The Unexpected Cosmology

Alexander & the City of Immortals | #3 Alexandria, Spiritual Bread and Butter of the World - ROME WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A VILLAGE when Philip II of Macedonia went to war with the Persians. The year was 336 BC. In turn, Darius III had the king of Macedonia assassinated. He would come to regret that decision. At just twenty years of age, his son began the most remarkable military career in […]

Alexander & the City of Immortals | #2 The Soul Lives On in the Fields of Eleusis -  “The living are ruled by the dead” — Elysian Neophyte   SHE WAS MINDING HER OWN BUSINESS, PICKING FLOWERS on a spring day, when the young Persephone was brutally raped and abducted by a god. When she didn’t return home, her mother went looking for her. She too was a goddess. As she broadened the […]

Alexander & the City of Immortals - Visions of Homer, the Blind Bard of Ionia   HIS OWN precious copy of Homer was safely locked in a golden casket, which he furthermore clutched between his fingers, when Alexander the Great stood along the Egyptian shore. Alexander had in mind a grand city which would bear his name; a Greek metropolis; a philosophical […]

Mary Poppins: Part Time Nanny, Full Time Witch - IN THE LATE summer of 1926 author P.L. Travers stood on the doorstep of poet and Irish senator William Butler Yeats Dublin home soaked and disheveled—her arms bundled with the branches and berries she’d collected from the island of Innisfree. In return Yeats showed the 27 year-old the egg his canary had just laid. By […]

“Strange Doctrines…” | The Resurrection on Trial by the Raconteurs of Mars Hill & the Architects of Atomism - IT IS OFTEN ASSUMED BY THE CLERIC that Paul the Apostle agreed with Saul the Pharisee, his fleshly counterpart, on any number of extra-Biblical doctrines, particularly the immortal soul; that the road to Damascus did little to reform his erstwhile faith in the celebrated oral dogma of Hellenistic Judaism—despite an intervention by the written Prophets, […]

The Gospel According to Plato | aka “the Secret Doctrine” (Globe Earth and the Immortal Soul) -   ONCE UPON A TIME THALES WAS OUT TAKING A WALK, counting the crystalline constellations without thinking so much as to observe his footing, when he stumbled headlong into a well. This in itself is not the great tragedy of the tale, as we are quickly informed it wasn’t merely the moon-lit terrain whom the […]

“The Earth was Formless and Void…” Ensnared in the Canopy of the Gnostic Spacemen | “Gap Theory” Mystics - WELL BEYOND PLUTO’S ORBIT, WHERE THE HELIOPAUSE kisses the boundaries of interstellar space, solar winds howled goodbye to Voyager 1, which suddenly had the distinction of becoming the first craft to leave the suns dominion behind. Meanwhile, here on Earth, the embers of Plato’s dreams glowed ashy-red. In a rather symbolic gesture, the spiritual aspirations […]

Authors of Confusion + Babblings of Babel = Oracles of Light | “Tongue-Speak” as a Language of the Inner Divine - THE PRACTITIONER OF “TONGUE-SPEAK” SHALL SURELY FIND, having left the Charismatic faith behind him—that his gift remains. That is, if he wishes his emotional babblings to continue. Upon closer investigation, he may stumble upon the Buddhist and Shinto priests in East Asia or the Sufis of Islamic mysticism—even the Zulu in South Africa—all of whom […]

Satanic Panic: The Day E.T. Visited the UN - THE BABYLON WORKING   BY DAY, Jack Parsons launched the Cold War. By night, the founder of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory emerged from a coffin to perform the Enochian magic first began by Englishman John Dee. His own esoteric works were often mixed with his scientific experiments, and it has been reported that Parsons attempted […]

Eat. Sleep. Psychodrama. | Walt Disney World Is Real Magic - THE MEDIA-MAKER is a persistent violator of the need to include a globe portrait within their passing narrative—Why? They are incestuously bluffing their way through a make-believe vantage point; the video camera held so far back as to capture the whole of our supposed blue marble as it wanders aimlessly through the sackcloth of space. The documentary genre holds […]