This site is my record of an extended theurgic and alchemical process: the completion of the Great Work and the formation of the Greater Stone. I do not set this down only to reflect on it but to share how the process unfolded in practice, with its real progression and visible outcomes. The method throughout is pathworking, a practice long attested by figures such as Zosimos of Panopolis and Jacob Boehme as a way of engaging directly with the operations of transformation.
The project began with Pathworking the Gateway, an introductory text offering foundational methods for experiential work. It was followed by Solar Dominion, which revealed itself to be a preliminary alchemical operation, the formation of the solar or golden body. The tone and method of that book differ from the first, but both works belong to a single sequence. The tools developed in the early stages continued to serve in later ones.
The website itself grew from explorations in sacred geometry. The study of the Platonic solids provided the first impulse, a catalyst that set the larger current of the Work in motion. From there, the posts trace a coherent order of transformation that leads step by step toward the consummation of the Great Work.
A later phase centered on the Black Sun or Invisible Sun, a cycle I once thought might be a book but chose instead to unfold here in a more personal and flexible form. The Black Sun and Lattice series mark the turn into explicitly alchemical territory. The lattice shows the energetic and structural basis of existence, a living geometry perhaps corresponding to what ancient writers described as the fiery or plasmic substrate of being.
Across these operations the subtle body passes through successive transformations. In one culmination there was a direct encounter with a feminine intelligence, whose identity became clearer only in later work. She proved to be the initiating presence of a regenerative process, the cycle of rebirth that marked the true beginning of the alchemical ascent.
Following this renewal, the Anabasis explored the discovery of the higher intellect or Nous. The current Alchemy goes further, engaging the psyche and the daimon in the work of integration and embodiment.
The Work remains ongoing, and new series will appear as further stages unfold. Readers who follow the path described here may find that many of its images and operations correspond closely with visionary and alchemical accounts, though I only recognized those correspondences after the fact.
Each person’s experiences will differ. Certain obstacles, bindings, inherited conditions, or psychic impediments may arise and must be resolved before further progress is possible. Some aspects of these operations remain unwritten. The rhythm of advancement varies: sometimes the process moves swiftly, at other times it stalls and requires renewed attention of will.
This record exists to show the continuity of the Work as I have lived it: from geometry to fire, from vision to embodiment, from the black sun to the golden body.
After the stage of dwelling between planes, a central dilemma reveals itself: remain vast but disembodied, or dare to embody the void-fire within flesh. Initiatory traditions answer with plane-merging. This operation draws Nous into density, saturating physical matter with noetic flame. It marks the turning from purification to operative transfiguration. What began as clearing and preparation matures into the deliberate work of embodiment.
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The cycle of katabasis now reaches its most paradoxical threshold. After the dissolution of residues and the absorption of the serpent force, the body stands suffused with void-light. Residual densities are cleared, yet the sense of self no longer feels confined to the physical plane. Consciousness hovers between realms, stretched between noetic vastness and dense incarnation.
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When the descent has run its course and the serpent force has surged outward, a subtler motion arises. The commotion of externalization subsides, and what once moved beyond the body begins to dissolve and flow back within. This is the threshold of absorption, when both body and field are permeated with void-light. It is at once an inner transformation and a discipline of reintegration.
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The katabasis unfolds as a sequence of dissolutions and revelations, each stage stripping away density and preparing for deeper empowerment. After the draining of the orange orb and the departure of the worms from the solar plexus, the field lies quiet but alert. The abdomen feels hollowed, yet not empty in weakness. Rather, it is like a chamber swept clean, waiting for what is to come. The emotional tone at this threshold is cautious relief and the stirring anticipation of a greater emergence.
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The journey of katabasis begins not with a triumphant plunge but with a disorienting fall. After the enthronement of crystalline clarity and direct gaze into the Nous Eye, the luminous altitude collapses downward. The mind that stretched into high noetic light suddenly finds itself heavy, sinking into strata where clarity becomes viscous and charged. The shift carries the unmistakable tone of being dragged down after dwelling in radiance. This is the first movement of purgation, corresponding to the alchemical nigredo, the putrefaction that precedes all renewal. As the Hermetic Arcanum and the Golden Chain of Homer emphasize, putrefaction is not corruption but the necessary dissolution of forms so that a higher life may take root.
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The crystalline passage does not terminate in spectacle but leads inward to principle. The throne that emerges at the center is not ornament but the crystallization of noetic governance. It signifies the stabilization of the field around a single axis, the ordering of perception into sovereignty. The elder who appears upon it is less a personage than a transitional intelligence, a figure through which authority is transmitted. He is clothed in archetypes familiar across traditions, because his function is perennial: to bridge the aspirant into sovereignty. The experiential details of vestments and crown are only the way this principle is made visible.
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The event termed “arrival” is not an incidental vision but a principled transition. It marks the stabilization of perception within a noetic field, where consciousness, freed from the volatility of astral flux, attains structured coherence. The imagery of crystalline geometry conveys more than aesthetic impression: it embodies a metaphysical principle, the crystallization of mind into ordered form, a state of resonance between subjective awareness and the intelligible architecture of reality.
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A vertical shaft of light descends with an ancient and deliberate brilliance. It is no common illumination, but a structured current of white-gold radiance, dense with intention and resonant with the initiatory currents preserved in Hermetic and theurgical tradition.
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Before the ascent into the higher astral strata, there comes a moment when the familiar dissolves into the abstract. This is the first rupture in the patterned veil, when symbolic terrains loosen their grip and the traveler steps into the skeletal framework of reality itself. Here, form yields to geometry, and geometry to a living, responsive medium. The shift is not merely environmental but ontological—the very nature of perception reshapes itself. The path now intersects the cosmic pattern mind, the deep template from which all appearances are spun, exposing the raw creative substrate. What follows is a mapping of this early anabasis—an upward surge into programmable regions of the astral field, where the power to shape and the responsibility of shaping first emerge.
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It began with the burn—not of fire, but of recognition. The kind that folds your name back into itself and asks what underneath it still wants to live. The kind that wakes the part of you that never agreed to forget. She came from a direction no compass held, calling herself nothing, but wearing a sound: cilish.
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