Holy Mountaineering

“There is nothing more provocative than minding your own...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:42:17 -0700

“There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”

"Elohim,” the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:40:34 -0700

““Elohim,” the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as “God,” but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean “goddesses.” Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still.”

- Robert Anton Wilson, Everything Is Under Control (via vagabondbohemia)

"Shake eternity and lick creation."

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:40:25 -0700

“Shake eternity and lick creation.”

- Footnote (1), p. 273 - James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (via legsbrewster)

harehere: Drawing by Austin Osman Spare Title?

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:19:41 -0700

harehere:

Drawing by Austin Osman Spare

Title?

The infamous Wells Fargo on the corner of Market St. & Grant...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:17:31 -0700

The infamous Wells Fargo on the corner of Market St. & Grant St. in San Francisco & a big Moon

m-inu-s: A John Dee pentacle mirrored by a geological mandala...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:46:24 -0700

m-inu-s:

A John Dee pentacle mirrored by a geological mandala from 1920. These two symbols illustrate the ancient Hermetic axiom, “As above, so below.” The mystic Dee’s celestial vision and the geologist’s earthly insight are two sides of the same coin.

lualualua: Eve Tempted by the Serpent, William Blake

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:40:00 -0700

lualualua:

Eve Tempted by the Serpent, William Blake

allmesopotamia: 1938 Rotogravure Ishtar Gate, Babylon

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:36:26 -0700

allmesopotamia:

1938 Rotogravure Ishtar Gate, Babylon

aligntrinity: Austin Osman Spare’s Stele of the Zos-Kia Cultus,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:35:45 -0700

aligntrinity:

Austin Osman Spare’s Stele of the Zos-Kia Cultus, c.1954 : installation view at the exhibition I:MAGE by Fulgur Esoterica, London.

Exhibition continues until 25 May with numerous events & lectures at
The Store Street Gallery , 32 Store St, London, WC1E 7BS.
More info at: http://fulgur.co.uk/

blackpaint20: From an Alchemy Exhibit at the Lloyd Library.

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:33:33 -0700

blackpaint20:

From an Alchemy Exhibit at the Lloyd Library.

I randomly found this on a friend’s Facebook profile...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:33:17 -0700

I randomly found this on a friend’s Facebook profile today…

gazophylacium: Jean Thenaud, Introduction to the Cabala,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:55:33 -0700

gazophylacium:

Jean Thenaud, Introduction to the Cabala, dedicated to King François I. Alchemical Man.

This parchment manuscript contains the mystical text of the Kabbala in cursive script, illustrated by numerous highly colorful drawings with allegorical, cosmological, and liturgical themes.

alwaysinsearchoflight: “This Diagram is a formula expressing...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:57 -0700

alwaysinsearchoflight:

“This Diagram is a formula expressing the creative energies of the Word, or Logos, the Greek of which is given in the centre of the star. The double triangle expresses the dual relation of the creative forces,—as male and female,—the ancient term of expression being theos-sophy. Their triune expression is, first, Spirit; second, Body; third, Soul. The seven points of the star are expressive of the seven primate creative principles, as named on the respective points; and when man conquers or subjugates these principles to the higher will within himself, he then attains the ultimates which stand expressed against the seven points. These seven creative principles are found to have their solar expression in the seven planets made use of in this system, and the different planetary signs are placed against their appropriate point, or principle, in juxtaposition to the sign of the zodiac in which they find their most natural or perfect expression. These seven points are called the seven vital principles. The body of man, being an epitome of the solar man, or nature, cannot exist without having these seven principles in working order, while he can live without the five serving principles provided he be served by others. The serpent encompassing the triangles is expressive of the circle of eternity, also of the psychic or sex principles of nature, which is active in the work of creation or generation.”
http://www.sacred-texts.com/astro/sb/sb04.htm

alwaysinsearchoflight: “This Diagram is a formula expressing...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:46:12 -0700

alwaysinsearchoflight:

“This Diagram is a formula expressing the creative energies of the Word, or Logos, the Greek of which is given in the centre of the star. The double triangle expresses the dual relation of the creative forces,—as male and female,—the ancient term of expression being theos-sophy. Their triune expression is, first, Spirit; second, Body; third, Soul. The seven points of the star are expressive of the seven primate creative principles, as named on the respective points; and when man conquers or subjugates these principles to the higher will within himself, he then attains the ultimates which stand expressed against the seven points. These seven creative principles are found to have their solar expression in the seven planets made use of in this system, and the different planetary signs are placed against their appropriate point, or principle, in juxtaposition to the sign of the zodiac in which they find their most natural or perfect expression. These seven points are called the seven vital principles. The body of man, being an epitome of the solar man, or nature, cannot exist without having these seven principles in working order, while he can live without the five serving principles provided he be served by others. The serpent encompassing the triangles is expressive of the circle of eternity, also of the psychic or sex principles of nature, which is active in the work of creation or generation.”
http://www.sacred-texts.com/astro/sb/sb04.htm

le-rose-lune: Patience, Hans Sebald Beham, 1540

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:45:43 -0700

le-rose-lune:

Patience, Hans Sebald Beham, 1540

themagicfarawayttree: In this image from the Mutus Liber, or...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:45:24 -0700

themagicfarawayttree:

In this image from the Mutus Liber, or “Silent Book”, a 17th-century pictorial book, the philosopher’s stone is shown (below) in the Athanor (alchemists’ furnace), while its archetype is personified as Mercury (above) in the hands of the angels. The image emphasizes that the physical operations of alchemy mirror a spiritual reality.

jaded-mandarin: Stefano Della Bella. Frontispiece for the Opere...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:45:09 -0700

jaded-mandarin:

Stefano Della Bella. Frontispiece for the Opere di Galileo Galilei, 1656.

wilburwhateley: Abdul Alhazred

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:45:02 -0700

wilburwhateley:

Abdul Alhazred

Photo

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:44:44 -0700

larkfall: “The Aegyptian Figure of Isis”, frontispiece to The...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:44:30 -0700

larkfall:

“The Aegyptian Figure of Isis”, frontispiece to The Hermetic Signification of the Symbols and Atributes of Isis, translated by Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom (1797).

From the Manly P Hall collection at the Getty archives:

http://archive.org/stream/manlypalmerhabox18v3hall#page/n9/mode/2up