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‘Put a Toad to the Woman's breast,
that she may suckle him 'till she die,
& he become gross with her milk.
This Toad is the offspring or Son of this woman, brought forth by a monstrous birth, & therefore by Natural Right must be fed with his Mother's Milk’

Atalanta Fugiens, 1617

THE CRUCIFIED SERPENT

From the Alchemical manuscript by ‘Zoroaster’ (Zarathustra) called Clavis Artis, late 17th- early 18th century.

HAPPY SATYRDAY

This arrived today from Canada…I had forgotten completely I had ordered it! Great fun and beautiful illustrations from the wonderful @iriscompietart

Albrecht Dürer

Nemesis, the Great Fortune (1499-1501) and the Little Fortune (1495-1496)

DEVILISHLY GOOD

These Victorian tiles, c1900 made by Craven Dunnill & Co. were originally made as a fireplace surround, with ruby lustre and grotesque devilish faces. Would love these in my house !

“The scope of the integration is suggested by the ‘descensus ad infernos,’ the descent of Christ’s soul into Hell, whose work of redemption encompasses the dead. The psychological equivalence of this forms the integration of the collective unconscious”

CARL JUNG

‘Mysticism is the source and the root of all religion. Without it religion and the entire spiritual life of humanity would only be a code of laws regulating human thought and action’

Text-Anonymous, Meditations on the Tarot
Art-Jean Delville

‘It keeps eternal whisperings around

Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell

Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell

Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound.’

‘On the Sea’ by John Keats

Art: Edward Reginald Frampton - The Angel of the Sea, 1906

Mnemosyne by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (c. 1876 to 1881). In Greek myth Mnemosyne knows everything, past, present, and future. She is Memory, whereas Forgetfulness is the same as death; Lethe is the river in the underworld which dead souls drink from to forget their previous life.