Today Is The 261st Birthday Of Georges Auguste ”Aristide” Couthon!

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In alchemy and philosophy, prima materia, materia prima or first matter (for a philosophical exposition refer to: Prime Matter), is the ubiquitous starting material required for the alchemical magnum opus and the creation of the philosopher's stone. It is the primitive formless base of all matter similar to chaos, the quintessence or aether. Esoteric alchemists describe the prima materia using simile, and compare it to concepts like the anima mundi.

there is love in this story. even in its most brutal end. there is love in the story. how? where? here: here in me telling it to you, in spite of everything. because of everything.

break my arms around the one i love

poem: Shauna Barbosa GPS art: @mmelodyj / unknown / Ainslie Hogarth Motherthing / Keaton St. James HISTORY STUDENT FALLS IN LOVE WITH ASTRO PHYSICS STUDENT / @555w4 / unknown / Ada Limón The Good Fight / @sunsbleeding

the man-god: demons by fyodor dostoyevksy

“Interior” - John Sten

a little poem for Robespierre

François Boucher (1703–1770), Vulcan Presenting Arms to Venus for Aeneas (details)

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JMW Turner, ‘The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons’ (c.1834)