Category: Gnosis
In the opening of John 7, it says that the Feast of Tabernacles was near, and his brothers (in the broader sense, relatives or countrymen) said to him: “Leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also may see the works you are doing” (John 7:3). They were speaking with a hint of…
In the Corpus Hermeticum, Heimarmene is explicitly described as the “governing circuit of the stars,” the chain through which the Divine intellect structures the material world. It is the order (taxis) of the cosmos: an intelligent and binding necessity. Heimarmene (εἱμαρμένη, from meiromai, “to receive one’s portion”) is the chain of causation, the web of…
The Ace of Swords is the moment when the Word separates itself from the flesh in order to know it. It is the blade of discernment, the first gesture of light cutting through the undifferentiated mist. To separate the wheat from the chaff is an apt image: the sword cleaves the field of consciousness to…
John 6:66-71 is one of those rare crystalline points where theology, language, and ontology come together. Even the verse number 6:66 feels like a mirror of division, marking the threshold where the Word separates those who remain from those who cannot bear the mystery. Just before this, Christ uttered the most scandalous of all sayings:…
Among the apocryphal writings that survived the silence of the centuries, few possess the dramatic depth of the Evangelium Nicodemi, also known as The Gospel of Nicodemus. Its second part, the Descensus ad Inferos, is one of the earliest Christian attempts to describe what occurred between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, the hidden hours of…
The episod of John 6:16-21 takes place immediately after the multiplication of the loaves. The disciples, without Jesus, go down to the lake of Tiberias. The wind is strong, the night falls, and the crossing becomes perilous. In the midst of the turbulent sea, Jesus appears walking upon the waters and utters Ego eimi –…
The All Souls’ Day always takes place when the Sun crosses Scorpio. The same drama repeats itself each year, with Christ-Logos descending into the black waters, and consciousness faces its own reflection in the deep. The Sun that rules the living walks for a time among the dead, and the veil between both worlds grows…
Languages do not die. The words uttered in temples and deserts remain suspended in the subtle air, their syllables repeating themselves in the invisible. Each sacred tongue becomes a vessel of vibration; through long use it condenses into a presence, a field of memory. The prayers of the dead stratify the astral atmosphere, forming egregores.…
The soul moves in circles. It descends, forgets, and rises again through the long geometry of time. Every civilisation that looked at death saw this motion turning behind the veil of the world. The wheel repeats itself through Egypt, India, Greece, or the secret heart of Israel, pointing to the same transmigration. Its revolutions are…
The final lines of the Letter to the Romans contain the kiss of peace, the osculum sanctum. In the early assemblies, the faithful would exchange the kiss before the communion of bread and wine. Lips met as the sign that the same breath moved within them. The rite was simple, but its simplicity veiled a…
