She walks without a light of Her own, and that is why She is feared. For among those who worship the solar glow of law and certainty, the Lady who shifts Her phases is not welcome. And yet, an ancient blessing survives, recited by night beneath the open sky: Kiddush Levanah, the sanctification of the…
In the Fifth Treatise of the Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes Trismegistus speaks to his son Tat of the highest Good, that which belongs to the One alone; untouched, unmingled, inaccessible to the world below. He warns that all which appears on earth is, by necessity, marked by mixture and passion, the shadow of a perfection it…
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…
