It's from Lucifer Rising - a short movie by Kenneth Anger. It means a lot to me :) I'll write a bit about it later
See, you'd think that replacing the imagery would work - in fact, I think I've read descriptions of ceremonial people actually doing this. But I've not been able to make it hum. Perhaps this is my failing - I don't really *believe* it enough?
But overnight I was musing on your reply, and I think I'm going to try it with non-angel-but-still-in-the-zone imagery - either Egyptian or quasi-demonic, something that still "feels occult" and isn't so jarring with the rest of the aesthetic. But which isn't quasi-Christian.
I'm increasingly appreciating how ceremonial traditions, both the medieval ones and the Victorian ones, grow out of people who are still participating in Christianity, and who want something coherent with it - and literally designed it with that in mind.
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See, you'd think that replacing the imagery would work - in fact, I think I've read descriptions of ceremonial people actually doing this. But I've not been able to make it hum. Perhaps this is my failing - I don't really *believe* it enough?
But overnight I was musing on your reply, and I think I'm going to try it with non-angel-but-still-in-the-zone imagery - either Egyptian or quasi-demonic, something that still "feels occult" and isn't so jarring with the rest of the aesthetic. But which isn't quasi-Christian.
I'm increasingly appreciating how ceremonial traditions, both the medieval ones and the Victorian ones, grow out of people who are still participating in Christianity, and who want something coherent with it - and literally designed it with that in mind.