Statue Of Neptune ♆ ,Melerana Beach ,Gran Canaria By Juan M. Ortega

The Fairy of the Moon, circa 1891. Painted by Hermann Kaulbach.

I’ve always thought this piece was so interesting. 

Ilya Yefimovich Repin, “Sadko in the Underwater Kingdom,“ 1876

Hermann Hendrich (1854–1931) - Stardance, c. 1901

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Zawsze wydawało mi się, że moje istnienie składa się wyłącznie i wyłącznie z niczego innego, jak tylko najbardziej oburzających bzdur. Odkąd pamiętam, każdy incydent i każdy impuls mojego istnienia służył jedynie do popełniania jednego epizodu po drugim jaskrawych bzdur, z których każdy był całkowicie oburzający w swojej bezsensowności. Rozpatrywana z dowolnego punktu widzenia — intymnie bliskiego, nieskończenie odległego lub jakiegokolwiek miejsca pomiędzy — cała ta sprawa zawsze wydawała się niczym więcej niż jakimś dziwacznym wypadkiem, który wydarzył się w boleśnie wolnym tempie. Czasami zapierał mi dech w piersiach nieskazitelny chaotyczność, absolutnie doskonały nonsens jakiegoś spektaklu rozgrywającego się poza mną lub, z drugiej strony, jakiś spektakl równie bezsensownej oburzalności rozgrywający się we mnie. W moim mózgu pojawiają się obrazy gęsto poskręcanych kształtów i linii. Bazgroły psychicznie chorego epileptyka, często mówiłem sobie.

It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense. As long as I can remember, every incident and every impulse of my existence has served only to perpetrate one episode after another of conspicuous nonsense, each completely outrageous in its nonsensicality. Considered from whatever point of view—intimately close, infinitely remote, or any position in between—the whole thing has always seemed to be nothing more than some freak accident occurring at a painfully slow rate of speed. At times I have been rendered breathless by the impeccable chaoticism, the absolutely perfect nonsense of some spectacle taking place outside myself, or, on the other hand, some spectacle of equally senseless outrageousness taking place within me. Images of densely twisted shapes and lines arise in my brain. Scribbles of a mentally deranged epileptic, I have often said to myself.

Thomas Ligotti, "The Clown Puppet", Teatro Grottesco

Tarot Parisien, 1867

☩ Archangel Michael ☩ Talon Abraxas

(Hebrew מיכאל) An important angel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. One of the seven primary intelligences of our solar system.

"Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me... But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth, and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince." - Daniel 10:18-21

"And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon." - Revelation 12:7

"Michael in the Sun is an ineffable Archangel. Yet, Michael within us is different. Michael is an independent and cognizant part of our own Being… Michael and Gabriel, who symbolize the Sun and the Moon, the sulfur and the Mercury, serve the Alchemist in order to perform the Great Work… Michael and Gabriel are two Self-cognizant and Self-independent parts of our own Being, skilled in the science of Alchemy. As Michael and Gabriel exist in the Macrocosm, they also exist within the Microcosmic Human Being. It is obvious that we always receive the Mysteries of the Light of the Height by means of the sulfur and the Mercury. sulfur and Mercury are fundamental in order to receive the light-stream. Michael and Gabriel carry the stream of Christic Light. Michael and Gabriel, sulfur and Mercury, are incessantly crossing themselves in order to give origin to the Philosophical Stone. The sulfur and Mercury (Michael and Gabriel) never steal the Light, because these two alchemical substances are the only fundamental elements of the Great Work." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

Wilfred J. Jones (1888-1968), ''The Survey'', Vol. 64, #1, 1930