Gnostica

There’s been a sweet trend around here towards improving health. JP’s been developing Kimetikos, a body-awareness praxis for modern Gnostics, and it seems that more and more Gnostics are waking up to the idea that spiritual wellness starts from the bottom up: IE it’s hard to be spiritually aware when you have a score of [...]

A couple o’ quick items:
– Welcome Split This Wood to the Logosphere! This is Brother Jay of the OA’s second venture into the world of blogging, so head over and give him some traffic!
– Seattle’s Hagia Sophia Gnostic Church (of the Ecclesia Gnostica) is looking for a home. If you’re in the [...]

The purpose of a banishing ritual in the context of GD-style magic is to center the individual in “space” and “banish” negative energies prior to, and after, any kind of operation. In Gnostic parlance, this negative energy would be “Archonic.” There are formulaic banishings of the Archons in the extant literature (esp. The Second Book [...]

Insert *your* bad Elvis pun here:
The Roman Elvis is in fact a genuine marble acroterion - a kind of architectural ornament often found for decoration on the corners of a sarcophagus, a stone tomb or burial chamber.
It forms part of a collection owned by Melbourne-based Graham Geddes - one of the world’s [...]

 God of Power, God of Light
 God of Power, God of Light…God of Power and Light; how often have we heard these two terms used in close conjunction?…as if they went “hand-in-hand”, complimentary aspects of a single Deity?
In truth, they are nothing of the kind.. Rather, they are two competing conceptions of God, two irreconcilable visions [...]