La pradera

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Spring, Alexandre de Riquer 

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Jacob's Ladder (1806) by William Blake

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Portrait of a woman said to be Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Detail.

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permit me voyage, love, into your hands (James Agee) Pride & Prejudice (dir. Joe Wright) Anna Karenina (dir. Joe Wright) Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho) In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai)

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“O, night of stars that coruscate Like semen spated in the womb of night- O, serpent woman smiling sinister- O, lovely dancer at the feast to be.”⁣

Marjorie Cameron Parsons Kimmel (1922–1995)

illustration from the private manuscript “Songs for the Witch Woman”

ink on paper, 1955 — source

from the collection of Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), New York

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Ella Fitzgerald at the Downbeat, with Dizzy Gillespie making like a faun in the background, ca. September 1947.

Photo: William Gottlieb via the LoC

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The four virgins below represent the elements or purified substances. The upward movement through darkness (Nigredo) and the "peacock's tail" leads to the "red flower" (Rubedo—the completion of the work) and the final triumph of the philosophical Mercury, which is identified here with supreme wisdom and divine light.

Art: Odoardus Scotus, Late 17th century, MS.4471

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Eglon van der Neer - "Judith (detail)" (c.1678)

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Illustration of the Great Comet of 1577, from the book Tarcuma-I Cifr al-Cami by Mohammed b. Kamaladdin, 16th century AD.

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Thistle, 1886 Fidelia Bridges

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Loyalty (1869)

— by Briton Rivière

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)