#the magi

[huariqueje]

Adoration of the Magi  - Emil Nolde , 1933.

German , 1867-1956

Oil on canvas

[now-winter-comes-slowly]

[possible-streetwear]

Kevin “Geordie” Walker - Killing Joke, Murder Inc., So36, K-93, The Damage Manuel, The Magi

18 décembre 1958 - 26 novembre 2023

[majestativa]

I summon from the collective dream Symbols of the magian world To do my will under Venus’ sign: I summon salt and sulphur I summon mercury and gold I summon diamond and ruby I summon lymph and blood I summon serpent and lion I summon white tincture and red I summon the tree bearing moon and sun as fruit.

— Ithell Colquhoun, I Saw Water: An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings, (2014)

[awigglycultist]

Matching profile pictures for you and you're besties perhaps?

[apenitentialprayer]

Adoration of the Magi, oil on wood, circa 1500.

"Think what you want, be what you want, and—" (above all) "—buy what you want"; that seems to be the standard of the modern political and economic system. And this is repugnant to what Christianity is about, and what Christmas is about. At the heart of Christmas is this… extraordinary fact, still breath-taking after two thousand years, that God becomes one of us, that we may be caught up in the rhythm of divine life. And what is the divine life? It's not [...] "do what just feels right." The divine life is a life of radical love: it's being for the sake of the other. And you can see it on iconic display in the Christmas story, in the Christ-Child. Christ comes into the world not in self-indulgent luxury; He comes into the world in straw-poverty. He comes not to aggrandize His own ego, but to give Himself away in love; He comes not to feed Himself on the goods of the world, but to become Food for the sake of the world. The angels announce not a hero of self-indulgent liberty, they announce precisely a hero of love, one who has come to save the world.

Bishop Robert Barron

[atheostic]

The Bible does not say that three magi came to visit Baby Jesus, only that there was a plural number.

So why do people say that there were three magi?

Because there were three kinds of gifts given

Because in the third century artists started drawing three people in their art*

That’s it.

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* Schiller, G. (1971). Iconography of Christian Art (English translation from German). p. 96

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Some early thoughts on Orpheus from Antonio Cascelli in his essay “l’Orfeo: Memory, Recollection, and the Tragedy of Choosing Between Seeing and Hearing”

And I just gotta say, there are Ficinian implications and they are just piling atop each other. Especially given his love and dedication to music and the power of music, especially in its role between lovers and how it interfaces with sight/seeing as modes of knowing Love(r) and Truth/Divine

I just - thoughts~~~~

[commandernachos]

[weltato]

lean

iconic

also iconic is gruelle's face here

[megatherium-americanum]

Three Wise Men ; Joseph Christian Leyendecker

[huariqueje]

.... Mafalda .... en The Magi from Middle East....

There is less than a month until the Three Magisians (Wise Men) arrive. hey mom?

That's how it is .

And tell me, they come from the Middle East, right?

Hey ... yes of course.

Zas!!! And what are they? Arabs or Israelis?

They always stayed above that issue, my child.

Well, it's good for you that they are magicians so you don't have to explain to me how they did it!! Hey?

Quino

[peterkothe]

———-🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS🎄————-

A lone poor child, with only his beloved drum to play, joins with the Magi, the Wisemen of the East following a star, to find the Christ Child. While they presented their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh, the drummer boy had only his song to play; a song that brought happiness to Child’s face! A with that, a great blessing to the Drummer Boy, for he gave all he could for the King of Kings!

“Blessed are the pure of heart: for they shall see God.”-Matthew 5:8

[possible-streetwear]

Kevin “Geordie” Walker - Killing Joke, Murder Inc., So36, K-93, The Damage Manuel, The Magi

18 décembre 1958 - 26 novembre 2023

[bloghrexach]

"Each January 5th, kids join their parents to cut fresh grass and set it in a shoebox under their beds, under the Christmas tree (just like the cookies for Santa Claus), or in a place that is not easy to miss. They hurry into bed as soon as night falls, and the whimsical anticipation for the arrival of the Magi at dawn sets in."

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