Category: Fragments
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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Firdaria is a system born from the medieval imagination. A chronology of planetary periods designed to map the soul’s journey through time. Rooted in Persian and Arabic astrology, Firdaria assigns each planet (and, in the night sequence, also the North and South Lunar Nodes) a reign over distinct chapters of a human life. Each era…
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Her story begins on the bloodstained plains of the Trojan War, where she arrives as the daughter of Ares and queen of the Amazons, summoned by Priam’s plea to turn the tide against the Greeks. In the songs of antiquity she rides into conflict, wreathed in sorrow and fury, meeting her end at the hand…
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infin che’l veltro verrà, che la farà morir con doglia(Dante, Inferno I, 101) In Dante’s Inferno, the beast that saves is neither king nor prophet, neither emperor nor saint. He is simply called il Veltro, the Sighthound. Lean, swift, keen-eyed; born not for glory but for devotion. In him lives the sacred instinct that cuts…
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The salamander, ancient dweller of flame, is no common beast. It does not merely survive the fire, it is born of it. Not metaphor but matter. In the language of signs, it is the soul that walks unharmed through the furnace. The secret self that does not burn. The body that endures trial by flame…