Category: Fragments
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Some events serve not to comfort the flock, nor to reinforce the orthodoxy of temples. They tear the veil of the world and return the sacred to its primordial astonishment. The Coptic Marian apparitions are not miracles in any catechetical or pious sense; they are operational breaches in the wall of reality, visiting communities on…
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In the silence of Egypt’s deep heart, among the warm stones of monasteries carved into the desert, there are faces that burn without moving. Icons. Not as liturgical ornaments, nor as pious souvenirs; they are living thresholds. Within them, a presence keeps watch. What is seen is no allegory, no portrait. It is the visible…
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There are days that do not sit within the calendar, yet they burn beneath it. June 13 is one of these, a pressure point in the flesh of the invisible. It marks no simple nativity, but a faultline, a fissure where history breaks and the unspeakable seeps through. To call him “Pessoa” is to name…
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Seven utterances from the Hollow Mountain, where the wind still speaks in tongues of vine and iron, and the soil remembers names no longer spoken aloud. It was said the Book would open by itself when the hour came.And lo, the Book cracked under its own breath —and from its pages leapt a flame of…
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Throughout the history of metaphysical inquiry, from the Orphic hymns and Neoplatonic emanations to the radical intuitions of Kabbalah and tantric Sanskrit philosophy, the Divine has been imagined as both source and surplus, as center and circumference. This treatise proceeds from an axiom often left unspoken in mainstream theology: that the Sacred is not static,…
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Fragment attributed to A. R. Delamain, circa 1887 No one knew exactly where the woman from the inn on the hill had come from. They called her Isolde, though not by her true name, only by a melody half-remembered from another age. She always dressed in black, with ink-stained cuffs and eyes that seemed to…
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At the heart of the mystery religions of Ancient Greece pulses the verb orgiazo (ὀργιάζω). Distinct from modern profanations, where the term “orgy” has lost almost all of its sacred weight, orgiazo belongs to the universe of ecstatic experience, a fire that consumes, purifies, and unveils. In the Dionysian and Orphic mysteries, orgiazo was not…
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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…
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There are dates in the liturgical calendar that echo older fires, remnants of mysteries neither extinguished nor fully integrated into doctrine. Pentecost, for most, marks the descent of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the Church. But, in older layers of memory, beneath the surface of theological precision, a different current stirs. One that…
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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.…