Masks of the Horned God by Cyndy Salisbury

“The excavation work of my mind into my dark inner world is comparable to the journey of Persephone in Hades, or equally Orpheus’ journey into the underworld.
They are travel rituals, Orphic or Eleusinian in their urgent desire to steal from the dark world flashes of truth”

This

Unite Dionysus and Apollo within you as did Orpheus

Art: The Seven Days of Orpheus by Agostino Arrivabene, 1996

“I am the incomprehensible silence and the often-remembered thought
I am the voice of many sounds and the expression of many designs
I am the utterance of my own name
For I am the Sophia of the Greeks
And the Gnosis of the barbarians
The one who has been hated everywhere,

‘I hope I have said enough to make it clear in what direction the problem lies. We live in a society that runs from death. We are a 'fix‐it' culture that always wants solutions and explanations, whether physical or psychological. It is almost intolerable for us to accept that

“If, as seems probable, the aeon of the fishes is ruled by the archetypal motif of the hostile brothers, then the approach of the next Platonic month, namely Aquarius, will constellate the problem of the union of the opposites…we need to find our way back to the original, living

In Anna Kingsford (1846-1888), we find a remarkable individual, a powerful seer, prophet and mystic, a feminist, vegetarian, campaigner for animal rights and medical doctor. I’m starting to read her books on esoteric Christianity and finding them fascinating and radically

There’s no hope in finding our spiritual destiny until we break free from this consumerist mindset-the illusion that we can consciously choose what path we want to follow, or that we even know what is best for us.
God is not a service provider and you are not their customer.

William Blake, 1827, Two Devils mauling each other (reminds me of Twitter/X).
In the final year of his life, Blake was commissioned by John Linnell to illustrate Dante's Divine Comedy. This illustrates the Circle of the Corrupt Officials. Personal photo

‘Where the magician is the instrument of divine power—this is sacred magic; …where the magician himself is the source of the magical operation—this is personal magic; lastly…where the magician is the instrument of elemental forces or other unconscious forces— this is sorcery’

'As Michael has been created after the type and beauty of God the Father, so was Lucifer created after the type and beauty of God the Son, bound to Him in love, and his heart was resting in the centre of light, as if he were God Himself.'

JAKOB BOEHME (1575-1624)
‘The Teutonic

The Eye in the Heart

“…civilization needs a myth to live by … And I think that the Christian myth, on which we have lived, has degenerated and become one-sided and insufficient. I think alchemy is the complete myth. If our Western civilization has a possibility of survival, it would be by accepting

“When the sun came into [the age of] Pisces, Virgo became the autumnal sign, and astrology has connected that fact with the worship of the Virgin Mary. When we get into [age of] Aquarius, we shall have Leo opposite, so we would have a deification of lion attributes–the worship of

The Flame by Wilhelm Bernatzik, 1902

Austin Osman Spare

Austin Osman Spare, Astral body and ghost