Astrum Argenteum
@argenteumastrum.bsky.social
Just another temporal pylon for a sempiternal impulse.
Bluesky's first A∴A∴ account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E2%88%B4A%E2%88%B4
DM for Probation queries.
Bluesky's first A∴A∴ account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%E2%88%B4A%E2%88%B4
DM for Probation queries.
“In Nomine Babalon”
Gouache on artisanal paper, 2025.
This is one of the new pieces from Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos’ first solo exhibition “Espiritos Familiares” currently on view at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick.
Gouache on artisanal paper, 2025.
This is one of the new pieces from Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos’ first solo exhibition “Espiritos Familiares” currently on view at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick.
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
“In Nomine Babalon”
Gouache on artisanal paper, 2025.
This is one of the new pieces from Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos’ first solo exhibition “Espiritos Familiares” currently on view at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick.
Gouache on artisanal paper, 2025.
This is one of the new pieces from Luciana Lupe Vasconcelos’ first solo exhibition “Espiritos Familiares” currently on view at the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick.
I spent too much time trying to figure out how I should approach this one. Below is an image from JFC Fuller. Some 20 years after this painting he would become fascist. Even when he was close to Crowley he pretty deep into chudhood.
But the image is still instructive, so I want to highlight it.
But the image is still instructive, so I want to highlight it.
September 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I spent too much time trying to figure out how I should approach this one. Below is an image from JFC Fuller. Some 20 years after this painting he would become fascist. Even when he was close to Crowley he pretty deep into chudhood.
But the image is still instructive, so I want to highlight it.
But the image is still instructive, so I want to highlight it.
I dunno who needs to hear this but if someone is offering insights in the style of the image on the left, but cannot articulate in clear simple terms what is intended by Chumbley's illustrations in Azoetia like the one on the right, they should be summarily dismissed.
September 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I dunno who needs to hear this but if someone is offering insights in the style of the image on the left, but cannot articulate in clear simple terms what is intended by Chumbley's illustrations in Azoetia like the one on the right, they should be summarily dismissed.
Grady may not have been, like, ideal. But the more time passes the more it feels like the Music Lawyer is a pale shadow in comparison to the Drunk Poet.
August 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Grady may not have been, like, ideal. But the more time passes the more it feels like the Music Lawyer is a pale shadow in comparison to the Drunk Poet.
Yet another image of Gerald Yorke, this time care of Pete Koenig.
August 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Yet another image of Gerald Yorke, this time care of Pete Koenig.
There’s some incredibly funny and humanizing stuff in the microfilms. “Babe, we can’t be together, u love Karl Germer more than me”.
Truly, Crowley was God’s cuntiest soldier sometimes. Girl, go to therapy.
#witchsky #occultsky #thelema
Truly, Crowley was God’s cuntiest soldier sometimes. Girl, go to therapy.
#witchsky #occultsky #thelema
August 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
There’s some incredibly funny and humanizing stuff in the microfilms. “Babe, we can’t be together, u love Karl Germer more than me”.
Truly, Crowley was God’s cuntiest soldier sometimes. Girl, go to therapy.
#witchsky #occultsky #thelema
Truly, Crowley was God’s cuntiest soldier sometimes. Girl, go to therapy.
#witchsky #occultsky #thelema
What threw me about the whole ordeal is that this isn't some ambiguity in the manuscript. I don't really give a shit what was in the now-lost vellum book with the original versification. Because the holograph plainly says "fill".
April 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
What threw me about the whole ordeal is that this isn't some ambiguity in the manuscript. I don't really give a shit what was in the now-lost vellum book with the original versification. Because the holograph plainly says "fill".
The "tripe cut" is literal, and is shown in an infamous picture of Leiah Waddel.
The reference to a "stabbing in the heart" is best understood as an act of sexual magick, rather than being literal. Leiah survived, after all, but the divination is obscured.
4/7
The reference to a "stabbing in the heart" is best understood as an act of sexual magick, rather than being literal. Leiah survived, after all, but the divination is obscured.
4/7
March 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The "tripe cut" is literal, and is shown in an infamous picture of Leiah Waddel.
The reference to a "stabbing in the heart" is best understood as an act of sexual magick, rather than being literal. Leiah survived, after all, but the divination is obscured.
4/7
The reference to a "stabbing in the heart" is best understood as an act of sexual magick, rather than being literal. Leiah survived, after all, but the divination is obscured.
4/7
Well shit the bed.
I’m mostly running off of Liber Graduum which clearly lists the instruction in question as “Ritual VIII”.
I’m mostly running off of Liber Graduum which clearly lists the instruction in question as “Ritual VIII”.
March 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Well shit the bed.
I’m mostly running off of Liber Graduum which clearly lists the instruction in question as “Ritual VIII”.
I’m mostly running off of Liber Graduum which clearly lists the instruction in question as “Ritual VIII”.
I promised to upload these images for @jeremyokelley.bsky.social weeks ago so pardon on that. Work ticked up then I got rather ill.
These are comparisons of John Dee’s Enochian letters to the sigil set of Austin Osman Spare’s Alphabet of Desire, found in Vol 2 of Inferno to Zos.
These are comparisons of John Dee’s Enochian letters to the sigil set of Austin Osman Spare’s Alphabet of Desire, found in Vol 2 of Inferno to Zos.
February 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I promised to upload these images for @jeremyokelley.bsky.social weeks ago so pardon on that. Work ticked up then I got rather ill.
These are comparisons of John Dee’s Enochian letters to the sigil set of Austin Osman Spare’s Alphabet of Desire, found in Vol 2 of Inferno to Zos.
These are comparisons of John Dee’s Enochian letters to the sigil set of Austin Osman Spare’s Alphabet of Desire, found in Vol 2 of Inferno to Zos.
I'm going to pivot from historical post for a while (though I have more) to do some practical posting.
This is from the election of Bill Breeze as Outer Head of the Order of the OTO in 1985.
What strikes me is that Breeze looks like he's seen death.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
This is from the election of Bill Breeze as Outer Head of the Order of the OTO in 1985.
What strikes me is that Breeze looks like he's seen death.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
February 2, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm going to pivot from historical post for a while (though I have more) to do some practical posting.
This is from the election of Bill Breeze as Outer Head of the Order of the OTO in 1985.
What strikes me is that Breeze looks like he's seen death.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
This is from the election of Bill Breeze as Outer Head of the Order of the OTO in 1985.
What strikes me is that Breeze looks like he's seen death.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
The one that got recommended to me was Obsidian and I think the other guy is just using some kind of graphical application and forcing it to work rather than having some dedicated/automated/subscription thing. From a semi related astrology blogpost:
January 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The one that got recommended to me was Obsidian and I think the other guy is just using some kind of graphical application and forcing it to work rather than having some dedicated/automated/subscription thing. From a semi related astrology blogpost:
In another case of not intending to overemphasize some people, I have a somewhat rare photo of Jack Parsons here. I think that's Sara Northrup behind him and to the left in the pic, but I can't make it out clearly enough to say authoritatively.
#occultsky #thelema #witchsky
#occultsky #thelema #witchsky
January 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
In another case of not intending to overemphasize some people, I have a somewhat rare photo of Jack Parsons here. I think that's Sara Northrup behind him and to the left in the pic, but I can't make it out clearly enough to say authoritatively.
#occultsky #thelema #witchsky
#occultsky #thelema #witchsky
I SUPER don't endorse most of Motta's inheritors, but at this point Bersson (on the right) aka Fr Sphinx is just as much a part of the history of Thelema as anyone else. This is probably the least cringe photo of him that exists, now that some of the vids came down.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
December 21, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I SUPER don't endorse most of Motta's inheritors, but at this point Bersson (on the right) aka Fr Sphinx is just as much a part of the history of Thelema as anyone else. This is probably the least cringe photo of him that exists, now that some of the vids came down.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
Yet another photo of authors Lon Milo Duquette and Soror Meral (Phyllis Seckler).
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
December 17, 2024 at 1:40 AM
Yet another photo of authors Lon Milo Duquette and Soror Meral (Phyllis Seckler).
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
Had a discussion today with a peer about The Angel and I think it bears repeating that even in Abramelin, Abraham of Worms relays that the ultimate prayer must be sought out specifically by you, and can’t be taught from an external source, be it Samekh or other rites.
December 12, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Had a discussion today with a peer about The Angel and I think it bears repeating that even in Abramelin, Abraham of Worms relays that the ultimate prayer must be sought out specifically by you, and can’t be taught from an external source, be it Samekh or other rites.
Ebony Anpu, Charles Lee Reese, was an influential force in the early days of the Caliphate. He was enthusiastic, iconoclastic, and more than a little chaotic, serving as Grand Secretary General of the OTO in the Grady years. In Apr of 1999, he died of an asthma attack.
#witchsky #occultsky #thelema
#witchsky #occultsky #thelema
December 1, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Ebony Anpu, Charles Lee Reese, was an influential force in the early days of the Caliphate. He was enthusiastic, iconoclastic, and more than a little chaotic, serving as Grand Secretary General of the OTO in the Grady years. In Apr of 1999, he died of an asthma attack.
#witchsky #occultsky #thelema
#witchsky #occultsky #thelema
This but unironically. History of Science courses should absolutely be spending more time on the experimental basis of alchemy, and the operative insights those experiments produced.
December 1, 2024 at 9:26 PM
This but unironically. History of Science courses should absolutely be spending more time on the experimental basis of alchemy, and the operative insights those experiments produced.
Jeeze, someone tag the Warburg.
Ransom Center archive is here, btw. Go give them a follow.
Ransom Center archive is here, btw. Go give them a follow.
November 29, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Jeeze, someone tag the Warburg.
Ransom Center archive is here, btw. Go give them a follow.
Ransom Center archive is here, btw. Go give them a follow.
Be sure to pass these out at Gnostic Mass. Call that a Bavarian Initiation Drill.
November 26, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Be sure to pass these out at Gnostic Mass. Call that a Bavarian Initiation Drill.
Image from the Motta trial. It was here that Grady McMurtry was legally recognized as the inheritor of Crowley's organization, at least over and against Motta's claims.
Grady would soon pass away.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
Grady would soon pass away.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
November 24, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Image from the Motta trial. It was here that Grady McMurtry was legally recognized as the inheritor of Crowley's organization, at least over and against Motta's claims.
Grady would soon pass away.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
Grady would soon pass away.
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
@hermetic.com found it.
It is in the same source as the Everitt quotes, but for some reason he leaves the interesting bits out.
Pic related, 18 Nov 1928, Crowley to Yorke, Yorke defers to customs, Crowley only mentions Mudd. AC loved to unfairly punch down on Mudd, goofy as he was, so who knows.
It is in the same source as the Everitt quotes, but for some reason he leaves the interesting bits out.
Pic related, 18 Nov 1928, Crowley to Yorke, Yorke defers to customs, Crowley only mentions Mudd. AC loved to unfairly punch down on Mudd, goofy as he was, so who knows.
November 24, 2024 at 4:37 PM
@hermetic.com found it.
It is in the same source as the Everitt quotes, but for some reason he leaves the interesting bits out.
Pic related, 18 Nov 1928, Crowley to Yorke, Yorke defers to customs, Crowley only mentions Mudd. AC loved to unfairly punch down on Mudd, goofy as he was, so who knows.
It is in the same source as the Everitt quotes, but for some reason he leaves the interesting bits out.
Pic related, 18 Nov 1928, Crowley to Yorke, Yorke defers to customs, Crowley only mentions Mudd. AC loved to unfairly punch down on Mudd, goofy as he was, so who knows.
Euclydes Lacerda de Almeida foi um Thelemita brasileiro considerado por muitos como o herdeiro de Motta na América do Sul. A base que ele lançou continua a ter profunda influência sobre Thelema no Brasil.
(Translated with google, pardon errors)
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
(Translated with google, pardon errors)
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
November 22, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Euclydes Lacerda de Almeida foi um Thelemita brasileiro considerado por muitos como o herdeiro de Motta na América do Sul. A base que ele lançou continua a ter profunda influência sobre Thelema no Brasil.
(Translated with google, pardon errors)
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
(Translated with google, pardon errors)
#occultsky #witchsky #thelema
Looks like Marco Visconti instablocked me when I tried to bring up his retrograde opinions about Indigenous genetic content. Maybe white Europeans should keep these kinds of essentializing racial tropes out of their fucking mouths.
November 21, 2024 at 12:11 PM
Looks like Marco Visconti instablocked me when I tried to bring up his retrograde opinions about Indigenous genetic content. Maybe white Europeans should keep these kinds of essentializing racial tropes out of their fucking mouths.