Category: Religion
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✦ Between the Prophet and the Witch: Reclaiming the Forbidden Voice of Wisdom
He told us this as though reciting family folklore — yet the tremor in his voice betrayed something deeper.
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The Invention of Evil: How the Devil Took Shape in Christian Thought
In the end, the Devil’s greatest trick may not have been convincing the world he doesn’t exist, as Baudelaire quipped, but persuading humanity to search for him only outside themselves.
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Magic, Medicine, and Belief: Medieval Hodgepodge and Modern Echoes
The painting Love Magic (1478–80), now in the Museum der Bildenden Kunst in Leipzig, offers a striking entry point into the medieval entanglement of science, religion, and magic. A young woman, nude but for delicate shoes and a transparent veil, sprinkles powder over what appears to be a heart in a casket. In the fifteenth century, the…
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Demons at the Gate: How Augustine’s Inheritance Shaped Magic from Cloister to Cosmos?
Augustine’s rebranding of daimons as demons created the framework that defined magic for a millennium. From Aquinas to witchcraft theorists, from Trithemius to Jung, Western thought could not escape this inheritance: once spirits became fallen angels, all magical practice stood suspect.
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The Shining Ones, Tuatha de Danaan, and the Roads Beneath Our Feet
The Watchers appear in texts like the Book of Enoch, a once-suppressed text that describes how these beings—often interpreted as fallen angels—shared knowledge of metallurgy, herbalism, astrology, and magical practices.
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Wren Writes Back: On Ruskin, Seeing Clearly, and the Strange Case of Poetry
But the longer I sat with it—the more I thought of what happened back in Falmouth—the more the line started to ring true.
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Rediscovering Christmas Through the Lens of Tiferet and the Christ Child
This Christmas, let’s go beyond the surface of familiar traditions and embrace the deeper, mystical message of the season.
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A Mystical Journey: The Revelation of the Magi
Perhaps the Revelation of the Magi offers a glimpse into the past and a beacon for our own paths forward.
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Saturn and the Mystical Spirit of Christmas
The ancients saw Saturn as a gateway—a boundary between the visible, tangible world and the vast, unknowable realms beyond.
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The Cosmic Dance of the Soul by Dr Lillilan Hartley (11)
As we transition from the Age of Pisces, marked by its emphasis on faith and spirituality, into the Age of Aquarius, where individual consciousness and collective human potential take center stage, Nietzsche’s challenge is more relevant than ever.