Franz von Bayros... Venus...c1900

c 1900

....

These spirits she persuades not, nor deceives,

But none beside escape, so well she weaves

Her unseen toils; nor mortal men, nor gods

Who live secure in their unseen abodes.

She won the soul of him whose fierce delight

Is thunder--first in glory and in might.

And, as she willed, his mighty mind deceiving,

With mortal limbs his deathless limbs inweaving,

Concealed him from his spouse and sister fair,

Whom to wise Saturn ancient Rhea bare.

but in return,

In Venus Jove did soft desire awaken,

That by her own enchantments overtaken,

She might, no more from human union free,

Burn for a nursling of mortality.

For once amid the assembled Deities,

The laughter-loving Venus from her eyes

from

Homer's Hymn To Venus

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bookplate ... from the library of the masons lodge Zu den drei Cedern...1808

Ex Libris...Jaroslav Dobrovolský... 1931

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Patrick John Larabee...drawing & poem

 
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Janus

An Invokation of the Hidden Light

I call forth to the Eldritch Spirits of the Dark Abyss,

Thee who don the Masks of Earths Gods,

I am Enchanted as a Light in the Dark,

Illuminated Rays ever searching for You.

Fiery Serpent of Wisdom I call forth to You,

Mighty Angel of the Absolute,

O' Sacred King of the Witch-Blood True,

To the Land of Man Thou hast Come as the Leader of the Way,

Let Thine Blessed Radiance impregnate this Red Clay.

I look forward into the Past,

I awaken the Soul of my Ancestor Qayin,

I bring to light the Hidden Wisdom of Midnight's Gods,

O' Gates of mine own Self be open!

O' Light of the Soul,

O' Brilliance of the Spirit,

Forever Shimmering is the Light of the Peacock Angel,

Descending from the Heavens to Earth to Embrace

the Flesh of the Existent.

Wisdom and Truth of the Light I seek,

Ever to be found in the Gnosis of I,

Self-Knowledge of Mine Ever-Changing Ways,

Forever swirling about the Point,

As an Un-Earthed Treasure ever abiding in the Dark.

Sacred Fire of the Most High shine from Within,

Illuminate the Mind of the Wise with the Vision of the Eternal,

O' Secret Light cast by Witches Fire,

O' Secret Light cast by Sorcerer's Pyre,

Burn bright, grow high, forever alight in the Mind's Eye.

Patrick Larabee on Etsy

I am first and foremost a practitioner of the Traditional Witchcraft Mysteries as a Walker of the Lonley Road. My work is concerned with Arte of Magick and Sorcery. Secondly, I am an artist and writer who seeks to bring to light the Mysteries of the Darkness through Image and Word, Rite and Praxis.

 

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Claude Boutet...Colour spectrum ...1708

Artists were fascinated by Newton’s clear demonstration that light alone was responsible for colour. His most useful idea for artists was his conceptual arrangement of colours around the circumference of a circle, which allowed the painters’ primaries (red, yellow, blue) to be arranged opposite their complementary colors (e.g. red opposite green), as a way of denoting that each complementary would enhance the other’s effect through optical contrast. 

This circular diagram became the model for many color systems of the 18th and 19th centuries. Claude Boutet’s painter’s circle of 1708 was probably the first to be based on Newton’s circle. 

Unable to represent spectral red with any pigment, Boutet substituted two reds – fire-red and crimson – omitting one of Newton’s two blues. To compound the confusion, the colorist evidently misread two of the labels, “orange” and “violet.”

~ from  John Gage ~ Colour and Meaning - Art, Science and Symbolism

Carracci, Agostino...Mater Dolorosa... 1597

 

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Wladd Muta ...graphic works... L'Œuf Noir du Plexus Solaire...2012

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The Black Egg of the Solar Plexus

previous Wladd Muta

Sherana Harriette Frances... drawings part 2 ... 1976

The LSD drawings of Sherana Harriette Frances

a  scan from a favourite book of mine
Drawing it out ~ Befriending the Unconscious ~

the book originated as a wordless visual dialogue between her conscious and unconscious mind, catalyzed by her experience with LSD at the international Institute for Advanced Study.

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"The Mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a heaven of hell,

a hell of heaven."

- Milton: Paradise Lost (1667) Book 1 line 253

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Anne Sexton (1928- 1974)... self portrait & poem...

Self Portrait Undated

'You are the answer, '
I said, and entered,
lying down on the gates of the city.
Then the chains were fastened around me
and I lost my common gender and my final aspect.
Adam was on the left of me
and Eve was on the right of me,
both thoroughly inconsistent with the world of reason.
We wove our arms together
and rode under the sun.
I was not a woman anymore,
not one thing or the other.

O daughters of Jerusalem,
the king has brought me into his chamber.
I am black and I am beautiful.
I've been opened and undressed.
I have no arms or legs.
I'm all one skin like a fish.
I'm no more a woman
than Christ was a man. 

excerpt from ~ Consorting with Angels by Anne Sexton

Delafosse, Jean-Charles(1734-1791)... allegory watercolour drawing..

Antonius Eisenhoit (around 1553-1603)... print ...Haeresis Dea... 1589

I thought it was time to blog this image as i still get lots of enquiries on it since i first posted it back when i started blogging on myspace about 2007, and HERE she is in her detailed glory, enjoy!

Odilon Redon...print 1889

 

The Sphinx: My gaze, which nothing can deflect, remains fixed across all things on an unreachable horizon. The Chimera: I am full of lightness and joy!

A Gustave Flaubert