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Visio Smaragdina

@visiosmaragdina.bsky.social
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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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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12h
The occult is a deep river. It flows below our obvious culture, sometimes surfacing to delight people who like a little understanding or think they can sell it to others. The truth is it flows regardless of those looking at it from the surface. It's an unstoppable current. – #DICallaghan
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Waratah-Blossoms from Aleister Crowley’s Book of Lies, 1913, first edition.
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This account has occult power Art: Stele for protection against evil people by Austin Osman Spare, c.1955.
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Most people have a devil and an angel on their shoulders. I just have a dragon – a fabulous firedrake – that lives in my bones. It's much more wonderful and its flame burns away bullshit like you wouldn't believe. – #EmilyCBanting
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Seen on my walk today…
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Deleted my Xitter account, I had 35k followers there. The joy had gone and social media use was interfering with my spiritual work. I’m spending less time online, focussing on more nourishing activities. It feels like a cancerous tumour is removed. It hurts initially but you know it’s for the best.
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Give her flowers…and dress like an Egyptian hierophant of the mysteries for good measure
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“With the passing of time he [Apollo] came to be pictured as the most rational and peaceful, harmonious and luminous, of all the gods. But the brightness of his light was at home in the deepest darkness.” PETER KINGSLEY
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
‘No man can serve two masters... Ye cannot serve God and Mammon’ Matthew 6:24 Art: Mammon from A Book of Images, by William Thomas Horton (1898), a mystical artist. Mammon is a personification of materialism, worship of money and political power, towering over a city. He has crowned himself king.
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Esowteric @esowteric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The text of the lecture can be found here: churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/you...
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You're a Slave to Money, Then You Die
Eugene McCarraher on the pecuniary theology of neoliberalism.
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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
⚡️IT’S HERE!⚡️ Ruined temples, living myths, riddles and enigmas, Medieval mystics, a gas-lit world of secret societies and energy grids, psychedelic revivals, and sonic experiments at the City of the Dead. 👉🏼 Gaze into the eyes of the sphinx and pre-order The Mystery Issue on helleborezine.com
A woman standing by a sphinx, the wind beating her cape
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Hermes Trismegistus says ‘Forget the depressing news read about alchemy instead’
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Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PROJECT LIVE! vinepress.co.uk Don't miss out!!! I've been working on this in some capacity for more than 2 years; to see it in the wild and getting backed is actually making me emotional... or tired... better have another coffee...
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Sometimes a short essay - especially by the likes of Alan Moore - inspires a blog post www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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If we are to reinvest the world with meaning
I recently read, and greatly enjoyed, Alan Moore’s latest novel I Hear a New World, the second instalment in Moore’s Long London series, following on from The Great When. I’m not here to review it,…
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seen on my walk today…
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The Love Potion by Evelyn De Morgan, 1903 Oil on canvas, photo mine The central figure in this painting may represent Morgan le Fey, the powerful enchantress in the legend of King Arthur.
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Chalice Well, Glastonbury, my photo
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
So many occult books, so little time
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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com · 03/09/2026
Dion Fortune’s grave, Glastonbury.
In memory of Violet Mary Evans (Dion Fortune)
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hookland is ghost country. Hookland is witch country. If you suspect some monstrous thing is lurking in your nightmares, you might just find it in that place of legends. – #CLNolan, Children’s Hour, BBC Regional Programme, 1936
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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“You start to dabble in ancient magic, casting spells for your personal benefit. You start to get some results…and have many failures (but you don’t talk about those). You begin to think you know what...
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Man in the Woods, inspired by Arthur Machen’s 1894 novella 'The Great God Pan'. Art by Claire Sullivan
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Eve is not tempted by a male serpent, but is initiated by the goddess Ašerah, garbed in serpent form - who is also understood to be the tree. Eve in turn initiates Adam, and has been consistently identified as the first witch ever since.“ PETER GREY Lucifer: Princeps
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” URSULA K. LE GUIN The Wave in the Mind Art: Ruth Speer
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow”. URSULA K. LE GUIN Art: By Ego
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Prometheus stole fire from heaven to give to us; Fallen Angels taught us forbidden arts; the Holy Spirit descends making each of us a Christ. The poles have been reversed, spirit sunk into matter, we have become dis-oriented. This is a time of great terror and yet great promise
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
SOPHIA, holy wisdom, sitting at the base of the tree of life, warns the alchemist who seeks the Philosopher's Stone that he will find it only with her help and never by studying books alone. We need to do the work not just read about it! I love the disapproving look. Art: Jehan Perréal, 1516
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
‘The things that are in the realms above are also in the realms beneath. What a Heaven shows is often found on earth. Fire and flowing water are contraries. Happy thou if thou canst unite them.’ Aureus tractates de philosophorum lapis, Musaeum Hermeticum, frontispiece, 1678.
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
alchemical graffiti
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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“You start to dabble in ancient magic, casting spells for your personal benefit. You start to get some results…and have many failures (but you don’t talk about those). You begin to think you know what...
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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THREE PATHS FOR THE SOUL A beautiful symbolic figure or mandala illustrating the ideas of Jacob Boehme (1575-1624) a Christian-hermetic mystic. Such figures were meant to be meditated upon deeply, wh...
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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THE WAY TO SOPHIA The transmutative process of spiritual alchemy is shown in Thomas Bromley’s The Way to the Sabbath of Rest, 1692. The illustration shows three spheres: the dark sphere of Sathan, t...
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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‘THE MOTHER’S WOMB IS ONE’ Hermetic Christian diagram. The author, Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649-1728), provides no explanation as to the meaning and we have to decode the symbolism; this we can att...
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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THE TWO WILLS “You must consider that there are in the soul two wills, an inferior will, which is for driving you to things without and below; and a superior will, which is for drawing to things with...
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep” URSULA K. LE GUIN Art: ‘Take Me Anywhere But Here’ by Carl Randall
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Prometheus stole fire from heaven to give to us; Fallen Angels taught us forbidden arts; the Holy Spirit descends making each of us a Christ. The poles have been reversed, spirit sunk into matter, we have become dis-oriented. This is a time of great terror and yet great promise
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Waratah-Blossoms from Aleister Crowley’s Book of Lies, 1913, first edition.
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” URSULA K. LE GUIN The Left Hand of Darkness Art: Labyrinth by surrealist artist Leonora Carrington, 1991
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
‘Innocence is not wise; wisdom cannot be innocent. And it’s very painful...but it’s the only way forward, and in the end, if we keep on trying, we shall have acquired a deeper, fuller, richer understanding than we ever had before we tasted the fruit of knowledge of good and evil’ PHILIP PULLMAN
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
“Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.” URSULA K. LE GUIN Art: Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogal
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” URSULA K. LE GUIN The Wave in the Mind Art: Ruth Speer
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In 1310, the Beguine mystic Marguerite Porete was burned at the stake in Paris for refusing to withdraw a book. That book — The Mirror of Simple Souls, written around 1296 — is one of the most radical works of the Western mystical tradition
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The Mirror of Simple Souls | LIMINAL FILMS
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A 26-year-old man who died in a suspected murder during a summer solstice event at a Bronze Age stone circle has been named by police.
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Man who died in suspected murder at Peak District stone circle named by police
A 41-year-old man has been arrested after Isaac Clare-Watts, 26, found at Nine Ladies monument on Monday
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It is a special day and even more special evening in Hookland. For today is St. John's Eve and this means feast fires and bone fires, St. John's wort and malkins. Of course it also means the Bone Horse will need roasted ale and cake. Art by @mariastrutz.bsky.social #StJohnsEve #Folklore
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’ve never actually met a spiritual teacher who wasn’t an asshole..
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Latest purchase
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
What’s new pussycat
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Visio Smaragdina @visiosmaragdina.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Art: Miranda Gray
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