Velumnoctis - ✴ 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖊 ✴

Magic is a doorway through which we step into mystery, wildness, and immanence. We live in a world subject to extensive and seemingly, all embracing systems of social and personal control that continually feed us the lie that we are each alone, helpless, and powerless to effect change. Magic is about change. Changing your circumstances so that you strive to live according to a developing sense of personal responsibility; that you can effect change around you if you choose; that we are not helpless cogs in some clockwork universe. All acts of personal/collective liberation are magical acts. Magic leads us into exhilaration and ecstasy; into insight and understanding; into changing ourselves and the world in which we participate. Through magic we may come to explore the possibilities of freedom.

Condensed Chaos

Phil Hine

by Elsa Olsson/Fevernest, 2019

Belden C. Lane, The Great Conversation

Haupt der Medusa by Franz von Stuck (1892)

That […] mixture of sensuality and cruelty which has always seemed to me to be the real “witches’ brew.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Medusa Reader, transl by Walter Kaufmann, (2013)

And Art, better than black opium […] an intoxication lulling our scourged hearts to sleep.

— STANISLAS DE GUAITA ⚜️ Rosa Mystica, (1885)

Polaris, The North Star