EditorialFigulus, Print, Even Varro, though schooled in the Stoicism of Aelius Stilo and in skeptical Antiochean Platonism, requested a Pythagorean funeral for himself. The 19th-century historian Theodor Mommsen compared the occult interests of the Late Republi...
EditorialNigidius, Print, Even Varro, though schooled in the Stoicism of Aelius Stilo and in skeptical Antiochean Platonism, requested a Pythagorean funeral for himself. The 19th-century historian Theodor Mommsen compared the occult interests of the Late Republ...
EditorialA sphere with occult symbols. A bird sits on the sphere. A half circle of eyes and faces. . Des gottseeligen hocherleuchteten Jacob Bo?hmens ... (the threefold life of man). Amsterdam, 1682. Source: 765.f.11, p. frontispiece. Language: Dutch.
EditorialThe Offering, 1891, Pastel, graphite, and chalk on paper, 13 3/4 x 29 1/2 in. (34.9 x 74.9 cm), Drawings, Fernand Khnopff (Belgian, Grembergen 1858?1921 Brussels), A nude woman makes an offering to a portrait bust on an altar. She looks out as though t...
EditorialThomas Tryon, vegetarian, student of astrology and the occult sciences, died 1709. Engraving by R. Grave from James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, London, 1819.