Eva Rider Reclaiming Soul

01/11/2026

Jake Baddeley's poignant final painting at the end of 2025.
At this moment of turbulence in our precious world.

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Fresh from the easel, my final piece of 2025. I have called it the“The Fallen”.

This work explores the narrative of the Fallen Angels and their relationship to technology and the Ego, as it is found in the Book of Enoch. It carries the theme of the original sin, of hubris and its consequences.
It is also a call to remember and be true to your inner nature.
To be content with what you are and what you have been given.

This work may remind you time and again that at some point in time, we lost our place within the Natural Law.
We had the mind to try and rise above our Divine Origin, thinking we knew better.
Led by Ego and our technological skills, we just got sucked deeper into matter.
And we still are, as we are bound by all kinds of desires. Thinking it can be more perfect.
Thethered, untill we let go of our hubris and become free once more. Wiser. Humbler. Embedded.

01/04/2026

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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12/22/2025

Solstice eve - a pinnacle arrived and the dawn - returning light.
“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
Capricorn
painting by Johfra Bosschart

12/22/2025

“As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats, Rosa Alchemica

12/21/2025

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
― T.S. Eliot
Four Quartets

Art by JJake Baddeley

12/10/2025

“When the sound and wholesome nature of man acts as an entirety, when he feels himself in the world as in a grand, beautiful, worthy and worthwhile whole, when this harmonious comfort affords him a pure, untrammeled delight: then the universe, if it could be sensible of itself, would shout for joy at having attained its goal and wonder at the pinnacle of its own essence and evolution. For what end is served by all the expenditure of suns and planets and moons, of stars and Milky Ways, of comets and nebula, of worlds evolving and passing away, if at last a happy man does not involuntarily rejoice in his existence?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art by Michael Cheval

12/07/2025

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12/06/2025

12/04/2025

“Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance.”
― Henri Bergson

Art by Emma Jung

12/04/2025

“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
The Riddle by Jake Baddeley