Art, Symbol & Imagination
The crowned figure behind a spiral disc
A pale crowned face emerges above red feather-like wings and a large white disc marked with a curling spiral. The drawing appears in Frances Swiney’s The Esoteric Teaching of the Gnostics. Swiney attributes the book’s four spirit drawings to an unnamed woman working in 1908; that account supplies the historical context rather than an established explanation of the image.
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Unnamed woman, 1908 (source foreword). "The crowned figure behind a spiral disc" [editorial title]. In The Esoteric Teaching of the Gnostics, Frances Swiney. 1909 edition, 1909, Yellon, Williams & Co., Ltd.. Source scan leaf 28. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0087-0022
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
The foreword describes four anonymous spirit drawings made by a woman in 1908. That is the author's account of their production.
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Unnamed woman, 1908 (source foreword). The crowned figure behind a spiral disc. The Esoteric Teaching of the Gnostics. Scan leaf 28. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0087-0022