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Remember, Nature is self-created… and so are you.

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“Tis magick, magick, that has ravisht me.”

— Christopher Marlowe (from “Faust”)

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Progressus est a somniantibus

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by Andrew D. Chumbley (1967- 2004)

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“A practitioner of the Chod, practicing in a charnel ground, sounding his dameru drum and thigh-bone trumpet … The dancing, grinning skeleton on the far right express a dynamic vision of death and change, viewed as an ecstatic dance of transformation, unchanging inner essence transcending the constant mutations of externals.

Meditation on the impermanence of all phenomena should lead to a joyful freedom from attachments, and not to a morbid pessimism” - P. 64 of “The Crystal and The Way of Light (Sutra, Tantra & Dzogchen)” by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu.

The practice of Chod is about cutting through the ego, offering up our conditioning, habits and limitations to be destroyed, and is similar to the worship of Smashan Tara by the Aghoris and other sects. 

Many Shamanic traditions include a dismemberment of the practitioner before he or she can travel further into the non-ordinary realms.

Dionysus was dismembered by the Titans as a child, and his maenads dismembered Orpheus after his return from the underworld. Osiris‘ body was also dismembered by Set, before being reconstructed by Isis.

These types of practices relate to the “Solve” part of the Alchemical maxim “Solve et Coagula” i.e. dissolving your existing conditioning to free up energy and then re-combining into new and more useful structures.

“Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won’t let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they’re not punishing you, he said. They’re freeing your soul.

So, if you’re frightened of dying and… and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. But if you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth.” - Jacob’s Ladder (1990).

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Jean Delville (1867-1953), “Portrait of Mrs. Stuart Merrill. Mysteriosa” (1892), pencil, pastel, and coloured pencils on paper, 32.1 x 40 cm.

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Abraxas amulets worn by Gnostics. 

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source is everything.

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‘Sigils are monograms of thought, for the government of energy’

--Austin Osman Spare

The Book of Pleasure, 1913

Austin Osman Spare

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Quest of Continual Becoming, Jerry Uelsmann, 1965

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“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

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To give birth, to nourish, to bear and not to own, to act and not lay claim, to lead and not to rule: this is mysterious power. --Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, trans. Ursula K. Le Guin

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“Trying to control the world? I see you won’t succeed. The world is a spiritual vessel and cannot be controlled. Those who control, fail. Those who grasp, lose.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Addiss & Lombardo tr. (Ch 29)

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Virgil Finlay

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De Occulta Philosophia, 1533