☩ 𝖘𝖆𝖚𝖗𝖔𝖈𝖙𝖔𝖓𝖊 ☩

Super aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis, et conculcabis leonem et draconem.

[lapleiade]

Fin du voyage à Thonon, 19 Décembre 2024

[majestativa]

Remember that I love you in peace. Remember that for one day and one whole night I held you against my heart. […] Remember the faithful blood and the well-guarded fortress – remember the bread and the shared night – remember the archangel that slays the dragon.

— Julien Gracq, Prose pour l'Étrangère, to Nora Mitrani, transl. by Alan Jenkins

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[quiltofstars]

The Toby Jug Nebula, IC 2220 // Laurent Desbats

[serpentsprotection]

The Forgotten One (c. 1883) by Édouard de Beaumont (engraved by Charles Alphonse Deblois)

[petaltexturedskies]

When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment, and never hurry through the world but walk slowly, and bow often. Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, “Stay awhile.” And they call again, “It's simple,” they say, “and you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”

Mary Oliver, “When I am Among The Trees” from Thirst: Poems

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[henk-heijmans]

Magic of water, Kobe, Japan, 1951 - by Koji Takashima (1937), Japanese

[orthodoxadventure]

The Virgin by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov

[philosophybits]

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

[mortesacra]

[catholicapothecary]

It is the grace of God flowing down to him through Mary, the mediatrix of graces. But this grace is also mediated by the whole of the ‘Jerusalem above’, by the community of the saints, who were and are entirely real, historical human beingsーfrom whose midst arises a multitude of helpers, guides and intercessors of whom, in his own way, expresses the community of love in its totality. Beatrice, formed by God as the poet’s eternal beloved, has, without doubt, the same degree of reality as the other saints. Here is no allegory or symbol; here we are simply dealing with the laws of the Communion of Saints...This fact constitutes the foundation of the Divine Comedy, which is, therefore, not just one of the transcendental adventure stories of the Middle Ages.

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Glory of the Lord

[angehalliwell-diary]

[lapleiade]

9 By what doth a young man correct his way? by observing thy words.

10 With my whole heart have I sought after thee: let me not stray from thy commandments.  

11 Thy words have I hidden in my heart, that I may not sin against thee.  

12 Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy justifications.  

13 With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.

14 I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches.

 15 I will meditate on thy commandments: and I will consider thy ways.

— Psalm 118, Beati immaculati. Of the excellence of virtue consisting in the love and observance of the commandments of God, Douay-Rheims Bible.

[escuerzoresucitado]

first date

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[fragrantblossoms]

Mey Rahola. Untitled [Traditional dance, France], 1946-1959.