Esoteric Traditions
On the function that every genuine transmission system has always required, why its removal is the common failure in every case of initiatory collapse, and what it means that the protocol can be published but the server cannot be faked
The Book of Coming Forth
On the Book of Coming Forth by Day, the Hall of Two Truths, the 42 negative confessions, and what the world's oldest ethical examination reveals about what Egypt understood the human being to be for
The Book of Coming Forth
On the Coffin Texts and how initiatory knowledge moved from pharaoh to noble to commoner over five centuries, and what the first map of the afterlife reveals about the tradition behind it
The Book of Coming Forth
On the Pyramid Texts as the oldest religious corpus in the world, what they actually say about death and transformation, and why the pharaoh's stellar journey is the first documented initiatory map
Sacred Geometry
On the meditating figure at the heart of iterative mathematics, and what the Mandelbrot set discloses about the geometry of consciousness
Western Occult Revival
On the Demiurge in Masonic dress, the 1723 regularization that stripped the Gnostic substrate, and why this school is the recovery project the tradition has been reaching for ever since
Tantra
On Aleister Crowley, the OTO, the sexual magic tradition, and what happened when Tantra's most dangerous practices met the Western occult imagination
Tantra
On Vajrayana Buddhism, deity yoga, the two stages of practice, and the Tibetan tradition of awakening through transformation rather than renunciation
Tantra
On Kashmir Shaivism, Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka, the Pratyabhijna or recognition philosophy, and the non-dual Shaiva account of what is already the case
Tantra
On kundalini, the chakra system, the physiology of awakening, and what happens when the dormant energy at the base of the spine begins to move
Tantra
On the Shakta traditions, the Devi Mahatmya, and the goddess as the ultimate reality rather than the divine consort
Tantra
On what Tantra actually is, the Vamachara and the five makaras, and transgression as a technology of liberation rather than license