A. Kircher,
Ars magna lucis,
Roma, 1665
Billets comportant le tag kabbale
Alchemical subject i painted on a coffee washed paper. The original was on a big painting in my grandmother house, it would be a cool tattoo, maybe, in the future.
“When a person, by means of his studies, reaches the level at which he wants nothing but spiritual elevation and at which he accepts only the bare necessities of life in order to sustain his physical existence, not for pleasure’s sake, this is the first step of his ascent to the spiritual world.”
— Talmud, Psachim
Shema Israël, Adonaï Eloheinou, Adonaï Echad.
Please, would you tell me what does it say ?
Johann Georg Hagelgans, “Cabalistic map”, Sphaera Coelestis Mystica, gravure couleur à la main, 1739
Johann Georg Hagelgans, ‘Cabalistic map’, Sphaera Coelestis Mystica, hand colored engraving, 1739 (via Cornell Library)
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E. Pochet, ‘Les Sept Merveilles Du Monde [The Seven Wonders of the World]’, from Éliphas Lévi’s Historie de la Magie, lithograph, 1860 (via Cornell Library)](http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/dbgfx/800/F041-003.jpg)
E. Pochet, ‘Les Sept Merveilles Du Monde [The Seven Wonders of the World]’, from Éliphas Lévi’s Historie de la Magie, lithograph, 1860 (via Cornell Library)
