tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24453198379471497442024-03-17T22:42:17.106-07:00Cabinet of CuriositiesLady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.comBlogger525125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-52755659186790908762019-08-13T09:08:00.000-07:002019-08-13T09:08:43.234-07:00The Red Spectre<a href='http://img263.imageshack.us/i/tumblrlg2lw1boam1qzdvhi.jpg/'><img src='http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3756/tumblrlg2lw1boam1qzdvhi.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />The Red Spectre (1907, dir. Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca),<br />The narrative of the film involves a competition between a demonic magician & a female conjurer.<br /><br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="500" height="405" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/llwGKJYDezo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <br /><br />Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-31409657641850585802011-10-24T13:15:00.000-07:002019-07-25T16:13:33.866-07:00What fresh Hell is this?Intellectual Property (IP) protected by law include; copyrights, design rights, patents. Property infringement means you used someone's trade name, trade mark and/or trade secrets as well as the same recipe, design, ect. Artist works are automatically protected by Intellectual Property law once something tangible is produced i.e. art, music, film, ect. Projects I'm working on, just in case you pharmaceutical-junkie-psychics are time-sharing. All Rights Reserved.
Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-46513158919554555722011-08-21T11:56:00.000-07:002011-08-21T12:23:10.135-07:00Portrait of a Goddess No. 1<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/3/goddessh.jpg/'><img src='http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3897/goddessh.jpg' border='0'/></a>
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<br />Portrait of a Goddess No. 1 - Available now in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ladylavona">Etsy shop</a>.
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<br />Astarte, the ancient goddess of fertility, motherhood and war. According to legend Astarte descended to earth as a fiery star. The Phoenicians portrayed Astarte with cow horns, representing fertility. The Assyrians and Babylonians pictured her holding child. Mother of the Universe, giver of all live on Earth. She ruled all spirits of the dead residing in heaven visible from earth as stars; hence came her name Astroarche, "Queen of the Stars."
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<br />Hand formed goddess figure - 7 inches - artist signature, LVNA.
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<br />Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-399960223572653332011-08-20T16:53:00.000-07:002017-10-07T09:21:06.438-07:00Ocular Oracular ©Photography is the latest obsession...my self published book is coming out soooon! Check out <a href="http://www.lulu.com/">lulu.com</a>. "Lulu leads the industry of publish-on-demand books because our authors keep 80% of their profits and publishing is free."Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-14846455754469020762011-08-12T10:47:00.000-07:002017-10-07T09:36:08.022-07:00<iframe width="500" height="314" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sJQk0jDZx8o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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<br />New video for 'Still Life' (Directed by Oliver Murray), from the new album - 'Skying' released on XL Recordings July 2011.
<a href="http://thehorrors.co.uk/">http://thehorrors.co.uk</a> Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-59717681159415254462011-08-07T16:40:00.000-07:002017-10-07T09:44:01.093-07:00Moving Towards Light<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/23022874?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/23022874">David Ball — Moving Towards Light</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/triplewide">Shaun Roberts</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Artwork by David Ball
Produced and photographed by Shaun RobertsLady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-3328145832431218812011-08-05T14:12:00.000-07:002017-10-07T09:48:36.635-07:00NachthexLast night's magicks, cooking evil spirits with Sulphur and Pitch! <br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/firenn.jpg/'><img src="https://img13.imageshack.us/img13/5544/firenn.jpg" border="0"></a><br /><br />Here's a first look at my raku pit fired effigies. I'm firing them again tomorrow, adding scarlet/copper/azure metalic oxides! <br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/98/effigies.jpg/'><img src="https://img98.imageshack.us/img98/8543/effigies.jpg" border="0"></a>
Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-22595512934876152222011-08-02T14:29:00.000-07:002011-08-02T14:39:25.163-07:00Medicine Show No.1 - Cunning Wolf<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/14/wolfww.jpg/'><img src='http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/9802/wolfww.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />Available in <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/78996046/cunning-wolf-medicine-show-no1">my Etsy shop</a>. The Cunning Wolf, the hunter, trickster, emissary of Lucifer, and the Black Dog of the Wild Hunt. Wolf also offers guidance and protection for those who dwell in barren and lonely places. He will allow you to see your teacher within. In the aloneness of a power place, devoid of other humans, you may find the true you.<br /><br />"Wolf is the Grand Teacher. Wolf is the sage, who after many winters upon the sacred path and seeking the ways of wisdom, returns to share the new knowledge with the tribe. Wolf is both the radical and the traditional in the same breath.<br />When Wolf walks by you-- you WILL remember."<br /><br /><iframe width="500" height="405" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1JOwxnVoG6Q" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-22839313645496431992011-07-29T17:13:00.000-07:002017-10-07T10:17:19.004-07:00creep<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/24589064" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/24589064">Renee</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/kaxiong">Ka Xiong</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
by Renee
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Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-91204553107464103702011-07-27T15:38:00.000-07:002017-10-07T10:18:51.406-07:00Into the Menstrual Night I Go<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/847/2301o.jpg/'><img src='http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/883/2301o.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/812/2303z.jpg/'><img src='http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/2540/2303z.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />Last nights blood divinations, inspired by the Victorian parlor game Blotto and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test">Rorschach inkblot test</a>. A psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where patients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. The test is named after its creator, Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach.<br /><br />See also: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse">The Surrealist parlour game, "The Exquisite corpse"</a>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-66364847601805253502011-07-24T09:32:00.002-07:002022-08-21T09:41:59.663-07:00SANCTVMI consider myself a Pagan Reconstructionist riding a wave of Heretical Gnosis. By comparative study, I've reduced the world’s various religions and spiritual paths to their essence. I have no solid belief system per say so my spiritual ideologies are constantly evolving. I'm free from the spiritual bondage that is dogma. My focus is on soul development, becoming, leading to the attainment of Divine Consciousness. I've found balance in the Wisdom of Nature and the Gnosis of the Universe. 'As Above So Below' which is essentially non-duality.
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My practice can best be described as Magico-Religious. I employ traditional American Folk Magick and Medicine; Hexcraft rooted in Euro-American Witchcraft, Santeria, Pow-wow, Hoodoo, Gypsy and Granny Magicks. My foundation is laid in the Wheel of the Year, the annual cycle of the Earth's seasons: eight festivals throughout the year referred to as Sabbats. Magico-Religious Power is the the spiritual force called Mana, energy interpreted as "Chaos". Mana (spiritual essence) is in people, animals, plants and objects. The entire universe is alive and interconnected, everything possesses a personality and individual spirit. This belief is called Animism. Shamans and Witches have a deep relationship with the supernatural. Shamanic traditions are especially valuable in a time of crisis between humanity and nature. If we can learn to rediscover the way of the shaman, it may make a critical impact on how we live. Naturalist and Ecologists might study the relationships of living things to their environment differently. How we live individually and collectively can and will effect the future of the Earth and it's inhabitants.
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Furthermore, I'm really moved by the "school of thought" that is Green Hermeticism. Not only does it resonate with my own belief that humanity needs to get back to the Esoteric roots of Medicine, this movement has started to establish a bridge between Alchemy and Ecology.
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"it’s not clear whether you can make a leap or bridge from a scientific mentality to a Hermetic one; that is, whether conventional science can somehow become Hermetic, or whether—this not being possible—we are going to have to create a new science-art-spirituality working out of alchemy and Hermeticism on their own terms, thus renewing and re-imagining for our time the ancient sacred science of nature. In other words, perhaps it is in the nature of the project that the bridge will have to be built from Hermeticism to a new kind of science rather than from conventional science to Hermeticism."
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The Alchemists' search for the Philosopher's Stone took a turn for the worse in Ancient Egypt when materialists developed the art of synthetic "wet" chemistry. Processes including but not limited to; extracting metal from their ores, making pottery and glazes, fermenting beer and wine, making pigments for cosmetics and painting, extracting chemicals from plants for medicine and perfume, making cheese, dying cloth, tanning leather, rendering plant fat into soap, making glass, and making alloys like bronze. By the seventeenth century, Occultist and Philosopher of Nature, Paracelsus, pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals for medicine. This was contrary to his hermetical views that sickness and health in the body relied on the harmony of man and Nature. Since then, a materialistic, capitalistic, anti-ecological, anti-Hermetic war was waged against humanity and the planet Earth. We've seen a rapid decline of spirituality and morality. And in opposition to this, a Romantic Nihilist movement. In spite of this, We are Green Anarchists and Anarcho-Communists. Hopefully at the end of this war, Holistic Dualists.
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"The alchemists are people of prayer. They are dedicated selflessly to the transformation and redemption of society, the individual, and the earth itself."
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Quotes taken from: "Green Hermeticism: David Levi Strauss in conversation with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Christopher Bamford"Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-69436462600391462762011-07-20T09:05:00.000-07:002011-07-20T09:22:45.712-07:00Artist Occultist Sensualist<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/aosr.jpg/'><img src='http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/1951/aosr.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />"Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is over-run! Is it by symbolising we become the symbolised? Were I to crown myself King, should I be King? Rather should I be an object of disgust or pity. These Magicians, whose insincerity is their safety, are but the unemployed dandies of the Brothels."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Osman_Spare"> Austin Osman Spare</a>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-65729077997979499102011-07-15T21:07:00.000-07:002017-10-07T10:21:21.717-07:00hallelujah!<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26454103?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/26454103">Alexander - Truth</a>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-14416321337505240422011-07-15T08:43:00.000-07:002011-07-15T09:20:28.666-07:00Jennifer Angus<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/insects2.jpg/'><img src='http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/1353/insects2.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/insects.jpg/'><img src='http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7517/insects.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />“That insects are so vitally important. We need insects to pollinate flowers that, in turn, produce fruit. We need insects for decomposition. Without insects, I don’t think we could exist.” <a href="http://www.jenniferangus.com/">Jennifer Angus</a>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-21531671804569057572011-07-10T11:42:00.000-07:002017-10-07T10:20:58.011-07:00"spellbound to her barren prison for too long"<iframe width="450" height="367" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pB6RXkvp-gE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-7398093490998763882011-07-10T11:03:00.000-07:002017-10-07T10:21:47.842-07:00"this is why I am all in rags now"<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/il570xn202893159.jpg/'><img src='http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/2912/il570xn202893159.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />reclaimed vintage & tribal gypsy jewelry & accessories by <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/sparrowsalvage?page=2">Sparrow Salvage</a><br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/215/aux2seleneyellowonline.jpg/'><img src='http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3893/aux2seleneyellowonline.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.gibbousfashions.com/">Gibbous Fashions</a>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-80694211216903152562011-07-10T10:30:00.000-07:002011-07-10T11:51:04.809-07:00<iframe width="500" height="405" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/m8XftanUJa8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-83181048967271810942011-07-08T07:00:00.001-07:002011-07-08T07:00:45.605-07:00EcoSphere<a href='http://img824.imageshack.us/i/ecosphere3.jpg/'><img src='http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/5175/ecosphere3.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />"<a href="http://www.eco-sphere.com/">EcoSphere</a> is a delicate balance of earth, water, air and life--all parts of a working ecosystem. The coexistence of animal and plant life (red shrimp, algae and microbes) thrives in the handblown glass sphere of seawater. Light--the foundation of life. Sunlight provides everything your ecosystem needs; there's no feeding or cleaning required. Seawater --provides the backdrop for this educational, self-contained marine environment. Red shrimp --chosen for their nonaggressive tendencies towards one another, these tiny crustaceans live in perfect harmony with their mini environment. Algae --healthy growth sustains and nourishes shrimp by supplying food and oxygen. Microbes --to feed the algae. Other materials --Gorgonia sprig, gravel, shells and glass provide ample hiding places and smooth surfaces for microbes to attach themselves to and thrive. This technology was developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists as part of a growing initiative to study our planet's biosphere. NASA was researching self-contained communities for space explorers to live in during long-term flights. Life expectancy EcoSphere has an average life expectancy of two years; however, in the right conditions some have lived for up to 10 years."Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-72447495970326004922011-07-07T10:57:00.000-07:002011-07-07T11:36:09.761-07:00Foodism<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/59/isagercphfood1.jpg/'><img src='http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6124/isagercphfood1.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/isagercphfood4.jpg/'><img src='http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/9679/isagercphfood4.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/36/isagercphfood3.jpg/'><img src='http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/678/isagercphfood3.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/849/isagercphfood2.jpg/'><img src='http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/2066/isagercphfood2.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />Photography, <a href="http://www.ditteisager.dk/">Ditte Isager</a>.Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-27189452141220948922011-06-22T16:55:00.000-07:002011-06-22T17:03:07.481-07:00Maleonn<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/192/lookss.jpg/'><img src='http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4465/lookss.jpg' border='0'/></a> <a href="http://www.maleonn.com/">Maleonn </a><br /><br />"Look at me, and remember me. Before everything shrivels, and turns into dust."Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-33708878892171110952011-06-21T16:18:00.000-07:002011-06-21T16:22:14.864-07:00<iframe width="500" height="405" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dEuWJEseuaE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-36132966756311638292011-06-21T12:48:00.000-07:002011-06-21T12:58:10.324-07:00Ryan Matthew: Against Nature<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/1280o.jpg/'><img src='http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/4808/1280o.jpg' border='0'/></a> <a href="http://ryanmatthewoddities.com/">Oddities </a>~ <a href="http://againstnaturenyc.com/">Against Nature NYC</a><br /><br />"Till now, man has been up Against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature." ~ Dennis GaborLady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-79440294585812765242011-06-19T15:12:00.000-07:002011-06-19T16:31:31.724-07:00Julia deVille ~ Home Sweet Home #8<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/202/deville.jpg/'><img src='http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/1870/deville.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/607/jamesgeerjulia1.jpg/'><img src='http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/6005/jamesgeerjulia1.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/831/jamesgeerjulia2.jpg/'><img src='http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/9314/jamesgeerjulia2.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/850/jamesgeerjulia3.jpg/'><img src='http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/8210/jamesgeerjulia3.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br /><a href="http://ladylavona.blogspot.com/2007/12/disce-mori.html">Julia deVille</a>Lady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-43016136182495902852011-06-17T12:10:00.000-07:002011-06-17T12:32:24.314-07:00To the Madhouse<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/96/agnesrichterc.jpg/'><img src='http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/2918/agnesrichterc.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />Agnes Richter, a patient in a mental asylum in austria in the 1890's, spent her days embroidering text on to the jacket of her hospital uniform in attempts to record her life story.<br /><br />"What she has told us all a hundred times – That old, unwanted women can again Be hunted down, accused of pointless crimes And burned in the public square; that it is vain To plead – or prove – one's innocence; that men With solemn looks will come into the house, And say, fearing a scene, `You'll feel no pain;' `It's for your good;' `We're not ungenerous;' What she foretold, when we dismissed her fear Saying `You dreamed such things' – it now comes true: The door is open, and the men are here. Calmly they question her, and with a new Smiling indifference drag her from the room And through the streets to the expected doom." - Edward LowburyLady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2445319837947149744.post-2041516806031634382011-06-07T12:11:00.000-07:002011-06-07T12:21:20.916-07:00Silk Road Gypsy Talismans<a href='http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/508/berber2.jpg/'><img src='http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/5483/berber2.jpg' border='0'/></a><br /><br />Talisman available in my <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/ladylavona?ref=seller_info">Etsy shop</a>...measures approx. 5 inches and head on a woven leather necklace.<br /><br />"Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, <br />The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced, <br />In the starlight as we wove us in a web of silk and steel <br />Immemorial as the marble in the halls of Boabdil, <br />In the pleasuance of the roses with the fountains and the yews <br />Where the snowy Sierra soothed us with the breezes and the dews! <br />In the starlight as we trembled from a laugh to a caress, <br />And the God came warm upon us in our pagan allegresse." <br /><br />- La Gitana by Aleister CrowleyLady Lavonahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05896512560744076775noreply@blogger.com3