Image from The Dunwich Horror book, illustrated by Santiago Caruso
Month: March 2013
My Babylon – New Intro
We create no myths.
There will be no new holy books written. There will be no great new revelations.
We only have stories.
We are jaded by excess. The great sea of information, capable of connecting us all, only serves to divide us by faith, culture, counterculture, and ideology. It makes us incapable of seeing the great works around us. At least for now.
I am the magus Ego Sum Legio. This is:
My story,
My myth,
My revelation,
Liber 589 – The Book of Eschaton
My Babylon
Coming Walpurgisnacht 2013 to Amazon Kindle
Songs in the Key of My Babylon
A lot of writer’s do it. It’s kinda lame I know. But I do write to music, and it does effect the story.
I don’t go out of my way to find it. I just create a playlist of music I like that fits the theme. Which means you’ll get a lot of Nine Inch Nails, and for this book, Marilyn Manson, Atrium Anime, and singles from many others.For me, this is the theme for Chapter 1 of Episode 1.
Ave Babalon
“A novelist, for example, need have no care of his moral. It is there — that is to say, it is somewhere — and the moral and the critics can take care of themselves. When the proper time arrives, all that the gentleman intended, and all that he did not intend, will be brought to light, in the “Dial,” or the “Down-Easter,” together with all that he ought to have intended, and the rest that he clearly meant to intend: — so that it will all come very straight in the end.”
– from “Never Bet the Devil Your Head” by Edgar Allan Poe
Ave Babalon
Wait a minute, that’s my line! 😉
I stole it from Peter Grey and just changed it a bit (In Nomine Babalon).
Is she a death goddess? I suppose she is. But to me she is more about the death of ideas. The death of the old way of doing things. The death of oppression and patriarchy.
But thats my Babalon. If for you she is a goddess that leaves corpses in her wake….
Ave on my friends.
When the alchemist speaks of Mercurius, on the face of it he means quicksilver (mercury), but inwardly he means the world-creating spirit concealed or imprisoned in matter. The dragon is probably the oldest pictoral symbol in alchemy of which we have documentary evidence. It appears as the Ouroboros, the tail-eater, in the Codex Marcianus, which dates from the tenth or eleventh century, together with the legend ‘the One, the All’. Time and again the alchemists reiterate that the opus proceeds from the one and leads back to the one, that it is a sort of circle like a dragon biting its own tail. For this reason the opus was often called circulare (circular) or else rota (the wheel). Mercurius stands at the beginning and end of the work: he is the prima materia, the caput corvi, the nigredo; as dragon he devours himself and as dragon he dies, to rise again in the lapis. He is the play of colours in the cauda pavonis and the division into the four elements. He is the hermaphrodite that was in the beginning, that splits into the classical brother-sister duality and is reunited in the coniunctio, to appear once again at the end in the radiant form of the lumen novum, the stone. He is metallic yet liquid, matter yet spirit, cold yet fiery, poison and yet healing draught – a symbol uniting all the opposites.
Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Part 3, Chapter 3.1 (via vagabondbohemia)
he kept this photo in a frame upon his desk.
whenever anyone saw it, they wondered if this was his girlfriend.
no, it’s not. he’d reply.
it’s a reminder , that every man craves exactly this
a woman who is always a lady…
but with the hunger of a tiger when darkness falls.
~ baeuftlstranger 2013
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