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…
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 number 666 has been feared, condemned, and distorted, but its origin can be found in the Sacred arithmetic of Light. Long before it was cast into shadow, ancient magi recognised it as the numerical body of the Sun. When the numbers from one to thirty-six are summed, they yield six hundred and sixty-six, forming…
Resh ר is a radiant sigil of awakening. It is the twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and the one that corresponds to The Sun in the Tarot; the same card where a child stands beneath the living orb, naked and free, facing the brilliance without fear. Resh contains the same message in sight and…
When Jesus, in the Gospel of John, tells Nicodemus that one must be born again to see the Kingdom of God, the disciple responds with astonishment: “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” (John 3:4). The exchange reveals the…
The Scriptures often speak of the place where there will be weeping and the grinding of teeth. The phrase has haunted generations of readers because it touches the border between body and soul. It is much more than a mark of pain; it is a description of what happens when language collapses. The human mouth,…
Today, September 29, the Catholic Church honours Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael. This year the feast coincides with a Monday, a day under the Moon, consecrated to Mary and marked by the voice of Gabriel. The coincidence draws the memory of the angels into the rhythm of the week; it is as if the lunar and…
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.…
