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The exquisite craftsmanship of Dorflinger glass reveals the mastery of nineteenth‑century artisans, who used copper and stone wheels to shape fine glass with remarkable precision a...  more  

In the north east corner of the nave at Worcester Cathedral, England, lies the tomb of John Thornborough (1551-1641), an Anglican bishop and chaplain to Elizabeth I. Thornborough w...  more  

While it is true that Freemasonry characterises itself as a "society with secrets" rather than a "secret society", it is also the case that the Roman Catholic Church has been consi...  more  

In Stanley Kubrick's 1980 movie ‘The Shining’, we see how malefic influences are concentrated and gathered in The Overlook Hotel, itself a metaphor of the world we occupy, beset by...  more  

Audio script of a paper presented live to Sapere Aude on 22 December 2024  more  

As we age, there is a sense in which we also begin to feel closer to the dead, as if the passing of time makes the veil between our world and theirs increasingly thin.   more  

Boehme's metaphysical experiment is important because it presents a God who understands our suffering and embraces both the Dark and Light Worlds, albeit a Divinity where no evil m...  more  

Excerpt from the author's book 'Time Slip Phenomena: The Ghosts of the Trianon, The Legend of Lucy Lightfoot and the Haunting of William Hogarth'. A curious instance of a time sli...  more  

In the 1958 Hammer Horror classic 'Dracula', starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, Dracula is finally defeated when he becomes transfixed by the shape of a cross while sunlig...  more  

Ce livre explore en profondeur le lien entre ces deux visionnaires. L'auteur dissèque méticuleusement la peinture à la détrempe de Blake, « Allégorie de la condition spirituelle de...  more