Tag: art

aphroditepandemos:

Louis Dorigny ~ Pan and the Hours. 

Fresco
Palazzo Orsetti Dolfin Giacomelli, Treviso

In the Pan and the Hours, the figure of Pan has unfortunately been compromised by an extensive loss of plaster. Enveloped in a long vegetal festoon and accompanied by a white goat, he seems annoyed by two irreverent cupids. He is taken by surprise at the sight of two graceful, transparent Hours hovering in the sky.

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thirdoffive:

Calendrier Magique

Designed and published in Paris in 1895, the Calendrier Magique was conceived by Austin De Croze and illustrated by the Italian lithographer Manuel Orazi. While the history of these two individuals remains somewhat obscure, even a casual glance at the contents and illustrations of their unusual work shows that De Croze and Orazi possessed a sophisticated familiarity with the Esoteric traditions of the fin de siècle era. Every page of the Calendrier Magique evokes the decadent, occult Paris of Gerard Encausse, Oswald Wirth, and Karl Huysmans. The Art Nouveau illustrations of Orazi are especially evocative. Simon Finch writes that the work “was highly praised by Caillet as ‘fort original et d’une rare exécution artistique’; he added that no contemporary artist – save Félicien Rops – had managed ‘so felicitously to combine sadism, satanism and the macabre’. 
   
The Calendrier Magique – so the legend goes – was published in a limited print run of 777 copies, making it quite a rarity among collectors.

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littlelimpstiff14u2:

The Extraordinary Mystical and Magical Painting of  Denis Forkas Kostromitin

As the austere Soviet environment had little to offer in terms of
esoteric literature Denis eagerly plunged into the world of Greek and
Egyptian mythology and mysticism. Upon the iron curtain’s collapse in
1991 the great information deluge delivered translations of works by
Levi and Crowley along with anonymous treatises on alchemy and
ceremonial magic, which contained precious bits of insight into matters
like energy management, will, balance and intent. The purgatory of
Russian military service in the mid-nineties had Denis revise his
approach to esotericism and brought him to the gates of Western
philosophy. In the wake of the new century’s economic boom Denis frequently
visited China as a qualified interpreter, a journalist and a commercial
representative. He was lucky to have met several native painting masters
and was eventually granted a chance to study Eastern painting tradition
first hand. Almost three years of heavy practice, which included
mastering gongbi and xieyi techniques, helped Denis determine his true
vocation and inspired him to take on the path of a professional artist.
Before leaving China Forkas developed the principles of his Eglantine
Breath philosophy. The approach – aimed at balancing the Apollonian and
the Dionysian impulses and reviving the ancient spirit of harmony in a
work of art – merged ceremonial magic, meditation and technical prowess
in a single current. Txt

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ritualcircle:

The Twins: (Dedicated to Austin Osman Spare)

Have pity ! show no pity !
Those eyes that send such shivers
Into my brain and spine : oh let them
Flame like the ancient city
Swallowed up by the sulphurous rivers
When men let angels fret them !

Yea ! let the south wind blow,
And the Turkish banner advance,
And the word go out : No quarter !
But I shall hod thee -so !
While the boys and maidens dance
About the shambles of slaughter !

I know thee who thou art,
The inmost fiend that curlest
Thy vampire tounge about
Earth’s corybantic heart,
Hell’s warrior that whirlest
The darts of horror and doubt !

Thou knowest me who I am
The inmost soul and saviour
Of man ; what hieroglyph
Of the dragon and the lamb
Shall thou and I engrave here
On Time’s inscandescable cliff ?

Look ! in the plished granite,
Black as thy cartouche is with sins,
I read the searing sentence
That blasts the eyes that scan it :
“HOOR and SET be TWINS.”
A fico for repentance !

Ay ! O Son of my mother
That snarled and clawed in her womb
As now we rave in our rapture,
I know thee, I love thee, brother !
Incestuous males that consumes
The light and the life that we capture.

Starve thou the soul of the world,
Brother, as I the body !
Shall we not glut our lust
On these wretches whom Fate hath hurled
To a hell of jesus and shoddy,
Dung and ethics and dust ?

Thou as I art Fate.
Coe then, conquer and kiss me !
Come ! what hinders? Believe me :
This is the thought we await.
The mark is fair ; can you miss me ?

See, how subtly I writhe !
Strange runes and unknown sigils
I trace in the trance that thrills us.
Death ! how lithe, how blithe
Are these male incestuous vigils !
Ah ! this is the spasm that kills us !

Wherefore I solemnly affirm
This twofold Oneness at the term.
Asar on Asi did beget
Horus twin brother unto Set.
Now Set and Horus kiss, to call
The Soul of the Unnatural
Forth from the dusk ; then nature slain
Lets the Beyond be born again.

This weird is of the tongue of Khem,
The Conjuration used of them.
Whoso shall speak it, let him die,
His bowels rotting inwardly,
Save he uncover and caress
The God that lighteth his liesse.

―Aleister Crowley

Artwork: Rosaleen Norton

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viewbacca:

Rosaleen Norton

“Most people knew Rosaleen Norton simply as ‘Roie’. The Roie I remember was slight in build, with dark and rather untidy curly hair, quick darting eyes and mysterious arched eyebrows. During the 1950s she had become famous in Australia – perhaps one should say notorious – as an eccentric and bohemian practitioner of witchcraft. She wore flamboyant blouses, puffed on an engraved cigarette holder, and produced bizarre fantasy paintings which had a distinct touch of the pagan and demonic about them.”
– Nevill Drury

Painting by Rosaleen Norton

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astrolocherry:

Hades – The archetype of Scorpio 
Pluto in the birth chart

To have Hades as part of ones psychological nature can be very enriching. Hades the recluse is a source of creativity that can be expressed through the arts, often in visual arts.
Hades the reclusive is however, a “missing” part in many people, who do not value opportunities to be introverted in they way that this archetype can be. Introverts can live an interior life in touch with their own subjective reactions to outer experience. A type of introversion as Jung described may be experienced as inner dialogues, visions, or bodily sensations.
The Hades child enjoys their own company and wants to spend time by by themselves- or perhaps with an imaginary friends. From nursery school onward the individual is intruded on by others needs for him to be more social” – extracted from the writings of Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.
The Roman correspondent for Hades is Pluto, whose name means “wealth.” This indicates the buried treasures existing in the depths of the psyche and experience of this realm of the underworld.  We have an invisible connection to the underworld, which is Hades himself. 

Another epithet for Hades is Eubuleus:16 meaning “good counsel” or “benevolent counselor.” The epithet refers to Hades’ wise counsel: images and feelings that rise from deep inside — even though they may be labeled as irrational. This process reminds us of Hades’ instinctual wisdom about the cyclical nature of life, the sense of “gut knowing,” being uncompromising and blatantly honest — all the qualities that Pluto evokes.” – Brian Clark 

“Death is always immanent.  He required no cult worship from mortals, because he already possesses the riches of the depths of experience.  The final act is always his, in any event.”-Iona Miller Collected Works

art by Tim Bagshaw

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