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Visio Smaragdina

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ancient philosophy, mystery and magic. weird fiction, occulture, art & the imaginal. bibliophile. flâneur. bohemian holy heretic. he/him #MDANT

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · Nov 22

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.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 7h

A folklorist sees the modern far-right trigger motifs and reads it like a folk tale of distraction ... #vegans #tampons #toilets #NationalTrust. So simple. Don't be a sucker. See through it.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 7h

Benjamin Franklin’s 1761 invention, the glass harmonica, produced a sound so ethereal and otherworldly that some claimed it “excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood” leading to “slow self-annihilation”.

Cover of a magazine showing Benjamin Franklin playing the glass harmonica

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 1d

Seen on my walk today…18th century gravestones with skull and crossbones and a nice view for all eternity

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 1d

Seen on my walk today…early 18th century gravestone with skull, crossbones and hourglass, symbols of mortality

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 1d

Thís is Eglantine Price
Eglantine learned Witchcraft to figbt
tbe Nazis
Be Líke Eglantine.
Hex the Fascists.

Image from Bedknobs and broomsticks

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 2d

Seen on my walk today…

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 5d

There is a secret stone, hidden in a deep well, worthless and rejected, concealed in shit and filth.

- ‘𝑻𝙧𝒆𝙨𝒐𝙧 𝙙𝒆 𝒍𝙖 𝙥𝒉𝙞𝒍𝙤𝒔𝙤𝒑𝙝𝒊𝙚 𝙙𝒆𝙨 𝙖𝒏𝙘𝒊𝙚𝒏𝙩𝒔’, 1693

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 4d

“A victory for the Self is always a defeat for the ego.”

CARL JUNG
Art: By Ego

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 5d

“For the true heavens are everywhere, even where you stand and walk. If your spirit grasps the innermost birth of God and penetrates the sidereal and fleshly birth then it is already in heaven”

JAKOB BOEHME (1575-1624)
‘The Teutonic Theosopher’

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 5d

"A Robin Redbreast in a cage,
Puts all Heaven in a rage"

WILLIAM BLAKE

Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 6d

This arrived today by daemon post. I am much fascinated by the figure of Lucifer and fallen angels, though I’m very wary of the idea of pacts with spirits. Peter Grey is a well read, intelligent and provocative writer and I’m sure this beautiful tome will be both a challenging and informative read.

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 7d

Ready for the weekend?…

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 8d

This arrived today- Hexen 5.0 Tarot by Suzanne Treister. I saw some of the original paintings at the Warburg Institute earlier this year and I’m please to pick up this ‘upgrade’ from her 2011 Hexen2.0 cult deck. Lovely artwork and provocative messaging. Jacob Boehme influence on the design.

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 9d

No rivers providing run off of sediment, that’s why the waters clear. Still plankton there, but it is overfished.

Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 10d

Seen on my walk today…

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 11d

open.substack.com/pub/tarocurr...

The Book of Thoth and Its Hidden Locks

Crowley’s Most Guarded Text

open.substack.com

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 11d

Some interdimensional portals I found on walks yesterday and today.

A hedge portal at Montacute, Somerset (aka Wolf Hall)

A mysterious circular portal in a granite wall

A particularly attractive ruined barn portal

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 11d

For sure, like many of he was screwed up by his parents, being brought up in a cult - the Plymouth Brethren

Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 11d

While not a card carrying Thelemite I do like the Thoth tarot deck and Paul’s writings on the Tarot are always unique and interesting. Looking forward to reading his latest book.

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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 11d

“Aleister Crowley remained a Christian throughout his life.
Shocking as it may seem, this is the conclusion after diligent study of the Book of Thoth.”

PAUL HUGHES BARLOW
In: The Secret of the Thoth tarot.

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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 17d

👑 Congratulations to the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Grand Prize Award Winner: Xavier Escala and Nina Murashkina with their piece "Goddess"

Get all the information at beautifulbizarreartprize.art/2025-beautif...

#beautifulbizarre #internationalartprize #artprize #art #artist

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 12d

"Are you bent on reviving forgotten horrors?"

Screenshot from the 1971 folk horror film 'The Blood on Satan's Claw' of an eye in a skull buried in the ground with a worm crawling over it.

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