Art Gnosis, Alan Moore and True Will

[Nightgrowler]

Greetings everyone!
My reentry into the world of occult occurred on New Year’s night of 2019, when I read Alan Moore’s essay “Fossil Angels” for the first time. The whole essay can be summarized by a short “Art=Magick. Magick=Art” but I highly encourage you to go down that rabbit hole by yourself and read through the whole text, it is just outstanding. Since that night my life was changed forever. Later on I have read Moore’s Promethea, a comic book about Goddess of Imagination which if applied in a certain way can organize you one on one meeting with this goddess. For more than six years now I am diving into mysteries of this Art Magick and hundreds of artworks were made along this way.
How do you apply Arts in your practice? Do you have maybe music component, or sculpture arts?

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[Robert Ramsay]

My only art is writing - I've written some short stories with occult themes and hopefully publishing them this year!

Your artwork is amazing!

 

[divandan]

I am not full fledged practitioner, but the art helps me focus when I draw or color. Once or twice when I had an illness I drew the part of my body that hurt and talked to it. The next day it was gone, or greatly calmed down.
I feel the pull of an magick instinct in me lately and last night I started reading Alan Moore the Moon and the Serpent Bumper book. It's funny that I stumbled on another person being nudged by the Bearded Moore.

 

[deus ex machina]

I've come to see ceremonial magic and art as indeed inseparable. You could say it is performance art for a limited audience, sometimes only personal, but still performance art. Indeed I think this is really key to understanding magic and maybe even the arts themselves. Of course, all the related/preparatory activities are also arts/crafts so there is that too. In some ways this view also somewhat normalizes ceremonial magic as well (if it was in any need of normalizing or if we even consider artists normal) and folds into a more natural part of your life/self-expression.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

I've come to see ceremonial magic and art as indeed inseparable. You could say it is performance art for a limited audience, sometimes only personal, but still performance art. Indeed I think this is really key to understanding magic and maybe even the arts themselves. Of course, all the related/preparatory activities are also arts/crafts so there is that too. In some ways this view also somewhat normalizes ceremonial magic as well (if it was in any need of normalizing or if we even consider artists normal) and folds into a more natural part of your life/self-expression.

This is why I recommend Stanislavski's 'An Actor Prepares', for magicians. If you read it from a magical point of view, it's pretty mind-blowing.

 

[deus ex machina]

Just ran into an Instagram post (which is otherwise in theme for wizards out there too) that really also addresses this point:
"Beauty is not merely adornment - it is a tool that awakens within the soul its innate powers, guiding it back to the Sublime, the Eternal, and the True..."

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