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Fabiola Toledo in A Blade in the Dark (1983)

#Fabiola Toledo #1980s #lamberto bava

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Teresa Ann Savoy and Tina Aumont in Salon Kitty (1976)

#teresa ann savoy #salon kitty #tina aumont #tinto brass #1970s

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Chelsea Wolfe by Ekaterina Gorbacheva

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#chelsea wolfe #Youtube

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18th century alchemical engraving

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Johann Daniel Mylius - Philosopher’s Stone, “Opus Medico-Chymicum”, 1618. At the center of the Alchemist’s quest was the legendary Philosopher’s Stone, a magical piece of the perfect Gold, which could immediately Transform any substance it touched into Gold as pure as its own Nature. The Emerald Tablets of the great Hermes Trismegistus spoke of such a marvelous catalyst, and ever since that Secret Knowledge had been made known to certain individuals, the Philosopher’s Stone had become the Symbol of the Alchemical pursuit. Some alchemists believed that the Stone was somehow hatched like a chick from an egg if one could only find the proper ingredients with which to create the Substance of the shell and the “yolk.” Others believed that the Philosopher’s Stone, that most marvelous of all catalysts, oozed somehow out of the Moon or from one of the Stars and fell to Earth where it solidified into the Magical Stone of Transformation. it becomes clear that the Philosopher’s Stone wasn’t really a Stone at all. Sometimes the Catalyst of Transmutation is described as a Divine Child, an Angel, a Dragon, an Elixir, a Tincture, or an as-yet unknown Chemical Compound. Many alchemists began to consider that somehow the Philosopher’s Stone was not a thing at all, but a System of Knowledge. Once the Alchemist truly perceived the Reality that lay behind the Symbols, he would achieve an Intellectual and Spiritual level wherein he would become one with the Power that existed within the Mysterious Goal for which he searched so long. Once he understood what the Philosopher’ Stone represented, he would have found it at last - and he would have become one with it. Many scholars have since insisted that the true Alchemists sought not to turn base metals into Gold, but to Transform the dense material of their Physical bodies into a Spiritually evolved Immaterial Entity. In this perspective, the Philosopher’s Stone becomes the Holy Spirit that Mystically Transmutes humans into True Manifestations of God on Earth.

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#home #dark shadows #empty glass #After storm

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Pola Negri

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This photo shows legendary Polish actress Pola Negri, one of the most popular, influential, and highly paid stars of her time. This shot was made in 1928 for her role as Princess Fedora in The Woman from Moscow.

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Bertolt Brecht

Gli affamati — Mattia Insolia

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emma stone as bella baxter in ‘poor things’

#emma stone #poor things

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Soledad Miranda in publicity photo for Vampyros Lesbos (1971)

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#myself #body liberation #mind control #veins #muscle

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melezartworks

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Two women catch winged hearts in a net, 16th century.

From the Petit Livre d’Amour (Little Book of Love) — an ornate bespoke book given by the Lyon-born poet Pierre Salas to his then lover and future wife Marguerite Bullioud: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-little-book-of-love

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O Fortune,

like the moon

you are changeable,

ever waxing

ever waning;

hateful life

first oppresses

and then soothes

playing with mental clarity;

poverty

and power

it melts them like ice

#carmina burana