image dump (warning: disturbing/annoying objects present)

[zhivkov]

Thanks again OP ED and others for keeping this going. AO Spare fascinates me and there is a site that has some free ebooks by him that I was going to check out tonight,but I am having connection probs again so I might wait until my connection is solid before trying to download anything. Thanks again.

[Perelandra]

Impressive. The art is beautiful. Translating old esoteric texts for fun sounds very enjoyable. Accurate translation, as you are well aware, is an art. Clearly you need no assistance.
Now I'm wishing for a book safe with old books in it.
Back to images.

[zhivkov]

Bumping again for this thread-thanks for the new images Perelandra. Of all people I should know this one, but I can't decide if the words in the bottom image are cyrillic or Greek-some other language maybe? thanks again

[OP ED]

Feeling the Blake today.






where Blake learned the importance of an attention to detail. (James Basire)





behold thee man.



birth chart.

[zhivkov]

Great and interesting-thanks again.

[OP ED]

Thank you so much for these images and photos. The Crowley 'cake of light' is great-actually enjoyed almost all of them. On edit I am going to have to spend some time with these- great work! Edit again the image below the capitol dome and the alternate solar system and the symbols image and those eyes!

Which Camus book is that? Just got Sisyphus today for 50 cents - perhaps a bit of a coincidence for me

What is that last symbol? I like your images.

Keep them coming OP ED-thanks for the new images too. I would love to know where the image below the capitol dome is from. I am also interested in the meaning of the sigil. If its not for the profane or private that is fine. Edit-I had not been aware that C.S. Lewis had written a sci-fi trilogy.

I'll have to look up the image below the Capitol Dome, myself. It is from one of the Rosicrucian Alchemical texts. I do not remember which one, although I recall that I first encountered it in the RC Anthology [edited] by Rudolf Steiner.

C.S. Lewis did indeed write Sci Fi. Not really my thing, usually. I like Lewis' style, but his plots tend towards the predictable. Bad guys surround good guys, Darkness fills sky, all Hope is lost--Suddenly--Divine Intervention Ensues--Cue happy ending, etc. I prefer Screwtape, myself, insofar as he describes the reasons for my Amoralism. (God is winning not because he is "good" but because he is better at being Self-Serving, literally because he is simply superior at being "evil") One of my favorite books. I posted the picture first in one of 8bit's 911 threads, because I've always found Lewis' choice of "names" to be inspired. Perelandra made me think of it. (btw Malacandra is the D.C. comics "martian language" name for Mars)


Note: unless explicitly stated otherwise, none of these images are mine. Only the post with the (my) Rum&Coke (from my favorite SE Ohio redneck bar: Hi Brian, thou makest good drinks!) and pictures of me represents my own work. Them eyeballs are mine. From a few days ago. As is the secret occult inner gesture of the 11th degree.


Sisyphus is an excellent book. I take "the Rebel" with me whenever I go on a trip. I paid about the same for my copy of either. (I have en ex at the used bookstore about a mile from here, she gives me her discount, thank god for occasional well-ending relationships)

As for the sigil in the last picture of my own stuff, I'll get back to you. It is slightly more complicated, and I have to run for a few minutes here, so I'll answer that when I return.

[OP ED]

Primer:

It began with my fascination for Ambigrams, Asemic language, etc.
Also love various autowrite techniques, and pretty much anything futurist-inspired.
(flarf poetry, hypergraphics, neosurrealism, etc)



Ambigrams can be read from more than one angle, although it isn't always the SAME thing when read upside down, or backwards, or mirrored, etc.








I also dig the oldschool Islamic style calligraphics. Pictures out of words, and all that.



vaguely related nonsense for the uninitiated:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogram
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraphics
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tengwar.htm
http://symbolictruth.fateback.com/tengw ... c-mode.htm
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(magic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_graphics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embolalia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_literacy
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideograms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism#F ... Literature
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_poetry
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergodic_literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybertext
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Pataphysics
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flarf_poetry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical_Realism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neosurrealism

* = more important.


In my journals, I use Tolkien's Tengwar alphabet, and sometimes his actual languages. They are interesting because they contain the required phonemes to translate almost any language. He was cool like that. I have heavily adapted them to contain a few extra letters to make up for the ones I was missing. The general text I usually just write in English, with the more specialized information being written in whatever I choose to write it in and/or a metalanguage of my own device, which will be the subject of my next post in this thread.







Beyond that, I have a soft spot for dead languages, and I utilize them for specific esoteric concepts unique to these cultures. The result being that no one but me can read my magickal diaries.




It is also fairly common practice for occultists to condense information into handy sigils which aren't understood by outsiders. Twilight Language being more than simple double entendrees or jargon.




These can be as simple or as complex as one wishes to make them, really.




Sometimes it simply means using a common object in such a context that some folks will interpret it with entirely different meaning than an average person might.





The relevance of this will be explained in my next reply, along with some samples or something.

t.b.c...

[Perelandra]

C.S. Lewis did indeed write Sci Fi. Not really my thing, usually. I like Lewis' style, but his plots tend towards the predictable. Bad guys surround good guys, Darkness fills sky, all Hope is lost--Suddenly--Divine Intervention Ensues--Cue happy ending, etc. I prefer Screwtape, myself, insofar as he describes the reasons for my Amoralism. (God is winning not because he is "good" but because he is better at being Self-Serving, literally because he is simply superior at being "evil") One of my favorite books. I posted the picture first in one of 8bit's 911 threads, because I've always found Lewis' choice of "names" to be inspired. Perelandra made me think of it. (Btw Malacandra is the D.C. comics "martian language" name for Mars).

Yeah, me too. Read part of the trilogy years ago and have no real reason for picking the name, except it means Venus and is therefore not the real me. Screwtape was inspired, God superior at evil? It's been awhile, so perhaps will read again with a new mind. His names are fascinating, he was a linguist, as was Tolkien, as you know. I received a book Lewis authored on some favorite words and his opinions of the etymologies, but for some reason, I can't find it on Amazon and all my books are packed right now. Very good scholar and philosopher, even if you don't agree with his theology.

I loved all those books when I was young and tried to play with Tolkien's languages as well. Long ago and far away, but if I had a room of my own and time...

For zhivkov:

"The Mice are burying the Cat", a 1760s Russian lubok hand-coloured woodcut. It probably originally dates from the reign of Peter the Great, but this impression probably dates from c1766. Possibly a satire on Peter's reforms, or just a representation of carnivalesque inversion, "turning the world upside down"

[zhivkov]

Thanks to both of you for keeping this going its very fascinating for me. If I can find a link I would like to get both of your opinions-and some other people on the forum-of what you think about this person who posted to another forum-I think it was back in 2005. Some of the comments he made seemed strange to me at the time, but as the years have passed it some of it really makes sense. I thought it would be very interesting to get people who know a lot more about the esoteric than I do. I am fascinated by the esoteric/occult but have never done anything beyond reading about it for the most part. I do try to practice lucid dreaming and do some meditations but I don't have any secret knowledge. I did try a thing with sigil magic about a situation I desperately did not want to happen;which "worked" but of course I don't know if that was the reason especially because that was my first go at anything like that. It was interesting to read OP EDs comments on god and evil as just a few days ago I was reading some history on how evil the early church was and in reality did nothing to buck the power structure or change the status of the poor and hungry-but if anything it made their situation worse. A lot of it reminds me of what the gnostics thought about the demiurge and archons etc. I want to thank you both again-I find the images and interests you have very fascinating. I didn't look at the views of this thread but I am sure I am not the only one. Thanks for all of the links too.

[OP ED]

[zhivkov]

I love this thread-great to see it going again! If I wasn't such a dip I could try to post some images of mandalas I have drawn-but the stuff you and Perelandra have makes mine look postively boring anyway. I checked out the Girls with Birds thread-that is great too!

[OP ED]

my favorite book:








bite from a tiny serpent:







(below: my left hand)






(also: someone else's drawing of the paths)










LiL, (93/93),
SHCR
(more later)



(p.s.)



(Tell me my future!!)

[OP ED]

I love this thread-great to see it going again! If I wasn't such a dip I could try to post some images of mandalas I have drawn-but the stuff you and Perelandra have makes mine look postively boring anyway. I checked out the Girls with Birds thread-that is great too!

if you can and you will, you should feel free to dump any images you like here.

i suppose in the sense that i started it, this is my thread, but i don't really care what goes on in it, so long as it stays unlocked, so i can get to the things i'm leaving around here.

so, as far as this one is concerned, you are encouraged to leave whatever you like here.

Love is the Law,
SHCR

[Perelandra]

(Tell me my future!!)

I can interpret this chart, if you really want me to, but I need a little more information.
PM me if you like.
.

[zhivkov]

I might actually try to download an image soon. I know so little about computer stuff I havent tried to do the images yet. Another member of the board was kind enough to help me with some probs I was having tonight and once I realized what I had done I am surprised I didn't crash the whole thing-for starters I had unknowingly locked free windows updates from coming in! that stuff is all taken care of thanks to this person.
I am going to try to see if fearful symmetry is available as an ebook-if not then at the library. A memory just came in- Tiger Tiger burning bright or something
None of my biz at all OP ED but are you extremely tall? Just wondered because I have never seen fingers that long except on a bball player-a friend of mine used to- probably still does - have a huge fish aquarium and one for snakes-I think he even had a tarantula.
Thanks again the both of you and I will see if I can find any stuff that would fit in this thread. I know I have an ebook from 1928 called worlds or something that has some cool images in it-I just have to figure out how to get the images from the ebook to here. On edit have not found the Northrup Frye book yet but downloaded the complete book of Blake's poetry and prose-this thread is great to come back to-especially when good ole insomnia kicks in-thx again Perelandra and OP ED.

10-23 Thanks for the Blake OP ED! Beautiful work! This site triggers so many memories in me and the Tiger poem was back there somewhere. I love this thread and hope it goes on and on. The things that are new to me are things I find very beautiful and interesting. I am glad to have the ebook of Blake's work but hope I can find a hard copy of his prose at the local trade in book store-the same for some of the art and authors Perelandra has posted about. Soon-maybe tomorrow if I can halfway get my thoughts together-I was thinking about posting something to RI about a friend who died way too young a long time ago-and how even after all these years her memory still gives me a deep sense of melancholy/loss. The only thing is that I do not want to trigger bad memories in people of losses they have had. She was quite the artistic type and her love of beauty and the mysterious reminds me of some people who are forum members.
10-24 I love these things-it is very hard to describe a favorite or even a top 5 list. I finally remembered-at least I think where I first encountered the Tiger poem-I think it was back in the early 80s in the preface of a book about quantum physics-maybe Zukav authored not sure. I thought the poem was beautiful-the product of a great mind-but wasn't into poetry/prose at the time. I love the writing from your journals-that is "magical" in its own right.