Blessed be.
Velumbound.
(A lone voice whispers)
Are these hard-to-find transmissions merely sacred whispers cloaked in secrecy?
Concealed within cyphers and veiled in metaphor?
Through deliberate compositions, subtle expressions, and symbolic gestures, do their layered themes beckon the curious?
To immerse themselves in an esoteric visual language decipherable only by the newly initiated?
Perhaps this modern esotericism is not a singular movement, but a vast umbrella gathering all of culture’s "rejected knowledge" that lies beyond the pale of mainstream science and orthodoxy.
Grappling even with eternal questions like life after death, is this a misunderstood lineage?
Encompassing alchemy, astrology, theosophy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and even the occult.
Uniting under its outsider status, stories and histories of persecution.
Through visual art, do they explore, elucidate, and transmit to initiates centuries of inquiry?
From the forging of the philosopher’s stone and rituals for love or unseen power.
To the secret names and foundational laws governing reality itself.
Is that why you're here?
Do you seek more than the mundane?
Do you want to get wet walking in a new rain?
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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