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“The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic” by Alan Moore and Steve Moore (2024).

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“A Magician’s Library” (2024)

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Climbing Mount Abiegnus

Mount Abiegnus is the Tower of Babel, the Axis Mundi, the Tree of Knowledge, the World Tree.

“Deus et Natura nihil faciunt frustra” (“God and Nature do nothing in vain.”)

Everything in the universe has a purpose, and in creation there is order and reason, meaning and significance, truth and beauty.

The ascent is the ascent towards the One. All of Reality emanates from the One, and the path of ascent is the path of return to your true home, and union with the Divine.

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Mercury rises over the Tower of Babel.

The “Monas Hieroglyphica” of John Dee appears at the start of the text under the image.

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“Lady of Babel” from “Handbook of Sacred Anatomy” by Jose Gabriel Alegria (2014).

Beauty (Sophia) and the Beast.

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“Portraits of James Joyce” by Constantin Brâncuși (1928).

Taken from "Tales told of Shem and Shaun" by James Joyce, published by the Black Sun Press on Rue Cardinale in Paris, 1929.

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“The Man in the High Castle” by Philip K. Dick (1962)

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Journey Through Idea Space III

“Journey through Idea Space III” (A Pilgrim’s Progress) after Dürer and Doré.

From “Le Livre de Sable Vol. XXI Number CCXXII”.

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“A Dream Library” (2024)

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Duke Dantalion

Duke Dantalion possesses the ability to influence and change perceptions, reflecting the duality of the inner and outer self, much like the varying faces the moon shows to us.

With a multifaceted nature, they embody the adaptability and fluidity of Mercury combined with the depth and variability of the Moon.

Their multiplicity aligns with the transformative powers of Mercury and the reflective, ever-changing nature of the Moon, capturing a spirit who can traverse and influence the manifold layers of human consciousness.

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The Dream Language, the Green Language, the Language of the Birds, the Language of the City.

“Dreams are messages from the Deep”.

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The Garden of Forking Paths

“Basing his work on the strange legend that Ts'ui Pên had intended to construct an infinite labyrinth and on a cryptic letter from Ts'ui Pên himself stating, "I leave to several futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths," Doctor Albert realized that the "garden of forking paths" was the novel and that the forking takes place in time, rather than space.

In most fictions, a character chooses one alternative at each decision point and eliminates all of the others. In Ts'ui Pên's novel, however, all possible outcomes of an event occur simultaneously, all of which themselves lead to further proliferations of possibilities. Albert further explains that the constantly-diverging paths sometimes converge again but as the result of a different chain of causes.”

From “The Garden of Forking Paths” by J.L. Borges (1941).

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The Book of Sand

Gematria, geometry, reverence for the book, the word, the letter.

Mercury is closest to the (Desert) Sun, has the fastest orbit. Fastest of the Gods, pure thought and language, the essence of communication itself.

Quicksilver, Lord of Liquid Language and the Stellar Current.

From “The Book of Sand Vol. VIII Number VIII” (924 CE).

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“Year of the Dragon” (2024)

Following a 12 year Zodiacal cycle, previous years of the Dragon were 2012 and 2000.

2024 reduces or compresses (2 + 0 + 2 + 4) to 8.

8 is the number of ☿, Mercury.

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The Magus Mercury ☿ at the centre of the Tower.

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“The Library of Babel” by Piranesi (1770)

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“The Leaper Between” by Andrew D. Chumbley (2000).

Scribae Quo Mysterium Famulatur.