ON HIATUS

The Seeker (c. 2015 - Ink on paper) - by sepraven

#death ticket

Mother of Hearts, Adrian Baxter.

Memento Mori - Finis Coronat Opvs

Delicious details [1] from #follower of Hieronymous Bosch!  #monsters, #diabolical figures, angels and saints that populate his drawings and panels. His characteristic work, full of illusions and hallucinations, peculiar #freaks and #nightmares, inimitably represents the major themes of his time: #temptation, #sin and reckoning. #art

I’ve been playing yandere simulator too much lately.

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Gershom Scholem - Alphabet of Metatron, “Origins of the Kabbalah”, 1990. Gershom Scholem, the late great scholar of Jewish Mysticism, maintained the “Alphabet of Metatron, the celestial scribe,” to be the oldest of these angelic alphabets, which he mentioned “is preserved in many manuscripts and came to the German Hasidim with the Babylonian Merkabah material”. Whilst the “Alphabet of Metatron” is perhaps more employed for mystical/contemplative rather than magical/talismanic purposes, a closer investigation of the form of its component glyphs indicates that these magical alphabets are not composed of randomly chosen signs. In fact, judging the detailed analysis of this alphabet in a commentary which Scholem thought might have “derived from the pen of Eleazar of Worms”, it appears that each glyph is loaded with meaning. Unfortunately, detailed delineations of Hebrew based magical alphabets are rare, and since we have really only one such analysis of a magical alphabet, i.e. the “Alphabet of Metatron” (Weinstock, I.: Temirin: Mekorot u-Mech’karim b’Kabbalah v’Chasidut, Mosad ha-Rav Kook, 1972), which was written by an anonymous author some centuries back, we are still in the dark as to the primary reasoning behind the construction of most of these magical alphabets.