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“Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.”
PARACELSUS
Art: Escuala Flamenca 15th century St John the evangelist with the cup of poison, my photo
Seen on my walk today…back in the hometown
In the deep woods, it’s no toy. The "dumb-bull" or bullroarer whirs with a low, heavy vibration that makes blood run cold. Old folks call it "the Old Boy’s holler" - a frequency used to call the Devil’s own hounds. Spin the wood until it screams, and listen for the reply. #FaustianFriday #Folklore
I love an old tombstone, this is Elizabeth Paton’s grave from1676. Look at this head letting forth a scream. Gothic as hell. That’s one of the reasons I love Edinburgh
Seen on my walk today… Cheese and occultism, 93 Jermyn Street, London. As well as being a superb cheese shop, it was also one of the places in London where the notorious magician Aleister Crowley lived in the 1940s- 93 is of course, significant magical number in Thelema.
Seen on my walk today…
Edinburgh looking nice today, the castle glowering down on the old town
alchemical graffiti
Latest purchase: Hermetica I by M David Litwa
BARRETT, Francis (fl.1780-1814). The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer; being A Complete System of Occult Philosophy, a manuscript copy of the first edition (published by Lackington, Allen and Co, London, 1801),
