The Hermetic Arcane

Christophe Charbonnel - Cernunnos

'The Silent Voice' by Gerald Moira, c. 1893.

from The British Museum

Mandragora, 15th century 

A key to physic, and the occult sciences, 1794  

Prometheus (Gustave Moreau, 1868)

Rossiana, papers and documents relating to the history and genealogy of the ancient and noble house of Ross, of Ross-shire, Scotland, 1908

Quatremère de Quincy, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, 1815

photo by: Jonathan Barnhill

Hatshepsut’s Red Temple, currently presiding in Luxor, in the Karnak Temple Complex. Although never finished and deconstructed after the end of Hatshepsut’s reign, it has been rebuilt now; at least what remains of it. It’s rather small and has no roof now, but the basalt basin shows clearly its’ purifying uses, as in the back exit, small canals were built into the steps to let water run off. The red stone of the temple shrine glitters in the sun, outlined by rich black doorways.

Franz Hartmann, Magic, white and black, 1910

Fans of vintage fairy tale imagery will find over a thousand illustrations in my collection.

Hervör wakes her father Angantýr's ghost from his barrow to demand the cursed sword (Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, 1783 - 1816)

Rosa Mystica (the Mystic Rose) 🌹 Talon Abraxas

Here stands the mean, uncomely stone, ‘Tis very cheap in price! The more it is despised by fools, The more loved by the wise. 

Jacques Verbeckt, Musée du Louvre, Paris