The Transgressive Spirit

Antinomian, sacrilicious.

'Take care to cultivate a view vices, lest your virtues become vices.'--Clancy Shehee

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EARLY SCIENCE & ALCHEMY
Paracelsus, the Alchemist Who Wed Medicine to Magic
https://t.co/MvnuIpxdXp

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Happy Birthday to #Paracelsus!
*Alchemist
*1493-1541

"Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow."
"Man is... an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament."

Date and artist unknown (Wikimedia).

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Happy Birthday to #AnneSexton!!
*Poet
* 1920-1974

"Need is not quite belief."

Elsa Dorfman, Fair Use, c. 1970, Wikimedia

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Happy Birthday to Julian of Norwich!
*Mystic
*1342-1416

“But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?”

"All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well."

Photo: Poliphilo, 2012, Public Domain

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@ChristnNitemare This guy would make a great sub.

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@gundrymd_ Why use a spoon?

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Happy Birthday #BillyGraham!
*Evangelist *1918-2018

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

Oslo, 1955, Artist Unknown (Wikimedia Commons)

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@tdug93 @elonmusk I don't want to agree with this post, but it's obviously true .

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Happy Birthday #PabloPicasso!
*Artist
*1881-1973

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

1908: Anonymous, Public Domain (Wikimedia Commons)

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Happy Birthday to #TheBab!
*Religious Leader
*1819-1850

"The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. This hath been God's method in the past, and shall continue to be in the future!"

"The Bab," date unknown, Public Domain

#Babism #Bahai

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https://t.co/rcVhGXQubQ

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Happy Birthday to #HaileSelassie!!
*Emperor
*1892-1975

"We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook..."

Unknown/Unknown

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Happy Birthday to #TomRobbins!!
*Writer
*Born 1932

“A sense of humor... is superior to any religion so far devised.”

Selfie, 2005

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@nathaliejacoby1 Running on her own nasty fumes.

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Roky Erickson, founding member of The 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre, has died: https://t.co/AO1HP1gs8f #RokyErickson

[G.U.Mass @GeorgiosMasman2]

#OnThisDay #Remembering American #singersongwriter Roger Kynard #RokyErickson (July 15, 1947 – May 31, 2019). He was the founder of #13thFloorElevators & a pioneer of the #psychedelicrock In 1968 he was diagnosed w/paranoid schizophrenia & sent to a Houston psychiatric hospital.

[RockMusicAssociation @RockMusicAssoc]

Happy Birthday to the late, great Roky Erickson, psychedelic rock pioneer, cofounder of The 13th Floor Elevators, singer-songwriter and all around long-haired genius. Roky was a true artist. Born 7/15/1947. #RokyErickson #RockHonorRoll

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Happy Birthday to #RokyErickson!
*Rocker
*1947-2019

"I've gone through three changes- I thought I was a Christian, then I was the devil, then the third one, where I know who I am you know I feel like I'm an alien."

Zatecky, 2022/Ron Baker, 2008

[Kristin Du Mez @kkdumez]

Wait a minute…*no* Jesus and John Wayne and just…*less* Twilight?

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@nathaliejacoby1 Ick.