Visio Smaragdina
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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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RT @scarletimprint: The Two Antichrists by Peter Grey investigates the dynamic between John Whiteside ‘Jack’ Parsons and L. Ron Hubbard, an….
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The ayahuasca grift. Ripping off spiritual techniques from native peoples then commodifying them for mass consumption and to get rich is never going to end well. And listening to spiritual tourists drone on about their ayahuasca experiences is boring)
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“Initiatory knowledge is thus an actual event in the cosmic process. It is the birth of a divine child—a process just as real as any natural process. The great secret of the mystai was precisely this, that they creatively release the divine child in themselves. First of all,
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THE PATH OF THE FOOL. “Disciple: Enough, my dearest master, I can no longer endure that anything should divert me from it [the divine] But how shall I find the nearest way to it?. Master: Where the way is hardest, there go you; and what the world casts away, that take you up.
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Disciple: Pray what is the virtue, the power, the height and the greatness of love?. Master: The virtue of love is nothing and all, or that nothing visible out of which all things proceed; its power is through all things; its height is as high as God; its greatness is as great as
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RT @psycheandpneuma: "In the language of Christian mysticism, [the nous] is spoken of as the 'eye of the heart.' . Insofar as it is an eye,….
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Disciple: “What now hinders or keeps me back, so that I cannot come to that, wherewith God is to be seen and heard?”. Master: “Your own willing, hearing, and seeing keep you back from it, and hinder you from coming to the supersensual state. And it is because you strive against
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RT @oscillate23: Personification of the planet Venus, c. 1597 by Matham, Jacob (1571-1631), Goltzius, Hendrick (1558-1617) .
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RT @OInscendence: "The Witches of Sabbath (Adoration of the Great Goat)", Francisco Goya (30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828), Spanish https://t….
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“The Christian Mystery was to replace the many Mysteries of the ancient world with its unique, archetypal Mystery-event. In Jesus the Logos had become flesh, and he was to become the teacher of initiation to all humanity. His community of mystai was to be the human race. In place
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666: The Beast and the Abyss . “The initiate's experience brings back in a new form the primaeval struggle between the higher and lower natures. On the Christian path, everything that the initiates in the older Mysteries had to undergo must be recapitulated. As Osiris was
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BITTER HONEY. “Then a powerful angel appears, with a little book open in his hand which he gives to John: He said to me, ‘Take it and eat it. It will be bitter in your stomach, but sweet like honey in your mouth.’ John is instructed not just to peruse the little book, but to
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Try an alchemical bath to stay cool as the mercury rises in this hot summer weather
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RT @SmaragdinaVisio: Paradox and ambiguity - ‘weirdness’ if you like- is the hallmark of the sacred, the divine reality. Whenever the spir….
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