One of my great joys is taking a day off from work and heading into central London and spending an afternoon in the fantastic bookshops. The anticipation and excitement of finding occult treasures is to be savoured. Watkins, Atlantis, Daunt and Treadwells are my favoured haunts.
Art: Cyndy Salisbury
Pan plays a pipe to a small child while a goat looks on; in the background, a pillar with the words 'PAN DEUS ARCADIAE'
‘Oh Great God Pan, I know Thee! — I thank Thee — I bless Thee ... for indeed beneath the mantle of the God whose name is Love, is there not room for all in His world to shelter?’ — Margery Lawrence, ‘How Pan Came to Little Ingleton’ (1926)
🎨 Nicoletto da Modena, c. 1500-1510
An interesting video from @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social exploring Europe’s last pre-Christian religions inspired by my ‘Silence of the Gods’ m.youtube.com/watch?v=drA6...
Art: Cyndy Salisbury
"Revelation comes to us as lightning.
Alas! How fleeting our memory of all manifestation."
- Austin Osman Spare
Art: Ben Thompson- AOS POSTURE
Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Cover depicting Pan blowing on his pipes.
‘Pan was always friendly to Man. That’s you and me you know. We may have changed a lot these last two thousand years; but that’s you and me still. Why, I’d let him come nosing in.’ — Lord Dunsany, ‘The Blessing of Pan’ (1926)
🎨 S.H. Sime
Seen on my walk today…
‘Fun to Cook with Rupert’ is the source for some of the images. but I’m not sure if that includes the image of Pan and the woodland creatures. I’ve cobbled them into a scurrilous storyline.
Ben Thompson- PAN AND WILLIAM BLAKE
Chalice Well, Glastonbury, my photo
This has always fascinated me. It sounds like simple curse work at first, but something about that just doesn't feel right. Too bad the kids trashed some of them while fooling around.
In this episode of Rupert, our intrepid little bear receives instruction in sorcery from Baphomet; he eats the magic berries and thus obtains a vision of PAN.
Seen on my walk today…
Art: Pregnant Mary in church of Curral das Freiras, Madeira, Portugal, my photo. (May be my ignorance, but I’ve not seen many representations of the pregnant virgin)
"The Virgin Sophia... entered into the holy Mary, and did not depart from her, but became her true soul and spirit, and transformed her in the power of the divine body into the heavenly figure"
JACOB BOEHME (1575-1624)
The incarnation of Jesus Christ
Seen on my walk today…
Art: @jolenelaiart.bsky.social
Being a mystic has always been a lonely path; the religious will condemn your experience as ‘demonic’, the scientist will say it was ‘hallucination’ and the occultist rejects you because you threaten their spiritual authority. The only true understanding comes from other mystics, dead or alive.
Almost psychedelic…São Vicente Parish Church, Madeira, Portugal. My phot.
Seen on my walk today…
enough doomscrolling, go outside
Seen on my walk today…
Seen on my walk today…satyr fountain
‘Adult content’ my arse
Seen on my walk today…
Art: Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians
