New artwork...

Death Moon Rising...

 Lord of Shades...

Ancestral Manes appearing from within the Ampulla...

Phantasmagoric Passageway...

Trans-Liminal Lord of the Cross'd-Roads:

the Apotheotic Stance of Death...

*All work © Patrick J. Larabee*

PILLARS: The Ebon Kteis, Issue III...

 

Keep an eye open for the forthcoming issue of Pillars: The Ebon Kteis from Anathema Publishing:

Anathema Publishing 

I have, once again, the fortunate opportunity to be featured amongst the pages of this exciting journal. Always look forward to the release of this one.

My contribution features an essay, The Verdant Palace: The Heart of Nature in Man, along with some sigillic illustrations to accompany the written piece.

New series... TOTEMIC.

A new series 'Totemic' that is currently in progress will portray a number of totemic and allied spiritual entities that relate specifically to areas of folk tradition and the Traditional Witchcraft and Sorcerous currents...

 Totemic I: Cervus....

Totemic II: Lepus...

 

Images are © Patrick Larabee & Shadows of Midnight.

The birth of my being...

 

 

"O' thou Creatrix Divine...

From the umbral heart of thy void-body sublime

thou hast ripped the univeral-mind.

All light that by the outer-darkness was defined,

and within thy expansive sprawl thou dids't decree:

I am the Whole and I am the All, aught that is...

IS within thy soul's nocturnal thrall.

From out of thy non-being sprung forth a desire-cosmic,

that aching moment of division wrought...

...to weave a web, mysterious and cryptic,

whereupon each thread-path back to thy spirit is brought!"

** Image and text © Patrick John Larabee

Text is from a forthcoming work titled The Vulvic Trans-Missionary. 

Ikonic Triumvirate of Eidolonaic Visions...

~ Dar-Akh-Qayin: Lepunae ~

 ...

"I call out into the Darkness and Spaces In-Between.
To you QAYIN, master of Flame.
Brother in the Twilight Artes of Magick Arcane,
Father of the Bloodlines, both Spirit and Flesh,
like two Serpents Twain!"

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~ Lilith-Aridatha ~

 ...

"Ah Lilith! Lady of the Starry Heavens,
and Mother of the Wise-blooded Cunning-folk
sprung forth from the Seed of Qayin.
I call out to Thee in the Desolate Places of
Wilderness: let Thy Spirit of Fire emanate from
above and illuminate the Earthly Circle
of mine own Arte!"

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 ~ Azazel-Ha-Arava ~

 ...

"O' Lord of Fire-Burning Brightness, Azazel!
I call Thee forth from the Outer-Most-Regions of the Red Deserts of
Forbidden Knowledge, Forgotten Thoughts, and Forsaken Desires.
Through the Wastes of Dudael, beyond the very Edges of the Earth,

my Voice is heard and unto You I beckon, listen to the Words." 

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* Images and text ©Patrick J. Larabee and Aeon Sophia Press.

Text is from my book Whisperings from the Void & images are from an unpublished manuscript.

 

 

Anathema Publishing presents Pillars II: The Golden Etir...

Once again, we have been presented with another stunningly crafted and gloriously sublime edition of Pillars Journal from Anathema Publishing. Throughout its pages one sees a beautiful array of powerful and iconic imagery set amongst numerous essays, articles, and ritual pieces on various aspects of what in common parlance has been termed the Luciferian Path. These wonderfully interwoven images and written works, a fusion of art and The Arte, have come together in Issue 2 of the First Volume of Pillars as The Golden Etir.

It is obvious that every measure was to taken to ensure that this edition would surpass its predecessor, and also initial release from Anathema Publishing, with painstaking detail and glorious layout and design. As befits this issue it has been emblazoned with golden metallic imprints on the cover and spine to reveal the luminosity and enlightenment that comes from drinking deeply of the Divine Poison. 

Many writers and artists grace it pages, some known well and others only just coming from out of the shadows to reveal their amazing visions to us. You will not be disappointed with what this journal has to offer. Have a look for yourself at the list of contributors and contents...

I was pleased to have, once again, been accepted to have my work featured amongst its pages by way of a written and illustrated ritual text and commentary titled 'The Luminous Masquerade of Qayin: Multifarious Adorations unto the Shadow of the Night'. Also, it was a great surprise when I was asked to contribute a small piece of artwork I had done to be featured on a carton card bookmark that is to be included with all copies of Pillars II: The Golden Etir.

 Bookmark to accompany all copies of Pillars II.

A small peek within its pages.

A look at the loose pages from the proof copy. Here you can see works from 

myself, to the left, and to the right, are shown a glance of pieces contributed 

by Nicholaj De Mattos Frisvold, CM Vaenus Obscura, and Ash Nostro Morg.

Along with this copy and for contributors only there was blended an incense by the cunning hands of Xonia Abyssos from Teufelskunst. There are however "plans to make available a limited batch together with a signed art print illustrating and evoking the different aspects of our incensus from Teufelskunst" for those interested in obtaining some for themselves. 

This issue has been printed to a limited number of 230 copies, 30 of which will be going to contributors, and from what information I have there are only near half remaining for purchase. So it would be wise to grab a copy before they are sold out completely. To obtain a copy of this exquisite journal for yourself, please follow the link provided below:

Anathema Publishing

  Pillars II: The Golden Etir 

"Germane to the Dissolution, Incineration and Amalgation of the Golden Mean into the very-tincture of The Soul, The Flesh and The Spiritual Blood; Unified so as to fashion each own Philosopher’s Stone, The Apple & The Poison of Old, & hence honour with Words, Deeds & Will, under the royal auspice of Lord LuxFerre, Our Great Mother; Sapientia Alchimique.

Semantics and symbolism have always been used as a method of transferance from one restricted point of perception toward a more exalted objective view of the (w)hole. In this respect, ancient symbols have proven most efficient a Message from Above & Below for The Adept to utilise within praxes. - Anathema Publishing encourages contributors to exploit this dual faculty of Language and Logos; to shy not digging deep into the allegorical interpretation of The Golden Eitr and bite down its tender flesh!

Once again, it is time for PILLARS to rise high & shed its Trans-Liminal Light over the Cosm'Conundrum. }{ .As the Wytch of Eld would say "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes..." 

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Whisperings from the Void - A Review by Shani Oates...

‘Whisperings from the Void: The Amaranthine Arcanum of Holy Image and Revealed Exegesis’ by Patrick Larabee

Published by Aeon Sophia Press

A Review by Shani Oates...

An exploratory and astonishingly beautiful narrative; a glorification of the Greatest Mystery – that of Illumination. Equally, the subtext remains skillfully dedicated to the varied threads and causeways of inspired and revealed gnosis, the strands and super-strands of ‘Fate.’

Richly symbolic sigils illustrate arte-fully this sacred pilgrimage through the lonely Arcanum of the ONE. Herein, the Beloved calls to Her Lover. To all those She inspires, Her Lover manifests Her Grand Design, Her divine Creativity in Word and Image via the liminality of ‘Being.’

Separated into two halves, book one accompanies the Fool into the Paradisial Sojourn; book two experiences the realised man, reveling in his own divinity. Together they herald the divine ecstasies. Enthralled and enrapt – this is the fascinating engagement of the ‘other.’

Perception and perspective become challenged, rocked, nay torn from the very apposite status quo. The reader is cunningly drawn in to view the veil, thereto find themselves victim to its ‘light’ but conversely subject to its elusive shadows. Whisperings from the Void resides as a work for all workers of the arte. From within the shadows habit, doubt and superstition all become ameliorated upon the Great Pyre of Truth!

In prose and verse, the dominion of flesh is illuminated by ‘Presence.’ This Matrix of the Collective weaves intricate threads to access the infinitesimal Wyrd, facilitating an inexplicable subtle vibrational causality. Degrees of separation exist only in our narcissistic perception.

Choosing the mentor of the ‘Hidden One’ within, Patrick Larabee provokes the inspiritus guide of the individual. The sentient, Multiplicity of Being is drawn from the Void of Being and tho’ oft imagined clearly through the great eye, its inner vista splintered as the prismatic reflection of the ‘Other.’ Death is but a transformation of consciousness; it is but a singular dream of the Singularity and one that unites dream with the dreaming, the reality of actuality. In real time, duality is transformed. Unity reigns supreme.

The world of insistent spirit exists as a vehicle for its own corporeality – it becomes an experiential journey, a foray designed to stimulate a realisation of Truth, the binder of Mind and Memory, the twin virtues of the soul’s evolutionary journey. Will, ever the arcane virtue of the formidable becomes the fop to a multi-dimensional absolute within and without the machine of the ‘self  -  the impedimenta of gnosis.

All is simplicity, sheer elegance of mechanism, economy of unilateral impact. Confronted by the eternal and unchanging Abyss, the quintessential mask is the panoply of illumination. Kalas sheath and bathe the body. Such intimate transmutations are generally passed through dreamscapes to materialise within the Nexus, the divine Hub.

Every human vacillates between the poles of extremism. The journey is the measure of self-awareness, sentience and self gnosis. Whim and desire are distractions, No more, no less. Likewise the Sandman and the Reaper are the regulators of the patterns we spin upon the arcane hub - the quaternary of spirit, soul, psyche and flesh!

Disciplined praxis presents unswerving examples of prose and verse to deepen the reader’s experience of these time-honoured battles. These pages are dedicated to the primal Covenant; in serving that vainglorious deed, convocations to several, specific, named sheaths of spirit, whose forms are explored in Rites inspired for and by them. These include the laying of the Compass proper; the Rising of Sensorial and Peripheral Being; Envelopment within the Primal Matriarch and the Father, Absorption through the Mother and Illumination inspired by all the virtues and spirits of Day and of  Night, all in the immediacy of the eternal moment.  

Strength, vitality and endurance are of the forge and furnace deep in the stygian darkness, of the Mound and Caverns of the seas and lakes. Universal symphonics enthuse a resonance of place in accord with divine will. Mother of exilic wanderers, Lilith, the bridge of chaos and storm winds of all change; She ushers the dynamic we least expect to challenge the status quo, rending outworn modalities from their inhibiting tethers. Together with Samael they nurture all kin in Holt and Hearth.

Entreaties are lauded to the Great Mistress of the Absu, Tiamat, Leviathon of old.  Baphomet is called upon to assist in the attainment of the inner amoral androgynous Self in likeness of this realised Soul. Tubal Cain and Naamah, weavers and forgers of Fate are set beside Janus, guardian of all portals and guide to the wanderer traversing the labyrinthine paths. The Holy Spirit Ruha whose breath inspires all to rise to their divine potential is honoured here also.

These are but some of the Mighty Ones whose Titanic Virtue is recognised in reciprocal acknowledgement of the golden chain of being. For we are not so much the reflection of the divine as we are its tangible projection, a holy manifestation of Truth, Love and Beauty.  Thus are we truly the ‘fallen’ as Spirit upon the Earth; and thus are we Spirit, elevated within the Light of the World.