#if thou but settest foot on this path thou shalt see it everywhere

[amokedas]

If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.

Hermes

#hermes

[wizzard890]

Blanche and Andreas - THE BOREAL KŇ̵ͅI̴͓͛G̵͕̐H̴̲̎T̷̛̙͔̻ AND THE APOSTATE

forte (noun, fr.): the part of a sword or foil blade that is between the middle and the hilt. it is the strongest part of the blade

Blanche - the Pale Queen and the Boreal Knight both. At once a child of Mother White (The Sleeper In The Frozen Wood, Devourer of Thrones), doomed to be destroyed by the Boreal Knight -- and the Boreal Knight herself. A wreck in the sacred order, a fissure through what Must Be. She is the curse and the means to end it, the shore-breaking sea and the storm wall. She should not exist. 

(she loved Andreas and they were separated. They have not seen one another in nearly ten years. She carries half his blade buried in her heart. She is in the cold north of England. She has become something beyond reckoning. She loves him still.)

foible (noun, fr.): the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point. it is flexible and lethal, but easily broken.

Andreas - the former Boreal Knight. The Apostate whose heart bled stains into a purpose once as pure as the night is black. Chosen to counter Blanche, he instead taught her the secret ways of his patron, avowed enemy of Mother White. He thought to protect her. He thought to make her powerful. He thought to free her. He has freed her.

(he loved Blanche and they were separated. They have not seen one another in nearly ten years. She kissed him in the Wood as the black hounds of ending ran unchained in the night. He dreams of her. He has abandoned his post. He has become something of surrender and opening. Desire is the great seal upon his soul. He loves someone else. He loves her still.)

(If she tears down heaven, he thinks he will be at her side.)

#SCREECHING #blanche and andreas have been next level these last few sessions #his love for her has caused a crack in the world that may not ever be mended #god and that is just #peak andreas #you creature of the sunflower king and the madderblade as the blood-and-gold-flecked reconciler #he loved her so much he broke the edges of meaning #because he was afraid for her and she was the rest of him and his heart hurt when he looked into her face #ALSO andreas is deeply in love with philippe - his childhood best friend and person he has adored for most of his tangled life #he is ruinously in love with him #weak with it #it satisfies the reddest needingest must hungry parts of him #and still there is blanche #heretic moodboards #if thou but settest foot on this path thou shalt see it everywhere

[brother-hermes]

MENTAL ALCHEMY: THE SUN & THE MOON

MENTAL ALCHEMY: THE SUN & THE MOON

“If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.”― Hermes When Michael Maier depicted Hermes Trismegistus with the sun and the moon he did so knowing this imagery would stir something within our subconscious. See, cosmic language isn’t a language of words. This is why psychologists oftentimes use dream interpretations as a way to help their clients get in touch with their…

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#alchemy #conscious #hermes trismegistus #hermetic #kemeitc philosophy #mental alchemy #michael maier #philosophy #sophia #subconscious #sun and moon #symbolish

[pyrrhiccomedy]

THE WOOD

If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.

Paths lead to three places: 

To nowhere; back, in circles, to yourself; or into the Wood.

What is outside? Only the Wood. In the Wood, you are small, and you are not safe, and you do not matter. The Wood surrounds us and it goes on forever, back into an abyss of time and out across incomparable distances. What is in the Wood does not care about you, although if you step into their trails, they may take note.

And past the Wood? From whence the Glory shines?

The Wood goes on forever. There is no past the Wood.

But then from whence shines the Glory?

Past the Wood. Past the Wood.

#heretic #dice matters #Emily was like 'that arrows thing looks like a warning' #and I was like #'nothing in the Wood cares about you enough to give you a warning' #Andreas has made it just far enough on his journey to be capable of speculating #about the existence and nature of the Wood #so I get to make my first ~occult geography~ moodboard! #eventually he'll even like #figure out how to GO there #(probably) #within - afar - or into the dark #mood board

[deus-primordialis-eternatus]

If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere. ▪Hermes Trismegistus

#hermes trimegistus #esoteric #esoteric knowledge #esoterism #esoteric art #vitruvian man #heart beat #pentagram #sacred knowledge #divine knowledge #divine wisdom #divine symbolism #symbols #symbolism #mystic #mysticism #seeker #alchemy #alchemist #gnosis #gnostic #gnosticism

[bitchmagick]

"If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere..."

~Hermes Trismegistus

#occult #quote #hermes #trismegistus

[alienspacebitch-blog]

" If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere. -Hermes Trismegistus #artistsoninstagram #art #painting #hermestrigimestrus #Thoth#777 #hermetic #occult #qoutes #qoutestoliveby #artist #pagan#artist #egypt #gods #penart #alienspacebitch #philosophy

#artist #occult #alienspacebitch #hermetic #egypt #philosophy #painting #artistsoninstagram #hermestrigimestrus #gods #penart #777 #thoth #pagan #art #qoutestoliveby #qoutes

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

If thou but settest foot on this Path, thou shalt see it everywhere.

Hermes Trismegistis

#hermes trismegistus #hermeticism #hermetic #spirituality #esotericism #occultism #mysticism #gnosis #path

[strixpublishing-blog]

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[meta900-blog]

"If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere" ======================= . •🌃•landscape photography• •📸•n d5600• •🔭•18-55mm• •🎞• single exposure• •🕵•self• •🎮•iso500|f/3.5|55mm• •💻•ps\lightroom\nik• #arizona #sunday #nikonphotography #hermetic #az #phoenix #photoshop #sun #lightroom #life #d5600 #55mm #lens #skyporn #sky #hiking #backpacking #mountains #sunset #sunny #beautiful #balloon #southwest #burning #love #awake (at Sonoran Desert)

#lens #awake #beautiful #balloon #arizona #southwest #az #hermetic #hiking #sky #life #burning #phoenix #d5600 #backpacking #skyporn #sunny #sun #love #mountains #photoshop #sunday #nikonphotography #55mm #lightroom #sunset

[wizzard890]

last night in our campaign andreas abandoned the patronage of his dark god to align himself with that god's fiercest enemy, and like

#he's become a devotee of the madderblade #the black captain's corival and hated opponent #it seemed like an impossible change #one andreas would have never even considered #but there's just been this creeping confusion in his heart #all his strengths - his passion his spite his enormous empathy his acting with his heart first and always - #are to the black captain - weaknesses #and he has been hacking away at himself trying to become more cunning more ruthless #but it fits poorly on him and it turned his body into a trap he hated #he got free of that #but now it's time to release his soul #and become one of the 'beautiful coveted deadly' things the madderblade loves #(ALSO he saw the sunflower king last night during a wild spiritual bacchanal) #(it's been a wild 24 hours for our boy) #if thou but settest foot on this path thou shalt see it everywhere #ride or dice

[wizzard890]

@pyrrhiccomedy is such an incredible, did-the-research, brilliant storyteller, god-tier DM, I can't fucking handle it. I've fully become the joker.

#TONIGHT'S SESSION WAS INSANE #god i need to catch all you fools up #if thou but settest foot on this path thou shalt see it everywhere #ride or dice

[wizzard890]

For personal curiosity, would Edward ever top Andreas?

from Aria, who can answer for Edward: "uhhhh with a gun to his head? yes, because the man wants to live."

(Andreas would like to butt in and say fucking excuse you, not with a borrowed dick.)

here is a live image of the two of them:

#the worst thing is that andreas admires him and NEEDS edward to hate him as an equal #and oh boy edward doesn't #if thou but settest foot on this path thou shalt see it everywhere #ride or dice

[wizzard890]

campaign update!

sooooo Andreas had a total gender dysphoric crisis and managed, through an evolving dark spirituality and secret congress with a strange being from a lightless dimension, to finally achieve the truth. (from left to right)

He was this gorgeous sylph as a teenager with a sort of... unnatural allure that he wasn't aware of, and then his life was disrupted by the events of the campaign. Exiled, vengeful, and lost, he threw himself into perusing the dark, violently martial secrets of the Black Captain, an occult being of immense power.

That training, along with the natural tide of growing up, turned his body into something so masculine and powerful that he spent almost a decade in constant painful dysphoria without knowing that's what was happening.

It was only when he discovered a lost temple to Mithras in Rome (and the inhuman thing calling itself a "degenerate lord" locked away within), did he start to understand that he was suffering. He realized that it was in part a manifestation of how he related to the occult, and the secret world that seethed around him, as well as a longing for the years when he could be taken for a beautiful girl.

He stayed learning at the hands of that "lord" for four years, leaving behind the idea of wielding a sword in the name of his dark god, instead determining to take the blade into his heart. At the culmination of his journey, he ventured into a black otherworld to claim his true face and has finally achieved the androgynous, irresistible, almost hermetic essence that he'd so longed for.

His other face, the body he felt like such a crude stranger in, was left behind in darkness, forever forgotten among the stalking kings of that black dimension.

Anyway! Andreas! He is a he who also loves being a her, and even more than that, making people wonder.

#I have never had this happen to a character in a campaign before but I'm so so happy for him #he was suffering and I couldn't figure out why #neither could he! #margaret was the one who cracked the case wide open #who asked him how he'd look if he could #and he just broke down; she was truly the only person who could have seen him so clearly #anyway I like cried when he finally became truly himself #he is inhumanly irresistible now - which is how he wants it #though he knows how dicey that could get #if thou but settest foot on this path thou shalt see it everywhere

[wizzard890]

Andreas had surreal, visionary, mind-bendingly esoteric sex with literally the first demon he's met in this entire campaign. that's my BOY!!

#somehow i knew he could do it #also last session was incredible #stay tuned #if thou but settest foot on this path thou shalt see it everywhere #ride or dice