Tag: Gnosis
The track Dangerous Drug, released in June 2024 on the homonymous EP, is sung by Megan Louise with the intensity of a bacchante who invokes ecstasy and wound. The song unfolds as a chant, a litany where the voice repeats its hunger and accusation: “Why do I crave it? Why do you break it?”. In…
Latin carried in its verbs the whole mystery of the word Sacred. Sacrificare is formed from sacer/Holy and facere/to make. To sacrifice means to make Holy; to lift the ordinary thing into the Light of heaven. The loaf of bread, the fruit, or the cup of drink, once touched by blessing, ceased to be mere…
The ancient vision of the Kabbalah sees creation as the descent of Light through four worlds: Atziluth, the realm of pure emanation; Briah, the realm of creation; Yetzirah, the realm of formation; and Assiah, the world of action. When the lips of a human being shape Sacred words, that descent is enacted. The voice carries…
Among the forgotten legends of Christendom stands Wilgefortis, the crucified woman with a beard. Her image unsettled the faithful because it broke the logic of gender and form. But behind the strangeness shines a profound sigil. Wilgefortisembodies the paradox where the Christian Cross and the Hermetic caduceus meet. She is woman and man, victim and…
The lives of certain women burn with an intensity that escapes moral judgement. They were called pure, but their purity was not absence of stain, nor the careful avoidance of desire. It was the fire of a total offering. In Rose of Lima, Thérèse of Lisieux, Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, and Catherine of Siena, the…
The feast of the Coronation of Mary shines like a seal of light upon the cycle of the heavens. It is celebrated on August 22, when the Queen is seen crowned in eternity, clothed with the splendour of the Sun and raised into the celestial court. This is also a mirror of the cosmos. The…
The question of division has followed humanity from the beginning. Some saw it as punishment, others as fracture, others as exile. Still, within different traditions, runs a deeper recognition: the soul belongs to a greater root, a body or tree from which it cannot be separated. Encounters that seem accidental are in fact echoes of…
The smallest lands often conceal the heaviest mysteries. At the very edge of Europe, pressed between mountains and ocean, Portugal became a paradox. It was fragile, poor, and peripheral, but named as vessel of a destiny that reached beyond empires. Those who discerned its secret intuited that this land could never be reduced to armies…
The vision of mystical ecstasy has always been described as luminous and terrifying. When the Light that is called Kether of Atziluth, the primal fire at the summit of the Tree, descends into the vessels of this world, it comes in gentle force. The mystics of every age have spoken of this encounter as a…
The Tree of Life is a living map of Divine procession. Its three columns hold the mystery of balance and movement, but the central axis bears a special role, since it binds the heights of the Crown with the depths of the Kingdom. This vertical line is the living current through which the unseen breath…
