Once you truly accept that magick is real, you must then accept that in some context, all of it is real. Bigfoot, UFOs, Atlantis… Love at first sight…. All of it.

andypaciorek:

The Mirror Obsidian ~ Top to Bottom
Austin Osman Spare
Krishnamurti
Coil
Gerald Gardener
illustrated by Andy Paciorek

Just some of the many portraits to be featured in the book in progress
The Mirror Obsidian: Visionaries. Cultists. Witches. Occultists
by Andy Paciorek. Darren Charles  + Gary Parsons.

Pain is. Terror is, loss and loneliness and agony of heart and spirit, even unto Death. For this is the gateway to the kingdom of Pan.

Jack Parsons, We Are the Witchcraft

Behold! She reveals herself to me.

She passes through the Ishtar Gate, golden lions flashing in
the sun.

Veiled in purple, jewels upon her brow and upon her breast.

She sings sweetly to me in our secret language. Only She and
I can understand.

B-A-B-Y-L-O-N

She rends the stars from the sky for me. Gives them to me.
Flowers of the sweetest scent.

In Her right hand, She holds a chalice containing all my
temptations.

On Her left hip, hangs a sword. The name of Her sword is “Love.”

I tremble in fear.

B-A-B-A-L-O-N

grandegyptianmuseum:

Thoth,

patron of scribes. God of writing, magic, wisdom, and the moon.

Illustration by Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois, published in ‘Panthéon égyptien, collection des personnages mythologiques de l’ancienne Égypte, d’après les monuments’ by Jean-François Champollion, 1823. via Brooklyn Museum.