Seen on my walk today…thirsty fox having a drink

Noli Me Tangere - Touch Ne Not Graham Sutherland, 1961 Mary Magdalene encounters a gardener by Christ’s tomb, initially not realising that they are the resurrected Jesus For further information click on the link below 🙂 www.chichestercathedral.org.uk/visiting-us/...

Esoteric thought for the day

Magical story

Angels Ministering to Christ William Blake, 1816-20, my photo

Tonight the folk of Hookland ignore Black Saturday’s solemnity and make sport with their plays of the Harrowing of Hell. They celebrate Mary by her title Empress of Hell. They sin with surety of escape from consequence. They play Punch the Devil’s Beak. They make drunken riot. – Dr. Bron, 1636

Rosicrucian symbol of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn 19th century

“Heaven is cheap because it is on sale to everyone at the price they can afford. MEISTER ECKHART Art: from Vincenzo Cartari’s Images of the Gods of the Ancients, 1608

PHILOSOPHY derived from the Ancient Greek philos ("love") and sophia ("wisdom"), literally means "love of wisdom". We shouldn’t forget that.

Seen on my walk today…Mercurius, patron of the hermetic arts, will take this as a good sign

The endearing naïveté of ‘muricans who believe nothing in the world happens without CIA involvement, as if the rest of the world doesn’t think for itself or have any agency. It would be sweet if it wasn’t so patronising. We’re perfectly capable of fucking ourselves up thank you.

We live in a perpetual April Fools Day

Be a keeper of the flame, not an extinguisher of the light 🙏

Seen in my walk today…Bacchus the god of wine with his pet panther

Work hard, Play hard

Seen on my walk today…a casual PAN (early 18th century, my photo)

Seen on my walk today…blackbird snacks on windfall apple

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens” CARL JUNG Letters, Vol1:1906-1950, Edited by G. Adler & A. Jaffe, page 33

The ancient past, the Neolithic, is so mysterious and compelling. I’m fascinated by these two figurines from Serbia dating from 4500-4000BC. The strangely shaped heads are unearthly looking. Are they masked humans, gods, demons or extraterrestrials ? My photos.

When people talk of the Old Ones in the Hollow Hills, there is an assumption of familiarity. Folklore is so embedded we're often left to unfold its details and meanings from the briefest of mentions. We do not have to ask what the Old Ones look like, it's something we've always known. – #CLNolan

The Academy (artist unknown, my photo)

Seen on my walk today…Seated figure-meditation, by Nathan David, 1968

Delightfully creepy knocker on a Medieval church door. The base plate is a crucifix, but the knocker is serpent like and with a horned devils head. When you are rapping on the door the devil is striking the crucifix. My photos.

Seen on my walk today…a Yew henge used by Druids

Everything is absolutely fine in the secondhand shops of the South West of the United Kingdom and there is nothing eerie or disturbing to be found there at all.

Everyone is worried about AI. I’m more concerned with what the other vowels are up to.

Seen on my walk today…Strange occult gathering

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

“Secular science by itself leads to illusion, the Gospels alone lead to hallucination. The middle way between illusion and hallucination is found only by grasping reality through the spirit. That is the point.” RUDOLF STEINER Art: When your third eye opens by Aishath Maldha Mohamed.

You know, it is ok to have a little fun now and again

So many occult books, so little time

Art: Yoshitomo Nara, my photo

Met two old friends today

“The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands.” CARL JUNG Answer to Job, Para 746. Art: Lightbringer by Leoncio Harmjr

The Satyr & Other Tales, Stephen J Clark @swanriverpress.bsky.social

“Abraxas is the sun, and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of emptiness, of the diminisher and dismemberer, of the devil.” CARL JUNG, the Red Book Art: MJDorian

My head hurts and it’s only Tuesday

Cyndy Salisbury

It’s awful what we have to go through as human beings

Australian artist and witch Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979) was devoted to the god Pan, whom she believed ‘is the spirit whose body — or such of it as can be seen in these four dimensions (the fourth being time) — is the planet Earth.’ #InternationalWomensDay

One of my great joys is taking a day off from work and heading into central London and spending an afternoon in the fantastic bookshops. The anticipation and excitement of finding occult treasures is to be savoured. Watkins, Atlantis, Daunt and Treadwells are my favoured haunts.

Art: Cyndy Salisbury

‘Oh Great God Pan, I know Thee! — I thank Thee — I bless Thee ... for indeed beneath the mantle of the God whose name is Love, is there not room for all in His world to shelter?’ — Margery Lawrence, ‘How Pan Came to Little Ingleton’ (1926) 🎨 Nicoletto da Modena, c. 1500-1510

An interesting video from @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social exploring Europe’s last pre-Christian religions inspired by my ‘Silence of the Gods’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=drA6...

Art: Cyndy Salisbury

"Revelation comes to us as lightning. Alas! How fleeting our memory of all manifestation." - Austin Osman Spare Art: Ben Thompson- AOS POSTURE