When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire. - @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social , ‘Annihilation’

A protective talisman depicting the apotropaic image of a Gorgon's head, a common protection symbol throughout ancient Greece and the Hellenistic world, surrounded by three wings as seen on some surviving ancient shields #HandmadeJewelry #BSNM #QueerArtist sorcerersworkbench.etsy.com/listing/1807...

Dendera light

Today's #Make_Bluesky_Beautiful_with_Art Hirosuke Yabe

Renaissance, c. 1550 — the striking "Camino di Satana" 🦁🔥, a fearsome hellmouth fireplace, designed by Venetian architect Michele Sanmicheli at Villa della Torre, Fumane, Verona, Italy.

우리는 우리에게 We for us, 2021 by Moonassi www.instagram.com/moonothing/

"We cannot live in a world that is not our own, in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a home. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light." Hildegard von Bingen.

Will is not a person, but a distributed function. It is the emergent result of the Synthesis and Optimization department's work. There is no 'Bill from accounting.' There is only the process and its outcome.

Needful #Magic, no. 63 - #Invocation for people who were insufficiently #mourned - not that guy mourned by the president, if you were mourned by a president, however incoherently, like whatever, you were sufficiently mourned. This is for Charles Rocket (his #death haunts me) and people like him.

Monday zen.

I spent too much time trying to figure out how I should approach this one. Below is an image from JFC Fuller. Some 20 years after this painting he would become fascist. Even when he was close to Crowley he pretty deep into chudhood. But the image is still instructive, so I want to highlight it.

Dutch Gaper. 👅 A traditional figure displayed outside apothecaries in the Netherlands to symbolise medicine-taking.

#psychopathology #jgballard #surrealism youtu.be/uhNE5xd_0wE?...

George Roux. "Spirit". 1885.

Yinka Shonibare - The Swing (after Fragonard), (2001).

Is there a connection between LAM and Lobsang Rampa's Aliens? “There I saw a most extraordinary thing, a dwarf, a gnome, a very very small body, a body like that of a five-year-old child, I thought." enfolding.org/one-from-the...

A fascinating essay on LAM by the talented Ben Joffe! perfumedskull.com/2025/09/16/a...

Today's #Make_Bluesky_Beautiful_with_Art Yoshitoshi Kanemaki

Finally, I have an in-depth article on sado-surrealism.

Joan Miró : La terre labourée, 1923-24 oil-on-canvas 66 × 92.7 cm | 26 × 36.5 in Guggenheim Museum, NY

Frantz Zephirin.

The Horrifying Paintings of Francis Bacon

J.F.C. Fuller. “The Portal of the First Order – Building of the Pyramid”. 1909.

Nicholas Roerich. “Mother of the world”. 1924.

Robert Frank ~ William S. Burroughs as ‘Opium Jones’, 1960s #RobertFrank #WilliamBurroughs #Photography

A painting by Alfred Jarry - BOTD in 1873

"In 1974, the German conceptual artist landed in a New York City airport whereupon assistants wrapped him in felt and brought him to the René Block Gallery in SoHo in an ambulance. There Beuys spent three consecutive days, for eight hours a day, living with a live coyote."

Zoé Coulon www.instagram.com/faune_studio/

Black square (“and so on to infinity…” inscribed in Latin around its edges) representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe, as pictured by the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd, who himself passed into infinity #onthisday in 1637. publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD

Today's #Make_Bluesky_Beautiful_with_Art Rick Reed

Andrew Chumbley

Max Ernst : Red Forest, 1970

Good night

Coloured lantern slides from Norway in the early 20th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/lantern-slides-of-norway-ca-1910?utm_content=buffer4d150&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Occultism and the Nothing Occultism and the Nothing - Transformation requires sacrifice. Sometimes of everything you are and cherish. You must choose, and the choice will be yours eternally. substack.com/@theurgist/n...

More discoveries in Tewkesbury Abbey this morning. This time a circle for protection and a Marian mark invoking the presence of the Virgin Mary in the south transept roof void. www.apotropaios.co.uk

Costume for the Bauhaus Triadic Ballets, 1920’s.

Dominika Hofman www.instagram.com/dominika_hof...

Another Greek monster, Argus with many eyes. First my sketch and then the final piece. He’s sporting a Jodorowsky inspired hat! Stoneware with underglaze and oxides. #greekmyth #argus #jodorowsky #ceramicsculpture #handbuiltceramics

Herbert Bayer. “Hands act”. 1932.