shine on you crazy diamond

returning from kittery, maine

/ t l u c c :0: 0 :0: c c u l t \

"the tarot", according to the filmmaker and occult master, alejandro Jodorowsky, could "create a soul." folklore, mystery, magic, a gypsy traveler overlooking ones fate... the 'system' of the tarot represents many things to many people. in the most academic of scenarios, the tarot points back to eden and the ancient mysteries of 'the tree of life' - or - what is knows among theologians, theosophist, and religious practitioners alike, as the kabbalah. Aleister Crowley, despite the kabbalah's own sphere of mystery, first made clear in the early part of the 1900's the connection between these to orders or systems of information.

Aleph, the "reconstructed name of the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet" connects the "zero" to the "beginning." Representing 'truth' Aleph speaks the name of god, mathematically defined an infinite set of points. Aleph may be also revealed as the mystery of the 'occult' - that which is hidden or obscured from view, often to be made know or manifest by apocalypse - or the unveiling of mystery.

the color of the occult, according to crowley was a light-lime green. (continued)

peaceful union is the priestess

Daughter of the Mystery of the Night, the Priestess Unites the Dark with the Light, the Known with that of the Unknown. The Priestess is the ruler of light, the ruler of wisdom, but also holds the enigma of mystery. She communicates to the living as well as the dead, but she herself is the secret among secrets. She will speak in mysteries and in dreams. Throughout the ages she has been given many names, Eve, Oracle, ISIS, Sphinx, Babylon. Divine will spoken through the Feminine.

A wars being waged and the worlds just a stage

Divine will through the rage of heaven. The Emperor holds the keys to the secrets of the gateways to the eternal. Equally “non-concerned” with enlightenment or the enslavement of the world, the Divine seeks to know itself. As nations are born and decay, the Divine is moved none. To know the nature of the Emperor one must define oneself, not in or as "what one is", or with what qualities, talents, or innate sense of goodness one may posses. The Divine self is known to the degree of which one is not, cannot or will not participate in. It is only the sense of boundary, that can define an individual.

telepath

"seven is the card of strange transmutation, seven is the card of female intuition, seven is the card you know not knowing, seven is the shape of things not seen, but showing."

7 is the sacred seal

female intuiton has been known as blind justice, blind peace, but today there is no peace only telepath. telepathy is "further" knowing, as in knowing the truth from a lie.

if there is no justice, there is no truth.

7 removes truth from the void, it transmutes an occult knowledge to a more opaque resonance..

"see this in my colors..."

...searching for her child

the eye of toth as the moon

EGYPTIAN IBIS AS IMAGE OF THE STAR

new mythology of the space age

william often refered to the darker side of his character as the 'ugly spirit' - he invisioned this part of himself as a seprate entity that would, at times, attempt to invade the very essance of his being. his efferts to ward off this 'evil' spirit was, according to burroughs, a struggle which would remain for the duration of his life.

burroughs represents as the 'hermit', an inner-awairness of this 'dark' presence, its potential for self-distruction, as well as the necessity of the 'darkness' each of us as a channel for the light to travel through. when we are honest and confront the 'dark' we will come to realize that all of our fears are products of the unknown, and that the mysterious forces of life are actualy clues to an inner potential, which reflects within each individual the awesome power of the universe.

the awairness of this inner-self and its connection to the most powerful and fundamental mechanics of the universe is also an awairness of the struggle to maintain to maintain ballance. for this reason it is often necessary to withdraw from the pack, to look within, to feel that a sense of emptiness is a necessary part of the fullness of life.

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burroughs as the 'hermit'

"from idea to image" Burroughs as the quintessential 'hermit' or 'prophet' of the space age... the hermit here inhabits the L.O.D. i often wish i could have contacted burroughs when he was alive, and sometimes feel great saddness that this most brillant mind is no longer in the world. his voice was the voice of reason, the voice of time, a great gentle soft wind, a painful wisdom of the aeons, only burroughs lived... to call down the sky.


'example' of an 'idea' of the image, and then further refinement of the symbolism, atmosphere, aestetics, feelings, continuity amon the other images, etc. it's all in fluxx until it's right, and you won't know it until you see it...
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Sea Point Beach Two Views

Three Views of a Lover

portrait of the artist's father

"portrait" june 2007

sweet summer

"Front Porch and View of Neighbors House with Flag" 2007