Grimoire Volume 1

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So when Moses threw his stick on the ground and it immediately turned into a Snake… or when Aaron's staff swallowed up the other staffs... Moses and Aaron's wisdom, knowledge and empowerment stoke down the false knowledge of the Wise Men and

of the Earth, stood in the House of Life and spoke to the other gods about beings

Like us, they are procreating.

Ningishzidda, my son, their Fashioning Essence has tested; Arranged like twenty-two branches on a Tree of Life were the essences; When their with our life essence shall be combined, our mark upon them shall be” (3)

There is no need to delve deeper to bring about figures from the African, Nordic, Ancient Egyptian, Jewish, Peruvian, Eastern, Shamanic, Occult (…) mythologies about Serpent / Snakes and how they whispered equally Cosmic Wisdom and Venomous entwined and united on one hemisphere and the other of the head,best portrayed in the Egyptian symbolic figures of Golden Snakes on the foreheads of Supreme Rulers.

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process of creationism itself. The stream of thoughts is crawling like an overflowing stream of waters, and thus, like a Serpent... Awareness of the first origin of the erupting flow enables the observer to grasp it with precision and take control of the shape and the nature of the stream itself.

C.G.Jung said, “The serpent does not represent "reason" or anything approaching it, but rather symbolises a peculiar autonomous mind which can possess one completely, a spirit of revelation which gives us "Intuitionen" (intuitions). ”(4) Intuition has long been stigmatized as the Devil’s Mouthpiece, the forbidden fruit the individuating ego, nevertheless revealing treasures hard to attain.

The mythological goal of the snake is almost always temptation, emprisonnement , the guardship of the virgin, the treasure or the It portrays a picture of the inner core of the personality and its surrounding layers. The captive represents the element whose liberation makes every further development possible, but at the risk of making the wrong step, grasping the wrong part, catching the wrong end, interfering with the snake / the stream of life, ending up being poisoned or worse, poisoning the captive or the inner core How to defeat / overcome a Snake ?

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A lack of first-hand experience with snakes render them the incarnation of the fear of the unknown, a fear that can be an intuitive warning or an unfounded anxiety about something undefinable, something deep and hidden under several layers.

Venturing between those layers means letting one’s self be swallowed by the fear itself... a descensus ad inferos.

Mythologically, this dive into the serpent’s depth is depicted as reflecting something that is re-creating itself. Gilgamesh, Osiris, Christ, Dante, Odysseus, Aeneas, Psyche… they all took the dive into what the mystics would call “the Dark Night of the Soul”, in order to resurrect and be re-born, as pure as Gold, as strong and shiny as the Sun… as wise as a Serpent.

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If that is somehow right, then the opposite must be too. The act of creation is the at the very origin of the tunnel, but also at almost the end of it.

In the art of creation, just like in the art of life, of magic and of the thought, the creator, the created and the process overlap. The knight becomes one with the snake, the guardian of the entrance to the treasure, and becomes Jung puts it this way : “If I had not become like the serpent, the devil, the quintessence of everything serpentlike, would have held this bit of power This would have given the devil a grip and he would have forced me to make a pact with him just as he also cunningly deceived Faust. But I forestalled him by uniting myself with the serpent, just as a man unites with a woman.”(5) This implies that “unification with or transformation into” the Serpent requires pure empathy towards the serpent’s essence, and not the likes of it.

Empathy is key.

Becoming the Snake in order to charm it instead of a head on clash with its venom!

Becoming the observed in order to create, and avoid wrongness and falsehood!

“He who cannot love can never transform the serpent, and then nothing is changed.”

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1: The Bradys and the Snake Charmer, by “Unknown” \\ 2: Exodus 7 \\ 3: "The Lost Book of Enki", by Zecheria Sitchin 4: Alchemy, by Carl Gustav Jung \\ 5: Man and his Symbols, by Carl Gustav Jung \ \6: Psychological Reflections, by Carl Gustav Jung

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Bouche criante. Cris stridents.

Le corps s’arrête. S’estompe.

Distances séparent l’œil des jambes fuyantes.

Vision difforme. Ouïe difforme. Corps syncopé.

Œil. Bouche. Main. Muets. Suspendus un instant.

Yeux. Bouches. Mains. Bavardes. Saisissent l’instant.

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Greg Scud ‘ POLAND’ Non Omnis Moriar p1 Tower of Time p2 Concert p3,4 The Gate p5,6

Wratt ‘ FRANCE’ Le pacte p7 Ego p22

Houssemdine Souaf ‘TUNISIA’ Tangential Interaction p 8 Overdue Birth p9 Suspension p10 Inheritance p11,12

Sdiri Becem ‘TUNISIA’ Modularity-02 p18 Modularity-01 p19 Modularity-03 p20

Nawress Zrei ‘TUNISIA’ Invasion p25,26,27,28

Myriam Bouabid ‘TUNISIA’ p29

Oscivus ‘RUSSIA’ Sobachka p 30 Lunatics in the Yard p 31,32 Mind Dust p33 Draugr p35

Grimoire Team Cover Article p13, 14 ,15, 16 Textures p 17, 21, 23, 24,28,36

Grimoire Team Yasser Jeridi Bochra Taboubi Oussema Gaidi