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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 Shemhamphorasch, the seventy-two names derived from Exodus, and the essential difference between invoking with reverence and possessing with spiritual violence.
Read essay →An essay on the symbolic gesture of Elijah's mantle and what it reveals about spiritual succession, prophetic charisma, and the living transmission of oral tradition.
Read essay →An essay on Christian kenosis, the figure of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah 53, and Kabbalistic readings of suffering as a path of approach to the Divine.
Read essay →An essay on the Book of Enoch, the Watchers and the angelic fall, exploring how apocryphal literature conceived the origin of evil, with reverence toward the Judeo-Christian sources.
Read essay →An essay on the figure of the Destroying Angel in biblical and Talmudic traditions, exploring the balance between divine justice and mercy.
Read essay →An essay on 'The Interior Castle' by Saint Teresa of Ávila, journeying through the seven mansions of the soul as a symbolic itinerary of the mystical encounter with God.
Read essay →An essay on the Christian apophatic tradition and the anonymous medieval work that teaches how to seek God not through knowledge, but through the love that dwells in silence.
Read essay →An essay on the ancient belief in the written letter as a vehicle of meaning and intention, moving through practical Kabbalah, Hermeticism and the art of sigils with reverence and discernment.
Read essay →An essay on the Tetragrammaton, the divine names in Kabbalah, and the Jewish reverence for the Ineffable Name, reflecting on language, silence and sacred mystery.
Read essay →An essay on the seventeenth-century Rosicrucian manifestos, the figure of Christian Rosenkreuz, and the ideal of an invisible fraternity devoted to the universal reformation of knowledge.
Read essay →An essay on the ancient belief in a cosmic harmony underlying the universe, weaving together Pythagoreanism, the Hebrew psalmodic tradition, and the philosophia perennis around music as a path of knowledge and reverence.
Read essay →An essay on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life as a symbolic map of human character, inviting the reader to an ethical and contemplative examination of the self.
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