What I mean by esoteric psychology Readers of this blog know that I have been circling one idea for years, and lately naming it openly: esoteric psychology. The name needs a word of explanation, because it does not mean what it seems to mean. It is not the psychology of people who believe strange things. … Continue reading The Oldest Syllabus: The Mithras Liturgy and the Ancient Object of Esoteric Psychology
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What is Esoterism Really? The Pendulum and the Commuter: Why Nobody Can Define Esotericism, and Why That Is Good News
For forty years, scholars have tried to define esotericism. Faivre proposed a form of thought with six components. Hanegraaff traced a history of rejected knowledge. Bergunder called the word an empty signifier that means whatever a given era needs it to mean. Asprem broke the whole thing down into cognitive building blocks. Each definition corrected … Continue reading What is Esoterism Really? The Pendulum and the Commuter: Why Nobody Can Define Esotericism, and Why That Is Good News
New Landscape Holistic Project Part 6: The Place Calls First – The Magick Megalithic Circle at Pocilgais
Elemental Encounter, Bardon’s Soul Mirror, and the Ethics of Landscape Magick From Stone Phenomenology to Elemental Encounter This series (now with 6 parts) began with a simple but difficult decision: not to decide too quickly what the stone formation at Monte Pocilgais is. It may be a natural accumulation, an agricultural clearance cairn, a collapsed … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project Part 6: The Place Calls First – The Magick Megalithic Circle at Pocilgais
Speaking spells in Presence: Abracadabra – I will create as I speak
https://youtu.be/oCSn3t5G1FY?si=JLwwuY6eNSb5KQcw If you want to experience wth powerwords, you need first to experience presence. Only from presence powerwords can gain power. Abracadabra: speaking in presence The word abracadabra has been pushed so far in the direction of the trivial that it has become almost impossible to take seriously. Children's parties, magic sets, cape and top … Continue reading Speaking spells in Presence: Abracadabra – I will create as I speak
ABRAXAS, 7 × 7
AOI, the bark remembers before the mouth.IOA, the stone drinks the black milk.OAI, a wing folds inside the root.No angel arrives, only pressure.No demon speaks, only sap.The old knot opens without opening.Abraxas counts by wounds. First, the goat path loses its name.Second, the fig shadow changes owner.Third, the dry grass writes in insect.Fourth, the hollow … Continue reading ABRAXAS, 7 × 7
Abraxas Sermon I
https://youtu.be/bluZwIvxemI?si=Xy2za0gzoKxuG5-D The Seven Axiomata And Abraxas spoke: I give you the Seven Axiomata. They are the laws of life and death, of fullness and emptiness, of all and nothing, of the Pleroma and the point, of darkness and light, of void and form. Do not receive them as commandments. Do not receive them as doctrine. … Continue reading Abraxas Sermon I
How will Esoteric Psychology evolve?
Old Esoteric Psychology and Works in the Interior Laboratory: towards a lived knowledge As many know, we are currently developing a blueprint for a new approach in esoteric psychology. Esoteric psychology is not a new term. It has been used for decades, often in relation to Alice Bailey, the seven rays, esoteric astrology, soul development, … Continue reading How will Esoteric Psychology evolve?
Working with Abraxas: A New Kind of Inner Report of a Modern Magus
There is something happening in the world of hermetic and magical practice right now. More people than ever are working with sigils, evocation formulas, and inner transformation practices. YouTube channels, online communities, and a growing number of books are bringing these ancient arts into the twenty-first century. At the same time, universities are taking Western … Continue reading Working with Abraxas: A New Kind of Inner Report of a Modern Magus
What Shape is Inner Space? Is it Hyperbolic?
Close your eyes in a dark room and wait. At first, nothing. Then, almost imperceptibly, something begins to move. A shimmer at the edge of vision. A pulse of light that seems to come from nowhere and everywhere at once. Geometric patterns that appear, rotate, fold into themselves and dissolve. You are not imagining these. … Continue reading What Shape is Inner Space? Is it Hyperbolic?
New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology
A Complete Series Index On the south-facing slope of Monte Pocilgais, in the eastern Algarve hills between the parishes of São Brás de Alportel and Moncarapacho, there is a grey stone oval approximately fifty metres long and twenty metres wide. The stones are materially foreign to the local geology. Old carob trees and stone oaks … Continue reading New Landscape Holistic Project: The Magick Megalithic Circle Phenomenology
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