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ancient philosophy, mystery and magic. weird fiction, occulture, art & the imaginal. bibliophile. flâneur. bohemian holy heretic. he/him. #MDANT 🇺🇦
London and Pan’s garden
Joined July 2019
In this episode of Rupert, our cuddly bear receives instruction in sorcery from Baphomet; he eats the magic berries and thus obtains a vision of PAN.
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“[The] apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without inner contradiction is only half a life, or else a life in the Beyond which is destined only for angels. But God loves human beings more than the angels.” -Jung
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“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell, who lived nearly a century through two world wars, on how to grow old:
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“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”
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in Islamic esotericism, each of God’s Names form a complete cosmology of correspondences used in special invocations and theurgic practice. For example the Divine Name, al-Kareem, The Generous, can be invoked to bring wealth, generous patrons, or to forgive sins
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“The vampire force is a very real one, and one which operates today as of old in most insidious and unsuspected ways.” KENNETH GRANT, occultist 1924-2011, A somewhat baleful and unsettling comment Art:@tombagshaw
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THE HOLY GRAIL Illustration by Rogelio de Egusquiza for Wagner's 'Parsifal', 1893
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TITUREL RECEIVING THE GRAIL Illustration by Rogelio de Egusquiza for Wagner's 'Parsifal', 1899
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KUNDRY Illustration by Rogelio de Egusquiza for Wagner's 'Parsifal', 1894. Kundry is a dual creature a ‘hideous damsel’ a ‘wild woman’. She has been condemned to live forever because she mocked Christ at the crucifixion, and she now desires only death and redemption.
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You could move to the Scottish Highlands and get a job looking after sheep and cows to start, ride a heavy bicycle for 22 miles across the Lairig Ghru to visit a woman, drinking heavily as you go, only to arrive and find no one home, then ride back home, but you will not do it.
You could move to Aplington, Iowa and get a job at the post office making $25 an hour to start, meet a nice girl at the First Reformed Church and take her on a date to Stinky's Bar and Grill, and get married and raise up seven children in this house but you will not do it.
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Alchemists, mystics, and poets—those pilgrims of direct experience—have always recognized that the link with the divine is through the transmutation of intense affect in the body...~Veronica Goodchild, Eros and Chaos
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‘At the heart of this earth sleeps a great serpent, in the midst of fire. Those that go down in mines feel the heat and the sweat of him, they feel him move. It is the living fire of the earth, for the earth is alive. The snake of the world is huge, and the rocks are his scales,
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Lucia Day is celebrated in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden, on the 13th of December. It is a festival of light that is named after the Sicilian St. Lucy, but the celebration of light during the darkest time of the year can be traced back to ancient Norse winter solstice
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The Holy Grail by Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, 1877
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In Scots and Irish lore, the Cailleach is both weather deity and creator goddess. In Scotland she is also known as Beira, Queen of Winter and is creator all its mountain ranges. art: Naomi Cornock
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