Biography + Vision

All about Rev Illuminatus Maximus, reclusive founder of the Gnostic Friends Network

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Artist Statement

My work focuses on the visual and textual reinterpretation of “heretical” and suppressed mythopoetic narratives, illustrated and disseminated via print and electronic media and aping the form of propaganda and religious tracts.
Inasmuch as art and magic both involve the ritualistic detection of and communion with disincarnate entities from inner-dimensional planes, I don’t really distinguish between [...]

Key Concepts

Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site:

Antinomianism - taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga.
Animism - the underlying assumption of indigenous shamanism is that everything is alive and capable of communication: rocks, [...]

Rev Max Interview by Tim Boucher

Rev Max (a pseudonym) is the deranged mind behind Enemies.com, the weird art website which first exposed me to gnostic myths and symbols in the late 1990’s. I didn’t actually get really into gnostic thought until several years later, but I always really loved Max’s out-there artistic vision. So I was very excited when earlier [...]