yearning for heaven —

[escapismsworld]

Monastery of Batalha, Portugal

Construction began in 1385

[bluereevesphotography]

Hampton Court Palace

[artist-rubens]

Christ on the Cross, 1627, Peter Paul Rubens

Medium: oil,panel

[malnedott]

hands in various paintings by luca giordano 🥀

[dinnerinlondon]

Chapel of Bückeburg Castle, Germany

[poisonwasthecure]

Detail of the Snakes from Caravaggio’s Head of Medusa ca. 1596

[jacob-jordaens]

Love of Cupid and Psyche, 1652, Jacob Jordaens

Medium: oil,canvas

[aheronn]

John Martin -Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion

[arthistorywitches]

“There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.”

— Aristophanes, Lysistrata Jack Lindsay, Ed.

[mynocturnality]

Peleș Castle in Sinaia, Romania.

[ataelantes]

“The witch-burnings did not take place during the “Dark Ages,” as we commonly suppose. They occurred between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries– precisely during and following the Renaissance, that glorious period when, as we are taught, “men’s” minds were being freed from bleakness and superstition. While Michelangelo was sculpting and Shakespeare writing, the witches were burning. The whole secular “Enlightenment,” in fact, the male professions of doctor, lawyer, judge, artist, all rose from the ashes of the destroyed women’s culture. Renaissance men were celebrating naked female beauty in their art, while women’s bodies were being tortured and burned by the hundreds of thousands all around them.”

— Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor in The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (via lunamtenebris)

[rubyfaerie]

“Lilith and the serpent” photographer A.J Hamilton

Source: Instagram @thetogfather

[artist-rubens]

The Incredulity of St. Thomas, 1615, Peter Paul Rubens

Medium: oil,wood

[wrappedallinwoe]

The Tenth Call

19/09

[drinkthemidnighthymn]

cr. wrappedallinwoe

[wrappedallinwoe]

☤

03/09

[ancient-serpent]

Page from the Clavis Inferni (The Key of Hell); an 18th-Century Manual on Black Magic

“The Clavis Inferni (“The Key of Hell”) by Cyprianus, is a late-18th-century book on black magic. Written in a mixture of Latin, Hebrew, and a cipher alphabet (namely that of Cornelius Agrippa’s Transitus Fluvii or “Passing through the River” from the Third Book of Occult Philosophy written around 1510) the book has remained rather mysterious due to its unknown origin and context. It is said to be a textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, a supposed school somewhere in Germany where one could learn the dark arts. As for the name of the author, it seems to have become a common name for people practicing magic. Benjamin Breen writes in The Appendix of how the existence throughout history of various magically-inclined Cyprianuses – from “a Dane […] who was so evil that Satan cast him out of hell” to the Greek wizard St. Cyprian of Antioch (who later converted to Christianity) – led to the name becoming a popular pseudonym for “people at the edges of society who were trying to do real black magic”.”

[oldmoonlullaby]

Heinrich Khunrath, Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae, 1595.