The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism by Patrick Lepetit

Author:Patrick Lepetit
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Art/Occult Studies
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2014-04-18T00:00:00+00:00

I, the eye that sees nine different worlds and tells the tale of each.

I, Anuba, who saw the guts of pharaoh, embalmer, outcast.

I, the lion goddess who ate the ancestors and churned them into gold in her belly.

I, the lunatic and fool meat for worse fools than I.

I, the bitch of Sirius, landed here from the terrible hyperbole to howl at the moon.

I, the bamboo in the hand of Huang Po.

I, the Queen bee in the entrails of Samson’s dead lion.

I, the tears of the archangel that melted it again.

I, the solitary joke made by the snow queen in higher mathematics.

I, the gypsy who brought the first greasy Tarot from Venus.

I, the tree of wisdom whose thirteen branches lead eternally back again.

I, the eleventh commandment: Thou shalt despise no being.

But an extract from Carrington’s En Bas (Down Below), a story told “on the return from one of those journeys from which there is little chance of returning” to Jeanne Mégnen, Pierre Mabille’s wife, about her stay in Spain, will complete the portrait and clarify my claims better than anything else I could say. It is worth recalling, though, what Jean-Louis Bédouin said about this text, which is amazingly close (and for good reason) to those of Unica Zürn.

Divinatory, tyrannical, often terrifying, visions took possession of the author’s mind. The universe was under the thrall of magicians, “masters” that took advantage of their power to create a reign of terror.57

And citing Leonora Carrington directly, “on [her] return from this expedition into forbidden territory”:

I knew by dint of divination that the world was congealed, that it was up to me . . . to set it in motion again. . . . I was she who revealed religions and bore on her shoulders the freedom and sins of the earth changed into Knowledge, the union of Man and Woman with God and the Cosmos, all equal between them. . . . The father was the planet Saturn; the son was the Sun and I the Moon, an essential element of the Trinity, with the microscopic knowledge of the earth, its plants and creatures.58

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