Aleister Crowley proposed an interesting exercise to overcome dualist thinking and an inflexible frozen identity, which I tried more than 20 years ago. The method is to do the mental equivalent of what the Aghori do in the flesh. Thus we learn non-attachment to our individual and particularistic points of … Continue reading
Category Archives: Hermetism
Eating your way to nondual awareness
While Cologero is working on his little project and I am busily translating Sintesi, I’ll toss out this short post regarding the Aghori practice of cannibalism. Apparently, in order to reach nondual consciousness, the Agori practice the consumption and manipulation of semen, menstrual blood, faeces, and urine, all that we … Continue reading
The Makropoulous Affair
Janacek’s famous opera, The_Makropulos_Affair centers around the discovery of a secret elixir which can actually grant the brewer immortality. Continue reading
Dialectics Redux
The Hermetic method is the way of depth, not confrontation. If we have two opposing view, each of which seems reasonable or even unrefutable, then we try to go deeper to determine what they have in common. A frequent example involves the debate between believers in religion and believers in science. Continue reading
The Church that was Left Behind
For many Christians, referring to a “secret Gospel” is either presumptuous, dangerous, or absurd — perhaps a bit of all three. And, indeed, such fears are usually the case with those who go in quest of Gnostic hierophanies – just witness the popular mesmerization over the Da Vinci code novels … Continue reading
Angels and Demons
A complete understanding of the angelic hierarchy is possible only for the intellect that contains the form, that is, the idea of the angel, that is, it participates in the higher form. Continue reading
The Proverbs of Hell
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. Continue reading
The Russian Turn
Alexander Dugin has pointed out that Russia has had no Enlightenment. In the context of this survival & ancient adversarial relationship towards the West, Nicholas Berdyaev is worth quoting in full (he is analyzing the Westernizer Trubetskoi): In this world there is no mystical translucency. But after his devastating of … Continue reading
Kind Hearts, & Norman Blood
Gewusst, Erkannt, Geahndet – Schelling What is now called the Christian religion already existed among the ancients, and was not lacking at the very beginnings of the human race. When Christ appeared in the flesh, the true religion already in existence received the name of Christian. ~ Augustine of Hippo … Continue reading