Theo Paijmans
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They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.
It's hard to describe this interview. Let's just say, I felt like I took one for the team, and a lot was "unsaid." I think some of you will read between the lines. NY Times with Ross Douthat. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/opi…
There once was a woman who walked into Europe’s oldest archives and found sacred Aztec and Mixtec texts mislabeled as “curiosities,” locked in drawers, untouched for centuries. She wasn’t a professor. She wasn’t invited. She wasn’t supposed to find them. But she did and…
NHI in Earth's Upper Atmosphere "'Plasmas' up to a kilometer in size and behaving similarly to multicellular organisms have been filmed on 10 separate NASA space shuttle missions, over 200 miles above Earth within the thermosphere. "These self-illuminated 'plasmas' are…
Before manga and psychedelia, Alphonse Mucha imagined a world in bloom. On his birthday, let’s honor his vision of art. 🧵 👇
Here’s a detailed depiction of what’s carved on a worn 12,000 year old T-pillar at Göbekli Tepe. Fascinating stuff 🔥
Questions… @ShipsSmall this comes from Robert Dickhoff (note his stamp in the lower right corner)
Messy #shelfie #3 (an occasional series of messiness). #witchcraft #magic #folklore #occult #Cotswolds #history #Inquisition #mythology #GoldenBough #Frazer
A spooky #shelfie from our Watt collection. Alexander Watt collected books on the occult, theosophy, mysticism, alchemy, Christian Kabbalah, and more. He also created his own dust jackets for a lot of the books in his collection. This pair of eyes is qui… instagr.am/p/CG8gGbOpP9i/
Shelfie: Blavatsky should be a cornerstone of any occult library. A woman who wrote an immense intergalactic corpus in the 19th century, long before Asimov's Foundation or Herbert's Dune. It's not about following belief systems, but about female pioneers in the history of ideas.
Random #shelfie! Yes, I am still working on my office space. #occult #magic #bookporn #bloggerlife
Random office #shelfie. Don't worry, that's just a pellet gun. #magic #occult #magick #bloggerlife
From 1931 and onwards to 1933, the volumes become smaller and thinner. 1934 saw its last run. A cut-out of my shelfie to illustrate the detrimental Nazi influence on German occult and paranormal research, once considered the finest and most accomplished of the world.
Science fiction written by black women goes back to the 19th and early 20th. centuries! Images: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911), writer of the first African-American utopian fiction, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859–1930) of the SF tale 'Of One Blood' (1902).
My very first copy of The Strand Magazine arrived (this one from 1894). With a wonderful surreal illustration for the story ‘The Horror of Studley Grange’.
NEWS🚨: Scientists just captured the first direct image of the cosmic web — the mysterious structure that holds the universe together
The notorious occultist Aleister Crowley, sitting here with his daughter, the spectacularly named Nuit Ma Ahathoor Hecate Sappho Jezebel Lilith (also known as Lilith), 1905. She was born on July 28, 1904, to Crowley’s first wife, Rose Edith Kelly. Sadly Lilith died aged only one.
A shelfie of one of the most enigmatic figures in the 19th century occult: Stanislas de Guaita. Died in 1897 when only 36 years old after a fateful ritual. The green book to the right with the torn cover? It’s signed by the author to de Guaita and was once part of his library.