Visio Smaragdinaさんのイラストまとめ

‘The land of Ireland, we both felt, was powerfully alive and invisibly peopled…If only we could make contact with the hidden forces of the land it would give us strength for the freeing of Ireland…our talk centred round this and it led us both into strange places’

MAUD GONNE

Christian fighting Apollyon (Abaddon) from the Pilgrims Progress

'Christian Fights Apollyon' by William Strang c 1895

LADY ALCHIMIA

True magical power comes from surrender, not from control. It’s not all about us and our fickle, ever changing desires, but aligning our will with that of the Cosmos, of channeling spiritual forces. Ironically you start out by using magic and end up with magic using you.

When will magicians desist from a futile quest for societal acceptance, by dressing up their art in the garb of science, psychology, or medicine. Magic is a gift from the gods, it’s not an occult science, but applied mysticism. Embrace its sacred, irrational, paradoxical nature

‘Beloved PAN, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one’

PLATO (Socrates’ prayer in the Phaedrus)

The Great God Pan by Lord Leighton, 1860

Ready for the weekend?…
Reclining PAN, Jan de Bisschop, 1669-1671

Victorian tiles with a BACCHIC theme- The Libation and Master of the Revels. Very classy and hygienic, makes cleaning up after that Dionysian orgy a real breeze. Designed by John Moyr Smith in 1877 for Minton China Works.

APOLLO AND DIANA

Fresco by G F Watts (1817-1904). Dated 1854-55