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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 Shemhamphorash and the tradition of the seventy (or seventy-two) Names of God, read as a symbolic multiplication of divine mercy within Kabbalistic angelology.
Read essay →An essay on the Arbatel of Magic, its seven planetary Governors, and the figure of Aratron as a Saturnine symbol of spiritual discipline.
Read essay →An essay on Psalm 91 within the tradition of the Tehillim, the protective angelology that dwells within it, and the ethical and spiritual limits of the magical use of prayer.
Read essay →An essay on Samael, Gamaliel, and the Tree of Death in Hermetic Kabbalah, examining the Black Moon and the inversion of Yesod as a metaphor for pleasure that deceives and discernment that liberates.
Read essay →An essay on Nahemoth, the Qliphoth, and the dissolution of form upon the Tree of Death, reflecting on the human fascination with the abyss and the necessity of spiritual discernment.
Read essay →An essay on Golachab, the qliphotic shadow of Gevurah, and on how rigor divorced from mercy is transformed into devouring wrath within the Kabbalistic tradition.
Read essay →An essay on Thagirion and the figure of Belial in the tradition of the Qliphoth, reflecting on vanity, spiritual pride, and the illusion of power without moral foundation.
Read essay →An essay on the Sefer Yetzirah, foundational text of Kabbalah, and its vision of the twenty-two Hebrew letters as the foundation of creation through the sacred word.
Read essay →An essay on the cherubim and the flaming sword of Genesis, exploring angelology, the sacred threshold, and the symbolic meaning of the guardianship of forbidden mysteries.
Read essay →An essay on Malchut, the last Sephirah of the Tree of Life, and how the Kabbalistic tradition reveals the hidden holiness in the simplest gestures of daily life.
Read essay →An essay on Chokmah, the second Sephirah of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and its significance as the primordial force of intuitive wisdom in Jewish mysticism.
Read essay →An essay on the symbolic path between the Mercy of Chesed and the Kingdom of Malkuth, meditating on the Solomonic Kadosh as a figure of wisdom made ethical in daily life.
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