Mysterium Gnosodochum

The format on this site is difficult to navigate for my writing style. Although I thought I notified my subscribers, there have been no views since I posted close to a month ago. I am moving the new posts to The Philosophical Magus at substack.com (acgeorge.substack.com). Over time, I will move some other posts over there, likely updating them in the process, as new revelations are experienced. I…

Have you ever felt a profound longing to connect with something ancient, wisdom that resonates deeply within your soul? Do you seek a pathway to not just understand, but experience the very fabric of creation, to sculpt your reality from the inside out? Imagine a sacred system, a “flowchart” for your spirit, designed to awaken your inner potential and transform your being. We have reached the…

The purpose of this blog was to outline an esoteric project of mine; one that goes back to 2006. I had come upon an analysis and reconstruction of the pre-Cabala text known as the Sepher Yetsirah (Book of Shaping). The work promised to render how the earliest traceable version of the text might have looked like.  The source material is a reconstruction of the text, by A. Peter Hayman, using the…

Inner Court II: The Alchemy of Tov and Raa (Part One)

The alchemy of tov and  raa (or mayim and esh if one prefers to reference the elemental principles), is based on the workings of the previous pair of disciplines, just as those are based on the preliminary instructions of the Manual of Shaping (Sepher Yetsirah, or SY for short). We still have to discuss the Outer Court, but once we get a handle on these first four disciplines, our foundation will…

Inner Court II: The Mystery of Raa- Part Two

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Pexels.com Let’s begin Part II with the verse of the fourth discipline- the transliterated original and my English rendering below: ARBO ASh MMIM ChQQ VChTzB BH KSA KBVD VKL TzBA MRVM ShKK KThVB OShH MLAKIV RVChVTh  ARBO (Four) defined Fire from Waters, and sculpted with it a throne of impact [glorious and/or burdensome], and every host from on high it (the Fire)…

Inner Court II: The Mystery of Raa- Part One

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com The fourth discipline of the OShR SPIRVTh BLIMH is the most paradoxical and challenging of the ten. It is the position in the sequence of accounts that represents the fall of humanity from their original state of divine grace- a perspective established centuries after the Sepher Yesirah was first put to writing. It is also the discipline with the most controversial…

Inner Court II: The Mystery of Tov (Welfare)

The second pairing of the cultivation stages involving the Inner Court involves the application of the mysteries of Tov and Raa. We leave these in Hebrew due to the confusion that arises from simplified renderings such as good and bad. We will instead rely on their corresponding letter sequences to get a sense of their broader context. In this installment we will examine the third discipline,…

Working with the Second Sephirah

There is a lot of information in these installments, so let’s do a brief review: The first two disciplines are paired, as are the two that follow and the subsequent six. The latter are of the Outer Court, and have direct conceptual representations. We experience them, in other words, as spatial orientations around the human frame. Each pair forms an axis and the three pairs define our three…

Working with the First Sephirah

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com In this installment we will commence the application of the principles described in the previous post in terms of the unofficial adaptation of the Manual of Shaping we have been discussing. We will, specifically, show how practices known as saṁyama in the Yoga Aphorisms of Patañjali (Eight-fold Yoga) can be adapted to the first discipline of the Sepher Yetsirah’s…

Mastery of the Inner Court I: The Mystery of Effect

ShThIM RVCh MRVCh ChQQ VChTzB BH ARBO RVChVTh  ShThIM (Two) defined Wind (Breath-Space) from Spirit (Disposition-Mind), and sculpted Four Quarters [of the Heavens] with it. The second account begins the cascade of applied elemental principles, one from the other, starting with Wind out of Spirit, both translations of the word ruach. We render ruach as Wind to signify this elemental continuity for…

Number Power and The Ten Sephirot

This installment focuses on a minor revision of the cultivation process we are outlining. It also involves some review material to place it in context. Such revisions are rare these days, given progress with the application of the material, but they still occur. Feedback between theory and practice is ongoing because there is plenty of room for fine tuning understanding of the material.…

The Mystic States of Awareness and the Book of Shaping

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The ten sepiroth belimah described in the Book of Shaping(BoS) comprise a list of steps toward attaining mystical states of awareness leading to the activation sacred space and occult accomplishment. The tallies of the list are meant to be addressed in pairs, each of which is balanced by a center of alignment with the supra-mundane (divine). It is a stance…

Decoding the Emerald Tablet of Hermes. What does it mean and how can we work it?

The Emerald Tablet, for all its condensed form, is the quintessential foundation text of Esoteric Alchemy. It has undeniably influenced the proliferation of Hermetic wisdom in Europe since its translation into Latin during the Late Middle Ages. Regardless of its historic and cultural framework, this document, in my view, is a summarized exposition of psychophysical dynamics of human esoteric…