The Soul of a Woman

Posted on 2018-12-04 by Teresa Chicalinda

Adam knew Eve his wife ~ Genesis 4:1 Although he has copious notes, Cologero has been experiencing writer’s block regarding his upcoming posts on the esoteric meaning of Romance. So he called me last night for help in overcoming that block. We had a long talk — or rather he … Continue reading →

Psychic Distortion

Posted on 2018-11-25 by Cologero

Living in the consciousness soul, man experiences isolation, loneliness, materialism, loss of faith in the spiritual world, above all, uncertainty. The soul has to make up its mind and to act in a positive way on its own unsupported initiative. And it finds great difficulty in doing so. For it … Continue reading →

Demonic Possession

Posted on 2018-11-16 by Cologero

The Fall introduced distortions into the three functions of the soul: Thinking, Feeling, Willing. The centre of gravity fell from the Real I to the I of the personality. The function of meditation is to restore the proper functioning of the functions. In a series of lectures published as Inner … Continue reading →

Members of the Crew

Posted on 2018-11-10 by Cologero

the first and fundamental principle of esoterism (i.e. of the way of experience of the reality of the spirit) can be rendered by the formula: Learn at first concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light! … Continue reading →

The Stages of the Fall

Posted on 2018-11-05 by Cologero

The meditation of Christian Hermeticism—whose aim is to understand and advance the work of the alchemical transformation of the spirit, the soul, and matter, from the state of primordial purity before the Fall, to the state after the Fall, and from the latter to that of the Reintegration — proceeds … Continue reading →

Self Knowledge

Posted on 2018-10-10 by Cologero

I am worm, I am slave, I am king, I am God. ~ Gabriel Derjavine The “to be silent” therefore precedes the “to know”, the “to will” and the “to dare”. This is why the Pythagorean school prescribed five years silence to beginners or “hearers”. One dared to speak there … Continue reading →

The Bondage of Spirits

Posted on 2018-10-08 by Cologero

In the essay On Magic, Giordano Bruno discusses the existence and action of non-human spirits. The practice of invoking god, demons, and heroes is the branch of magic called theurgy. He calls this the “magic of the hopeless” because they often become the vessels of evil demons. A safer practice … Continue reading →

The End of Patriarchy

Posted on 2018-10-02 by Aeneas

Giovanni Boccaccio, in On Famous Women, relates the story of Hypsipyle, Queen of Lemnos. During the reign of her father, King Thoas, the women rebelled against the patriarchy. Boccaccio describes it: The women were seized by madness and withdrew their untamed necks from the yoke of men. Scorning the old … Continue reading →

Things have always been pretty bad

Posted on 2018-09-28 by Cologero

the suffering inside the Church “would have originated not from external enemies, but from within the same Church” … ~ Pope Benedict XVI The title was motivated by the idea that, as bad as things seem today, things were bad in yesteryear. So I used the story of Abraham from … Continue reading →

Spiritual LARPing

Posted on 2018-09-22 by Cologero

The others, the mages, the theosophists, the cabalists, the spiritists, the hermetics, the Rosicrucians, remind me, when they are not mere thieves, of children playing and scuffling in a cellar. And if one descends lower yet, into the hole-in-the-wall places of the pythonesses, clairvoyants, and mediums, what does one find … Continue reading →

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