Tag: Gnosis
Leonard Cohen once wrote the unforgettable line: “There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in.” Altought often quoted in sentimental tones, it carries a gravity that touches the core of mystical traditions. Cohen, who stood in the lineage of Jewish visionaries, was drawing from an intuition that reaches far beyond…
This year the Great Feast of the Dormition unfolds under a sky with the Moon exalted in Taurus; the lunar current is strong, clothed in the earth. In her exaltation, she mirrors the role of Mary as the sacred container of the Light of the Logos, the Speculum Iustitiae in which divine justice reflects without…
The opening riff of “Thunderstruck” is a flash in the dark, the violent descent of a force that splits the heavens apart. This bolt is the arrow of a higher order, the discharge of a current that belongs to realms above the seven planetary spheres. This is the domain of the Ogdoad, the Eighth Heaven,…
In Byzantium and the Orthodox East, Joseph is a silent figure drawn into an unseen and decisive battle. Often he is painted apart from the Virgin and the Child, sitting, pensative, while an old bent man – the tempter – whispers to him. This is the visual memory of a real contest, the trial of…
Monday, a day ruled by the Moon’s quiet governance and guarded by Gabriel, the Archangel of waters who speaks in dreams. The tides within and without rest under His care, and today the Moon leans into the mutable waters of Pisces after her watch in Aquarius. The full Moon has passed, but its silver still…
Heightened sensations hold the same cold shine as metals drawn from deep earth by a craftsman who claims himself sovereign. The ancients named him Demiurge when his geometry bound the soul into walls and markets; his craft builds streets with edges that never bend, corners that collect shadows where breath feels absent, and towers whose…
Elimas is a magus whose craft is woven from the fibres of the planetary loom. The text names him Bar-Jesus, son of a name already luminous with Messianic weight, but his service bends away from the straight path. When Paul and Barnabas arrive, drawn by the hunger of the governor for truth, Elimas moves to…
The vision that sealed Dominic in the church of Prouille carries a depth far beyond the chronicles of a medieval apparition. In the woven light of that sanctuary, the Virgin’s hand extended a circle of beads, each one a seed of the Word, strung together like constellations bound to the axis of heaven. This was…
In the gold-leafed stillness of a Byzantine icon, the figure of Christ stands at the very doorway of Mystery. He is Magus near the mouth of Lazarus’ tomb, poised between the world of the living and the realm of the sealed stone. In this gesture, the miracle at Bethany unfolds with a grandeur that defies…
Lydia of Thyatira remains a spectral presence in the Book of Acts; her trace a cipher left at the crossing where the Logos enters Europe, threading itself into the weft of a world asleep. Scriptural testimony records her only fleetingly: a seller of purple, a foreigner to the Roman tongue, yet the first whose heart…
