A return to the theme explored with Tanya Yip in Gnosis Transformations. This is a reblog from a 15 January 2014 post at Infernal Wonders, where I had the following explanation of its provenance:

mage contains the signature “Rosomanov” and appears to be part of a 2010 MUZIKA calendar. You can see a “making of” video for the source material here:

Sourced via feeling-is-first. Original text:

erospainter:

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.  ~Berthold Auerbach