Tag: Gnosis
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…
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…
