Category: Fragments
The language of the ancients spoke of fate as a wheel turning without pause, grinding down lives under a law beyond appeal. The stars moved with mechanical precision; the four elements wove together the frame of the world; earth, fire, air and water bound the body to necessity. Astrological tradition carried this: each house and…
The beheading of John the Baptist is one of the most solemn passages in the Gospel. His head is served upon a platter of silver in the midst of a feast of corruption, and the disciples take away his body in silence. Within this tragedy unfolds a mystery of Light. John himself had said, “He…
“Candy” by Chromatics is a liturgy in disguise, a whisper from the Spirit to the soul, calling the listener to vigilance, against that grey weight that wishes to extinguish the ember within. The sparse and elliptical lyric opens like a warning from an unseen guardian: please don’t let them in your heart. It is a…
Today is August 28, the anniversary of the death of Augustine of Hippo, who touched the soul with such clarity that his words continue to echo. He affirmed that body and soul belong to two categories distinct in essence. The body is tri-dimensional, woven of the four elements: earth, water, air and fire. The soul…
Augustine of Hippo stands at a crossing between philosophy, scripture, and mysticism. He fought against the gnostic sects of his age, but his own writings pulse with movements close to the hermetic ascent and to the kabbalistic work of restoration. He did not design magical systems, but his confessions are themselves initiatory. They reveal a…
In Mark 1:29-35, the gospel scene moves from the public space of the synagogue into the intimacy of a dwelling. The voice that expelled the spirit in the assembly enters the silence of a home. A woman lies in fever, unable to serve, her strength consumed by fire. The fever is more than a medical…
The verb insignare/to teach comes from the Latin root tied to signum/the sign. To teach is not merely to transmit knowledge or to place information into the mind. It is to mark with a sign, to seal. To teach is to imprint a form that carries permanence. The act of teaching belongs to the realm…
Latin carried in its verbs the whole mystery of the word Sacred. Sacrificare is formed from sacer/Holy and facere/to make. To sacrifice means to make Holy; to lift the ordinary thing into the Light of heaven. The loaf of bread, the fruit, or the cup of drink, once touched by blessing, ceased to be mere…
The ancient vision of the Kabbalah sees creation as the descent of Light through four worlds: Atziluth, the realm of pure emanation; Briah, the realm of creation; Yetzirah, the realm of formation; and Assiah, the world of action. When the lips of a human being shape Sacred words, that descent is enacted. The voice carries…
Among the forgotten legends of Christendom stands Wilgefortis, the crucified woman with a beard. Her image unsettled the faithful because it broke the logic of gender and form. But behind the strangeness shines a profound sigil. Wilgefortisembodies the paradox where the Christian Cross and the Hermetic caduceus meet. She is woman and man, victim and…
