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The Calendarium Naturale Magicum Perpetuum is a late renaissance (c.1619 or 1620) grimoire and esoteric print of calendar engravings. Its full title is Magnum Grimorium sive Calendarium Naturale Magicum Perpetuum Profundissimam Rerum Secretissimarum Contemplationem Totiusque Philosophiae Cognitionem Complectens. It measures more than four feet long and about two feet wide, and includes an early example of a Pentagrammaton.

The “author” in the 1619/1620 Frankfurt print is given as Johann Baptist Grossschedel von Aicha, and attributes some of the engravings to Tycho Brahe. The original engraver is given as Theodor de Bry, as first published in 1582. This work predated, and influenced, the Rosicrucian furor.

Book of Magical Charms (17th cent.)

This work, penned in England by an unknown author, is a distinctive collection of selected passages from works on magic and various occult arts that describe everything from speaking with spirits, to cheating at dice, to curing a toothache. The book also includes a section of Latin prayers, litanies, and other magical charms that seem to stick more closely to mainstream religious practices.

The Internet adores this second-person voice. There it is, at every cyber–street corner: Recommended for You, Suggestions for You, Here Is Something You Might Like. Behind each of these You’s, an algorithm sits at an easel, squinting, trying to catch Your likeness. But these algorithms are true Renaissance practitioners. Not only portraitists, they’re also psychologists, data-crunchers, and private detectives, extrapolating personality from the evidence of our past actions: from our online histories and, increasingly, from what they can eavesdrop, without any meaningful warrant, in the physical world. From all those toothsome bytes of behavior, they create an image of You.

Laurence Scott, "Hell is Ourselves"

Eugene Thacker, "Nine Disputations on Theology and Horror", Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development, Vol. IV

Vistāra - The Architecture of India Exhibition Catalog The Festival of India, 1986

Vistāra - The Architecture of India Exhibition Catalog The Festival of India, 1986

P.M.H. Atwater, Future Memory

Figure of hand from Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros ~1775

In 1561 an innkeeper called Hew Draper was imprisoned in the Tower of London for sorcery. Whilst incarcerated he made these carvings in the walls which displayed astrological symbols and numbers.

El primer mandala de Carl Jung.

biblically accurate angels • tip jar

https://kepler-interactive.com/editorial/peter-talisman

25 Labyrinths Designs

Diagrams from a thirteenth-century version of the Ars Notoria.

Place: the Harmonic Palace, a Bardic College research facility

The famous tattooed leg of Queen Vaikehu of the Marquesas Islands, from Atolls of the Sun by Frederick O'Brien,1922

I Just Heard the Universe Sigh, Shana Tugbert, 1976

"Burning Rhapsody"

Vampire Night (Namco/Sega/WOW Entertainment - PS2 - 2001)

Untitled #289