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Organic Wark and Shattered Wark
The upper image combines spirals, globes and a long fan of trailing lines. The lower fills the dark field with branching white currents and dispersed shapes. Oahspe’s captions relate these forms to meteors and changes in etherea within its own cosmological vocabulary.
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Illustrator not identified. "Organic Wark and Shattered Wark" [editorial title]. In Oahspe: A New Bible, John Ballou Newbrough; presented by the source as received revelation. Undated supplied transcription of Oahspe, with its 1882 title and New York editor’s preface., undated edition. Source scan leaf 746. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0431-0746
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Reproduced from the exact historical library edition. The surrounding source presents spiritualist or cosmological claims; the image records that publication rather than verifying those claims.
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Illustrator not identified. Organic Wark and Shattered Wark. Oahspe: A New Bible. Scan leaf 746. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0431-0746