Monasticism and Esotericism – A Symbiotic Relationship
The relationship between monasticism and esotericism has been forgotten, but was an integral part of several historic moments of Western Esotericism.
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The Light Invisible – Towards a Manifesto of the Church Magical
The Light Invisible is a blog that will touch on diverse traditions of Christian Esotericism — traditional Rosicrucianism, Christian mysticism, Christian Hermeticism and Cabala, European alchemy, Renaissance magic, the Golden Dawn tradition, the legends of the Holy Grail, and folk magical traditions. The lens through which I will reflect on these esoteric traditions is primarily …
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On the Papal World-Tree, or, An Esoteric Meditation on the Papacy
Originally posted as a part of my column, The Blooming Staff, on the Agora, the group blog of the Patheos Pagan Channel. — Next Sunday, a new show premieres on HBO — “The Young Pope.” The show stars Jude Law as an ultraconservative Archbishop of New York who is elected to the Papacy, and who …
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