Sonntag, Oktober 22


One of the oils is a striking 40 x 60-inch painting of Allan Campbell's alleged spirit guide, Azur (figure 3). It was produced on June 15, 1898, in a single sitting lasting only an hour and a half. In a signed statement, six witnesses (all of them apparently spiritualists, some of them prominent) described the conditions under which the picture was produced:
On the evening mentioned we met at the cottage of the Campbell Brothers on the hill and proceeded to their Egyptian séance room. Across the bay window at the end of the room was hung a large silk curtain, where stood a small table and a canvas 40"360". Each one in turn went up to the canvas and magnetized it by passing his hands over the surface. We then placed whatever marks we pleased on the back, some placing names, some numbers, some marks to suit their fancy. Mr. A. Campbell then invited one of the circle to sit with him in the impromptu cabinet and the silken curtain enclosing them; each member of the circle in turn sat within the cabinet with Mr. Campbell. Every time the curtain was withdrawn we saw the partly finished picture of Azur. During the entire séance there was light enough for us to see everything perfectly and note the gradual growth of the painting on the canvas. Mr. A. Campbell was entranced and Azur, using his organism, gave us some very beautiful words of welcome and lessons of a high order. He spoke of the stars and their significance, which we fully realized afterwards.
After some music, additional lights were brought, the curtain withdrawn, and lo! The picture was complete. It represented Azur with arms uplifted as in the act of speaking and fully life size. While we were admiring it, there came at the back of the head a six-pointed star, which is now distinctly seen. (Prendergast et al. 1989)
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THANKS M.E.

Samstag, Oktober 21

09/23/06




AS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF A.S.
THANK YOU

Donnerstag, Oktober 19



In view of the wonder of the Hubble Telescope,
How signifigant are our tribulations?



And now let us consider how the initial difficulty of fastening the interest on that which is unseen is to be overcome. Our gross senses refer only to that which is objective in the ordinary sense of the word; but just beyond this field of life there are finer sensations which appeal to finer senses. Here we find the first clew to the stepping-stones we need. Man looks from this point of view like a point where many rays or lines center; and if he has the courage or the interest to detach himself from the simplest form of life, the point, and explore but a little way along these lines or rays, his whole being at once inevitably widens and expands, the man begins to grow in greatness.
-Mabel Collins, Through The Gates of Gold 1887





Arising
then
Passing



Bhagavan Das

Dienstag, Oktober 17

PUTTING FORWARD





An old chronicle. To seek out the upright. No fall but proceeded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his return. Eyes closed, arms soaring. Upright to what? Something nameless in the night, lode or matrix. To which he and the stars were common satellite. Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must.

Montag, Oktober 16

Sonntag, Oktober 15

EVENING OF PERSONAL HEROES


October 7th, 2006, 20:15 Lincoln Center (NY Film Festival)
Kenneth Anger presenting 35mm blow up restorations of Rabbit's Moon, Fireworks, Scorpio Rising and Kustom Kar Kommandos.


October 8th, 2006, 0:00 Lincoln Center (NY Film Festival)
Alejandro Jodorowsky presenting The Holy Mountain



Eternal Gratitudes to A.W. and M.M. for making it happen!

Freitag, Oktober 13

IKLIMLER/CLIMATES


written & directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Dienstag, Oktober 3

THE FIRST LETTER




There are a good number of excellent art shows in Chelsea (some noteable faves included Steve Claydon's at White Columns, Keegan Mchargue's at Metro Pictures, Small Sculptures at Matthew Mark's and Barnaby Furnas at Marianne Boesky). But the best thing I saw was the Aleph Air van promoting the Kabbalistic Sephirot.

Sonntag, Oktober 1

INACCESSIBLES



MANUALE EXORCISMORUM:
CONTINENS INSTRUCTIONES, & EXORCISMOS AD EFICIENDOS È CORPORIBUS OBSESSIS SPIRITUS MALIGNOS, & AD QUOEUIS MALEFICIA DEPELLENDA, & AD QUASCUMQUE INFESTATIONES DOEMONIUM REPRIMENDAS.
By R. D. Maximiliani Eynatten
First Edition (?), Platin, Antwerp 1626


MAGICA SEXUALIS
Mystic Love Books of Black Arts and Secret Sciences
By Emilie Lauret & Paul Nagour
First Edition 1934
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