Category: Gnosis
In the Letter to the Colossians, Paul speaks of a mystery hidden from the ages and now made manifest: Christ in you, the hope of glory (Col. 1:27). I. The Fulfilment of the Body The phrase is literal, as it declares an indwelling presence, a Divine seed that must grow until it takes form in…
We are now in the season when the Sun moves through Scorpio. All Souls’ Day, and Dia de Los Muertos all mark the same threshold. Nature begins to withdraw, light fades, the days grow shorter, and roots feed on the fallen leaves. I. The Transformative Water of Scorpio Scorpio is the densest point of water.…
When Christ declares in Matthew 5:17, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish but to fulfil”, He invokes one of the most profound mysteries of Christian gnosis. The verb πληρῶσαι (plērōsai) means to fill, to make whole, to bring to completion. It…
In John 6, Christ acts within the second He of the Tetragrammaton: the plane of Assiah, the realm of form and obedient matter. It is the moment when the Logos touches the Earth and reveals that the visible world is not external to God, but His condensed cipher. The “multiplication” is a theurgical demonstration: Christ…
The ancient mind intuited that what appears is only half of what exists. The visible is the clothing of the invisible, the surface of the flame rather than its source. Kant gave this intuition a rigorous name when he spoke of the noumenon and the phenomenon. The distinction was philosophical, but it concealed an older…
Baptism used to be a descent into the womb of the cosmos itself. The word baptisma comes from the Greek βαπτίζειν (baptizein): to immerse, to submerge, to dye. The root bapto was used for dipping linen into pigment or plunging iron into molten liquid. It meant a total penetration, a transforming contact. To be baptised…
A man once told a story about two fish. One asked: “How’s the water?”. The other had no idea what water was. This parable was retold by David Foster Wallace. But what he offered could stand beside any page of the Zohar or the Corpus Hermeticum. The parable that begins with a fish unaware of…
On October 13, 1917, the sky above the Portuguese hills in the village of Fátima trembled. The crowds saw the Sun move in a way that defied the geometry of heaven. They saw it shiver, whirl, descend, and return. The event later named the Miracle of the Sun marked the end of six Marian apparitions;…
The ancient verb obedīre conceals an act of luminous listening. It comes from ob- meaning “toward” or “in the direction of”, and audīre, “to hear”. To obey once meant to listen attentively toward a source. Its origin lies in hearing that answers rather than slavery. When the Latin was still fresh, to obey meant to…
The ninth house, known as domus Dei, is the temple of ascent. It traditionally belongs to the mutable fire of Sagittarius, a masculine, diurnal sign that burns through knowledge and expands through faith. It is a cadent house, leaning away from the zenith but joined to the Ascendant by a trine, and so carries the…
