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Okay wait- correct me if i'm missing anyone-

but so far, all the gods on tumblr are

Apollo

Artemis

Athena

Dionysus

Hermes [And Mercury for some reason]

Hades

Zeus

Poseidon

Zephyrus

Hypnos

and Hephaestus, right?

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Jesus Returning the Keys to Saint Peter, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1820

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The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen (from the Saint Stephen Triptych), Peter Paul Rubens, 1616-17

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The Ascension of Christ (from the San Pietro Polyptych), Pietro Perugino, 1495-98

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Foreword from Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille (tr. Mary Dalwood)

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Peter Croy - Metamorphosis, 1976

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Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

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The Birth of Venus (Gustave Moreau, 1866)

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The Camposanto in Pisa. 1858. Leo Von Klenze. German 1784-1864. oil/canvas.     http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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Theosophy The late Rosicrucian view of the chakras in the etheric body. Diagram from Georg Gichtel's 'Theosophia Practica', 1799

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Various pages and illustrations from Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis  (Natural and non-natural magic) a grimoire pseudo-epigraphically attributed to Johannes Faust. It was published by Johann Scheible in 1849, but may be a republication of a work under a different name from 1612. 

A cornerstone of Faustian Ceremonial Magic, it describes the techniques to coerce legions of demons and to perform necromantic rites among other sundry magical operations.

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People Of The Book

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To Be Beloved by V.C. Blackhouse, published by Hyacinth Review

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Is this Divinity??

2023 Annular Eclipse from Dekalb County, Alabama. ❤️

#eclipse #annular solar eclipse #solar eclipse #celestial #celestial spectacle

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The 2nd full moon of August 2023 l Rami Ammoun

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Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. Philemon represented a force which was not myself. In my fantasies I held conversations with him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. For I observed clearly that it was he who spoke, not I. He said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air, and added, "If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them." It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. Through him the distinction was clarified between myself and the object of my thought. He confronted me in an objective manner, and I understood that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend, things which may even be directed against me.

C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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"I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions...

...I strongly suspect that a world "external to," or at least independent of, my senses exists in some sense.

I also suspect that this world shows signs of intelligent design, and I suspect that such intelligence acts via feedback from all parts to all parts and without centralized sovereignity, like Internet; and that it does not function hierarchically, in the style of an Oriental despotism, an American corporation or Christian theology. I somewhat suspect that Theism and Atheism both fail to account for such decentralized intelligencce, rich in circular-causal feedback.

I more-than-half suspect that all "good" writing, or all prose and poetry that one wants to read more than once, proceeds from a kind of "alteration in consciousness," i.e. a kind of controlled schizophrenia. [Don't become alarmed -- I think good acting comes from the same place.]

I sometimes suspect that what Blake called Poetic Imagination expresses this exact thought in the language of his age, and that visits by"angels" and "gods" states it an even more archaic argot.

These suspicions have grown over 72 years, but as a rather slow and stupid fellow I do not have the chutzpah to proclaim any of them as certitudes. Give me another 72 years and maybe I'll arrive at firmer conclusions."

- Robert Anton Wilson