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"The ceiling of the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa," taken by Sergiu Dumitriu on May 28, 2012.
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"Seal of Sabazius X" by Sabazius.
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"Seal of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica" Reinterpreted by Ron Labhart, 2010 EV.
"Temple of Dandara," 15 November 2017, Photograph by Khaled Gamelyan.
"rare triple Nut at Dendera, Egypt," 15 November 2017, Photograph by Rowan.
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Image Attributions
"Old School Camera," photograph by Janos Virag, taken: 25 June 2016, 18:58:53 (UTC).
NOTOCON XV Logo,
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Referenced Entities
Referenced Entities
"Photograph of Stanislas de Guaita" published in Maurice Barrès' book, Un rénovateur de l'occultisme. circa before 1897.
Marquis Stanislas de Guaita is mentioned in Docteur Gérard Encausse and the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
Marquis Stanislas de Guaita is mentioned in Docteur Gérard Encausse and the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Portrait photographique du Sâr Péladan par Walter Damry." Joséphin Péladan is mentioned in Docteur Gérard Encausse.
"Maestro Huiracocha - Fundador de la F.R.A. en Latinoamerica," uploaded by Karinagp to Wikimedia Commons, July 26, 2013.Dr. Arnoldo Krumm-Heller is included in Essays and Commentaries under the E.G.C.
"Jules Doinel, black and white photograph, circa 1890.
Jules Doniel is included in Essays and Commentaries under the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
Jules Doniel is included in Essays and Commentaries under the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Photograph of Tau Synesius as Patriarch of the Gnostic Church," published in Le Journal, 31 décembre 1906 (Gallica).Lucien Chamuel is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Jean Bricaud" AKA Tau Johannes.Le Matin, 8 novembre 1910 (Gallica).
Jules Doniel is included in Essays and Commentaries under the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
Jules Doniel is included in Essays and Commentaries under the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Photograph of Eugéne Vintras" from Léonce Fabre des Essarts' Les Hiérophantes : études sur les fondateurs de religions depuis la Révolution jusqu'à ce jour, Paris, Chacornac, 1905, p.255 (Gallica).Eugéne Vintras is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Photograph of Jules Houssaye AKA Abbé Julio" from his book Petits Secrets Merveilleux, fifth edition, January 1, 1895.
Jules Houssaye is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
Jules Houssaye is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Photograph of Constant Chevillon." Author's jacket, Ouvrage La tradition universelle, 1946.
Constant Chevillon is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
Constant Chevillon is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Photograph of Tau Charles from Église Gnostique Catholique Apostolique website, "Succession of Primates of North America". Primate Roger Saint-Victor Hérard is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Black and white photograph, O.T.O. Archive."
Wilfred T. Smith is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
Wilfred T. Smith is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Black and white photograph, O.T.O. Archive." Priestess Regina Kahl is included in the History of the Gnostic Catholic Church.
"Votive Arm and Hand of Zeus Sabazios," Bronze Jewelry, Cleveland Museum of Art, Italy, Roman, 1st-2nd Century. Bequest of Eugene Robison Miles.
"Sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysus," circa 190 (Imperial), Thasian marble, acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902, source: Walters Art Museum. The triumphal march of Dionysus (or Bacchus, as he was generally known in Rome) through the lands of India was equated in Roman thought with the triumph of the deceased over death. At the left, Dionysus rides in a chariot pulled by panthers. Preceding him is a procession of his followers and exotic animals, including lions, elephants, and even a giraffe. A bird's nest is concealed in the tree at the far right; on the same tree a snake is pursuing a lizard. Many of the animals depicted had special significance in the mystery cult of Dionysus Sabazius. On the lid is the birth of Dionysus and his reception by nymphs, shown between satyr heads (on the ends), one smiling and one frowning. The enormous attention to detail on this sarcophagus exemplifies the talents of the best Roman relief carvers.
"Portrait of Adam Weishaupt" by Christoph Wilhelm Bock, illustration from Cagliostro, the Splendour and Misery of a Master of Magic, 1910.
"Éliphas Lévi standing as an older man with a long grey beard."
"Amun, an ancient Egyptian god. Amun is usually shown as a striding man wearing a tall, plumed crown."
by Jeff Dahl, 27 December 2007, 19:12
"Johannes Valetin Andreae," engraving, by Melchior Küsel, Austrian National Library.
"Apollonius of Tyana in Ethiopia," by Jan van der Straeten, Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden.
"King Arthur as one of the Nine Worthies," detail from the "Christian Heroes Tapestry" in The Cloisters, New York. Dated c. 1385.
"Beginning of the work, in the original Syriac, of the Book of the Laws of the Countries or Dialogue on Destiny by the writer, poet and philosopher, Bardaisan of Edessa (154-222 CE), reviewed by the French orientalist François Nau (1864-1931) in his work, An Unpublished Biography of Bardesane the Astrologer, published in Paris in 1897.
"From the Prophecy of Basilides," by printmaker Giovanni Cesare Testa after a drawing by Pietro Testa.
"Carl Kellner, founder of Ordo Templi Orientis," photograph.
"Charlemagne and his son, Louis the Pious."
"Modern bust of the Roman poet Catullus on the Piazza Carducci in Sirmione, Lombardy, Italy," photograph.
"The title page of "Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459," original edition in 1616"
Roman statue of Dionysus of the 2nd century, housed in the Louvre. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen on January 30, 2009.
"Docteur Gérard Encausse, dit Papus" taken before 1915.
"Elias Ashmole (copy after an original of 1687–1689)" by John Riley, National Portrait Gallery (London), oil on canvas.
"James Forlong in 18th century costume."
"Sr. Francis Bacon, Lord Keeper, and afterwards Lord Chancellor of England, 1617," by Paul van Somer I.
"Frederick II and his falcon." From his book De arte venandi cum avibus (The art of hunting with birds). From a manuscript in Biblioteca Vaticana, Pal. Lat. 1071, fol. 1), late 13th century.
"Friedrich Nietzsche, photograph by Friedrich Hermann Hartmann, circa 1875."
"Bronze statue of Giordano Bruno by Ettore Ferrari (1845-1929), Campo de' Fiori, Rome."
"The Serpent on the Cross" as published in Jenning's Ophiolatreia (1991), initially printed in Nicholas Flammel's Alchemical Hieroglyphics (1624).
"Harry Smith with his Brain Drawings" taken 1950 by photographer Hy Hirsh.
"Heracles and Athena." Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, 480–470 BC. From Vulci, by Python (potter) and Douris (painter).
Red-Figure Lekythos with Hermes.
"Saint Hippolytus of Rome, martyr," 19th century, woodcut. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Jacob-Böhme," painting by Gottlob Glymann ohne Jahr.
"Jacques de Molay," 19th century, Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
"Sir John Dee," portrait, circa 1594.
According to Charlotte Fell Smith, this portrait was painted when Dee was 67 years old. It belonged to his grandson Rowland Dee and later to Elias Ashmole, who left it to Oxford University.
"Manuscript UBH Cod. Pal. germ. 339 Parzival," 1443-1446, Heidelberg University Library
Hieroglyph of ancient Egyptian god.
"Lord Krishna playing the flute," Krishna Statue at the Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore. 2011. By AngMoKio.
"Laozi Riding an Ox (cropped)," by Zhang Lu, National Palace Museum: Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Medium: hanging scroll, light color on paper.
Ludwig (Louis) II, King of Bavaria, (1845-1886)
Photograph taken in Hohenschwangau.
Mani, the prophet of light.A sketch of Mani, the prophet with Syriac note, reading: Mani, the prophet of light.
Marcus Valerius Martialis.
Abraham y Melquisedec.1668 painting by Juan Antonio de Frías y Escalante, oil on canvas.
Hieroglyph of Menthu in Medamud.
Merlin dictating his prophecies to his scribe, Blaise; French 13th century minature from Robert de Boron's Merlin en prose (written ca 1200).
Copper engraving of Michael Maier at the age of 48, from the Atalanta fugiens; engraving from 1617 by Matthäus Merian.
"Mohammed Receiving Revelation from the Angel Gabriel."Miniature illustration on vellum from the book Jami' al-Tawarikh (literally "Compendium of Chronicles" but often referred to as The Universal History or History of the World), by Rashid al-Din, published in Tabriz, Persia, 1307 A.D.
Spanish quietist Miguel de Molinos (1628-1696).
"Michaelangelo's Moses," A sculpture housed in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. Photograph by Ulrich Mayring taken April 26, 2007.
Head of Odysseus.
"Orpheus Charming the Nymphs, Dryads, and Animals," Drawing by Charles Joseph Natoire, 1757
"Detail of a frieze on a wall of tomb QV66, the burial place of Nefertari (c. 1295-1255 B.C.), royal wife of Ramesses the Great, featuring the Egyptian god Osiris."
"Pan teaching Daphnis to play the flute," A Roman copy of an original by Heliodoros who was active around 100 b.c.e.
"The Louvre copy of the lost portrait by Quentin Matsys, source of the iconographic tradition of 'fat' Paracelsus". Painting after Quentin Matsys, 17th century.
"Richard Wagner, Parsifal, Nur eine Waffe taugt (Arnaldo Dell'Ira 1903-1943)", colored inks on paper, c. 1930.
"Paul Gauguin Wearing a Breton Jacket," 1891, photographed by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel.
Untitled, nicknamed "Priapus with Caduceus", "Priapus-Mercury", or erroneously "Well-endowed Mercury": a character with the beard and giant erect phallus of Priapus is walking away with the caduceus and winged sandals of Mercury. Anonymous fresco in Pompeii, between 89 BC and 79 AD. Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples), Italia.
"Kapitolinischer Pythagoras," bust, Museo Capitolino de Roma.
"Portrait de Rabelais, par Louis-François Durrans," Oil on canvas, circa 1820. Rabelais Museum, deposit of the Archaeological Society of Touraine.
"Richard Wagner, Munich," photographed by Franz Hanfstaengl, 1871
"Robert Fludd (1574–1637)."
"Portrait of Alexander VI (Borgia, 1492-1503)." Oil Painting in the Collection of the Vatican Museums.
"Roger Bacon in his observatory at Merton College, Oxford." Oil painting by Ernest Board, Wellcome Library, London.
"The Victory of the Buddha," Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists, 1914.
"Peter's conflict with Simon Magus" by Avanzino Nucci, 1620. Simon is on the right, wearing black.
"Aleister Crowley, Magus," photograph 1912.
An image from a set of 8 extra-illustrated volumes of A tour in Wales by Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) that chronicle the three journeys he made through Wales between 1773 and 1776.
Photo of Sir Richard Francis Burton August 24 1864.
Portrait of Richard Payne Knight (1751–1824), oil on canvas.
Picture of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1890's.
Hieroglyph of Tahuti, Lord of All Magick.
"Lumen de lumine by Thomas Vaughan," Lumen de Lumine: a New Magical Light, London, H. Blunden, 1651.
O.T.O. Archives.
This image was first published in the 1st (1876–1899), 2nd (1904–1926) or 3rd (1923–1937) edition of Nordisk familjebok.
"Saint Valentine holding a piece of paper." January 1, 496.
From 'Illustrium philosophorum et poetarum effigies', published in 1566 by P. de Roville in Paris.
Painted portrait 1807.
"Wilhelm of Hirsau -Reichenbacher Schenkungsbuch (Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Cod. hist. 4° 147), 12th century.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).
Oil on canvas.
"Music," Wool Rug, Paris; circa 1685–97, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, acquired through the Rogers Fund, 1952. "This carpet, representing Music, belongs to a series of ninety-three originally intended for (but never used in) the Grande Galerie of the Louvre (then a palace). Instead, individual examples from the series were distributed as diplomatic gifts. Louis XIV sent a version of this design to the Siamese king in 1685." - The Met
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