Lovecraft

Some Lovecraftian Thoughts On Borges

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / May 22, 2010 /

Found : Some Lovecraftian Thoughts On Borges I had read many of Jorge Luis Borges short stories several years before discovering Lovecraft, let alone studying the latter seriously, and so the idea of Borges owing any debt to or admitting any influence from HPL was new and somewhat shocking to me when I first encountered…

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Monstrous Souls: The Magical Art of Lautreamont and Rimbaud

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / April 10, 2010 /

Found : Monstrous Souls: The Magical Art of Lautreamont and Rimbaud Kenneth Grant believes that certain poets and artists act as "sensitives" or receivers of these otherworldly forces that are seeping into our life wave. These "sensitives" receive impressions and images and impart them through their art. According to Grant these forces are the Qliphoth.…

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The Elder Gods, the Forgotten Ones and the Jungian shadow

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / February 23, 2010 /

Found : The Elder Gods, the Forgotten Ones and the Jungian shadow The major means of contact between the conscious man and the Elder Gods are the forgotten ones. Now, the forgotten ones dwell in the individual and irrational unconscious. They are the gods of survival, they are pre-rational, they are blind and immensely powerful.…

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H.P. Lovecraft: Visionary of the Void

By Rev Illuminatus Maximus / January 19, 2010 /

Found : H.P. Lovecraft: Visionary of the Void The occult subgenres holds up a mirror to Consensual reality. Occultists readily sneer at Slave-God religions and then piss themselves in ecstasy buying a genuine set of Aleister Crowley socks. There is much talk of the magician as a dangerous rebel or anarch of the soul by…

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