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Images from the 18th century manuscript on alchemy Clavis Artis, attributed to Zoroaster. Biblioteca dell’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma. (Source)
I love how we say stuff like ‘attributed to Zoroaster’ or ‘Attributed to Solomon’ cos every time we do we’re inside going PFFFFFT
Ave Babalon
During his childhood and adolescence, Crépin loved music. He got married in 1901 and had two daughters. Crépin tried out different jobs, well digger, plumber, zinc worker, and ironmonger in the mining country of Montigny-en-Gohelle. Later on he started his own business, a hardware store. In 1930, Crépin met Victor Simon, a medium, a painter and a psychic, who initiated him to spiritualism. He became a healer at the age of fifty-six and supposedly cured people through telepathy and at long distance. His first drawing dates from 1938 when he was sixty-three. It was through copying a music score on the squares of a notebook and guided by the symmetry of the grids that he made his first improvised drawing. Convinced that he was inspired by his guardian angels, he began what would become a rich artistic period, leading to three hundred forty-five paintings in nine years. His oil paintings are based on sketches transferred and enlarged onto canvases with the use of a compass and a ruler. Crépin’s paintings, easily identifiable by their hypnotic symmetry and their almost mechanical perfection, represent architectural themes : temples, palaces and geometrical patterns, to which he added human figures and stylized animals. His motifs are decorated with perfectly calibrated pearled drops. Persuaded of his power to end wars, he convinced himself that the Second World War would end when he finished his three hundredth painting. This was really the case. According to his wish, he was buried with all sketches he made for his paintings.
ティモシー・アーチャーの転生
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. DickAlready said, but Japan sure knows what PKD is talking about
Not ashamed – New blog post at scrollofthoth.com
I got into D&D through 3rd edition myself. Mostly I’ve just been playing World of Darkness these days, but I keep meaning to set up a game of Unknown Armies or something.
I’m kind of scared to see what would happen if you got into the occult through Unknown Armies.
I enjoy the more RP heavy games myself. I play Pathfinder with my large group and Mage (of course 😉 ) with a smaller one. Can’t wait to see what Phil Brucato does with the redux. I worked with him on Deleria.
“To whom does this body belong, to whom do feelings belong, to whom do thoughts belong and to whom do the sense objects belong? These must belong to somebody. Now, let us reject what can be rejected. The body is made of the elements and does not have the capacity to realize the Self, so reject it. Same goes for feelings, thoughts and sense objects. So reject all of them. But what happens when you reject the act of rejecting? You will arrive at some unknown destination, which is beyond body, feelings, thoughts and objects, and which can never be rejected. This is Reality and everything belongs to It and is due to It. When you reject everything you discover freedom, and in freedom I am absolutely alone.”
— Papaji
