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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Sep 18

BW Edit after anonymous (Munt met een halo van elektrische stroom, c. 1893 - in or before 1898) (Rijksmuseum, Acc. RP-F-2001-7-968-1-15)
#art #electricity

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Aug 3

Edit after Parthian artist of ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE (Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
#art

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jun 30

Actually, completely unknown languages do not exist. In fact, shadows can always be glimpsed and it is from there that hidden meanings come, perhaps the most essential ones
#φωνή #γραφὴ

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jun 30

Edit after George Ellery Hale (Zes afbeeldingen van de zonnechromosfeer en een protuberans) (Rijksmuseum)
#eclipse

Photo depicting the solar chromosphere during an eclipse

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jun 4

Edit after Roman artist of the Imperial period (Carnelian intaglio: Lion-headed serpent) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
#ancientart #gnosticism

Intaglio depicting the lion-serpent also known in Gnosticism as Chnoubis

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jun 4

Edit after a photo by Marcel Gustave Laverdet (Terracotta sculptuur van het hoofd van Medusa met vleugels) (Rijksmuseum)
#ancientart #medusa

Photo of terracotta sculpture depicting the head of Medusa with wings

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · May 16

If society were an organism, the laws would probably be the feet on which it stands. But it would be evident at the same time that both the hands and the head would be far from them, not to mention the soul

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Feb 9

True, and in fact I meant that the experience of such things is so personal that it is unlikely that a priest's interpretation can replace one's own perception of it

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Feb 7

I think the idea could not have been expressed better.
I add only that often I had the impression that religions explained that with the idea of 'protecting' the light from the world. Maybe it is just a way to make people believe that by themselves (=without intermediaries) they cannot access it

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Feb 7

Seriously, these are things that can be felt very intensely in delicate moments of life.
Also, describing the situation as standing on top of it with your feet is the most effective way to convey it. I mean, it really gives the idea of something that one always has access to but does not realize

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Feb 7

True. But the light is already there, and in my opinion it is within everyone's reach, even when it cannot be noticed. All that is missing is the right word to name/recognize it

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Feb 7

The fact is that we are always faced with the sacred. It can manifest itself in disguised forms, its light can vary, but it is always there.
This has little to do with religious forms, much more with the rather informal realm of the supernatural

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Feb 6

Regardless of the technical level, any artistic activity makes one very similar to psychics, so the darker the historical period, the more likely it is that the art produced will be dark

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Feb 3

Deep down, all human history is a very long movement of the soul aimed at emerging from the history itself, at challenging the gods and at (re)conquering paradise

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 31

In Western thought, the concept of energy is incredibly underrated. Wilhelm Reich and Georges Bataille took it seriously; anyway imo they treated it (as orgone/dépense) in almost accounting terms of excess. In comparison, ideas like Kundalini or Chinese Qi go far beyond the merely quantitative

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 29

The ancients had a fairly clear perception that whenever it had been necessary to outline an idea, even in its simplest formulation, they would never have had a sphere before them, but at best a knot

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 26

It would be enough just to reorganize them, replacing them with more organic and systematic laws than the previous fragmentary ones

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 26

Those who desire laws that are few and simple usually forget that (in Europe) the history following the Enlightenment has shown that this desire is only a myth: in this case, in fact, the jurisprudence that applies them always increases, because human needs do not decrease by reducing the laws.

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 21

So it is presumably this shadow that is the essence through which the effects of the reduction to nothingness itself operate

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 21

The reduction to nothingness of thought/spirit that many religious traditions seem to refer to (through prayer, repetition, meditation, etc.) is never a nothingness taken in itself, but always a posterius with respect to something that was there before and that therefore left a shadow.

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 19

The tragedy of Western rationality is the attempt to reduce the background to the figure. Sooner or later the background demands its autonomy, it finds itself literally inside the figure and so the initial figure is dissolved

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 13

A few days ago I seriously thought the same thing but I did not dare say it out loud. Glad to find someone else who thinks the same way. Regards

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 13

I agree, formalities only serve to give solemnity

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 12

People are interpreters of spirits who meet and try to understand the language of the spirit of the other one, without ever fully knowing the language of their own.
The light of the mind illuminates something. But in the end, what is actually illuminated?

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Occultism @occultismos.bsky.social · Jan 8

The fact is that scientific thinking is almost certainly a subset of magical thinking (if nothing else, the first one at least has roots in the second one). This would explain why the texts of certain scholars sometimes seem like poetry

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