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Essays & Reflections
Occultism, Kabbalah, ceremonial magic, philosophy and literature — from the pen of a servant of ELOHIM.
An essay on the hermetic maxim solve et coagula and how spiritual alchemy illuminates the process of dissolving and recomposing memory in the formation of moral character.
Read essay →An essay on the Sitra Achra and the Qliphoth in Kabbalistic tradition, reflecting on the inverted symmetry between the Tree of Life and the so-called Tree of Death as a metaphor for spiritual imbalance.
Read essay →An essay on the shadow of mercy — how generosity without discernment turns into illusion, taking as symbolic mirror the figure of Zamiel in qliphotic literature.
Read essay →An essay on Thaumiel, the first of the Qliphoth, and the mystery of duality born when the Crown contemplates itself divided — a Kabbalistic reflection on unity, shadow and discernment.
Read essay →An essay on Belphegor, the Qliphah of Netzach, and inverted Nogah, reflecting on spiritual torpor as the corruption of legitimate desire and a path of discernment.
Read essay →An essay on the qlipha Thantifaxath and the shadow of Hod, reflecting on the confusion of language, the Tree of Death, and the care owed to the ordering Word in spiritual life.
Read essay →An essay on Harab Serapel, the qliphothic shadow of Hod in the Kabbalah, and on how lying may be understood as the corrupted splendor of communication and intellect.
Read essay →An essay on the qliphotic inversion of Tiferet and the force called Moqiel, a meditation on beauty that turns away from compassion at the symbolic borders of the Tree of Death.
Read essay →An essay on Sathariel, the qliphotic shadow of Binah, and the figure of Adramelech as a metaphor for the usurpation of true discernment by intellectual vanity.
Read essay →An essay on Ophiel, Olympic governor of Mercury in the Arbatel, and the symbolic art of the subtle displacement of the human will between the planes of being.
Read essay →An essay on the Shir HaMaalot — the fifteen Psalms of Ascent — as an itinerary of outward and inward pilgrimage toward Jerusalem, the city of peace.
Read essay →An essay on the figure of Lilith in the Kabbalistic tradition of the Qliphoth, reflecting on Malkuth, the Kingdom, and the mystery of the shadow as an inverted mirror of the light.
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