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 […]
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 […]
In Times Of Peril, She Would Call Up All Strange Orders Of Spirits Into Her Aura To Protect Herself From Evil Oil on wood, 48 inches by 24 inches, 2015 In Times of Peril illustrates a technique used to ward off what is perceived as, and known to be, a psychic attack. Buy the original oil painting from Saatchi Art In many ways, the method mirrors the use in Medieval times where on churches, a grotesque image, a gargoyle, was stationed on the outside of the building to ward off evil influences. In the Pyramid Texts of Ancient Egypt, […]
Greek Hypnos God of Sleep Greek Hypnos god of sleep son of Nyx, father of Morpheus, brother of Thanatos . Inspired by a bronze statue from the British Museum London which I first encountered in the late 1960’s early 70’s. Oil on canvas, 16 inches by 20 inches, 2015. SOLD. Greek Hypnos, first appears in mythology in the works of one of the earliest Greek poets, Hesiod (lived around 700 BC), where he and Thanatos (Death) were the terrible sons of Nyx (Night). He was, however, generally viewed as benevolent to mankind. The god was frequently mentioned in literary sources, and […]
Hindu God Shiva Hindu God Shiva. Oil on canvas, 18 inches by 24 inches, 2010 See Hindu Goddess Shakti