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Being a mystic has always been a lonely path; the religious will condemn your experience as ‘demonic’, the scientist will say it was ‘hallucination’ and the occultist rejects you because you threaten their spiritual authority. The only true understanding comes from other mystics, dead or alive.

Almost psychedelic…São Vicente Parish Church, Madeira, Portugal. My phot.

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enough doomscrolling, go outside

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Seen on my walk today…satyr fountain

Seen on my walk today…

“Hermeticism without grace is only sterile erudite historicism; Hermeticism without effort is only superficial sentimental aestheticism. There is certainly THE WORK in Hermeticism, and this work is the child of grace and effort.” ANONYMOUS In Meditations on the Tarot

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“The Sun” of the nineteenth Arcanum is the “sun at midnight”, i.e. the “sun” that Apuleius “saw shining at midnight in its brilliant radiance”, and it is this “sun” which is the “star” of Hermeticism across the ages. ANONYMOUS Meditations on the Tarot Art: Nigel Jackson

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The human being is the poet, who has been cast out—cast out into that Between, between gods and men. - #HenryCorbin, ‘The Voyage and The Messenger’

Glastonbury Tor, remains of 14th-century church of St Michael. A site of huge mystical and legendary significance in the UK. On the tower are carvings of St Michael and St Brigid milking a cow. My photos

Seen on my walk today…roadside shrine

Seen in my walk today…

Seen in my walk today…

“The psychological concept of the shadow, and of the Anti-christ, belong together. The Antichrist develops in a man who identifies with the light and ignores his own darkness” CARL JUNG

“There is a wonderful Time coming. But because it begins in the Night, there are many that shall not see it, by Reason of their Sleep and great Drunkenness; yet the Sun will shine to the Children at Midnight.” JAKOB BOEHME (1575-1624)

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I feel a pagan ritual coming on…

How insidiously ironic the ones hungering to control consciousness are themselves so very UNconscious

Seen on my walk yesterday…rocking Robin

‘You must learn to see what is in front of you with no preconceptions. And what does the money machine eat to shit out? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.’ WILLIAM BURROUGHS

‘You must learn to see what is in front of you with no preconceptions. And what does the money machine eat to shit out? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty and above all it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity.’ WILLIAM BURROUGHS

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The latest @weirdstudiesphil.bsky.social episode, where Phil and JF continue their occasional series on the Major Arcana of the #Tarot with The Pope or Hierophant card and take on paradox/coincidence of revolution and tradition in the Chapel Perilous … podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

All this joyless self optimisation simply so we can churn out more product for our demonic overlords

“Hermeticists listen to — and now and then hear — the beating of the heart of the spiritual life of humanity…They live for the mystery of the communal heart which beats within all religions, all philosophies, all arts and sciences — past, present and future.” ANONYMOUS Meditations on the Tarot

‘I seek the hidden grove Where Pan plays to the trees, The nymphs, the fauns, the breeze, And the sick satyr with his syren-song Makes the world ache with longing. I am strong.’ — Victor Neuberg, ‘The Triumph of Pan’ (1910)

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Orchids at Kew Gardens yesterday 🥰

🎨 Herbert Guschner, portrait of author Algernon Blackwood, 1938. Blackwood was briefly a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn, and the portrait’s imagery expresses his esoteric interests as well as his passion for mountaineering.

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Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #PhilipKDick:

Seen on my walk today- pied wagtail

Carved stele inside the Table des Marchands, a Neolithic tomb at Locmariaquer, Brittany. The shapes may represent shepherds’ crooks, symbolizing the pastoral life of the tomb's builders. #TombTuesday 📷 June, 2023.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

The Region of the Summer Stars by Charles Williams, 1944. Arthurian poems by one of The Inklings, the literary group that included Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Also an interesting document (see below)..

"Is this a dagger which I see before me?" William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1,

CANDLEMAS DAY c. 1901 Marianne Stokes (1855-1927) My photo Stokes creates a modern devotional image of a woman in prayer. The image explores the nature of Catholicism. The Modern Pre-Raphaelites were fascinated with its ceremonies and rituals which used objects as symbols to express complex ideas.

Spiritual gins I have imbibed

The Reading Room in the British Museum

The goddess SEKHMET

Yesterday I popped into the British Museum to see some objects relating to Enochian magic and Dr John Dee

Seen on my walk today…CRYSTAL SKULL at the British Museum

Seen on my walk today…Austin Osman Spare, 1955