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Gustave Doré  - Satan Resting On The Mountain

Sir Thomas Lawrence - Satan Summoning His Legions

Johann Heinrich Füssli - Satanischer Aufruf an den Belzebub im Höllenfeuer

William Hogarth - Satan, Sin and Death

Johann Heinrich Füssli - Sin intercedes between Satan and Death

William Blake - Satan Calling up His Legions

Lelio Orsi - Saint Miguel subduing Satan and weighing the Souls of the Dead

Jean Delville - Les Trésors de Satan

Antoine Wiertz - Satan (detail)

Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923) 

American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City. He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald’s translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. (Wikipedia)

How deep does the hole go?

most of the animation studios had their ‘thing’ to make their animation stand out, disney had fluid motion linked with quality music, warner brothers had top notch dialogue with carefully crafted facial expressions, MGM had comedic timing down to the individual frame that no live action comedian could dream of achieving, terrytoons had the budget of a ham sandwitch and a fistfull of nickels fleischer studios however had authentic jazz and heavy toned subject matter, often crossing the line of what we think of as ‘cartoon violence’ into realistic

I love watching the sun leak through the surface of the ocean 

Why is everyone so ready to think the worst is over?

Hath drunk God’s Blood from out the Cup

Of Iblis and the Blessed Few

That with Eve’s brood refuse to sup.

Ye Children of fair Lilith born,

Come tread the Path of Blame and Scorn,

For you, from Hell, have fallen … Up!

First, become more carefully aware of the content and rhythm of the voices inside. What are their regular, unhealthy remarks and devastating comments? What do they sound like? What do they feel like? Begin to study how much pain they cause you. Feel how they take you over and how they hurt. When do they come out most strongly, day or night? What situations provoke them? Social occasions, family time, partners, competitive situations, work or leisure? Do they criticize your body, your mind, your actions, your whole being? Notice the particular phrases and destructive, unhealthy perspective, the judgment, the shame, the self-denigration they engender.

Now, create a true antidote, a phrase or two or three, that completely transforms the falsehood of these unhealthy thoughts. Let the phrases be the healthiest words you can find, even if you don’t believe them at first. They can be as simple as “Life is precious” or “I will use this day well.” Or they can express the healthy opposite of thoughts of shame: “I will live with nobility and dignity .” Or the opposite of anxiety: “I will live my life with trust.”

That was the moment I saw beyond myself. My pain was selfish. Because it was never only mine. For everybody in this place there was someone who mourned their loss. Even if they didn’t know why. We were all bound together. The living and the damned.