An End to the Crisis of God
Jesus is gone. Forty four days ago we all conspired to shed his blood and put him to death. Some of us conspired through betrayal, some through denial, and others through inaction, false witness, and...
View ArticleWild Gnosis
In ancient Greece and in the Hellenic world, the operative title for most magicians would have been pharmakós, literally ‘one who delivers (drugs)’. At the time of the classical pharmakoi, the...
View ArticleThe Way of the Heart and the Way of the Cup
Handed down from master to disciple in an unbroken chain of succession, the prayer of the heart as a spiritual discipline was fixed in writing by the eleventh century Byzantine, hesychast monk Symeon...
View ArticleMusings on Angels, Daemons and Working With One’s Personal Pantheon
In Chapter twenty six of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, the great expositor of esoteric wisdom, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, provides us with one of the most complete modern variations of the...
View ArticleAssumption of Mary
Today we commemorate the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary, celebrated in the Orthodox and Eastern Church as the solemnity of the Dormition. Throughout the history of Christianity, Mary has been an...
View ArticleChristian Theurgy
This past Wednesday, yours truly was interviewed by the wonderful people of GnosticNYC, Bishop Lainie Petersen and Bishop Kenneth Canterbury on the topic of Christian Theurgy. For those of you who may...
View ArticleAnthropos
“John, John, why do you doubt, or why are you afraid? You are not unfamiliar with this image, are you? – that is, do not be timid! – I am the one who is with you (pl.) always. I am the Father, I am the...
View ArticleRemember that You are Dust
You are dust, and to dust you shall return. Genesis 3:19c Today in the Western liturgical calendar we now embark into Lent, explained in the previous post as a period of forty-six days of fasting,...
View ArticleRepentance and Paradox: Using Opposites to Attract
The early Christians observed with a great degree of devotion the days of Christ’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and...
View ArticleCome and See
“Attract them by the way you live.” — Saint Augustine Many of us are familiar with the old adage, “If you build it, they will come” made famous in the film, Field of Dreams where in the opening...
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