The Scarlet Library

Texts, engravings, illustrations, and information on occultism, mysticism, and the paranormal.

[bluefluke]

THE PSYCHONAUT FIELD MANUAL

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Deserves to be shared once again.

[bluefluke]

Finally done tweaking the Majors under the Smith/Waite system. I was toying with the idea of making a Thoth version too. If that’s something you guys are interested in let me know! :3

[secretworkings]

source: Magic Circles in the Grimoire Tradition

A nice little excerpt on the use of the watchtowers.

[bluefluke]

ERIS : Egregore of mass destruction  

[scarlet-library]

I strongly recommend following bluefluke.

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Hiatus almost over?

Hi, Atus.

[bluefluke]

THE PSYCHONAUT FIELD MANUAL

[demoniality-deactivated20150411]

My copy of a first edition of this blog’s namesake.

[scarlet-library]

From the Principia Discordia.

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

[scarlet-library]

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

(I'll be posting again soon.)

[legendofthesuperking]

beware the paranoid are watching you.

[magictransistor]

George Psalmanazar. Illustrations for his Description of Formosa. London. 1704.  

Story here

[medievalengravings]

Death music. Der Doten danz. Mainz ca. 1492 BSB

[oldbookillustrations]

The hermit of the Black Valley.

Achille Devéria, from Légendes ballades et fabliaux vol. 1, by Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian, Paris, 1829.

(Source: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)

[bigantowski]

A figure of eagle-headed being from the palace of Sargon. Nisroch

[becomingtoplatonism]

Iamblichus Chalcidensis, or Iamblichus of Apamea http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/philo/galerie/antike/

Galery of Ancient Philosophers.

[nauthis666]

[cultoccult]

In his Theosophia Practica (1696),Georg Gichtel described how the wheel of the planets lies on the body in seven diabolical seals.