Amoureux de la nuit et de ses profondeurs.
(In love with the night and its depth.)
— STANISLAS DE GUAITA ⚜️ La Muse Noire, (1883)
Prophetess [...] Of blood seared by the venomous spells and prestigia of desire exciting in the bend of your nocturnal throat the voracity of vampires, vast dance of nuptial gravitations.
— ROGER GILBERT-LECOMTE ⚜️ BLACK MIRROR: The Selected Poems of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, transl. by David Rattray, (2010)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Primordial Arcana (2021)
Magic is a doorway through which we step into mystery, wildness, and immanence. We live in a world subject to extensive and seemingly, all embracing systems of social and personal control that continually feed us the lie that we are each alone, helpless, and powerless to effect change. Magic is about change. Changing your circumstances so that you strive to live according to a developing sense of personal responsibility; that you can effect change around you if you choose; that we are not helpless cogs in some clockwork universe. All acts of personal/collective liberation are magical acts. Magic leads us into exhilaration and ecstasy; into insight and understanding; into changing ourselves and the world in which we participate. Through magic we may come to explore the possibilities of freedom.
Condensed Chaos
Phil Hine