In the Fifth Treatise of the Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes Trismegistus speaks to his son Tat of the highest Good, that which belongs to the One alone; untouched, unmingled, inaccessible to the world below. He warns that all which appears on earth is, by necessity, marked by mixture and passion, the shadow of a perfection it…
Symbol Jae Matthews emerges as a gnostic cipher, a coded presence for the exiled Feminine, her voice a point of contact where the fallen Sophia resists return and condenses as flesh and shadow. In the work of Boy Harsher, music is substance and liturgy, an apocryphal gospel written by both Jae and Augustus Muller for…
There are figures in the Marian tradition who do not occupy the central nave of the cathedral but rather move along its thresholds, bearing mysteries that are neither entirely spoken nor entirely concealed. Among these, the Mystical Rose emerges as a presence at once discreet and impossible to ignore, Her image evoking a silence dense…
Not everything that is true should be spoken the moment it is born. Certain truths, when revealed too soon, crystallize into fragile, distorted forms, unable to carry the power entrusted to them. Today’s symbol moves through the lunar field like a worker toiling at the edge of the city, discreet, cunning, diligent. He does not…
In the present climate of spiritual practice, one encounters a prevailing doctrine: that the mind, when left unguarded, becomes the source of suffering, and that thoughts are little more than fleeting disturbances to be observed and gently dismissed. Popular mindfulness systems celebrate the art of stepping back, of watching thoughts drift past as if each…
Sub luna, speculum veritatis nudatur; nihil restat nisi anima revelata. In the ancient texts and nocturnal traditions,there persists a symbol both luminous and unsettling: the human form unveiled, the nude as archetype. This is not a mere absence of clothing, nor an invitation to exhibition, but the icon of a deeper unveiling. The nude, in…
In Hermetic doctrine, the throat is more than a conduit for breath and Verbum; it is the subtle axis where the spiritual and the material meet. Esoterically, this center is known as the fifth chakra Vishuddha, the gateway of purification, voice and the power of creative articulation. It governs the movement from inner truth to…