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Essays from the Frater Eisenheim Blog tagged gnosis.
An essay on the hermetic maxim solve et coagula and how spiritual alchemy illuminates the process of dissolving and recomposing memory in the formation of moral character.
Read essay →An essay on Thaumiel, the first of the Qliphoth, and the mystery of duality born when the Crown contemplates itself divided — a Kabbalistic reflection on unity, shadow and discernment.
Read essay →An essay on Sathariel, the qliphotic shadow of Binah, and the figure of Adramelech as a metaphor for the usurpation of true discernment by intellectual vanity.
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 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 the Seal of Solomon as a symbol of spiritual authority, exploring magical ethics and the limits of power in the ceremonial tradition.
Read essay →An essay on Daat, the invisible sephirah of the Kabbalah, and its role as abyss and bridge between the upper and lower worlds of the Tree of Life.
Read essay →An essay on Jewish and Christian mysticism concerning the human body as a spiritual garment, reflecting on fall, exile and restoration in the light of Kabbalah and gnosis.
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 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 the Shemhamphorasch, the seventy-two names derived from Exodus, and the essential difference between invoking with reverence and possessing with spiritual violence.
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