Hermeticism
Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury
On Paracelsus’s tria prima, the three principles underlying all matter, how they map onto the VITRIOL operation, and why the coniunctio requires the rectification of all three
Esoteric Traditions
Christian Mysticism
Love as a Cosmic Force
On Teilhard de Chardin, the Omega Point, and What the Church Could Not Permit
Hermeticism
The Chalice and the Acid
On how Eisler’s chalice and the VITRIOL vessel name the same symbol, why the blade and the acid are the same force, and what rectificando demands of the vessel that would hold them
Christian Mysticism
The Abolition of the Self
On Simone Weil, Decreation, and Attention as the Highest Form of Love
Christian Mysticism
The Ground of the Soul
On Meister Eckhart, the God Beyond God, and the Heresy of Direct Experience
Hermeticism
The Emerald Current
On the Hermetic Tradition, Its Origins, and Why It Has Never Been Successfully Suppressed
Hermeticism
The Most Fortunate Forgery
On Hermes Trismegistus, the Prisca Theologia, and why the exposure of a forgery failed to destroy the tradition it founded