Category: Fragments
What follows is not biography, nor a claim to truth. It is not a portrait of a man, nor a chronicle of facts. The name Josh Homme is here adopted as mask, as sigil, a vessel through which the drama of rupture and return may be observed. The events described are understood as allegory, not…
In Treatise IV of the Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes Trismegistus admonishes his son, Tat: “Unless thou first shall hate thy Body, son, thou canst not love thy Self. But if thou lov’st thy Self thou shalt have Mind, and having Mind thou shalt share in the Gnosis.” For centuries, this statement has justified asceticism, bodily suspicion,…
The notion of the Deus Absconditus, or the “Hidden God”, has haunted mystical and philosophical traditions from the ancient world through the Renaissance and into modern mysticism. Rooted in biblical sources (notably Isaiah 45:15: “Verily, thou art a God that hidest thyself”), it was seized upon by Hermetic philosophers, Christian Kabbalists, and thinkers like Nicholas…
Among the secret geometries of the birth chart, there exists a point veiled in antiquity yet burning with unmistakable clarity: the Lot of Spirit. Known to the Greeks as Daimon, this calculated lot is not a planet, nor a star, but a meeting place, an intersection of Sun, Moon, and the Ascendant. It is, above…
