Tag: Gnosis
The Book of Ezekiel sits among the wildest precincts of Sacred scripture; a temple of riddles, a furnace of vision, a monument to the soul’s estrangement and the anguish of the city. Every line carries the scent of exile and fire; the prophet speaks from the shattered threshold, when nothing of the old world remains…
At the heart of the Tree of Life, there is an aperture; a doorway inscribed in silence, shimmering between what can be said and what must remain unknown. Da’at is the veiled Sephirah, the secret locus in the kabbalistic architecture of the cosmos. It is both a presence and an absence; a knowing that exceeds…
In the folds of the Levant’s mountains, there exist a people for whom the spoken word carries the weight of an oath. Their villages cluster like votive offerings upon slopes above Sidon and Chouf, their faith persists beneath the cedar’s bough, their names circulate through history as riddles unsolved. The Druze have endured centuries without…
There are moments in the slow procession of the heavens when the old architecture of meaning yields to the soft, inexorable logic of the body. Such is the cycle marked by the union of Sun and Jupiter in Cancer, the sign that belongs not to the warrior nor the sage, but to the hidden chamber…
Introduction Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose is not merely a medieval detective story. It is a labyrinthine meditation on the nature of knowledge, secrecy, and the sacred symbol of the Rose. The novel, set in a remote Italian abbey, stages a dense interplay of philosophy, semiotics, and spiritual inheritance. To read Eco’s work…
Under the pale gaze of the moon, in the midst of a city whose heart once pulsed with the secrets of Europe, the statue rises, not with the grandeur of the upright, but suspended, head towards earth, body entwined as if the chthonic fires had shaped every muscle and sinew. The place where the statue…
To approach the Feast of Saint John is to enter a layered territory where rural festivity conceals ancient codes, where Christian hagiography shadows older mysteries, and where the masculine blaze of the solstice meets a hidden feminine threshold. Officially anchored in the figure of John the Baptist, this midsummer ritual has been absorbed into folk…
The history of empires is the history of longing, projection, and the restless search for permanence in a world shaped by dissolution. Through the centuries, the idea of the Fifth Empire has haunted the Portuguese imagination and, by strange resonance, the hopes of mystics and visionaries far beyond its borders. But few concepts have been…
In a culture paralysed by its own irony, where the sacred is either aestheticised or annihilated, the mere suggestion that a nightclub could function as a church is met with a sneer. Cultural critics and self-declared rationalists mock the notion as delusion, as metaphor stretched beyond its capacity. But what is being ridiculed is not…
Beneath the shimmering surface of Corpus Christi, a feast that proclaims presence and unity, there lingers a drama of estrangement whose chief victim is the body itself. For centuries, the body has been the shadow-guest at the table of the Sacred, acknowledged in symbol but disciplined in practice, spoken of in ritual but denied in…
