The Esoteric Bookworm

Crowned and winged female genius; sits on death as a skeleton, a winged putto in front of her.

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Posted on February 4, 2013 with 153 notes
All seeing eye of Providence

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Posted on December 17, 2012 with 39 notes
Woodcut of Ptolemy

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Posted on November 30, 2012 with 31 notes
Alchemist

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Posted on November 10, 2012 with 47 notes
The Key of Transmutation from De imaginum, signorum -Giordano Bruno ~1591

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Posted on November 4, 2012 with 83 notes
“For in the end, Under fire of repentance, See Love distill water of tears ”

Le theatre des bons engins of Guillaume Le Perrière ~1544

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Posted on October 30, 2012 with 109 notes
Hexagram -Johann Daniel Mylius ~1618

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Posted on July 30, 2012 with 109 notes
Satan at the Sabbat -Malleus Maleficarum ~1487

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Posted on July 28, 2012 with 76 notes
Capricorn -Bonatti ~1300’s

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Posted on July 23, 2012 with 15 notes
Conjoined Women -Conradus Lycosthenes ~1557

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Posted on July 22, 2012 with 33 notes

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