Well, we find one now and then; and we hail him or her as the Greeks hailed the sea— with excessive joy! Thalatta! Thalatta! They are not multitudinous now, but will be in the good time coming.
Randolph’s “Rosicrucian Apology” from the first chapter of Eulis!, “Affectional Alchemy” (1874)
Friday, March 8, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Valentine Hugo... illustration for Alternance... 1946
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
Frans de Geetere & Arthur Rimbaud... The Stupra... 1925
Frans de Geetere ~ illustration for The Stupra 1925
The ancient beasts...
The ancient beasts bred even on the run,
Theirs glans encrusted with blood and excrement.
Our forfathers displayed theirs members proudly
By the fold of the sheath and the grain of the scrotum.
In the middle ages, for a female, angel or sow,
A fellow whose gear was substantial was needed;
Even a Kléber, judging by his breeches which exagerate
Perhaps a little, can't have lacked resources.
Besides, man is equal to the proudest mammal;
We are wrong to be surprised at the hugeness of their members;
But a sterile hour has struck: the gelding
And the ox have bridled their ardours, and no one
Will dare again to raise his genital pride
In the copses teeming with comical children.
Arthur Rimbaud ~ The Stupra 1925
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013
William Butler Yeats... notebook page ...1920
sketch from 19 August 1920
One sketch from 19 August 1920 brings together a tower with water,
apple trees and flowering trees as well as birds and a unicorn
(labelled, on the right-hand side), said to be carrying a mask from a tree with its horn and “Rushing”.
The two sets of trees are labelled apple trees and flowering trees, which may represent
the same contrast of flower and fruit that Dulac used in his woodcut of the Great Wheel.
But elsewhere in the Automatic Script, the tree is the symbol of the primary and the mask of the antithetical, so that the unicorn's carrying away may represent a temporary triumph
of the antithetical or rescue for the antithetical Yeatses, as they build the tower of their
antithetical system.... more
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Jan Konůpek (1883-1950)... woodcut and etching... 1925
Woodcut ~ Creation of a man ~ 1925
from cycle of 10 etchings Monastery 1925 ~ Mysteries of the night
Monday, February 18, 2013
Susanne Iles & Audre Lorde... Aido Hwedo
Aido Hwedo, West African Creation Dragon by Susanne Iles
Holy ghost woman
Stolen out of your name
Rainbow Serpent
whose faces have been forgotten
Mother loosen my tongue or adorn me
with a lighter burden
Aido Hwedo is coming.
from ''Call'' by Audre Lorde ~ February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
Dolorosa...white fire of powers : Full Moon...2013
white fire of powers : full moon 2013 ~ pastel and pencil a4
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Val Denham...Invocation of Pan... 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Jean Toutin...bookplate...1619
John Linnell...The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (after William Blake)...c1825
A Divine Image
Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;
Terror the human form divine,
And Secresy the human dress.
The human dress is forged iron,
The human form a fiery forge,
The human face a furnace sealed,
The human heart its hungry gorge.
William Blake
Hans Bellmer... untitled ...1946
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Wladd Muta... graphic work... Nataraj A* / Microcosmic 1
Félicien Rops...print..Satan Creates the Monsters... 1867
Monday, January 21, 2013
Helen Chadwick... Blue photocopies from life 1984 - 1986
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
William T. Horton... 1907
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
William T. Horton (1864-1919)...A book of images...1898
A book of images drawn by W.T. Horton & introduced by W.B. Yeats
Monday, January 7, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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