Io Tells Her Story Oil painting on canvas, 24 inches by 48 inches, 2011. Zeus Io. Io was, in Greek mythology, a priestess of Hera in Argos. Seduced by Zeus, he changed her into a heifer to escape detection. His wife Hera sent ever-watchful Argus with 100 eyes to guard her, but Hermes was sent to distract the guardian and slay him. Oil on canvas, 24 inches by 48 inches, 2011. My objective in creating the picture was to encapsulate in a single image the mythological journey of Io and her relationship with Zeus, Hera and Hermes. I used the same formula […]
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Black Book of the Jackal Grimoire
Black Book Jackal A navigational guide for travel within The Ancient Egyptian Book of The Dead The Black Book of the Jackal is a grimoire of the Western Occult Tradition based upon the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Order the Regular editions at Magus Books Order Collectable editions at Amazon Western occult tradition grimoire. Using an ingenious synthesis between the techniques of the Western Occult Tradition and the formula of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Black Book of the Jackal offers entry points to the seven ancient gates of the Egyptian Underworld. The grimoire opens with a […]
Guardian Angel, Shadow or Succubus Holy Guardian Angel Shadow, Inner Guide or Succubus represents what is our true self. Primal, ruthless and God like. The phenomenon has close parallels with accounts of alien abduction and theories of bicameral mind expressed by Julian Jaynes in this book The Origins of Consciousness. Oil on wood, 24 inches by 24 inches, 2016 Buy the original painting now From Saatchi Art See Daemon
In Memory of Felicien Rops, 1833 – 1898 Let Me Talk Over Your Left Shoulder, inspired by the works of Baudelairean artist Felicien Rops, Oil on canvas, 11 inches by 14 inches, 2010 Biography Rops was a Baudelairean graphic artist who was much admired by Joséphin Péladan, a French novelist and Rosicrucian, and a Belgian who lived most of his life in Paris. He attended the Namur Académie and then went on to Brussels, where he attended the workshop of Saint-Luc. In 1856, he founded the satirical weekly ‘Uylenspiegel’. In 1868, he became Vice-President of the Société Libre des Beaux-Arts de […]
Dream Linguistics A picture is a hieroglyph concealing a story. A story is a spell, evoking a picture Dream linguistics. art as a language of dream interpretation, a technique of communication employed by classes of diverse orders of beings desiring to converse with one another. The application of this method is not dependent on the communicating energy systems being of the same race, species, or even coexisting in the same time, space, or dimension. The communication will naturally occur when an in-between[i] consciousness state engages between the communicants. This in-between consciousness is the realm of “creative dreaming,” which correlates with […]
Signed Copies of Howling at the Sky Available at Magus Books Signed copies of Howling at the Sky, Draconian Architecture and the Sabian Keys, a handbook of Draconian Magick are available at Magus Books. First t published in 2002 and has been long out of print. It has been republished and is available again. Using natural phenomena as symbolic representations of inner processes, we are provided a bridge to integrate ourselves back into the fabric of the universe from which we have exiled ourselves. Once integrated, we will again be able to understand the music of the spheres and to comprehend the language […]
Sabbat, Dark Interpreter, De Quincy Dreams of Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow Sabbat or Dark Interpreter, inspired by Thomas De Quincy’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater, is oil on wood, 48 inches by 48 inches, 2016. Purchase the original painting of Sabbat from Saatchi Art Since the Middle Ages, until comparatively recently, a conjecture of public opinion held the view that visits of witches and warlocks to the Sabbat were a physical experience. In recent times, this view has, by many, been transformed into a concept that attendance at the Sabbat is induced by hallucinogenic substances, ingredients often […]
The Second Haunts Horrors Haunts and Horrors: A Collection of Dark Fantasy Haunts Horrors The Second Haunts and Horrors Magapack, a collection of dark fantasy and horror stories, includes my short story On the Arrival of the Machine and Its Mode of Operation. The story first appeared on my CD, On the Arrival of the Machine and subsequently in my book Howling at the Sky: Draconian Magic and the Sabian Keys. Available from Amazon Welcome to another wide-ranging collection of dark fantasy and horror stories. From familiar classics to rare pulp stories, from the Victorian era to contemporary tales, there’s something here for […]
Ghosts In The Domaine
Ghosts In The Domaine Ghosts In the Domaine is a glimpse of art created by Roger Williamson at his studio, “The Domaine” in Minneapolis. Roger Williamson is a visual artist, residing and creating in Minneapolis Minnesota. Born in Loughborough, England, in 1947 and growing up in Coventry he was inspired from an early age by the French Symbolist painters of late nineteenth century France, These artistic influences, in conjunction with his own esoteric upbringing and practical experiences of magick, mythology and dream control, form the matrix, a collective oeuvre upon which his paintings and writings are an extension. Using diverse […]