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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 Shimmush Tehillim, a Jewish tradition that ascribes to the Psalms powers of intercession and protection, and on the boundaries between devotion and the magic of the word.
Read essay →An essay on Hekhalot literature and the mysticism of the Merkabah, a Jewish tradition describing the ascent of the soul through the celestial palaces to the divine throne.
Read essay →An essay on the figure of Rachel in biblical tradition and Jewish mysticism, exploring the maternal archetype, prophetic lament, and the promise of consolation.
Read essay →An essay on how the alchemical axiom solve et coagula illuminates the processes of dissolution and ethical reconstruction that run through ordinary life, from work to mourning.
Read essay →An essay on the Goetia attributed to Solomon as a symbolic mirror of the psyche, situated between the tradition of ceremonial magic and the spiritual psychology of the shadow.
Read essay →An essay on Metatron and Sandalfon in Jewish and Kabbalistic angelology, reflecting on the guardians of the threshold between the human world and the celestial spheres.
Read essay →An essay on the legend of the Golem of Prague, exploring Jewish mysticism, the power of sacred language, and the ethical limits of human creation.
Read essay →An essay on the symbolism of the torn veil in the Temple of Jerusalem and what it reveals about initiation, sacred secrecy, and the limits of spiritual knowledge.
Read essay →An essay on the legend of the Golem of Prague, its roots in Jewish mysticism and in the Sefer Yetzirah, and the ethical questions that the artificial creation of life has always imposed upon humankind.
Read essay →An essay on the Tzimtzum in Lurianic Kabbalah: the contraction of Ein Sof, the primordial void, and the mystery of how the Infinite makes room for the world.
Read essay →An essay on Jacob's Ladder as a figure of the soul's ascent, traversing Jewish mysticism, Christian tradition, and the Kabbalistic symbolism of the superposed worlds.
Read essay →An essay on the symbolic union between Tiferet and Malkhut on the Tree of Life, and what these Kabbalistic nuptials reveal about the reconciliation of heaven and earth within the human soul.
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