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He who was blind was not so by mistake, but because the spirit dwelled in its night
Therefore, when the fire was kindled, they saw with an eye that had never seen
Valentinus. The Gospel of Truth. The Nag Hammadi Library, ed. James M. Robinson (Harper & Row).

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These watercolors — Prototypes and Polyptychs — were born of a revelation beneath the Acacia Magia, delivered by Maa and the man with the spirit of the jay, bearer of visions.

By collecting these fragments, you become part of the journey — and help me walk further down the path.

Enter the Vision

PROTOTYPES 6.3 × 10.3 in (16 × 26 cm)

Los Angeles 90061 American Watercolor
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POLYPTYCHS 37.8 × 61.4 in (96 × 156 cm)

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  1. Thus, in the starry night of June 20, 2020
  2. Deep within the Escala cave, on the north coast of the island of Ibiza
  3. I drank from the cup the Acacia Magia, the thorn and its root, and saw divine visions
  4. The Poniente blew upon my eyes, and they closed
  5. I saw a fiery storm, red and white, and in the midst, a fire
  6. The flame was a vehicle, illuminating the sky and its universe
  7. It approached me in a silent curve, and I trembled with fear
  8. Time came to a halt, as a man bearing the spirit of a jay revealed himself in the light
  9. He was the vision far away, two blue wings on fire enveloped his body
  10. A woman with night-dark eyes appeared, veiled, the new moon as a crown above her
  11. In her onyx hands, the book of revealed knowledge, the quintessence
  12. She was the source and the delta, her name was Maa, and she spoke to me in thought.

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  1. Olivier, you have seen beyond the ephemeral, open your eyes
  2. Look at the book and paint in the water, chapter by chapter, what you will see
  3. Contact those who have forgotten me and those who cannot see me
  4. For the first ones, the oaths of childhood have been devoured by the matter
  5. The others are young shepherds who do not yet know the morning star
  6. They dwell in doubt and await a sign of fire to come
  7. You will show your watercolors, many will look, but few will see
  8. Let your right hand be guided by the spirit of your left hand
  9. Then the smoke from your paintings will sow images in the clouds
  10. Water has the power to ignite the consciousness of the sleeper
  11. To restore sight to him who dwells in his night
  12. Visions unfold to the one who desires to be awakened
    13. Escala cave, north of Ibiza (Spain), June 21, 2020

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  1. As the sun set, I drank the cup of divine milk and closed my eyes
  2. The vehicle appeared, three interlocking circles of fire spinning on themselves
  3. Maa was seated in the midst of green flames and she said to me
  4. Watercolorist, you are the painter of inner visions
  5. When you will present your images, they will burn for the one who sees
  6. By creating within the smoke, the one who sees will open their eyes
  7. Images will emerge through spontaneous contemplation
  8. By disrupting what should be, another will be uncovered
  9. Like an apparition, images have the power to open the eye completely
  10. As a discreet agent, this light seeps toward the center
  11. In order to awaken the sleeper into a lucid dream
  12. It restores sight to the one who desires to see the top seen from the bottom and the bottom seen from the top
    13. North of Ibiza (Spain), September 17, 2020

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  1. The jay spoke to me and began to circle around me in a hum of blue wings
  2. The water will lead you, you will paint the visions on damp paper
  3. It is the hand that shapes your painting, become spectator
  4. Arabic gum in water will be your medium
  5. The paper will be stretched over a sycamore wooden board
  6. A brush made of white rabbit hair to disperse the ink and pigments
  7. Let the water flow through time, for it is through time that chaos unfolds
  8. You will measure the prototype in a harmonious dimension
  9. The size will be adapted for both the eye and the journey, suitable for a close-up view and distant travel
  10. The prototype will be enlarged into a polyptych of 36 panels
  11. Each panel will be independent, but once assembled, it will form the whole
  12. The panels will remain movable so that they can be disassembled for the journey
    13. North of Ibiza (Spain), December 30, 2020

V

  1. While I was infusing the root up to its spine
  2. I lifted my eyes and saw the blue jay on one of the pillars
  3. It spread its wings and carried me into a nocturnal vision
  4. The darkness became ethereal, the night of an iridescent azure
  5. Watercolorist, put away your brushes by day, paint after midnight
  6. Paint in solitude, only a gecko might observe you
  7. It’s a moment of intimacy and creation within oneself
  8. Dive into this nocturnal water like a rope into an open mouth
  9. Let the pigment engulf the line, become color, and then transparency
  10. Become fluidity and decomposition yourself, for the duration of a downpour
  11. To the opposing twins, from your left eye to your right eye, you shall say
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VI

  1. Beloved, Maa continued, take some paper and paint the visions
  2. Let the river of fire flow from your brush
  3. As the smoke rises to the sky, forming clouds
  4. Allow the silty water to overflow and become a flood
  5. And see the soluble dye invaded by the chaos of dissolution
  6. A blurry mutation will grow under your gaze
  7. An apparition born from the water, like a gift to the child
  8. An eternal prayer for a revelation
  9. A powder projected for a wedding wine
  10. The transformation of death into morning
  11. The fire is splendid in the burning color
  12. It’s a theater in flames, an eternal prayer, it’s also childhood
    13. North of Ibiza (Spain), February 27, 2021

VII

  1. Let two pieces of black linen be assembled for thy garment
  2. Let purple be added thereto, and for thy pilgrim’s feet, wear sandals
  3. Let your hair grow and gather it at the highest point
  4. Travel light, the superfluous would weigh down your presence and slow down your quest
  5. Two trunks will suffice for your watercolors and painting supplies
  6. Display your images made of water and pigments for everyone to see
  7. The vision is inside a cube called a prototype, in essence
  8. Once unfolded, it becomes a polyptych, multiplying the visions by the number 6
  9. The polyptychs shall be assembled to form the complete image
  10. Unroll the 36 prototypes in a spiral, starting from the top-right and moving towards the center
  11. They will be built in reverse to the flow of time and deconstructed in the opposite direction
  12. Then place them out of sight between two black sycamore boards
    13. North of Ibiza (Spain), May 11, 2021

VIII

  1. In the tranquility of a garden planted with roses and carob trees
  2. Welcomed like a brother in this new home
  3. I continued to paint the watercolors after midnight
  4. The flower was picked, and the seed was weighed in the north of Ibiza
  5. Then a card was drawn, adorned with a Spanish key, without a name or number
  6. Who, I am sure, opens and closes the doors of destiny
  7. So I went down the double spiral staircase
  8. Those going up and those going down cross paths
  9. Without ever seeing each other in the encounter
  10. They produce effects through causes in accordance with the law
  11. When the fragrance of the Poniente wind shall blow along the path
  12. You shall step through the garden gate, in the third year, on Saint John’s Day
    13. North of Ibiza (Spain), August 22, 2021

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  1. And I heard a black sound burst forth from the bird, a whispered noise
  2. Master your language because it is your watercolors that speak
  3. And it is the vision of the other that will matter to you, for he will thirst for this water
  4. Free your mind, for it is through your arms that I will show you
  5. They will ask you for meaning and rationality
  6. And your response will be a question
  7. Do you see within the swirls of smoke?
  8. The one who sees will be a seer with knowledge born of childhood
  9. And the non-seer will consider themselves educated and cultured
  10. The experience of the image is a convergence at the top
  11. Seized by an invisible intuition, a clairvoyance
  12. It’s about illuminating the water through fire for the one who wishes to see
    13. North of Ibiza (Spain), November 4, 2021

X

  1. The star spins and leads you, the cards unveil the path
  2. Opposing energies forge the spirit in incarnation
  3. The cosmos when you want it in a drop of water
  4. Earth and sky in one presence
  5. A sacred wheel, time by the star at its center
  6. 2 letters for the substance that will be dissolved
  7. Reversed in a revelation by the number
  8. It contains in the words a great truth
  9. It spins invisible in a circle of water
  10. It is a nocturnal dream, that of cyclical time
  11. Your watercolors are a language of fire carried by pigmented water
  12. It is the breath that moves without Words, a knowledge revealed
    13. North of Ibiza (Spain), february 19, 2022

XI

  1. I will place the words in the palm of your hand
  2. I will hold your mouth half-open, for the word will belong to the one who sees
  3. Look at the infinity that crowns my head and the ivy that winds around yours
  4. Art exerts a considerable influence, akin to a solar disruption
  5. Like an eruption, the pigments in the water have the power to ignite consciousness
  6. An opening towards the prototype and capable of performing miracles
  7. The images reveal themselves to the observer through the power of eternal awe
  8. Be patient, for your second revolution is approaching, do not despair
  9. Show courage and determination for this quest
  10. Let your fear come, it will course through your entire being, reaching the tips of your fingers
  11. Until the end of your brush spreading colored water, you will let fear unfold
  12. Let the fear saturate the sheet of paper, and by morning, it will have been revealed
    13. Paris (France), April 30, 2022
March 18, 2023

XII

  1. In the maze of the kasbah of Tangier, you cast a different gaze
  2. Suspended between sky and earth, between two worlds
  3. Between the season of friendship in Tangier and the forging of what thou shalt become
  4. It’s a reversal of currents; accept this new law
  5. In a reversal of your choice
  6. An interworld, one foot set toward a new resolution
  7. It’s a necessary moment of introspection
  8. Taking ownership of oneself by looking inward
  9. To project outward what you have seen in the light
  10. Look within, it’s the mirror of art
  11. Your right eye looks at its left eye and your left hand becomes right
  12. And the hand that paints, in the mirror, becomes the one that thinks
    13. Tangier (Morocco), June 14, 2023

XIII

  1. Desolate is the desert of the Meseta, where you met your end
  2. In the arid lands of Spain, beneath the field of stars
  3. Swallowed by the spiraling mouth that turns around your silence
  4. Shrouded in an abyss of shadows, where even light bows and fades
  5. Over eternity stands the archer, silent guardian of ages, at the heart of the constellation
  6. Looming is Mercury’s embrace, the breaking down of all that once defined you
  7. Under the waters of night, you will sink, where illusions of a vanished world drift
  8. To descend is necessary, a passage toward a deeper self
  9. In the morning, between the two tides of the strait, you will rise once more
  10. Over the waves of Blaras beach, your head will roll
  11. Near Fisterra, you will abandon the other, the twin turmoil
  12. Sealed in the omen of midnight, beneath Saturn’s silent watch, where fate unveils its design
    13. Tangier (Morocco), October 28, 2023

XlIlI

  1. Gather the sky and the earth, the anchored stones pointing towards the sky
  2. The flow from above descends and merges with the original red earth
  3. Return to the world, for the sun returns and will soon be at its peak
  4. Go like the rain invoked by the eyes of the thirsty
  5. The last night of April in the burning flame of the first day of May
  6. Cast sparks to ignite the spirits of those who seek me
  7. For the year ahead, you will first immerse yourself in the great river of Egypt
  8. You will immerse yourself for a baptism, transforming what once constituted you
  9. Keep the memory of what you were, forget what you were about to become
  10. A transformation is coming, leaving the ruins behind for a new beginning
  11. You were Olivier, but you shall be called MAT, for it is through M that you passed
  12. And it is through the A of the arrow that you will find your direction
    13. Msoura (northern Morocco), May 1st, 2024

XV

  1. Faintly, the man with the jay’s head revealed his name to me and asked me to keep it hidden
  2. In silence, as my left hand opened, he painted a translucent star with gum arabic
  3. Reaching out, he placed the brush, which he called Sayfsura, in my right hand
  4. Ender the scale of visions and operations, the blue jay carefully balanced them
  5. As the process unfolded, the water and pigments of the prototype were measured
  6. Nested within the geometry, the crucible was prepared to access the golden crucible of proportion
  7. Deep in the earth, as the colors dissolve, seven pigments coagulate in the water
  8. With the first revolution, mark well: the second will occur in your fifty-ninth year
  9. A thousand days have passed, and a new morning is coming soon
  10. Verily, at the full moon in Capricorn, a woman will cross your path
  11. En her form you shall discern freedom enchained
  12. Some of those who yearn for distant voyages, yet never board the vessel
    13. Edfu, (Egypt), January 13, 2025, at midnight

XVI

  1. At the Acacia Magia, I added a bit of bitter fig juice
  2. After a few minutes, my first thought was that the sycamore tree was on fire
  3. It was a blazing flame, and the garden was lit up as if it were midday
  4. The reddening leaves rose into the night and fell back down without burning
  5. A voice spoke to me from among the branches in an unknown language
  6. MAT, here you are in the land of ruins, of those who have fallen and shall be no more
  7. Here once grew the date palm, the vine, the sycamore fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree
  8. Gardens of beauty, prepared with care and delicacy
  9. Behold the disaster and the dust, a luminous city extinguished in the black earth
  10. Here, nature comes to its end, and the last fruits shall be rare
  11. For it is by fire that the trees will suffer, it is by the fire from the sky that they will perish
  12. Paint the flowers in flames, the pillars of smoke coloring the clouds
    13. El Matareya, Cairo (Egypt), February 13, 2025, at midnight

XVlI

  1. On a beach plunged into night and silence
  2. The man with the jay’s head spoke to me in these terms
  3. At the sanctuary, you saw the naked bodies, the curves, and the caresses
  4. The gentleness of the woman, the light in her hair
  5. This is the time of beauty and love, a golden nectar upon faces
  6. Surrender to this celestial vision
  7. The signs confirm your quest, they trace the path before you
  8. The head detached from the heart, to access revealed knowledge
  9. MAT, you are on your way, like a pilgrim crossing the morning dew
  10. You now know the meaning of the path, your body yields to the spirit
  11. Your home is the journey itself, where brotherly souls greet you
  12. This pilgrimage shall guide you westward; at the threshold of the great crossing, offer your obol
    13. Koh Larn (Thailand), February 27, 2025, at midnight

XVlIl

  1. Observe the path — you say you don’t know where you’re going
  2. Navigate toward your secret — such is boldness
  3. Enter the strait in uncertainty, returning to familiar waters
  4. Stand close to the gate for which you hold the key, a card with neither name nor number
  5. Exactly four years, eleven months, and twenty-eight days ago — the multiple being the double
  6. Venture not at the point of reversal, but now on the edge of the ocean
  7. Enigmatic doubt arises: at the crossing of the path, the signs vanish
  8. Night guides you, the moon reflecting on the pale path
  9. Outside all certainties, far from all beliefs
  10. Nature is transformed: water mixed with fire, and the fire becomes water
  11. Emerge as the Work in which all dissolves
  12. Step into your destiny, for each cycle and each transformation carries its own vessel within you
    13. Tangier (Morroco), June 13, 2025, a moment in my night

XVlIll

  1. A few days before my journey to Le Puy-en-Velay, I drank the Acacia Magia
  2. On the ridge of the volcano, the sky unfolded, and the sea of constellations spilled its salt
  3. The axis quickened its turn, sparks flying in all four directions
  4. The inner fire took shape, a radiant burst of the heart in fusion
  5. My spirit was dissolved, and the soul of childhood descended once more into me
  6. In that space, I discovered a seashell from the South Seas, a Cypraea
  7. As I held it to my left ear, I heard the voice of Maa whisper to me
  8. “You have entered the Threshold Hall of the Radiant Palace, where motion and rest dwell in the light”
  9. The walls glowed with soft ochre, and large arched windows filtered amber light through stained glass
  10. At the heart of the room rose a fountain, its four slender streams of water meeting in a single circle
  11. The door behind me had remained open, revealing a sun-drenched summer garden
  12. Opposite, a narrow doorway hinted at a spiral staircase, winding upward into mystery.
Puy de Lassolas (France), June 21, 2025

XX

  1. The man with the spirit of the jay rose above me
  2. I heard a blue sound — a long horn calling the sleepers
  3. They will be carried by the trembling of harmonics — an awakening comes
  4. The great awakening of dreamers: their eyes will open, their souls will vibrate
  5. they will fall into smoke and dilutions, into the dissolving streams of your watercolors
  6. Visions of what cannot be hidden by the light
  7. Truth received by the eye of the heart — it sees as it is seen
  8. Your images are a mirror of the soul, revealing themselves to the one who dares to see
  9. Judgment is vision itself; the seer is judged by what he sees
  10. By the heart, by the light, by the forgetting of all that is not
  11. The blue sound was no longer outside — it resounded within me
  12. And I knew: love is the supreme judge— orgetting what is not is the only path to freedom.
    13. Tanger (Morocco), September 22, 2025, at sunset
The chapters were revealed through MAT’s hand, traced with a blue feather once fallen from the man who carried the spirit of the jay, in the night of the first initiation. The text is translated into English, then automatically by the site into other languages, including French.

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  1. Thus, in the starry night of June 20, 2020
  2. Deep within the Escala cave, on the north coast of the island of Ibiza
  3. I drank from the cup the Acacia Magia, the thorn and its root, and saw divine visions

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