Gnosis

AXIOM 21:"Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing."

[shakypigment]

[sagan-indiana666]

Faust

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[thepolishstufflove]

Nina Andrycz jako Lukrecja Borgia, 1937

[deathandmysticism]

S. Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, 1876

[deathandmysticism]

David Cambell, The Whore of Babylon, Illustrations of Prophecy, 1840

[trash-fuckyou]

[gettingthefear]

[sagan-indiana666]

Akelarre is the Basque term meaning sabbat, coven or ritual meeting of witches. It is also found in Spanish with the spelling aquelarre. It is the place where Basque witches hold meetings.

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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. The symbols on the perimeter are astrological. 

[sagan-indiana666]

Cornelius, I love you.

[mediumaevum]

Dutch scientists and other academics are using an x-ray technique to read fragments of manuscripts that have been reused as book bindings and which cannot be deciphered with the naked eye. Those fragments may be the unique remains of certain works. Read more

[luxocultapress]

[beautyandjunkie-blog]

“You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.”

[sagan-indiana666]

Magdalena Gornik - Christian mystic The concept of the victim soul derives from the Roman Catholic teaching on redemptive suffering. Such a person is one chosen by God to suffer more than most people during life, and who generously accepts the suffering, based on the example of Christ’s own Passion. In the apostolic letter “Salvifici Doloris” (1984), which deals with human suffering and redemption, Pope John Paul II noted that: “The Redeemer suffered in place of man and for man. Every man has his own share in the Redemption. Each one is also called to share in that suffering through which the Redemption was accomplished. …”

[mudwerks]

Restoring the Lost Sense

“Witches’ luck" from Woodmyth & Fable, written and illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1905.

[venusmilk]

John B. Trinick and Wilfrid Pippet

Album of the Great Symbols of the Paths; illustrations to the Ritual of the most Holy Order of the Rosy and Golden Cross. 1917-21

They were commissioned by A.E. Waite.

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[historical-nonfiction]

Hanuman, together with Ganesha and Garuda, is one of the three major Hindu deities with animalistic physical features. He is loved all over India as the monkey-god who so faithfully served Rama, Vishnu’s seventh avatar (incarnation), in his war against Ravana, the demon king. Hanuman is a major deity in North India where he is regarded as a protector against all evil, and Indian villages all over the subcontinent have shrines to him to keep their people under his benign protection.

[nemfrog]

How to cut your arm off without hurt or danger.  Lorento’s wizard’s guide, or, magic made easy. 1878.