Cecil Collins (1908-1989)... Angels Dancing around the Sun and Moon 1950

Angels Dancing around the Sun and Moon

Hilma AF Klint ~ Mother and Child, watercolour 1931

Dolorosa De La Cruz... new drawings in upcoming issue of Anathema Pillars Journal: PILLARS .III. “The Ebon Kteis”

Three art works of mine are featured in the upcoming Anathema Pillars Journal: PILLARS .III. “The Ebon Kteis”

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'The Ebon Kteis' delves into the subtle beauty that lies at the threshold of Eros & Thanatos, and what has oft' been referred to as “la petite mort”: the strange connection that exists between orgasm, the loss of the senses and the ultimate release of Death; both Symbolic having a real strong bond to one another.

The subject is exploited from various angles; within witchcraft, tantrism, the necromantic arts, romanticism, et cetera (of course always leaving much interpretative power to the contributors). - Also pertaining to this Issue will be a huge emphasis on the many ways to go about the Sabbatical Rites of Soul-Flight and Congress, whether with fellow brethren or by means of Self-Initiation.

Detail of La Del SoL ~ Dolorosa , pastel on paper 2014

George Russell AE (1867-1935) ~ Aeons as yet Unrolled

Born Today ... Rosaleen Miriam "Roie" Norton, October 2, 1917, Dunedin, New Zealand

image: The Hag , watercolour

...My home is the house of winds,

With great songs of Space ringing wild in my ears

Whose shouting heart leaps to their tune.

I mock at the shapes, plodding thickly, through lamplight:

stupid and cruel - or kind -

They are alien, Other, I'm touched with uneasiness...

Fear of these human.... and glide away sidelong:

Yet joying in fear, in my stealthy aloofness,

To know they are They and I'm I.

Towers of old cities are spiralling over me, Night-conjured,

rising from Time

And I hear, through the seething of luminous silence -

Secretive, vibrant, the sound of the Solitude -

Calling of others like me

Quietly they come, flitting softly as secrets; light-footed,

velvety, swift...

With eyes gleaming green, lambent flame of the Opal.

Kindred... we signal our quick recognition.

I am I ... but I know we are we

Panther of silence; god of Night; Lord of the wild inhuman

stars:

You are my own; teeming soul of solitude.

Here is no loneliness, secret Master -

You, Dark Spirit are with me. RN

Alice Rahon (1904-1987) - drawings for costumes 1946

    

Costumes for her production of Orion~ el gran hombre del cielo, it was never produced in her lifetime.

It was later revived in 2009 for a retrospective of Rahon's work at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico.

Dolorosa de la Cruz ~ Portrait of Unica Zürn ~ Pencil on Paper 2014

Dolorosa de la Cruz ~ Portrait of Unica Zürn ~ Pencil on Paper 2014

Leonor Fini ... lithograph ... illustration for The Roman de la Rose... 1976ed

The Roman de la Rose ~ One of the most influential poems of the Middle Ages

Guillaume de Lorris began writing it around 1237 but never finished it. Forty years later, around 1277, Jean de Meun completed the tale. 

Adrian Collaert... Memento Mori...1607

 "I as thou art, thou shalt be as I am." 

Max Walter Svanberg (1912 – 1994)...prints... Arthur Rimbaud 'Illuminations'...1956

Woodcut... The Crucifixion...1830

Rennes, France c1830

Spina, clavi, lancea,
Mite corpus perforarunt:
Unda manat et cruor:
Terra, pontus, astra, mundus,
Quo lavantur flumine!


Thorns, nails, and spear pierce that gentle
Body: water flows forth, and blood: in which
stream are cleansed the earth, the ocean, the
stars, and the world!


from the hymn Crux fidelis

Fidus (Hugo Reinhold Karl Johann Höppener) 1868- 1948... Tempeltanz der Seele...I, II & III

Temple Dance of the Soul I

Temple Dance of the Soul II

Temple Dance of the Soul III