‘Pan was always friendly to Man. That’s you and me you know. We may have changed a lot these last two thousand years; but that’s you and me still. Why, I’d let him come nosing in.’ — Lord Dunsany, ‘The Blessing of Pan’ (1926)

How could 'Artificial Intelligence' create a sense of wonder? Anything it produces is a hollow recreation. Nothing can replace the skill of an artist such as Virgil Finlay whose work graces 'Fantastic Mysteries' with a pulp mysticism that cannot be replicated.

‘There are living souls which, by the energeia of their love, communicate life to everything that comes near them. And there are souls which, beneath an external appearance of life, are dead, and congeal into their own death everything they come near.’ HENRY CORBIN Art: by

Seen on my walk today…

17th century painted glass

“In the olden days there were men who saw the face of God. Why don’t they any more? — Because nowadays no one can stoop so low. One must stoop a little in order to fetch water from the stream.” — Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections

"The average citizen likes to compare the dreamer to a madman. The average citizen is right in feeling that he would immediately go mad if, like the artist, the man of religion, the philosopher, he allowed himself to become acquainted with the abyss within him. .. Hermann Hesse

“The true Christians wage no war, for they have shattered the cherub’s sword in Christ’s death and have died in Christ and risen in him, and no longer live to outward might and dominion, for their realm is revealed in Christ and is not of this world.” JAKOB BOEHME (1575-1624)

“Christianity slumbers and has neglected to develop its myth further…Those who gave expression to the dark stirrings of growth in mythic ideas were refused a hearing; Joachim of Flora, Meister Eckhart and Jacob Boehme…Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.” CARL JUNG

It’s Sunday and ‘Scary Jesus’ says hello ‘I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.’ Revelation 5:6

It’s Sunday and Scary Jesus says ‘Don’t be baaad’ ‘I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.’ Revelation 5:6

‘There is an occult law which decrees that one who is ready for initiation is drawn to a certain door..many pass by without noticing ..Others, who are not ready, plunge headlong into an abyss and the door closes behind them’. KENNETH GRANT Art: Phil Phil

The real answers always come from within, in the silent stillness; not from the shopping mall or from some external authority, neither of which can ever satisfy us Art: The Flame of Contemplation Laura Makabresku

‘The modern world is desacralized, that is why it is in a crisis. Modern man must rediscover a deeper source of his own spiritual life. To do this, he is obliged to struggle with evil, to confront his shadow, to integrate the devil.’ CARL JUNG [CG Jung Speaking] Art: Pyres of

‘And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a

LET PAN RETURN ‘Gradually, men moved into cities. And they loved the display of people better than the display of a tree. They liked the glory they got of overpowering one another in war. And above all, they loved the vainglory of their own words, the pomp of argument and the

Moon by Hans Thoma, c. 1906

I bought this book more than three decades ago. Perusing it again these days I remember how I read about antediluvian flood myths, the unknown alien great chthonic gods, and very strange hidden mystery cults. Classic Lovecraftiana, these days this book is almost unknown.

“The beautiful and noble SOPHIA [holy wisdom] will be given to your soul as spouse, she now stands before your soul’s door and calls out to you imploringly with her voice and knocks” JAKOB BOEHME (1575-1624) Art: Alchemist by Victoria Olt

Milton’s Paradise Lost illustrated by Gustave Dore, 1885