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Essays & Reflections
Occultism, Kabbalah, ceremonial magic, philosophy and literature — from the pen of a servant of ELOHIM.
An essay on Tiferet, the sixth Sephirah of the Kabbalah, and its solar symbolism as the heart of the Tree of Life, a bridge between the higher and the lower, and a figure of the Inner Christ in Christian mysticism.
Read essay →An essay on Abraham's open tent as an archetype of sacred hospitality, and how welcoming the stranger may be understood as spiritual and ethical practice in daily life.
Read essay →An essay on the Kavod, the divine Glory that manifests as a cloud in the Temple of Jerusalem, and on the mystical paradox between revelation and veil in the Jewish tradition and in Kabbalah.
Read essay →An essay on the essential differences between the qol demamah daqqah revealed to Elijah at Horeb and the Talmudic Bat Kol, two distinct voices in the history of Jewish revelation.
Read essay →An essay on alchemy as a symbolic language of ethical refinement, exploring the athanor, the operations of the Great Work, and the secret fire of the human will.
Read essay →An essay on the two natures of time — Chronos and Kairós — and on how mystical patience transforms waiting into an inner alchemy toward the eternal instant.
Read essay →An essay on the judgment of the soul in ancient Egypt, the weighing of the heart before Maat, and its symbolic echoes in Hermeticism and universal spiritual ethics.
Read essay →An essay on Gevurah, the sephirah of rigor and justice in the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and its ethical translation into everyday existence and free will.
Read essay →An essay on Ezekiel's Merkabah, the Hekhalot literature, and the spiritual dangers that the ancient Jewish sages recognized in the quest for mystical ascent to the Divine Throne.
Read essay →An essay on the Shekhinah in the Kabbalistic tradition, symbol of the divine feminine and of the presence that accompanies exile, and on the spiritual nostalgia that runs through all traditions of faith.
Read essay →An essay on the celebrated talmudic narrative of the four sages who entered the Pardes, and on the ethical and spiritual risks of direct mystical experience.
Read essay →An essay on Metatron, the enigmatic 'Prince of the Countenance' of Jewish mystical tradition, and on the limits that rabbinic angelology imposed upon his veneration.
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