Western Esotericism

  • Colour My World | The Ptero Card

    Originally posted on Theoria: One of my favorite James Hillman books is his, “Alchemical Psychology,” which I have just recently read. The book is a fascinating tour of the alchemical process and its correlative psychological journey as told to us… Continue reading

    Colour My World | The Ptero Card
  • Methods of Salvador Dali

    A nice overview of the philosophical methods and notions employed by Dali for aesthetic inspiration. Paranoid-Critical: Created in the early 1930’s by Dali himself, the “Paranoid-Critical” method is a Surrealist method used to help an artist tap into their subconscious… Continue reading

    Methods of Salvador Dali
  • I:MAGE Exhibition: Making Art is a Magical Act | The Wild Hunt

    …from May 19th through the 25th London [hosted] an international collection of esoteric artists in a special exhibition, “I:MAGE,” sponsored by Fulgur Esoterica (publisher of the Abraxas journal). Boasting an impressive lineup of artists, both classic and contemporary, I:MAGE [promised] to bring more… Continue reading

    I:MAGE Exhibition: Making Art is a Magical Act | The Wild Hunt
  • Swedenborg’s Rough Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Other Places | Reality Sandwich

    …Many readers otherwise open to Swedenborg‘s thought are put off by his accounts of hell. This includes figures like William Blake and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a pointed criticism of Swedenborg’s vision, which… Continue reading

    Swedenborg’s Rough Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Other Places | Reality Sandwich
  • Mysterium Magnum

    Another of Jakob Böhme’s ciphers of the mysterium magnum appearing in his Theosophische Wercke (1682). The All Seeing Eye beholds the Phoenix Reborn. This is the Psyche/Soul transcending the encircling lifeworld. The break in the Ouroboros is the Nothing betwixt… Continue reading

  • Centrum Naturae

    “When thou art gone forth wholly from the creature [human], and art become nothing to all that is nature and creature, then thou art in that eternal one, which is God himself, and then thou shalt perceive and feel the… Continue reading

  • elective affinity

    “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — C.G. Jung Related articles piercing intension (keithwaynebrown.com) No Nostalgia Sundays: The (Dead) Flowers of Regret (letterstodionysus.com) Companionship (kyohinaa.wordpress.com) Venture into… Continue reading

    elective affinity
  • piercing intension

    the earth shifts even as the waters reach up and outward to the blazing stars themselves shaggy headed snake writhing and heaving holding tightly in its coils the resting sun where all principles await discovery thunder listens for the best… Continue reading

    piercing intension
  • (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising

    Cool site, Mago. Worth some time to read what the contributors are talking about. For an element in the environment to have divinatory properties, it must possess a quality of apparent randomness or unpredictability. If on a walk through my… Continue reading

    (Essay) The Messages of Birds by Hearth Moon Rising
  • The Giving of Names

    Originally posted on simonhlilly: I promised 47whitebuffalo that I would write something on the names of ancient Celtic tribes. This is not exactly what I originally had in mind, but it is how things seem to be arriving in these… Continue reading

    The Giving of Names
  • Part or Particle of God

    Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being… Continue reading

  • A Wide World of Compassion

    I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one… Continue reading

  • The Intelligencers and the Fifth Moon of Jupiter: Alchemy in the American Colonies « Newtopia Magazine

    Next time somebody tries to pull the “America was founded by good Christians who were regular church goers, pull this info out on them. Thanks to Zeteticus @ Soul Spelunker for Scooping this interesting piece. Puritan alchemists founded America; sounds… Continue reading

  • Eyes of Spirit: Works by Adam Scott Miller

    My own life’s work as an artist is an expression of energy, creating my response to what I feel is needed for harmony between my consciousness and the cosmos. Visionary art is this pursuit of harmony, in courageous creativity for… Continue reading

  • Tolkien & Teaching

    In his mythology, Tolkien tells us that the elves crossed the sea in rebellion, and even those who linger yet in Middle Earth do not forget and yearn for a return to their land of origin.  For elves, the sea is… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20120821

    “Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all.” – Virgil “Love, and then what you will, do.” -St. Augustine Continue reading