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Category: Initiation

  • Spiritual LARPing

    Spiritual LARPing

    Friday the 13th was the day the Templars were destroyed. This post is dedicated to them.

  • Justification and Postmortem States

    Justification and Postmortem States

    Thus Heaven and Hell are understood as opposed responses to the Divine Light of Christ as Judge. The saved will experience the Light as glory, but it will be painful for the damned. So in a sense Hell is “empty”. God does not “send” people to Hell, rather it is their choice, that is, it…

  • Some Observations Concerning Guenon, Initiation, and Spiritual Exercises

    All that exists potentially is advanced to actuality by the agency of something which is actually what the other is potentially: the partially potential by that which is actual in the same partial respect, and the wholly potential by the wholly actual — Proclus, Metaphysical Elements, Proposition 77 Every so often one hears of conversations,…

  • Qualifications for Initiation

    Note: From time to time, I have been asked about how to go about forming an order. But the desired answer is always about what books to read, or what principles to adhere to. Rather, the purpose of an order is to gain dominion over oneself, and thence over the world. The subtle rules the…

  • Walking on the Edge of an Abyss

    Walking on the Edge of an Abyss

    The initiate is an occult being and his path is neither visible nor penetrable. He is elusive, not to be pigeonholed. He arrives from the direction contrary to that towards which all gazes are fixed and takes the most natural seeming vehicle for his supernatural action. He may be an intimate friend, companion, or lover;…

  • Courage and Fearlessness

    The would-be initiate must bring with him a certain measure of courage and fearlessness. He must positively go out of his way to find opportunities for developing these virtues. His training should provide for their systematic cultivation. In this respect, life itself is a good school — possibly the best school. The student must learn…