Eva Rider Reclaiming Soul

02/08/2026

“This is the creature there has never been.
They never knew it, and yet, none the less,
they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,
its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.

Not there, because they loved it, it behaved
as though it were. They always left some space.
And in that clear unpeopled space they saved
it lightly reared its head, with scarce a trace

of not being there. They fed it, not with corn,
but only with the possibility
of being. And that was able to confer

such strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.
Whitely it stole up to a maid - to be
within the silver mirror and in her.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

02/08/2026

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
Art by Jake Baddeley.

02/06/2026

“In our yearning to be perfect, we have mistaken perfection for wholeness. We think we cannot love ourselves until we and others meet some external standard. Depression, anxiety—in fact, most neuroses and compulsions—are ultimately a defense against loving ourselves without condition. We are afraid to look at the damp, dark, ugly yet exquisite roots of being that stretch deep into our survival chakra. We are fearful of finding that the spirit is not there, that our Home is empty, even as our outer home is empty. Yet it is in that place of survival, where the dark mother has been abandoned, that spirit longs to be embodied so that the whole body may become light. Ego wants to be the god of our own idealized projection; spirit wants to be incarnated in our humanity where it can grow in wisdom through experience.”
― Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness

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01/18/2026

A Translation from French and German
of The Emerald Tablet
- Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum

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