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Frontispiece to Jean Puget de la Serre, ‘The Mirrour which Flatters not.’(1639 - Engraving) - by John Payne

The beautiful Cae Mabon in north Wales looks like a real fairytale village. All the buildings are made out of sustainable local materials, like wood, earth, clay and straw.

Gustav Klimt - Hygieia

Vivien and Merlin (Illustration for Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King), detail 1868 engraving Ed. Orig. Lic. Ed.

Gustave Moreau, Phaeton, 1878

Julia Margaret Cameron, Vivien and Merlin from Illustrations to Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’, Volume I, 1874.

Frank Dicksee  La Belle Dame sans Merci, 1902

One of the first characteristic results of this is enlightenment, illumination, as the ancients called it, a change of consciousness. New possibilities of consciousness then awaken. These already existed potentially in the system, but were unable to come to life until that moment. However, as soon as the new possibilities of consciousness become active, intellectuality recedes and wisdom is born.

John Keats (via entombedreverie)

Hamadryads are tree nymphs of Greek mythology.

BnF, Latin 9333, fol. 37r

“The fire that blazed in his eyes rivalled the rays of the sun” (Balzac, Séraphîta).

Acrylics on paper, 38.4 x 26.4 cm

Rudy Francisco  (via ancient-serpent)