Category: Hermetism
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Things have always been pretty bad
the suffering inside the Church “would have originated not from external enemies, but from within the same Church” … ~ Pope Benedict XVI The title was motivated by the idea that, as bad as things seem today, things were bad in yesteryear. So I used the story of Abraham from Boccaccio’s Decameron to show the…
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Fedeli d’Amore
This is the clue to the alchemical transformation. The etheric and astral bodies need to be purified. Eva represents the astral body in the Fall, so the opposite of the Fall is Mary. The goal, then, is the transmutation of the chaotic soul into the pure mirror of the divine word.
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Rationality and the Triune Brain
the ignorant do not seek after wisdom because he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself.
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The Primacy of Will
When the mind is attached to or obsessed with these thought forms, it is not free. The True Will is free, but that requires the zone of silence from such thoughts. The visionary Anne Catherine Emmerich claimed that if these spirits could be seen by the senses, the vast number of them would occlude the…
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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…
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Dreaming in the Dog Days
But when the artichoke flowers, and the chirping grasshopper sits in a tree and pours down his shrill song continually from under his wings in the season of wearisome heat, then goats are plumpest and wine sweetest; women are most wanton, but men are feeblest, because Sirius parches head and knees and the skin is…
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The Artist of the Future
The Artist of the future will be a philosopher, knight, saint, and scientist. He will integrate the intellectual, psychic and instinctive spheres into a whole. That integration is the True Will, so the Artist must needs be the conscious creator of his life.
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Providence, Will, Destiny
Man either perfects himself or becomes depraved according to whether his tendency is to merges into the universal Unity or to distinguish himself from it. Either he allies his will with Providence and follows the path of freedom or he allies his will with destiny and follows the path of necessity.
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Magical Idealism in a Larger Whole
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ~ Sophocles Since one aspect of building a system is to integrate a lesser one into a larger whole, what follows are some possible wholes that will accept what is profitable in magical idealism, while accounting for its defects. Solipsism…
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On Hermetic Sublimation
In Valentin Tomberg’s discussion of “The Empress”, he quotes Josephin Peladan’s description of magic as “’the sublimation of man’… of human nature”. Thereafter, Tomberg offers a detailed discussion differentiating Sacred Magic, from “personal and arbitrary magic”, the latter which explains became more or less the earmark of Renaissance “ceremonial magic”, of which he mostly looks…