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you rustle in the night, dark mother. you rattle, you whistle, you whisper. you shiver and you sway, and your hair engulfs the silver moon.
the throne of the sun will be golden and silent, glistening in the dancing air. but not yet, not yet! you howl, you sing, you wail, crossroads and scythe, the barking of dogs.
oh winter mother, death beloved, your sharp fingers pry open the night, your breath tears the skies apart. a grin cuts through the stillness of the dark. blood rushes to the fingertips.
“Magically composed works can convey many ‘texts’ at once; a singular word can open many unseen paths. When eye meets eye in knowing it does not matter if a mask is worn.”
—
Andrew Chumbley
‘Wild Woman riding a Unicorn’ from am unknown German artist from 15th century known as the “Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet”, (1475)
the boiling of the king
in a copy of the alchemical treatise "splendor solis", germany, c. 1577
source: Paris, BnF, ms. allemand 113, fol. 23v
“By virtue of its assimilative power beyond the confines of mortal self-hood, the Transmutative Mind is, in each moment of Being, renewed & transformed through a continual integration of all Otherness. This is accomplished by the immediate correlation & cohesion of ingressing experiences & thoughts to negate all past syntheses in consciousness without attachment to identity or object. This negation, being sufficient to maintain an openness of Mind or ‘Receptive Void’, is thus potent to create ever new synthesis & thus maintain a Non-modality of Being in the Perpetuity of Pure Thought. By Rite, Contemplation & Arcana, & in manner akin to the Apotheosis of the Shape-shifters Arte, the Mind herein attains focus’d motility from state unto state through a Knowing Pageant of Selves & thus is possessed of an ever-changing current of Divine Inspiration. Such inspiration bestows the transcendence of mortal noetic awareness & if granted, by the Grace of Our Daimonic Muse, unto an intuitive & magically guided intellect, it is the Natural Innocence, Insatiate Curiousity & Indomitable Wisdom of the Eternal Child-God. Verily, by this Arcanum cometh the Heresiarch’s Joy: the paneclecticism of the True Sorcerous Ethos.”
— Andrew Chumble\Azoetia
“Most gods have roots. And sometimes a god is a plant that uses men to dream.”
— Sophie Strand, The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine
Tuesday Riddell — Fuscia Snake (23.5 karat gold leaf, silver leaf, gold & silver powder, pigment and paint on lacquered board, 2022)
The sorcerers of the Middle Ages still associated Saturn with the ancient Horned God of Midwinter: ’a Saturnian planetary image consisted of a man with a Stag’s head, Camel’s feet, on a throne or on a Dragon, with a Sickle in the right hand, an Arrow in the left.’
- Masks of Misrule, Nigel Jackson
A hymn of praise for Nija
By Długosz called as the Polish Pluton. Etymology of the name "Nija/Nyja'' is derived most likely from the Old Polish verb "nyć" – "to weaken, to wither, to die". Szymon Matusiak in "Olimp podług Długosza'' derives his name from "niega" – "pleasure", and assumes that most scholars incorrectly read the name "Nya" (in original text).
The name "Veles/Volos" is not attested in Poland, the Proto-Slavic forms are reconstructed as *Velesъ or *Velsъ/*Volsъ and that would give in Polish "Wielos" and "Wlos" respectively.
He (Matusiak) argues that the letter y should be read as g, and because the letter g was used to transcribe the phoneme /j/, scribes seeing the word Ni(e)ga could write it as Nya or Niia, which would give the reading of Nija/Nya, but to Matusiak this reading is wrong as he doesn't see in the word Nija/Nyja an attested name, like he derived Jesza as a diminutive form of Jarowit. Niega on the other hand is attested in names: Niegosław etc. So according to Matusiak the reconstructed name of "Nya" would be Niega, which in Old Polish means "pleasure", and his full name would be: Niegowit – "Lord of Pleasure''.
I saw a post some time ago about a non Cultus Sabbati reading list for Sabbatic Craft,, might make one to get the brain moving
Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language. One would like to learn this language, but who can teach and learn it? Scholarliness alone is not enough; there is a knowledge of the heart that gives deeper insight.
The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not to be found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows out of you like the green seed from the dark earth.
- C.G Jung, The Red Book -
Hi! Sorry to disturb you. Are there any books or articles you would suggest to aid in understanding the Azoetia? I have little trouble with the words themselves but often struggle with the subtler meanings.
I haven't seen any primers on Azoetia. To get the subtler aspects of it, you might start to construct your own practice based on his example (Azoetia is an example of a personal practice grimoire and how it was built working with spirits). I'd suggest to try the automatic writing and drawing to begin with to create your pwn similar personal practice. I find it helps to examine his sources, if you can track down some of Austin Ozman Spare's books on automatic writing, drawing, the alphabet of desire and the witches sabbath. I find those are key among his many writings to help with Azoetia..