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The Lapsed State of Man when contaminated by Lucifer, & under the Dominion of Sidereal & Elementary Influx (2 of 2)

“The fourth figure is intended to shew a faint resemblance of an abandoned and more degenerated state of fallen human nature, when the will and passions of man are given up to vice, and contaminated with the gross or bestial quality of deadly sin and wickedness. He is led captive by an evil spirit, the agent of Lucifer, having his will darkened, and every spark of light extinguished, that could flow from the intellectual faculties of the soul, or from the collision of virtue and sense. Such are the men described by St. Paul in his Epistle to the [...] [more...]

Edward Kelly, A Magician

Edward Kelly [sic for Kelley] in the Act of invoking the Spirit of a Deceased Person. Marked, Sibly Del, Ames Sculp., Dr. Dee’s Works. [more...]

Full-page border with tiny vintage laurel leaves and hand-drawn box

This full-page border comes from an engraving, so it’s slightly irregular, but only slightly, almost hand-drawn in effect. It’s made from a thin straight line around the page and, inside it, repeating pairs of leaves, probably laurel leaves, with a small circle at the top middle. I coloured the outer straight border brown and made the outlines of [...] [more...]

Armillary Sphere, Scanned Version

I scanned the Armillary Sphere again (oops), and this time decided to publish the illustration moer or less as it came off the scanner, as a picture from an old book. [more...]

Aries (the Ram, or Sheep)

Zodiac sign for Aries taken from The Zodiac