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Maggie Smith, from a poem titled "Self-Portrait as an Incomplete List of Mysteries," featured in A Suit or a Suitcase: Poems

The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, photo by Rodrigo Brito

Andrea Pozzi

Athanasius Kircher - The Seventy-Two Names of God, “Oedipus Aegyptiacus”, 1652. The Shemhamphorasch (שם המפורש)) is an originally Tannaitic term describing a hidden name of God in Kabbalah composed of either 4, 12, 22, 42, or 72 letters (or triads of letters).  The “72-fold name” is highly important to Sefer Raziel, and a key (but often missing) component to the magical practices in The Lesser Key of Solomon. It is derived from Exodus 14:19-21, read boustrophedonically to produce 72 names of three letters. Kabbalist and occultist legends state that the 72-fold name was used by Moses to cross the Red Sea, and that it can grant later holymen the power to control demons, heal the sick, prevent natural disasters, and even kill enemies.

October 

Jusepe de Ribera - Mary Magdalene in meditation (1623)

Jongsook Kim: Utopia 10 (2012) mixed media on canvas, made with Swarovski's cut crystals

Vampire Metamorphosis ll, Takato Yamamoto

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) — "Cosmic Egg" [oil on canvas, 1917]

by Yi-Kai Tea