How passionately we love everything that cannot last.The dazzling crystallory of winter,The spring in bloom,The fragile flight of butterflies,Crimson sunsets,A kiss,And Life. Read Full Story
Vanity is trictly a human weakness.No animal is capable of vanity. People say cats are vain, but cats are just haughty.They are confident of their superiority and do not crave admiration as do vain men and women. Read Full Story
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated.For these there is hope.They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. Read Full Story
Vanity is trictly a human weakness.No animal is capable of vanity. People say cats are vain, but cats are just haughty.They are confident of their superiority and do not crave admiration as do vain men and women.
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There are scent merchants who live by the nose, the way artists live by the eyes, or musicians by their ears.For them the air is painted with scents as distinct and vivid as colours, who can layer and feather them, as if painting wet-on-wet. To them the air is music. Pale tears of frankincense awaiting extraction, yellow bergamot, sandalwood, cinnamon and mimosa in concert, sustaining groundnotes of genuine ambergris, civet, castor from the beaver, essence of the musk deer.They entertain the ... Read Full Story
In demonology,Vassago, is a mighty Prince of Hell (see Hierarchy of demons), ruling over twenty-six legions of demons. He can be persuaded to tell the magician of events past and future, can discover hidden and lost things, and has a "good" nature.He is described in The Lesser Key of Solomon as follows:The Third Spirit is a Mighty Prince, being of the same nature as Agares. He is called Vassago. This Spirit is of a Good Nature, and his office is to declare things Past and to Come, a... Read Full Story
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated.For these there is hope.They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. Read Full Story