Category: Fragments
Some do not speak from the central nave of the temple, but from the corridor where silence lingers longer. Their voices are not heard in daylight, yet they move the tides. Among these veiled presences is one who walks under the name Desire. She is not performer, nor siren, nor oracle in the usual sense.…
In every myth worth its salt, there is a moment where the hero must step from the circle of what is known, either family, tribe, law, or custom, and cross a trembling threshold into the world’s raw, unwritten heart. This act, as Joseph Campbell saw, is not mere adventure; it is an eruption of axis,…
There is a reason why the real clubs, the sanctified ones, the sweat-soaked crypts of transformation, have no mirrors. And it is not about vanity, or keeping people from fixing their eyeliner. It is because the mirror is the Eye of the False God. It reflects what should not matter in there: your face, your…
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…
Symbol Jae Matthews emerges as a gnostic cipher, a coded presence for the exiled Feminine, her voice a point of contact where the fallen Sophia resists return and condenses as flesh and shadow. In the work of Boy Harsher, music is substance and liturgy, an apocryphal gospel written by both Jae and Augustus Muller for…
There are figures in the Marian tradition who do not occupy the central nave of the cathedral but rather move along its thresholds, bearing mysteries that are neither entirely spoken nor entirely concealed. Among these, the Mystical Rose emerges as a presence at once discreet and impossible to ignore, Her image evoking a silence dense…
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…
