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Mitchellnolte — The Arcane Conception
Published: 2011-04-01 16:02:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 14587; Favourites: 170; Downloads: 115
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The started as just a picture of Aleister Crowley, but it grew to incorporate references to Thelemic, egyptian and babylonian mysticismRelated content
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yes, you can buy this one here from Deviantart if you are interested
93 93/93!
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Sir, I think you are close to unlocking the gates to Urizen with such creativity!
Nice work indeed!
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lol - thank you - a most interesting comment! a wonderful reference to Blake yes?
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Indeed! Mr William Blake, and perhaps Bruce Dickinson too!
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oh yeah, his Chemical Wedding album is great!
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You have taste! My salute!
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Thought that was Crowley. This picture is incredible. So much detail and enough meaning and symbolism that I can't decipher it all while sitting here. Color me a fan.
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thannk you for checking it out!
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thank you - sorry for my late reply!
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This is gorgeous! i love the colours and textures :3
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when i saw this it was like a great whack to my soul. just do not have words.... cannot wait until i can afford a print. thank you for such an amazing work.
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A pilar with a femenine figure and the other with a masculine one... in the center baphomet (midle pilar???).... on the button looks like the 4 elemente and the archangels???? could it be malkuth???? is this paint, olso, based in the cabala tree???
Your work is amazing!
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yes i did have some qabalistic ideas as well as enochian and thelemic ideas in this early
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symbols within symbols within symbols, does it ever end
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That's a crazy piece. You must be crazy too. I love it! This symbolism is a direct echo of my mind and heart...
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haha thank you, well perhaps crazy but as long as it is practical then i think i will be okay. the image formed out of current level of occult knwledge but i am ever seeking to know, will and dare further and then to bring into form with silence in adherance to the task. initiall i just wanted to do a portrait of aleister crowley but it soon became more than that because well study of crowley's work brings so much more - but again this image is still on one vision of one layer one world so certainly is no fixed map of occult cosmogony.
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Nothing is fixed. Nothing is true.
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I agree, there are only the signs and symbols that my consciousness and ego receive into but only my universe. everything is relative to the nth degree. Everywhere the Circumference, nowwhere the centre!
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No problem comrade, you have some impressive work.
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It emcompasses the mysticism of Thelema well....but Crowley kind of gets lost in the picture. Common sense told me to check the center but even then I was like....huh? Where's Crowley? Where's Crowley? Oh, there he is.
I love the quality of the picture though. There's a lot to take in, but at the end of the day that adds to the epicness of this picture rather than take away from it.
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thanks, yeah i originally had crowley much bigger, but then there were so many ideas and so i thought maybe not to centre it on crowley too much - this is first image i have ever done with the Master Therion in it - so i will consider a future work with more focus on him perhaps, i don't know. cheers!
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Well then, quite suiting to the picture that he's smaller.
Either way, just continue to make art as you wish.
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ahh....hh..... oh mah gawd.... This looks EPIC!!!
Nice work!
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thanks! it just kept growing, this is the resting point but no other ideas spin off from it like some mandlebrot set. - i guess its a reference work!
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