Tagged with Hermeticism

While the modern, academic approach to geometry sees it as the very embodiment of rationalism and left brain, intellectual processes, which indeed it is, it has neglected the right brain, intuitive, artistic dimension of the subject. Sacred geometry seeks to unite these two dynamic and complementary aspects of geometry into an integrated whole. (more)

Madame Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, in print ever since 1877, targeted the materialist, reductionist science that was reducing the universe to a machine. Sadly, that vision remains firmly in control, but Blavatsky struck a powerful blow against it and started the ongoing struggle for a more spiritual view of the world that many are carrying on today. (more)

The central narrative in Egyptian mythology, Osiris' dismemberment and resurrection, is paralleled in shamanic initiation rituals. The Egyptian themes of the journey of the soul through the underworld and spiritual ascent through the stars can also be found in shamanic ritual. That Plato described a version of this stellar ascent too suggests a shared source. (more)

Tell the children of Israel to go forward. But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall walk upon dry ground in the midst of the sea.... Pharaoh and his armies drowned in the flood of material existence and unassimilated sense-perception, not so much through a want of piety as through a lack of philosophy. Jesus would later walk on similar waters, as did such of his disciples as understood the significance of the act. This art was lost to later Christians at the same time that they severed their connection to Judaism. (more)

Politics and the occult seem an unlikely couple, but the truth is that the two have had a long and remarkably influential relationship involving some of the key turning points in western history and spanning the political spectrum. (more)

The Green Language that enables communication and interaction with the living intelligence of the planet is experiencing a verdant resurgence. Long relegated to the "occult," this expressive grammar has been kept alive through the ages by poets, alchemists, mystics, and wise women. At the first annual Conference on Green Hermeticism, brainchild of independent scholar Peter Lamborn Wilson, an inspired group of colleagues offered an astonishing array of facts, assertions, and speculations about our ability to connect to the planet. (more)