#daniel a schulke

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

All sorcery is seduction.

Daniel A. Schulke

[astranemus]

The ancient Cainite sect, though scholars minimize its place in the greater historical purview of Gnosis, is also notable for its soteriology of ‘Passing through All Things’ in order to receive salvation or illumination. This antinomian and transgressive view of Ordeal as a specifically spiritual arena finds philosophical resonance in the Sabbatic Tradition. The status of the initiate as an astral pilgrim, or wanderer-of-spirit, passing through endless experience to gain power, is a cipher of the Witches’ Sabbath itself – the heightened ecstatic state akin to the alchemical Al-Ambiq, wherein all manner of fleshly bodies pass, to be transmuted into the most rarefied of spirits. This potential and manifest phenomenon has been expressed in numerous ways in the Sabbatic Corpus, from the Azoëtic ‘Millions-of-Forms-of-Being’ to the artistic portrayal of the ecstatic witch as legion: a multitude of human and bestial forms entangled in necro-sexualised abandon, ever-fecund in her embrace of the Dead and the Living-to-Be. As Andrew D. Chumbley wrote:

“…every nuance of the mental continuum which bears the fruit of realisation fulfils the lineage of Thought between the Primordial Mind – the Skull-palace of Cain – and the Present Mind.”

Daniel A. Schulke, Cainite Gnosis and the Sabbatic Tradition

[astranemus]

Via the roads of Transmutation we call forth the World not as we wish it to be, but as it already is, albeit it distant in space and time: for by all-possibility are all things manifest. Thus Transmutation, in part, seeks to harness the unmanifest, and draw it ever toward the present flesh. When, by power of Art, we bring forth the Work in bodies of flesh, the strictures of Will, Desire, and Belief serve as our Trine. And yet, before our parameters are defined, Opposition must serve. Endeavour, therefore, in silence, stasis, and darkness to conjure that which mirrors the Unmanifest in perfection.

Daniel A. Schulke, Ars Philtron

[la-dame-grise]

So, I printed the Viridarium Umbris but my printer does not have the double-sided printing option... So yeah it was a lot of ink and a lot of paper... I don’t even know how I am going to be able to bind it, I am thinking maybe a Japanese binding and I will need to do it in two volumes.

[tarotandnonsense]

There’s something about Schulke’s work that makes me wanna go outside and touch grass.

[lunasabatica]

By Daniel A. Schulke

[triste-le-roy]

Cover to Daniel A. Schulke’s Viridarium Umbris: The Pleasure Garden of Shadows, Arbor Infernis Edition—published by Xoanon Limited (Daniel A. Schulke, 21st century).

(via Fields Book Store & Teufelskunst)

[astranemus]

As in the Round of the Seasons, this sacred knowledge is both eternal and transitory: the times and tides pass, but also remain a part of the Wheel. This being true, points of individual access to the Pleasure-Garden may differ, and thereby the gnosis attained, but the unitive powers of Plot and Thicket which encompass them remain bound to the cycles of birth, growth, death, and return unto Spirit. Such is the law of Nature, and the Compass Round of the Pleasure Garden. To stand within that compass is to become the Flesh of the Eternal Garden itself, a holy tree raised in power to encompass three realms of sorcerous heredity: the Host of Heaven, the Dominion of Man, and the Hidden Companie of the Good.

Golden Fruit from the Celestial Branch, Adapted from Viridarium Umbris: The Pleasure Garden of Shadow, by Daniel A. Schulke