Doomsday approaches. Here in the final hours, I want to
state for the record once again that I love tumblr. I love the constant stream
of images that break down my mental barriers. It’s because tumblr is a mixture
of puppies and porn that makes it special. It shows us the extremes of beauty
and it comes at us just like life, in a weird admixture of admiration, wonder,
lust, and rage.
And of course, the people. I have made so many good friends
over the years. I have learned from people who are doing the work of magick,
and that’s a rare thing. I have always respected anyone actually doing the
work. I don’t care if it’s witchcraft, or animism, or ceremonial magick, chaos
magick, thelemites, goetics, pagans, or even new-age pscyhonauts. I love it
all. I love all of you, for being the standard bearers of the eschaton. For
your dedication, your devotion, and your willingness to rail against the nature
of reality itself. Bless you.
I even love those who dabble, who are in it for the atheistic.
Everyone starts somewhere. Only a few will have the dedication to be a
magician, and that’s okay. We need the others, they’re coming with us into the
New Aeon.
Though I am loathe to do it, because I know I will be
forgetting too many, I want to mention the folks who have been special to me. Time to get this out before people file towards the exits.
This is Hans Vestberg, CEO of Verizon, and the man
ultimately responsible for destroying this website. It may not have been his
decision, but corporations being the top-down authoritarian institutions that
they are, he gets to say yes or no to any policy. This is the man responsible
for taking away your joy and the happiness of thousands of others. As the CEO
of Verizon he is also responsible for various schemes to end new neutrality and
fuck over poor people in general. He’s a horrible human being who puts profits
over people.
Let’s curse his ass.
Specifically, let’s curse his dick. Seems appropriate since
he’s taking away other people’s outlet for sexual gratification.
On the night of December 16th (midnight on the 17th
in your time zone), since we won’t be hanging out on tumblr, we will be
performing a mass curse/binding on Mr. Vestberg’s ability to feel love and
sexual release.
Feel free to come up with your own ritual according to your
own practice. Share your plans on tumblr, and let others know how to get it
done. Maybe add a curse jar, or burn his picture. Put all your mojo into it.
Your incantation may look something like this:
In the name of
Babalon, Great Harlot and Mother of Abominations, I curse you, Hans Vestberg.
May your penis remain flaccid.
May you be stripped of
all joy.
May those you adore
turn from you in disgust.
May all lips you kiss
taste of ashes.
May your love wither
away and go cold.
May you never find
release from your frustrations.
I beseech all spirits
who call me friend and ally to curse Hans Vestberg. I call all spirits at my
command to destroy his potency and take away his joy.
What you have done to
many, Hans Vestberg, may that return unto you.
Re-blog this! Post it everywhere! Share it with your uncle
that works in the media. Let’s get this fucker.
I will be reblogging this twice a day until it picks up steam.
“But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”
Ancient Egyptian statuette of an ibis (cupreous metal with glass or stone inlay, on a wooden base). Artist unknown; 664-30 BCE (Late Period or Ptolemaic). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Heya,guys,wanted to share,cause I’m soo excited right now: I just finished painting a wall in my room. Now I have my own Tresspaser mural right above my bed 😍😍😍
I finally managed to see “Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee” the exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in London dedicated to what remains of Dee’s library. While I must say that the overall presentation left a bit to be desired, basically some glass display cases in an upper hallway and a couple of paintings on a wall, the contents held a few gems.
On the whole this show seems to be part of a long term strategy to rehabilitate John Dee and bring him into a more socially acceptable realm of “historic scientist” and away from his legendary status as a necromancer and alchemist. The show’s scant text, as accompanying boards to each item, never mentions Edward Kelley nor he and Dee’s book hunting travels throughout Europe. For as any book collecting wizard knows, what Dee was really up to was traveling about stealing first editions and replacing them with inferior, and sometimes forged, copies. All under the pretense of teaching alchemy and spying.
Regardless of the shows shortcomings in presentation they did have a very nice first edition personal author’s copy of Dee’s “Monas Hieroglyphica” , 1571. Most of the manuscripts and books featured in the cases seem to be selected to show Dee’s marginalia.
Of course they borrowed the obsidian scrying mirror and crystal ball from the British Museum (curiously the BM didn’t let them have the wax discs as well) but I had never seen this necklace amulet mirror before.
An interesting note about this Victorian era oil painting of John Dee conjuring before Queen Elizabeth by artist H.G. Glindoni is that it originally contained a ring of human skulls. Even the titillated 19th century occult revivalists/spiritualist found Dee’s penchant for necromancy a bit too edgy.
Xray reveals skulls
Skull closeup
Animal skull, possibly bear, in the final painting to the rear of Dee’s left foot.
A bit of wandering around the college lead to the real meat of the collection. A library containing some 13k volumes, including it seems the remainder of Dee’s Library collection from Mortlake. While most of the volumes pertained directly to medical studies there was a very nice collection of herbals, a first edition 3 volume Culpeper, and some early Dioscorides that were remarkable. But I did happen to find a handful of particularly interesting volumes stashed among the shelves.
All behind a barrier so it’s look don’t touch. Shame.
Geomantia – Pietro d’Abano, 1550
[Della geomantia di Pietro d’Abano]
The author of the Heptameron – often cited as the author of Agrippa’s The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy. Would have liked to have taken this out of the case for a better look at the volume. This may have been an item in the Dee library at Mortlake. The marginalia and annotations in this may be extensive.
De Strigimagarum Daemonum – Silvestro Mazzolini, 1521
[De Strigimagarum, daemonumque mirandis libri tres: una cum praxi exactissima, et ratione formendi processus cintra ipsas, a mendis innumeris quibusscantebant, in hac ultima impressione purgati, & indice locupletissimo illustrati. Rome : In aedibus populi Romani, 1575]
Mazzolini’s De Strigimagarum Daemonum is the first theological study detailing the mechanism by which possession occurs. As a book of demonology written by an Inquisitor it holds a strong understanding of what is now called psychology, and the nature of human thought on the perceptual state of the mind. In particular it explores ideas surrounding the role that language and its interpretation plays in forming our thoughts and experiences, positing demons as a kind of mind language hacker.
“Mazzolini, a Catholic theologian, was born at Priero, Piedmont around 1460; he died, at Rome, in 1523. At the age of fifteen he entered the Order of St. Dominic. Passing brilliantly through a course of studies he taught theology at Bologna, Pavia (by invitation of the senate of Venice), and in Rome. In 1515 he was appointed Master of the Sacred Palace, filling that office until his death. His writings cover a vast range, including treatises on the planets, the power of the demons, history, homiletics, the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, the primacy of the popes.” – (some encyclopedia site)
Morienus (aka The Book of the Composition of Alchemy)
Written in Arabic and translated into Latin in 1144 “Liber de compositione alchimiae” is a narrative that tells the story of the 7th century Morienus, and how he came to discover the secrets of alchemy through meeting an old adept called Adfar. It then tells how Morienus travelled to the court of King Khalid, a real Umayyad king, (died 704) who is said to be the person who introduced alchemy into Islam. A later section records a dialogue between Morienus and Khalid in which the secrets of the Magistery or work of alchemy are revealed. It was translated to Latin by the 12th century scholar Robert of Chester and into English in 1925 by EJ Holmyard. I would really have liked to see this inside and see if its a bound manuscript or a printed volume. Hard to say from the binding.
Some other interesting volumes I spotted:
The Real History of the Rosicrucians; founded on their own manifestoes, and on facts and documents collected from the writings of initiated brethren. Arthur Edward Waite, 1887
“Metaphysica, et liber singularis de motu, nec non ejusdem oeconomia animalis” by Cornelis Bontekoe 1688
“The Seven Spirits of God” Johannes Trithemius, 1576
“An introduction to the Fine Art of Alchemy”, Petrus Bonus, 1572
18 January – 29 July 2016, Monday-Friday only, 9am-5pm. FREE ENTRY
The Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4LE
