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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“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”. CARL JUNG.Art: Dawid Planeta
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This is cringeworthy and laughable but it encapsulates perfectly where modern occulture is heading. A commodified mishmash of New Age ideas, Aliens, fake shamanism and entheogens for privileged white people, divorced from any root tradition. Avoid like the plague.
I'm struggling to find someone I hate more and have never met. This is coming from someone who chilled with shamans in Peru.
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‘Without the depths, I do not have the heights.’. CARL JUNG, the Red Book. Art: Marriage of Heaven and Earth by Norman Lindsay
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‘The Palmist’ by surrealist artist Leonora Carrington. (Photo by unknown)
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‘Aphrodite was not just a divinity of beauty. She was also the supreme goddess of deception and illusion. She is the great charmer who loves seducing gods, as well as humans…Greeks understood very well that underneath the beautiful surface she is a superb hunter, expert at
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“Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.”. PARACELSUS. A man’s body is covered with disks, each symbolising a planet- this man is a hostage to the power of the stars. But the child picking flowers is unconcerned by the tyrannical powers
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Magical notebook belonging to WB Yeats showing teachings of the Golden Dawn occult order- Yeats was a high ranking and committed member. This shows a Qabalistic diagram showing the Tree of Life and the Garden of Eden before the Fall. Personal photo, National Library of Ireland
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ALCHEMICAL VIRGIN. SOPHIA is represented as the inspiration of the alchemical Great Work. Her body represents Nature, while God in the form of Jesus as the Sun of Justice, is her head. Sophia provides the four vehicles of the alchemical process—the elements. As the instrument of
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Meditation, magic and coffee is the best way to start the day, especially a Monday
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The Star Tarot card by surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, c.1955.
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‘Without the depths, I do not have the heights.’. CARL JUNG, the Red Book. Art: Caroline Harrison
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“When you want what’s so much greater than yourself there’s never a chance of being finally fulfilled. And yet something very strange happens. When you want that and refuse to settle for anything else, it comes to you. People who love the divine go around with holes in their
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THE MAZE. Held by Angels it is The Way, symbolising the difficulty of the spiritual journey through life. It is indeed a spiralling journey to the centre- but how splendid is the adventure !
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‘The 'natural saints' who are called magi, are given power over the energies of nature. For there are holy men in God who serve the beatific life; they are called saints. But there are also holy men in God who serve the forces of nature, and they are called magi.’. PARACELSUS
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As it’s a Sunday here’s a picture of scary Jesus. ‘I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.’ Revelation 5:6
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ASTROLOGY AND THE BODY. It wasn’t until I saw this image that I realised why certain body parts are traditionally correlated to the astrological signs: Aries the head, Pisces the feet, Scorpio the genitals etc. Tractatus novus de astronomia, Ramon Llull, 1297.
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THE WOMAN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN . ‘Then an astonishing miracle-sign appeared in heaven. I saw a woman clothed with the brilliance of the sun, and the moon was under her feet’ Revelation 12. Illustration from a German alchemical manuscript, 1560-1580
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ALCHEMICAL VIRGIN. SOPHIA is represented as the inspiration of the alchemical Great Work. Her body represents Nature, while God in the form of Jesus as the Sun of Justice, is her head. Sophia provides the four vehicles of the alchemical process—the elements. As the instrument of
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‘Only the mystics bring creativity into religion. That is probably why they can feel the presence and the workings of the Holy Ghost, and why they are nearer to the experience of brotherhood in Christ.’. CARL JUNG.Art: Giovanni Gasparro
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“There is a mystical fool in me that proved to be stronger than all my science” . CARL JUNG.Art: Nigel Jackson
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Sun/Black Sun from Salomon Trismosin, Splendor solis, 1582
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THE HEADLESS ONE.“I summon you, Headless One, who created earth and heaven, who created night and day, you who created the Light and the Darkness; you are Osoronnophris whom none has ever seen; you are Iabas; you are Iapos; you have distinguished the just from the unjust. ”
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Triple HEKATE, late Hellenistic period. The three goddess figures stand beneath a three legged cauldron
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‘If you want to go to heaven, your feet will grow into hell.’. CARL JUNG.Art: The Temptation of St Anthony by Felicien Rops
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“The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me." . MEISTER ECKHART (c. 1260 – c. 1328)
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SOPHIA from the Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
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“You seek the feminine in women and the masculine in men. And thus there are always only men and women. But where are people?”. CARL JUNG, The Red Book Liber Secundus.Art: Rebis, the end product of alchemy, the divine hermaphrodite, a union of spirit and matter, a being of both
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‘Consciousness can only exist through continual recognition of the unconscious . ’. CARLJUNG.CW 9i, Para 178.Art: Alessandro Bianchi Sicioldr
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‘As for the god APOLLO:…he has been converted into what he was not. He has been made into the god of reason, all brightness and straightforwardness and clarity and light. To be sure, he was very closely connected in Greek myth with the sun and the chariot of the
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“The sun motif appears in many places and times and the meaning is always the same—that a new consciousness has been born. The old masters conceived of the rising sun in this Katabasis as of a new light, the lux moderna, the jewel, the lapis”. CARL JUNG
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“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”. CARL JUNG.Art: Nona Limmen
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MAGICAL OBJECTS OF DR JOHN DEE (1527-1608). Wax disks engraved with magic symbols used in the practise of Enochian magick. ‘Shew stones’ and an Obsidian mirror within which visions of spirits- angels or demons would appear. British Museum, personal photos.
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“The psyche is not of today; its ancestry goes back many millions of years. Individual consciousness is only the flower and the fruit of a season, sprung from the perennial rhizome beneath the earth; and it would find itself in better accord with the truth if it took the
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‘The universities do not teach all things. so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveler. Knowledge.is experience.’. PARACELSUS.Art: Art: Jose Gabriel Alegría
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Today is Wednesday, traditionally the day of Hermes (Mercury). The prime symbol of Hermes is the caduceus- a magical heralds staff with two entwined serpents, as in this ancient Greek example, from early 5th century BCE. However find similar staffs in Christian tradition down
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The Eye of Providence and the Eye of the Heart. As Above, So Below
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“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”. MEISTER ECKHART (c. 1260 – c. 1328)
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"If you're lucky, at some point in your life you'll come to a complete dead end. Or to put it another way: if you're lucky you'll come to a crossroads and see that the path to the left leads to hell, that the path to the right leads to hell, that the road straight ahead leads to
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“We are still as much possessed by autonomous psychic contents as if they were Olympians. Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word, neurotic symptoms. The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces
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"The exercise of true magic does not require any ceremonies or conjurations, or the making of circles or signs; it requires neither benedictions nor maledictions in words, neither verbal blessings nor curses; magic only requires a strong faith in the omnipotent power of all good,
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Why don’t esotericists dress like this any more?.
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‘Hermeticism is neither occult science, nor magic, nor gnosis, nor mysticism, but rather their synthesis. For it is a tree and not a tower. And it is man himself, the whole man - who is at one and the same time philosopher and magician, gnostic and mystic- who is this tree’
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@fesshole So let me get this right, you risked your job and a criminal record for a measly £850?.
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Golden Dawn notebooks from the estate of WB Yeats, showing Qabalistic diagrams; the Tree of Life before the Fall. Yeats was a prominent member of this Victorian occult order. Personal photo, National Library of Ireland.
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Seen on my walk today…shrine to the goddess Diana-Luna
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‘Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy’ . AUSTIN OSMAN SPARE.The Book of Pleasure, 1913.Art: Austin Osman Spare
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The PLATONIC SOLIDS are recorded by Plato, in the Timaeus c. 360 B.C. in which he associated each of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with a regular solid. Earth was associated with the cube (6 faces) , air with the octahedron (8 faces), water with the
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‘But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life. This life is the way, the long sought-after way to the unfathomable, which we call divine. There is no other way. All other ways are false paths. I found the right way, it led me to you,
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Seen on my walk today…the Institute of Cthulhu studies
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“The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.”. CARL JUNG.Art: Johfra Bosschart
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Gentle Spring- the return of Persephone to the surface of the earth after her time in the Underworld in Hades’ kingdom. Frederick Sandys (1829-1904)
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‘There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life
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“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell….although the attributes of Christ…undoubtedly mark him out as an embodiment of the self, looked at from the psychological angle he corresponds to only one half of the archetype. The other half appears
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“Now, there are three kinds of magic: magic where the magician is the instrument of divine power — this is sacred magic; magic where the magician himself is the source of the magical operation —this is personal magic; lastly, magic where the magician is the instrument of
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These creepy Alien-like figures are 2,600 year-old, made from Yew wood with quartz eyes and removable phalluses. From Withernsea, East Yorkshire.
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From the middle of life, only he who is willing to die with life remains living. Since what takes place in the secret hour of life's midday is the reversal of the parabola, the birth of death’. CARL JUNG.Soul and death, CW 8.Art: Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”. CARL JUNG. Art: Nigel Jackson Tarot deck, Trump X Fortune
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This is the great secret. The underworld is full of light, .And Persephone greets us with a smile.
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"If you're lucky, at some point in your life you'll come to a complete dead end. Or to put it another way: if you're lucky you'll come to a crossroads and see that the path to the left leads to hell, that the path to the right leads to hell, that the road straight ahead leads to
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I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. 1am the whore and the holy one. I am the wife and the virgin. I am the mother of the daughter. I am the members of my mother. I am the barren one and many are my sons. I am she whose wedding is great, and I
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THE CHILD AND THE MAGI. It is no accident that the birth of Christ takes place around the time of winter solstice, the shortest day, the time of greatest darkness in the solar year. This is when the saviour is born, at the moment of the rebirth of the sun, the offspring of a
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Yaldabaoth (Yahweh) was regarded by Gnostic movements as either a malevolent Demiurge and false god, or an ignorant and incompetent creator, who generated the material universe and keeps the souls trapped in physical bodies, imprisoned in the world full of pain and suffering that
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“The sun motif appears in many places and times and the meaning is always the same—that a new consciousness has been born. It is the light of illumination which is projected into space. The Katabasis plays a very important role in the Middle Ages and the old masters conceived of
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‘We spend most of our lives, without even realizing it, longing to go back to some Garden of Eden. But as early Christians understood very well, there can be no returning to Eden; and even if there could, nothing would be worse for us. This is why it often used to be said that
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