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Rose Goddess/Lilith

Lilith

Demonic goddess of transformation, dark wisdom, mysteries, transformational love, challenges, magick, death and rebirth, spiritual initiation, and the night

Lilith is one of the most ancient goddesses, and is the twinflame of Lucifer, the First Light in the universe. She is incomprehensibly powerful and complex, and has existed for millions of years, continuously evolving. Overall, Lilith is the Queen Mother of Hell and the bringer of the luminous dark of terrible understanding. This is what Illumination is, and is a role she shares with her husband. Lilith is the Queen of Night; the Dark Mother who whispers from the shadows and guides us through the Path of Thorns. Those who wish to follow her walk this very path, seeking to become as the perfect crimson rose, blooming in the eternal Night.

Element: Fire, Akasha, Air, Unity, and Void

Colours: Black and Crimson (secondary)

Sacred Number: 7

Day of Week: Friday, Monday

Enlightenment Through Hellfire:

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Bettie Page by Bunny Yeager🎀

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Durga on a trident, Tamil Nadu

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The Unclean: Let’s go somewhere nice.

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bettie page by bunny yeager 1954

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Art by Luis Royo

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Roman jug, Zugmantel type, 2nd century AD, provincial Germania Superior.

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Russian Orthodox Clerical Vestments.Read about Schema Obet, monks of Valaam. 

https://blog.obitel-minsk.com/…/the-meaning-of-analavos…

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Baphomet Solve et Coagula

The Bathomet of Levi

Here’s how Eliphas Levi himself interpreted his Bathomet drawing:

The goat which is represented in our frontispiece bears upon its forehead the Sign of the Pentagram with one point in the ascendant, which is sufficient to distinguish it as a symbol of the light. Moreover, the sign of occultism is made with both hands, pointing upward to the white moon of Chesed, and downward to the black moon of Geburah. This sign expresses the perfect concord between mercy and justice. One of the arms is feminine and the other masculine, as in the androgyne of Khunrath, those attributes we have combined with those of our goat, since they are one and the same symbol. The torch of intelligence burning between the horns is the magical light of universal equilibrium; it is also the type of the soul, exalted above matter, even while cleaving to matter, as the flame cleaves to the torch. The monstrous head of the animal expresses horror of sin, for which the material agent, alone responsible, must alone and for ever bear the penalty, because the soul is impassible in its nature and can suffer only by materializing. The caduceus, which, replaces the generative organ, represents eternal life; the scale-covered belly typifies water; the circle above it is the atmosphere, the feathers still higher up signify the volatile; lastly, humanity is depicted by the two breasts and the androgyne arms of this sphinx of the occult sciences. Behold the shadows of the infernal sanctuary dissipated! Behold the sphinx of mediaeval terrors unveiled and cast from his throne! Quomodo cedidisti, Lucifer! Eliphas Levi’s Baphomet (1856) from his 1854 Transcendental Magic

The Baphomet, which has been connected to Satanism and black magic is actually a depiction of the union of opposites. Its right arm, which points to the above reads “solve” which means dissolve, and the left arm, which points to the below, reads “coagula.”

Thus, the alchemical maxim “solve et coagula,” or “dissolve and coagulate” which is connected to the ouroboros, was understood by Levi to be a representation of the connection between the above and the below. Further, the hermaphroditic Baphomet has a phallus that is the caduceus.

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Rose

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Mesmerizing Circle Sunset

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Dudes being pals. Birthday gift, fineliners and markers on cotton paper.