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victorianink:

Archangel Michael’s victory over the Devil, sculpture found above the main entrance at St. Michaelis Church in Hamburg

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face–forever.

George Orwellll, 1984

the-mouse-that-roars:

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Alice X.Zhang

@scrollofthoth

Ave Babalon? 

Ave Babalon

FYI, the role of Babalon during the main ritual at the Babalon Rising Festival for the past two years has been portrayed by one of my dear friends, who is queer as fuck and gender fluid, and referred to as Prince Babalon. I believe Babalon always has female aspects but the spirit of Babalon is not constrained by gender roles.

Watching the slow-motion demise of tumblr, while inherently sad, is also somewhat inspiring. The porn and rage is coming at a furious pace now. Like thousands of voices shouting in the void, I will not go gentle into that goodnight. Me, I’ll be playing with the orchestra while the ship goes down.

scrollofthoth:

Dear Tumblr Occultists (that includes all you pagans, thelemites, ceremonial magicians, satanists, wiccans, witches, et al., except you re-constructionists, you’ll never learn) 

As a forty-two year old human being, I feel like I shouldn’t have to do things like this anymore but obviously there’s a need.

Why do you waste your time telling people their interpretation of a symbol/deity/practice is wrong?

Why is it wrong? Because some book told you otherwise? Because a bunch of other people believe differently?

Could it be that what they are expressing is their own personal interpretation of the mystery? Could it be that it is no less valid than anyone else’s? 

Have you ever stopped and asked, “why did you interpret it that way?” Maybe they have a good reason.

Maybe the reason you are a shitty magician is that you are unable to grasp the idea that things can have multiple meanings and definitions, sometimes even totally opposite, at the same time.

If someone has a different interpretation of something and can’t justify their reasoning, just move on. Don’t waste your time and look like an asshole trying to tell them the “correct” meaning.

There is no correct meaning.

There is no “is.”

Nothing remains true. All limits change.