Jules Engel - Train Landscape (1974)

Shigeo Fukuda - Mona Lisa’s 100 Smiles

Pacino di Bonaguida - The Crucifixion (circa 1315–20)

The perfect alchemical symbol, reflected as the ego surrenders on the tree. 

"The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree." Acts 5:30

“Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.”

- Albert Pike: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry

From the “The Return of the Sorcerer” (featuring the late great Vincent Price) from the TV show The Night Gallery. This episode is an adaption of the classic Clark Ashton Smith horror short story of the same name and is a part of the Cthulhu/Elder God Mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft. The giant painting is from Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot Deck.

This rotating paper volvelle, which was used as a cipher disc. It is found in Johannes Trithemius’s cryptographic book Polygraphiae, this copy of which dates to 1561.

Fernand Pierre - Marriage of Agwe and La Sirene

Adriaen Isenbrant - Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo), and the Mourning Virgin

Avalokitheswara

Stephan Sinding - Adoration

Jean Delville - L'idole de la Perversité

Animation by Pioneering German Dada Filmmaker Walter Ruttmann (1920s)

Lucifer Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1972)

Vsevolod Maksimovich - Banquet

Valentin Serov - 1902

Leonora Carrington - Brujas Juegan Al Cubilete

Graham Sutherland - Cray Fields

Charles Courtney Curran - The cobweb dance

Philipp Otto Runge - The Great Morning