Sigilheart

The nested circles of the Great Chain of Being that represents the worldview of all pre-modern cultures

Austin Osman Spare

The Atomic Ladder of Life, from solid to liquid to gaseous to etheric to spirit.  From The Gate Beautiful by John Ward Stimson, 1903.

This Icelandic manuscript of magic, known as the “Huld” manuscript, presumably derives its name from the word “hulda” meaning secrecy, and was compiled from three older sources by Geir Vigfússon in 1860. These ten selected pages from the manuscript feature “stafir,” or what we might call sigils today.

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Folk figures, Lucie on the left, Barbora on the right (From the Ethnographic Museum in Prague)

Frank Close, Lucifer’s Legacy: The Meaning of Asymmetry

In 1561 an innkeeper called Hew Draper was imprisoned in the Tower of London for sorcery. Whilst incarcerated he made these carvings in the walls which displayed astrological symbols and numbers.

From Blue and red light: or, Light and its rays as medicine; showing that light is the original and sole source of life, as it is the source of all the physical and vital forces in nature and that light is nature’s own and only remedy for disease by Seth Pancoast, 1877.

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Carl Jung, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Volume 8)