The Hour of the Morning Star

I am Matter although I go by many names: death, sleep, turmoil, night, darkness, void, abyss, silence. I was there at the primeval chaos.  From nothing, I created everything, then the rhythm of night and day, the dark and the bright. Yet the Silence remained. There was no experience, no one hears the sounds. Just the rhythm of inhalation and exhalation. Continue reading

Enoch’s Elevation to Heaven

Enoch Raised To Heaven

For the highest degree, there is nothing but God. Elevation is not due to one’s essence, but to one’s knowledge. Hence, elevation is by rank, not place. Nevertheless, rank, on Earth, is based on authority, whether or not he is worthy of it. *The most knowledgeable of people can be ruled by the person with the position of power, even if that person is the most ignorant of people. Continue reading

The Votary of the Blue Flower

Blue Rose

And every day there were what are called the Green Hills; that is, the low line of the Castlereugh Hills which we saw from the nursery windows. They were not very far off but they were, to children, quite unobtainable. They taught me longing—Sehnsucht: made me for good or ill, and before I was six years old, a votary of the Blue Flower. Continue reading

The Way of Gnosis

Spirit Self

Gnosis is one of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. It is not secret knowledge available for the few, nor is it the “real” interpretation of text, opposed to the orthodox. On the other hand, it is perhaps an Open Secret, since it is pursued by the few. Continue reading

Christian Gnosis

Review of Christian Gnosis: From St. Paul to Meister Eckhart by Wolfgang Smith. Unlike other men of Tradition who accept a more or less universal gnosis, Smith will show that a specifically Christian gnosis goes beyond what other sapiential traditions can offer. He bases this on the doctrine of the Trinity, especially as it appears in Meister Eckhart. Continue reading

The Emperor’s Post

In a healthy civilization, the men of intellect would have supervised the building of the edifice of the Ekklesia, the Oikumene, or the Third Kingdom. This edifice would have centered around the natural revelation of a worldly order, a worldly order ultimately ruled through the self-sacrifice of the Empero Continue reading

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