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ALCHEMIST IN LOCKDOWN
The Alchemist undergoes decomposition in the philosophical egg. His spirit and soul leave his emaciated body, as the Raven, the symbol of the Nigredo process, perches on his genitals. Above are the seven planets (metals) and on either side fire and air.
‘To give reality to the dream-haunters is to give birth to the dark influx of forces that are ever waiting to gain access to the human life-wave. These Qliphotic entities are known as the Liers-in-Wait.’
KENNETH GRANT
Outside the Circles of Time
Art: Iris Compiet
REAL FAERIES
Not those gossamer winged types....
Art by @artofeyeris (right) and Iris Compiet @iriscompietart (left)
REVISIONING CHRISTIANITY
We need to separate the ‘MAGISTERIUM’ from the MAGICAL.
In other words, leave behind the dogmatism, literalism and repressive power structures of the past and embrace the numinous, mystical dimensions of Christianity and accept personal gnosis.
If your spiritual practise is leading you into paranoia, belief in conspiracies, nihilism, scapegoating of others, and the idea you are some kind of elect, I would respectfully suggest that your practise is unhealthy and quite possibly in the service of dark powers.
Salvator Rosa, Witches at their Incantations (details) 1646.
“Contact with what’s timeless doesn’t leave as you are, even though outwardly it can seem to. It takes away your past. That’s why the initiate has his old life taken away, is given a ‘second destiny’ instead- is born again, adopted by the gods.”
“Real teachers leave no traces. They’re like the wind at night rushing right through you and totally changing you but leaving everything unchanged, even your...weaknesses; blowing away every idea of what you thought you were and leaving you as you have been since the beginning”