Friday, January 6, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Charles Rickett... poster... 1920...satyr
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Poster advertising The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy c1920
Amid this scene of bodies substantive
Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible,
Which bear men's forms on their innumerous coils,
Twining and serpenting round and through.
Also retracting threads like gossamers—
Except in being irresistible—
Which complicate with some, and balance all.Thomas Hardy Saturday, December 31, 2011
Dolorosa... a drawing for Austin O Spare ..2011
to Cabinet Readers Love and Magick to accompany you in the mystery tour of 2012! ♥
Dolorosa ~ A drawing for AOS on his birthday ~ Raving Mouthed 30th Dec 2011
White pencil on black paperFriday, December 30, 2011
Austin Osman Spare... Happy Birthday!
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Stealing the Fire from Heaven 1911-12
The Complete Ritual and Doctrine of Magic
Ecstasy in Self-love the Obsession
My dearest, I will now explain the only safe and true formula, the destroyer of the darkness of the World, the most secret among all secrets. Let it be secret to him who would attain. Let it cover any period of time, depending on his conception. There is no qualification, nor ritual or ceremony. His very existence symbolising all that is necessary to perfection. Most emphatically, there is no need of repetition or feeble imitation. You are alive!
from my favourite AOS book The Book of Pleasure (self-love) The Psychology of Ecstasy
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Lettice Sandford.. illustration from the Song of Songs 1936
1:1 The Song of Songs, which is for Solomon. 1:2 Kiss Me with the kisses of your mouth, for your love is better than wine. 1:3 Your oil has an excellent scent, but your name is the most exquisite oil – for this, all the maidens love you. 1:4 Draw Me after you. Let us run. The king has brought Me to his chambers. We will delight and take joy in you, savoring your love. Like new-pressed wine, they love you.
previous Lettice Sandford
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
T. Sturge Moore (1870-1944)... Pan as an Island...c1902
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a scan from The Modern Woodcut by Herbert Furst 1924
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Johannes von Schwarzenberg... bookplate...1534
a scan from The Devious and Grotesque in Art by Wilhelm Michel 1919
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
H Meyer...Bookplate... c1793
bookplate from Letters to the advancement of humanity by Johann Gottfried von Herder
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)...Zur Farbenlehre ...bookplate 1810
"To divide the united, to unite the divided, is the life of nature; this is the eternal systole and diastole, the eternal collapsion and expansion, the inspiration and expiration of the world in which we move." ~ Goethe
Based on his experiments with turbid media, Goethe characterized colour as arising from the dynamic interplay of darkness and light. Rudolf Steiner gives the following analogy:
Modern natural science sees darkness as a complete nothingness. According to this view, the light which streams into a dark space has no resistance from the darkness to overcome. Goethe pictures to himself that light and darkness relate to each other like the north and south pole of a magnet. The darkness can weaken the light in its working power. Conversely, the light can limit the energy of the darkness. In both cases color arises.
—Rudolf Steiner, 1897 >
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