[fuck-yeah-monstrous-men]

Poster art for a 2006 performance of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan concert hall. From Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography.

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Rosicrucian Fellowship Mount Ecclesia

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Emerald river dance with such velvety grace to the rhythm of the Earth And every beat reveals magic pathways of light where each seeker finds rebirth

Listen to the bleating absence of sound and you will hear what is And you will hear what is And you will hear what is

And Nature ever favors softness like grass growing gently through cement And softness often thrives where brutality lies, in a shroud of Death's foul scent

Listen to the bleating absence of sound and you will hear what is And you will hear what is And you will hear what is It seems like everyone's so afraid of emotion cause they can't bear the pain But the deeper sorrow carves in the heart of your being the more joy you can contain

Listen to the bleating absence of sound and you will hear what is And you will hear what is And you will hear what is And you will hear what is...

[ivy-kissobryos]

Tablet excerpts from Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets by Fritz Graf and Sarah Iles Johnston

[treylane]

Oh snap, we're getting a proper Judee Sill documentary

[kurhanchyk]

orthodox tewahedo christianity

tewahedo (ge'ez: ተዋሕዶ täwaḥədo) is a ge'ez word meaning “being made one” or “unified”, cognate to arabic توحيد‎, tawḥīd. this word refers to miaphysitism, the oriental orthodox belief in the one single unified nature of christ; i.e., a belief that a complete, natural union of the divine and human natures into one is self-evident in order to accomplish the divine salvation of humankind.

[scattante]

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

[artist-schiele]

Mountain Torrent, 1918, Egon Schiele

Medium: oil,canvas

[artist-munch]

The Sun, 1916, Edvard Munch

Medium: oil,canvas

[swordquest]

[classicarte]

Concerto pour piano n.° 4 en sol majeur, K. 41 : II. Andante — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Détail de « Progrès de l'amour : La Lettre d'amour », par Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1771/2)

Detail of “The Progress of Love: Love Letters”, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1771/2

[xshayarsha]

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) composer of L’Orfeo, the earliest surviving opera still regularly performed.

[aradeia]

On Fragmentary Fame. 

What we remember, how we remember it, vs. how ancient poets may have expected to be remembered. 

In classical studies, we talk a lot about kleos and a lot about memory being preserved for thousands of years, but that doesn’t happen for every author. Texts get lost due to decreasing popularity or dumb chance or both.

For many authors, we don’t even have fragments left. Often kleos fades away. A scary thought, but an honest one. Time eats and litters as it marches on.   

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Penitent St. Mary Magdalene, 1565, Titian

Medium: oil,canvas

[docendoediscimus]

I know Titian’s genius is well established but I’m still baffled by the amount of personality he can express through eyes. Playful, sharp, sinister, curious, carrying a heavy burden... you can tell a lot about the human behind the painting by just looking into their eyes.

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