Hesed & Logos

Alchemical element: Satan is Nigredo meaning he is death and darkness (and Christ is Rubedo, meaning he is illumination and wholeness. Mythical element: In Greek mythology, Helios, just like Christ, has a symbolic link to the sun, the source of light and life. He is also an embodient of pure knowledge, similar to Christ in John 14:6 (I am the Truth). Meanwhile, Cronus is the devourer, sharing parallels with Malachi 3:11 and 1 Peter 5:8. Satan can also be linked to Ananke, the Limiter, though only subtly. Boreas as freezing dormancy can also be connected to the Aligherian version of Satan. In Isaiah 25:8, John 1:5, and the Baal Cycle, there is a seasonal motif of victory over death by resurrection. Shachar and Shalim, the Canaanite gods of dawn and dusk respectively, also follow this pattern.

Religious element: Satan is the Adversary, linked to cold in Aligherian poetry, and Christ is the Word, linked to heat in Psalm 19:6. Astronomical element: Saturn (which is linked to Cronus/Saturn and further into Satan through the above metaphors), is an unrealized star, a cold gas giant without fusion. Meanwhile the Sun (commonly linked to Christ/Helios), is fully realized. Theoretically, Saturn would need about 75 times more mass to become a star. Astrological element: The Sun's rule is also linked to Leo (Jul 23-Aug 22), which connects to the Lion of Judah (which is a metaphor for Christ) and also summer, the time when growth is full. The Sun resurrects during Aries (Mar 21-Apr 19). Saturn rules Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19). Don't you notice the Mediterranean death-resurrection motif repeated here again?

(a longform post for seekers, skeptics, and sacred rebels)

So let’s talk about it. The idea that multiple universes exist—a multiverse, if you will—has some folks sweating bullets in pews and pulpits. “But if the universe isn’t special,” they say, “doesn’t that make God irrelevant?”

No. It makes your idea of God too small.

🚪 First, let's clear the fog:

Multiverse Theory = The idea that our universe is one of possibly infinite or vastly many universes, each with different laws, constants, or dimensions. It's a legit contender in modern cosmology and quantum theory—not some fringe sci-fi concept.

So how does this “contradict” God? Answer: It doesn’t. It only contradicts the limited version of God that resembles an authoritarian landlord.

🔍 What version of "God" feels threatened?

A God who micromanages every atom in a single universe?

A God who needs only one creation to prove His power?

A God who plays cosmic traffic cop and moral accountant?

Yeah—that God feels very exposed in a multiverse.

🌌 But what if God is bigger?

What if God is not a cosmic king, but the Ground of All Being?

What if the Divine is not some puppet-master behind one curtain, but the Source behind every probability, every cosmos, every vibration of being?

The multiverse doesn’t threaten God. It reveals God as even more vast, mysterious, and infinite than we imagined.

A God bound to one universe is a local deity. A God that births multiverses is a cosmic artist beyond totality.

🧠 Even Philosophers Saw This Coming

Anaximander whispered it: the Apeiron (the Boundless).

Bruno died for it: an infinite cosmos birthed by an infinite Divine.

Leibniz: God contemplates all possible worlds.

Spinoza: God is Deus sive Natura—God or Nature itself.

And you know what? Modern science is just catching up.

🕊️ TL;DR:

The Multiverse doesn’t make God obsolete. It obliterates narrow, human-sized gods. It calls forth a Deity that is beyond even Being itself—a Source not bound by one universe, but the womb of infinite realities.

You don’t have to choose between faith and physics. You just need a bigger God.

🧬✨ Why is no one talking about Emanative Evolution (EE)? While most people are stuck in four tired camps — YEC, TE, DE, or AE — EE quietly offers the most coherent, cosmic, and spiritually-rich view of evolution in existence.

Let’s break it down 👇

🔁 THE FOUR COMMON MODELS OF EVOLUTION

YEC (Young Earth Creationism)

God did it in 6 days ~6,000 years ago. Literal Genesis. ⛔ Anti-science, anti-cosmology, and increasingly obsolete.

TE (Theistic Evolution)

God used evolution as His tool, guiding it behind the scenes. ⚠ Often falls into "God of the Gaps" arguments. Struggles with randomness and suffering.

DE (Deistic Evolution)

God created the laws and then left. 🧊 Cold, impersonal, leads to nihilism or spiritual detachment.

AE (Atheistic Evolution)

No God. Purely random, mechanical universe. 🔬 Scientifically robust, but philosophically bleak for many.

🌠 ENTER: EMANATIVE EVOLUTION (EE)

A cosmocentric, mystical, and rational view of evolution where the universe unfolds from a Divine Source through emanation, not micromanagement or accident.

✨ The cosmos is not a machine or a magic trick — it’s a living process, a sacred becoming. Think: Neoplatonism meets astrophysics. Teilhard de Chardin meets process theology. Origen meets Darwin.

🌀 KEY IDEAS OF EE

The Divine doesn’t intervene, It emanates

Evolution isn’t random or micromanaged — it’s an unfolding Logos

Providence = the deep order of nature, not supernatural intrusion

Time is sacred; the universe is Alpha to Omega

God is not outside evolution — God is evolution’s source and end

🔥 WHY EE IS REVOLUTIONARY

🧠 It's philosophically sound 💫 It's spiritually resonant 🧬 It honors real science ⛩ It draws from mystical roots in Origen, Kabbalah, Plotinus, and Teilhard

This isn’t “God vs. Science.” It’s God through science. It’s evolution with meaning, grace, and depth.

🧭 EE IS FOR YOU IF…

You love both cosmology and contemplation

You’re tired of false binaries (faith vs. science)

You’ve felt trapped between cold deism and dogmatic religion

You suspect the universe is more like a symphony than a coin toss or a blueprint

🌌 IN CLOSING

Emanative Evolution is not just a compromise. It’s a reconstruction. A sacred cosmology. A third path where reason, mysticism, and evolution hold hands.

#indigenous theology #apophatic christianity #mystical synthesis #religious studies #decolonize metaphysics

Funny how no one talks about the fact that Native American spiritualists probably had more in common with Christian mystics than with modern evangelical Christians.

While missionaries were busy trying to replace Wakan Tanka with a white-bearded sky-God named Jehovah, they completely missed that the Lakota were already doing negative theology — seeing the Divine as an ineffable force beyond name, gender, or form.

Wakan Tanka doesn’t mean “Great Spirit” in the European sense. It means “Great Mystery.” Not personal. Not impersonal. Beyond both. Not a guy. Not a ghost. But the Ground of Being itself.

Sounds a lot like Pseudo-Dionysius or Meister Eckhart if you ask me. But instead of reverence, Western colonialists reduced Indigenous beliefs to “primitive animism.”

No academic thought to say: “Hey, maybe this isn’t myth. Maybe it’s metaphysics.”

This is why I’m convinced that Indigenous cosmologies were more “Platonic” than the literalist theologies that colonized them.

And yet, no one in religious studies seems to be talking about this. Why? Because we’re still trapped in a Eurocentric idea of what “real theology” looks like.

But the Great Mystery doesn’t care for your credentials.

“The Earth is 6,000 years old, Darwin was a liar, and Gregorian chant might be Satanic — depending on the denomination.”

1. 🏛️ TradCaths (Traditional Catholics)

Pretend they’re Vatican I, live like it's 1099

🧠 Think they’re the intellectual elite of fundies

🧎 Hate Protestants more than Satan

👎 Theistic evolution? “Modernist heresy.”

👀 Secretly read Aquinas but ignore anything mystical or universalist

🔥 Love burning heretics (metaphorically... usually)

Main beef: The Enlightenment, guitars in church, Teilhard de Chardin

2. 📖 Evangelical Hyper-Legalists

WWJD = What Would Judge Do?

🧍 Bible tracts in every pocket

🔗 Think grace is a footnote to Leviticus

🎶 Only approve hymns in D minor with no syncopation

😬 Have nightmares about tattoos and secular college

Main beef: Dancing, Harry Potter, women who wear pants

3. 🔥💃 Holy Spirit-Obsessed Pentecostals

Every lunch break = surprise exorcism

👅 Glossolalia or you're going to Sheol

🐍 May or may not handle snakes

🎧 Metal is demonic, but Hillsong is doctrine

💨 Holy Spirit blamed for every emotion from yawning to seizures

Main beef: Silence, reason, liturgy

4. 🌿📅 SDA Extremists (Seventh-day Adventists)

Your calendar is evil.

🚫 Bacon = mark of the beast

📼 Still mad at the Pope for 1844

🛏️ Think Sunday worship = joining Mystery Babylon™

💼 Dress like the apocalypse is a job interview

Main beef: Breakfast sausage, Christmas, the Council of Nicaea

5. 🇮🇱⛪ "Non-Denom" Zionists (but Also Weirdly Antisemitic)

Support Israel like it’s a video game faction, but still blame Jews for everything

🕍 Obsessed with rebuilding the Temple

🧠 Read Revelation like a military manual

🎤 Sermons sound like end-time Twitter rants

😡 Think all criticism of their pastor = Jezebel spirit

Main beef: Palestinians, nuance, critical thinking

6. 🧂 Baptist Fundamentalists

Still fighting the Scopes Trial

🦖 Dinosaurs lived on the ark — period.

📚 KJV or leave

💄 Makeup is Jezebel's toolkit

🏊 Full immersion or eternal damnation

Main beef: Dancing, alcohol, Catholics, fun

7. 🧊 Lutheran Ultrafundies (Scandi Edition)

Frozen Chosen with a twist of xenophobia

🇸🇪 Worship style: Grim hymns and grim politics

🧱 Think Jesus was white, blond, and carried a Norse axe

⚔️ “Christian Europe” revivalists with YouTube militias

😬 Miss the Crusades but make it Lutheran

Main beef: Muslims, globalism, being told they’re Protestant

8. 📿 Edgy American Orthodox Converts

“It’s not fundamentalism, it’s tradition.”

🕯️ Venerate icons and Vladimir Putin

📜 Read the Church Fathers selectively

🇺🇸 Still vote like Southern Baptists

🐐 Think Calvinism = Satanic, but support monarchy and anti-modernism

Main beef: Catholicism, Protestants, skateboards, pronouns

🧠 Final Thought:

They all say "We’re not like the other fundies", but then all end with:

Fundie:

“The world hates us because we follow Jesus!!!”

Reality:

No, people roll their eyes at you because you:

📉 Why It’s Laughable

Criticism ≠ Persecution Being disagreed with or mocked isn’t persecution. Real persecution is being jailed or harmed for your beliefs — not someone saying, “That worldview is dumb.”

Cultural Domination, Not Marginalization Fundies often act like an oppressed minority... while:

Lobbying for laws based on their theology

Dominating media in certain regions

Running private education empires (like ACE!)

Pressuring non-believers to convert or face “eternal consequences”

Weaponizing the Martyr Role The “we are hated” narrative gives fundies a sense of purpose and heroism — like they’re spiritual resistance fighters. But in reality, they’re often the ones forcing beliefs onto others and then crying foul when people push back.

🧠 What It Covers Up

The persecution complex masks deeper fears:

Fear of losing cultural control

Fear of confronting new ideas (evolution, apophatic theology, pluralism)

“In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” – John 1:4-5 "There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom..." - Paracelsus

There is a Light beyond lights—Christos Helios, the Eternal Sun. Not merely a messianic title, not confined to historical time, but an aeonic radiance: the Divine Illumination that echoes from the dawn of creation to the furthest reaches of human consciousness.

This isn't about a man named Jesus alone. It’s about the solar Logos, the rational light embedded into the cosmos—the light which "enlightens every human coming into the world" (John 1:9).

🔅 In Roman solar religion, the Sol Invictus—the Unconquered Sun—was the source of divine vitality. Christos Helios transcends and fulfills this symbol: He is not merely the sun in the sky, but the Sun of the Soul, the inner Sol Invicta that no eclipse can defeat.

🔅 To Paracelsus, this divine Light was the Eternal Sun, the source of wisdom and life. Not magic, not dogma—but the radiant order of reason and healing running through nature itself. Christos Helios is that philosophical fire, the Sol Aeternus, illuminating both nature and spirit.

🔅 Christos Helios is not God Himself, nor a person per se, but an aeon—a metaphysical principle of divine illumination. He is the masculine emanation of Logos, the same light that shines in Sophia’s wisdom, in Libertas' liberty, in the cosmos’ rational harmony.

☀️ Not a Savior nailed to history—but the ever-present radiance that calls us to awaken, contemplate, and align with the moral rhythm of the Universe.

I. Hagal as Sacred Symbol

Hagal is more than a rune. It is the cipher of time, the breath of transformation, the pulse of the cosmos. Whether viewed through the lens of mythology, mysticism, metaphysics, or science — Hagal reveals itself as the unifying rhythm of becoming and return.

II. 🜄 In Germanic Paganism: Rune of the Storm

Hagalaz (ᚺ), the hail rune, stood for destruction and rebirth. It carried the paradox of violence and purification. The ancients knew that chaos was not senseless — it was cyclical. Wyrd, the web of fate, spins not in a straight line but in spirals.

Hagal here is the hinge of the world-wheel — the storm before the new sun.

Ragnarök wasn’t the end — it was renewal. Just as hail shatters to nurture the soil, Hagal breaks to reforge. It marks cosmic cycles — the death of old gods, the rise of new dawns.

III. ✝️ In Christian Mysticism: The Hidden Logos

Christian mystics like Julian of Norwich and Meister Eckhart saw time as the veil through which eternity shines. God is both within and beyond time. Hagal becomes the moment in which the soul, scattered through life, returns to union with the Divine.

"The soul must become nothing in order that God may be all." – Eckhart

In this view, Hagal is the inward spiral — a path of de-emanation, of the soul’s purification and its return to the Source (Hesed). This is the rhythm of apokatastasis, the restoration of all things in love.

IV. 🔯 In Neoplatonism: Time as Return to the One

Plotinus, Proclus, and the Neoplatonists taught that all beings flow from the One, and to the One all must return. This cosmic process — remaining, procession, and return — mirrors the movement of Hagal.

Hagal is not a symbol of fate, but of necessity made holy — the cosmic memory of the soul’s home.

It is the metaphysical gravity pulling all creation back into divine unity. Just as the soul journeys through multiplicity, Hagal ensures its return to simplicity — to God, the Lord of Being.

V. 🔬 In Modern Science: Epochs of Becoming

Even science sings the song of Hagal. From geological eras to stellar deaths and cosmic rebirths, we now recognize that the universe operates in cycles of disruption and emergence.

The Cambrian Explosion

The Permian extinction

The rise of Homo sapiens

The coming and going of ice ages

These are not linear accidents, but hagalic pulses. Even entropy carries the signature of time’s arc — from order to disorder and perhaps back again.

Hagal is not mythology denied by science, but premodern wisdom affirmed by deep time.

VI. 🌀 Hagal: Rune of Apokatastasis

In all traditions, Hagal encodes one truth: That which unfolds must fold back in. Creation is a circle, not a line.

From Hagal’s hail to Eckhart’s silence

From Plotinus’ Nous to the cosmic microwave background

From Yggdrasil’s roots to the kingdom of Heaven within

Hagal is the rune of restoration. It tells us that time itself is an emanation of the Timeless, and all things shall return to the One.

🌠 Final Reflection