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Essays & Reflections
Occultism, Kabbalah, ceremonial magic, philosophy and literature — from the pen of a servant of ELOHIM.
An essay on how the archetypes of Aries and Leo converse with the Christian liturgical calendar, revealing the Wheel of the Year as a mirror of mysteries older than the Church itself.
Read essay →An essay on salt as a symbol of alchemical fixation and the permanence of the pledged word, between Kabbalah, biblical tradition, and the ethics of covenant.
Read essay →An essay on Joseph of Egypt, called by his brothers 'master of dreams,' and on oneiric interpretation as a legitimate — and perilous — path of approach to the sacred.
Read essay →An essay on the cult of the dead in the Brazilian Northeastern sertão, weaving together folk-Catholicism, popular spiritism and spiritual syncretism as legitimate expressions of the simple people's faith.
Read essay →An essay on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy read as a symbolic itinerary of the soul, moving between fall, purification and vision, in the light of the initiatic tradition and of faith.
Read essay →An essay on the Masonic apron as a symbol of purity of intention, inner work, and the initiate's ethical commitment to the building of himself.
Read essay →An essay on the Sefer Yetzirah, a foundational text of Jewish mysticism, and its vision of the creation of the world through the Hebrew letters and the primordial numbers.
Read essay →An essay on Spiritist mediumship as a service of charity and welcome, reflecting on obsession, spiritual healing, and ethical care in the face of invisible suffering.
Read essay →An essay on the Baal Shem Tov, Hasidism, and the idea that the divine presence dwells within the simplest of everyday things, revealing devekut as a path of life and not merely of ecstasy.
Read essay →An essay on Jerusalem as historical city and spiritual symbol, traversing Judaism, Christianity, eschatology and comparative mysticism with reverence and discernment.
Read essay →An essay on Gnostic cosmology, the myth of the Pleroma and of the divine spark exiled in matter, and spiritual nostalgia as a path of return to the Origin.
Read essay →An essay on Saint Michael the Archangel that traverses Catholic popular devotion and the angelic presence in the grimoires, reflecting on faith, symbol and spiritual discernment.
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