DIVITIARUM MUNDI

Prince of this world,

Devil of golden webs,

Greatest catcher of human souls.

«No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon» (Matthew 6:24, Luke 16:13)

A2, ink, pencils.

An illustration for "Dark Enlightenment. The third and final volume in The Black Star of Nuit trilogy" by Jack Fox-Williams, Aeon Sophia Press publishing.

A1, ink and gouache.

“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming.”

Jaw metal plate manufactured by Raven Microcybernetics.

Great Mother of life and death, of terror and beauty, You wear a necklace of gods flayed by Your own hands, You see all the past roots of phenomena stretching into infinity and all variations of future events. She who generates and devours – in order to generate and devour again and again.

Nahema Sinistra, Lilith Alimta, Shub-Niggurath, Balaat Mizraim!

You reveal Yourself in Your myriad guises, one of Your eyes gazes into both worlds, of the living and the dead, the other – beholds the Abyss beyond the pale of both life and death.

Goddess of serpents.

Mother of all the Unclean.

Black Queen of vampires.

Fatal destroyer of happiness...

The Master of the Liminal Points of Crossing and the Lord of the Dark Gate, the one leading to and through the Abyss, being the Mighty King invested with the full authority of the four heads governing the Supernal Qliphothic Triad above him, Astaroth is as such the one who ushers towards manifestation their Atziluthic Impulses in order to counteract the sevenfold unfolding of the demiurgic work of the Thoughtful Creation.

Astaroth is the Serpent Bearer and the elevator of those of the Serpent Seed, opening their Eyes of Abaddon which by seeing through and destroying the finite cosmic illusions enables them to cross the. Hidden Paths leading towards the final trials, purification and empowerments of the Sheol of Tehom, in order to finally rise as Snakes Turned Into Dragons and become as One with the Eleven

The Book of Sitra Achra. A Grimoire of the Dragons of the Other Side.

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If you ever find a deer skeleton below an eldritch clocktower and cut off its head to honor the deer's spirit, bury the skull in SAND, because six months in the Appalachian dirt will stain it, and then you have to spend a whole extra bunch of wherewithal bleaching it back to white. [Minolta Autocord, Ilford FP4+]