Category Archives: The Sacred

(Fragment)

Unknown GermanThe Archangel Gabriel (fragment) Columbus Museum of Art

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Torment & Relief

You are altogether lovely and merry, you refresh and console, you nourish and unite, you are torment and relief, effort and rest, death and life in one, — Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi

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Straightaway

Those who her eye alighteth upon are straightaway filled with Desire, false Virtue is stripped from them and their souls swept in a shoal towards her all-enfolding Shadow.

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So Good

her sacralityher sexualityher esoteric aspecther erotic aspect

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The Wheel

The wheel turning queenTurns the gleaming wheelThe wheel of charmsFollow the wheelRevolving with noBeginning and no endThe wheel of becomingEncircling allDesire is the hub of the wheelCrafting Soul on the wheelRevolving around female energyThe turning that leads to blissThe transmission … Continue reading

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The High Goddess

This statue, known as the Lady of Trikomo, dates from the mid-6th century BC. In all probability it is a statue of the High Goddess of Cyprus. Louvre

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Virgin of the Annunciation

STARNINA, Gherardo di Jacopo c. 1410 Tempera on poplar panel, gold ground, 50 x 40 cm Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon

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Way

She was far and near High and low Present and yet hidden She made herself accessible Yet no one could grasp her — Heinrich Seuse (ca. 1295-1366)

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Babe of the Apocalypse

Jayci Cumberledge, 23, of Amherst, Ohio Photo: Da’Shaunae Marisa for The New York Times She has since made some money by selling pictures of her feet to people with fetishes who found her online after she put a joking post … Continue reading

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Tree Spirit Deity (Yakshi)

1st–2nd century Culture:India (Uttar Pradesh, Mathura region) the met

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