Category: Gnosis
The first pages of Genesis contain a rift that will echo through the whole of Scripture and the secret traditions born around it. Expelled from the garden, Adam begets three figures who carry in themselves three different paths of humanity. Cain, the cultivator of the soil, violent and restless. Abel, the fragile shepherd, whose life…
The image of Mercury has always unsettled those who seek certainty. He is never fixed, he escapes definition. He walks with the Sun, sometimes combust, other times under the burning fire of cazimi, but does not belong to it. He at times is tied to the day and at times to the night. This shifting…
The word empire carries an ancient resonance. It once signified order descending from above, a structure that replicated the harmony of creation and drew earthly power into alignment with the Divine. For Dante, the empire in its true sense was the Empyrean, the region of pure Light where blessed souls abided in union with God.…
The spectacle of a solar eclipse is never a simple matter of astronomy. It carries the quality of a rite performed in the sky. When the Sun is hidden by the Moon, even if partially, the order of visibility is reversed. The lord of clarity and centre is cast into silence and the lesser light…
The present sky shows a rare alignment of word and desire. Descending into the mutable earth of Virgo, Venus is embraced by Mercury, who also has just stepped into Libra. What seems a simple exchange of regencies reveals itself as a deeper alchemy. It is the figure of the Rebis, the androgynous child of Hermes…
The name of Capricorn carries within it a secret that is older than Rome, older than Greece. It comes from the Latin Capricornus, a compound of caper meaning goat and cornu meaning horn. In Greek the same image was rendered as Aigokerōs, from aix for goat and keras for horn. The horned goat of the…
The image of the serpent runs through every current of mystical tradition. It coils around the Tree of Knowledge in Genesis; it burns in the deserts of Israel as the bronze figure that heals those who gaze upon it; it curls at the base of the spine in the secret lore of yoga; it climbs…
The drama of the soul is the drama of exile. In the human heart the memory of unity lingers, but mundane life is lived in division. The psyche carries within it a double figure: the self presented to the light and the hidden shadow. To integrate that shadow is to acknowledge the dyad within and…
The human being stands beneath the wheeling heavens, woven into their intricate fabric of lights and shadows, obedient to rhythms older than memory. Time is measured by their motion, seasons carved by their courses, fate written in their alignments. The body is pulled by them, the soul impressed with their signs, the mind conditioned by…
The Cross stands as more than a tool of suffering; it is a symbol of the world made visible. The vertical and the horizontal meet and in their union a mystery is revealed. The ancients did not require it to be explained in scholastic detail, as they sensed that life itself unfolded upon these axes.…
