"To advance—that means Work. Patient, exhausting, thankless, often bewildering Work. Dear sister, if you would but Work! Work blindly, foolishly, misguidedly, it doesn’t matter in the end: Work in itself has absolute virtue."
- Aleister Crowley, Chapter XLV: “Unserious” Conduct of a Pupil from Magick Without Tears (via gnothyself)
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19-year-old photographer Nicolas Bruno reenacts sleep paralysis-induced nightmares in his stunning, surreal photographs of a dark dreamworld.
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"You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche (via acrylicalchemy)
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"To stay sane in an insane world as a creative man or woman he or she must: 1. Keep one’s life financially independent. 2. Continue unabated to exercise one’s power of creativity in concrete, strenuous tasks, always seeking perfection as near as possible. 3. Carefully cherish LOVE of a partner with full gratification, of the total emotional being if possible, of the body in a clean way if necessary. 4. Keep out of the trap of confusion by the average man and woman, helping others to keep out of the trap too as best they can. 5. Keep one’s structure clean like brook water through knowing and correcting every mistake, making the corrected mistake the guiding lines to new truth. 6. Never yield to the expediencies of life except where it is basically harmless or where the main line of development is not impeded for the duration of one’s life."
- 6 rules for creative sanity from pioneering radical psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (via explore-blog)
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"All angels resemble one another, but each fallen angel is fallen in its own way."
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (via spoopysamael)
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. - Genesis 3:4-5
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“The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. The Ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or wholeness. In the age-old image of the Ouroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself. The Ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This ‘feed-back’ process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the Ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself and gives birth to himself. He symbolizes the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima materia which […] unquestionably stems from man’s unconscious.”
- Carl Jung
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