Visio Smaragdina

Jacob Boehme

How about the clang of doom I captured this morning in St. Peter's cemetery...

The lid of the box containing the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: a pair of red-lit witches (male & female) are engaged in some saucy shenanigans in front of a small altar holding a lit candle and a chalice. The word WITCHCRAFT is printed in large and groovy red letters below them.

From the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: a fold-out chart showing a magic circle surrounded by various astrological names and symbols.

From the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: Four circular emblems in different colours bearing images related to Beltane, Summer Solstice, All Hallows Eve and Winter Solstice. These may be detached from the sheet of card surrounding them. Also visible are nine cards each of which has a photo of a different implement (or weapon) used in magic rituals.

From the Witchcraft Ritual Kit: a horned goat mask made from card.

From the latest Midian Books mailer: The Avalon Hill Witchcraft Ritual Kit (1974). "A boxed set of materials and guide books for performing witchcraft rituals....seems to be a hybrid of role-play and 'genuine' Wicca. Needless to say extremely scarce."

www.midianbooks.com/product-page...

Frontispiece of the Mystery of the Cathedrals by Fulcanelli (1926). Illustration by Julien Champagne.

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic — The Guardian More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape

Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic
More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape apple.news/AfvyTc6opREe...

Seen on my walk today…

Fran de Anda’s work explores the human condition through themes of transformation, death, and alchemy. He draws inspiration from myths, archetypes and the traditions of classical art creating a dialogue between the mystical and the material.
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This fierce folk creation by Amandine Barbet, stands guardian in the dampened marsh, born of the earth's oldest secrets, a beautiful vision of wild, witchy art.

#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #mask #maskart #costume #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art

Our father who art in heaven.
Alphonse Mucha, Le Pater, 1899

‘…in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.’

‘There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.’

How I love bookshops

‘The Teutonic Theosopher’
(Signature, ix. 24.)
Art: @milesjohnstone.bsky.social

"The seventh form is Luna, wherein are contained the qualities of all the six forms. She is, so to say, the corporeal being of the other forms, all of which throw into her their desire by means of Sol. That which Sol (the sun) is spiritually becomes corporeal in Luna (the moon)."
JACOB BOEHME

Yes, but I’m not so sure we can pin down the meaning of the Green Man that easily. There’s all manner of weird and wonderful carvings in Medieval and Renaissance buildings. I think the masons were creative and naughty and liked to push the boundaries a bit and were not very bothered about theology

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Check out the new Living Heritage website created by the UK government. Part of finally signing up to the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage. They want public engagement. What would you submit?
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‘Adult content’ ffs what are you talking about

I’m sleeping …

The Madre de Deus Convent in Lisbon founded in 1509 and now a museum. For a convent though, there’s a lot of pagan symbolism, when you look carefully at the decorative borders. Such as these satyrs and the god Pan. My photos.

THE LILY

Good morning! Today is the publication day of the 1927 occult novel POSSESSED by Rosalie and Edward Synton, discovered by me and reprinted by the British Library for their Tales of the Weird line.

There now follows a thread about the authors. If you buy a copy, use the hashtag #SYNTONSPOSSESSED

The spirit of the forest awakens in glorious autumnal color. A stunning animation by Camila Reis.

Drawn with Wacom CINTIQ 22 HD with Adobe Photoshop CC, animated on Moho Animation Software

#beautifulbizarre #dryads #animation #2danimation #digitalart #illustration #autumn #nature #art

Four of Europe's most fascinating pre-Christian winter festivals Christmas has become the dominant festival in the Western cultural calendar, but echoes of the pre-Christian past can still be found across the continent.

Christmas has become the dominant festival in the Western cultural calendar, but echoes of the pre-Christian past can still be found across the continent. www.bbc.co.uk/travel/artic... #Folklore

The BlueSky art censorship algorithm be like this…

𝘿𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙠 𝙁𝙖𝙮𝙚 (oh, You are Awful) on X: "Morning! With Hylda Baker and those filthy old masters. https://t.co/FQkWnzzh8G" / X Morning! With Hylda Baker and those filthy old masters. https://t.co/FQkWnzzh8G

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Up here in Elgin we have a real witch on a new estate.

ST THOMAS the greatest apostle

I’ve got 35K followers there, they’re not all zionists or transphobes or whatever. The so called ‘big names’ in the occult are not the draw for me, either here or there.

Well I know what you mean, lots of vile folks on X, but there’s still some good accounts and I have lots of nice followers, so at least there’s some interaction. Here things are dead. I really don’t want to invest much time in SM at all, so catering to two accounts seems a waste of time to me.

This place is really dull, no engagement and apart from the few excellent accounts that I followed here from X, there’s nought going on. It’s a chore posting here. And there’s censorship too; the ‘Victorian maiden aunts’ of BlueSky are more prudish than Queen Victoria herself.