Occultism
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Art, Law, Ethnology, Religious Studies. Kind of a notebook.
My Art account: @occultaluce.bsky.social
Classical Art account: @occultclassicalart.bsky.social
My Art account: @occultaluce.bsky.social
Classical Art account: @occultclassicalart.bsky.social
BW Edit after anonymous (Munt met een halo van elektrische stroom, c. 1893 - in or before 1898) (Rijksmuseum, Acc. RP-F-2001-7-968-1-15)
#art #electricity
#art #electricity
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
BW Edit after anonymous (Munt met een halo van elektrische stroom, c. 1893 - in or before 1898) (Rijksmuseum, Acc. RP-F-2001-7-968-1-15)
#art #electricity
#art #electricity
Edit after Parthian artist of ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE (Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
#art
#art
August 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Edit after Parthian artist of ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE (Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
#art
#art
Edit after Roman artist of the Imperial period (Carnelian intaglio: Lion-headed serpent) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
#ancientart #gnosticism
#ancientart #gnosticism
June 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Edit after Roman artist of the Imperial period (Carnelian intaglio: Lion-headed serpent) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
#ancientart #gnosticism
#ancientart #gnosticism
Edit after a photo by Marcel Gustave Laverdet (Terracotta sculptuur van het hoofd van Medusa met vleugels) (Rijksmuseum)
#ancientart #medusa
#ancientart #medusa
June 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Edit after a photo by Marcel Gustave Laverdet (Terracotta sculptuur van het hoofd van Medusa met vleugels) (Rijksmuseum)
#ancientart #medusa
#ancientart #medusa
If society were an organism, the laws would probably be the feet on which it stands. But it would be evident at the same time that both the hands and the head would be far from them, not to mention the soul
May 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If society were an organism, the laws would probably be the feet on which it stands. But it would be evident at the same time that both the hands and the head would be far from them, not to mention the soul
The fact is that we are always faced with the sacred. It can manifest itself in disguised forms, its light can vary, but it is always there.
This has little to do with religious forms, much more with the rather informal realm of the supernatural
This has little to do with religious forms, much more with the rather informal realm of the supernatural
February 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The fact is that we are always faced with the sacred. It can manifest itself in disguised forms, its light can vary, but it is always there.
This has little to do with religious forms, much more with the rather informal realm of the supernatural
This has little to do with religious forms, much more with the rather informal realm of the supernatural
Regardless of the technical level, any artistic activity makes one very similar to psychics, so the darker the historical period, the more likely it is that the art produced will be dark
February 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Regardless of the technical level, any artistic activity makes one very similar to psychics, so the darker the historical period, the more likely it is that the art produced will be dark
Deep down, all human history is a very long movement of the soul aimed at emerging from the history itself, at challenging the gods and at (re)conquering paradise
February 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Deep down, all human history is a very long movement of the soul aimed at emerging from the history itself, at challenging the gods and at (re)conquering paradise
In Western thought, the concept of energy is incredibly underrated. Wilhelm Reich and Georges Bataille took it seriously; anyway imo they treated it (as orgone/dépense) in almost accounting terms of excess. In comparison, ideas like Kundalini or Chinese Qi go far beyond the merely quantitative
January 31, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In Western thought, the concept of energy is incredibly underrated. Wilhelm Reich and Georges Bataille took it seriously; anyway imo they treated it (as orgone/dépense) in almost accounting terms of excess. In comparison, ideas like Kundalini or Chinese Qi go far beyond the merely quantitative
The ancients had a fairly clear perception that whenever it had been necessary to outline an idea, even in its simplest formulation, they would never have had a sphere before them, but at best a knot
January 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The ancients had a fairly clear perception that whenever it had been necessary to outline an idea, even in its simplest formulation, they would never have had a sphere before them, but at best a knot
Those who desire laws that are few and simple usually forget that (in Europe) the history following the Enlightenment has shown that this desire is only a myth: in this case, in fact, the jurisprudence that applies them always increases, because human needs do not decrease by reducing the laws.
January 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Those who desire laws that are few and simple usually forget that (in Europe) the history following the Enlightenment has shown that this desire is only a myth: in this case, in fact, the jurisprudence that applies them always increases, because human needs do not decrease by reducing the laws.
The reduction to nothingness of thought/spirit that many religious traditions seem to refer to (through prayer, repetition, meditation, etc.) is never a nothingness taken in itself, but always a posterius with respect to something that was there before and that therefore left a shadow.
January 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The reduction to nothingness of thought/spirit that many religious traditions seem to refer to (through prayer, repetition, meditation, etc.) is never a nothingness taken in itself, but always a posterius with respect to something that was there before and that therefore left a shadow.
The tragedy of Western rationality is the attempt to reduce the background to the figure. Sooner or later the background demands its autonomy, it finds itself literally inside the figure and so the initial figure is dissolved
January 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The tragedy of Western rationality is the attempt to reduce the background to the figure. Sooner or later the background demands its autonomy, it finds itself literally inside the figure and so the initial figure is dissolved
People are interpreters of spirits who meet and try to understand the language of the spirit of the other one, without ever fully knowing the language of their own.
The light of the mind illuminates something. But in the end, what is actually illuminated?
The light of the mind illuminates something. But in the end, what is actually illuminated?
January 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
People are interpreters of spirits who meet and try to understand the language of the spirit of the other one, without ever fully knowing the language of their own.
The light of the mind illuminates something. But in the end, what is actually illuminated?
The light of the mind illuminates something. But in the end, what is actually illuminated?
The fact is that scientific thinking is almost certainly a subset of magical thinking (if nothing else, the first one at least has roots in the second one). This would explain why the texts of certain scholars sometimes seem like poetry
January 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The fact is that scientific thinking is almost certainly a subset of magical thinking (if nothing else, the first one at least has roots in the second one). This would explain why the texts of certain scholars sometimes seem like poetry
Art is mathematics beyond formulas
January 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Art is mathematics beyond formulas
Some time ago I formulated the idea that rituals have never disappeared and that they have only hidden themselves behind a mask of neutrality, in order to remain invisible custodians of the sacred.
Experience keeps confirming this hypothesis
Experience keeps confirming this hypothesis
January 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Some time ago I formulated the idea that rituals have never disappeared and that they have only hidden themselves behind a mask of neutrality, in order to remain invisible custodians of the sacred.
Experience keeps confirming this hypothesis
Experience keeps confirming this hypothesis
There is this article:
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, The Magico-Juridical Hypothesis, in Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2024
(it is open access)
with a very similar approach to that of 'Uscite dal Mondo' by Zolla. The difference: it places the oath and not the sacrifice as the foundation of law.
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, The Magico-Juridical Hypothesis, in Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2024
(it is open access)
with a very similar approach to that of 'Uscite dal Mondo' by Zolla. The difference: it places the oath and not the sacrifice as the foundation of law.
December 30, 2024 at 4:03 PM
There is this article:
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, The Magico-Juridical Hypothesis, in Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2024
(it is open access)
with a very similar approach to that of 'Uscite dal Mondo' by Zolla. The difference: it places the oath and not the sacrifice as the foundation of law.
Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, The Magico-Juridical Hypothesis, in Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 2024
(it is open access)
with a very similar approach to that of 'Uscite dal Mondo' by Zolla. The difference: it places the oath and not the sacrifice as the foundation of law.
Elémire Zolla, Uscite dal mondo, 1992 is another beautiful book that would deserve to be known outside of Italy. Very interesting when he says that the model of every legal procedure (even civil law) is the sacrifice, in the sense of primordial tragedy.
December 26, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Elémire Zolla, Uscite dal mondo, 1992 is another beautiful book that would deserve to be known outside of Italy. Very interesting when he says that the model of every legal procedure (even civil law) is the sacrifice, in the sense of primordial tragedy.
Pietro De Francisci, Primordia Civitatis, 1959 is a great book of ancient Roman Law that you should seriously at least browse through once in your life. Magnificent are the parts on the origin of the idea of power as dynamis and on the relationship of this with the concepts of mana and numen
December 23, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Pietro De Francisci, Primordia Civitatis, 1959 is a great book of ancient Roman Law that you should seriously at least browse through once in your life. Magnificent are the parts on the origin of the idea of power as dynamis and on the relationship of this with the concepts of mana and numen