#florence farr

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Victorian stage actress Ellen Terry from the famous Lady Macbeth painting is also the model for the Empress in the Rider Waite Smith tarot deck.

[hermeticlibrary]

"No man or woman, from the Queen down to the beggar who spends the night on a doorstep, gets fair play. There isn’t a single human being in all the world who hasn’t been kept back from doing all he might by other people, or by circumstances of one sort or another. This place is meant for a struggle; and the only way to get through it comfortably is to cultivate a taste for struggling." - The Hermetic Library Blog

[hermeticlibrary]

Oh no! I’m all right. One must speak sometimes, one can’t spend one’s life grinning like a Cheshire cat, and pretending one thinks everything perfect.

Florence Farr, The Dancing Faun #book #quote The Hermetic Library Blog

[arcane-offerings]

The Occult Revew ed. Ralph Shirley Vol. VIII July-December 1908 Hardcover | eBay

The Occult Review, July-December 1908.

Ralph Shirley, ed.The Occult Review, Vol. VIII, July-December 1908 (London: William Rider & Son Limited, 1908). Includes articles by A.E. Waite, Florence Farr, and Franz Hartmann.

[luxobnubilata]

Florence Farr

[makemethesea]

My newest gem just arrived today, after my lecture on the topic, but still welcome. It-s going on a plane with me to California:)

[pathofregeneration]

Thomas Seddon, Pyramids of Gizeh, Sunset Afterglow (1854)

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“I am the maker of heaven and earth, supporting the mountains, creating what existeth thereon. I am the maker of water, bringing forth the floods, making fruitful the Universe, giving increase. I am the Maker of Heaven and have made beautiful the horizon. I have given the spirit of the Gods a place therein. I am he, who when he openeth his eyes, bringeth forth light, and when he closeth his eyes, bringeth forth darkness. I am the Nile God whose name the Gods know not, bringing about the inundation with my word. I am the Maker of hours, the Creator of days. I am the opener of the yearly festival, the creator of rushing water, the maker of living fire. I cause the abodes of delight to be built. I am Kephera in the darkness, Ra in the midday, and Tmu in the evening.”

— The Legend of Ra and Isis

[makemethesea]

"The most potent magical formula was the identification of the Ritualist with the God whose power he was invoking. So increasing himself to an immeasurable greatness he leapt beyond all bodies, and transcending time became eternity." -Florence Farr from her book "Egyptian Magic" as quoted by Mary K. Greer in her book "Women of the Golden Dawn," pg. 170.