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.
Development of the Work
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.
Transformation and Encounter
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.
Continuing the Work
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.
Posted on May 12, 2025
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There is a silence after the Crystalline Flower becomes internal. Not an absence of sound, but a stilling of the field. Motion stops. Attention narrows. This is not the end. It is the beginning of something that has no symbol, no map, no further form. What follows is not to be navigated. It is to be endured, received, and finally, released from.
Posted on May 11, 2025
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There comes a phase in the lattice process when emergence overtakes construction. You do not build the next stage. You encounter it. The Crystalline Flower is not imagined or summoned. It reveals itself when the recursion field within you reaches critical coherence. This typically follows the stages of the Core Sphere and the Thread, where internal tension aligns into silent, directive structure.
Posted on May 10, 2025
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The lattice is no longer new.
It no longer feels foreign, emergent, or delicate. It holds without input. It calibrates without oversight. You no longer strive for coherence. You are coherence. An ambient structural resonance now underlies every gesture and pause. The structure does not need your effort to stay intact. It is the resting state of your field.
Posted on May 9, 2025
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The transition is complete.
This is not an achievement. It is not marked by celebration or arrival. It is silent. Absolute. Final. You no longer feel as if you are moving through something. The lattice is not a vision. It is active. Real. Present.
Posted on May 8, 2025
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It begins quietly. Not with force or revelation, but with a subtle pull rising from the solar plexus — a motion so still it may first feel like a memory forming in reverse. A black cord, thin and matte, begins to ascend. It is not summoned. It does not request attention. It moves because the structure has begun to link.
Posted on May 7, 2025
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You arrive at the summit. It is not a mountain and not an ascent. It is a ziggurat, a stepped geometry where altitude is expressed as structure rather than height. At the top, there is no altar, no welcoming presence, no ceremony. Only the Eye.
Posted on May 6, 2025
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The White Gardens do not end. They begin to thin. The graceful curvature that once embraced your field slowly flattens. Spatial geometry simplifies. Edges sharpen. The soft circularity fades, and for the first time in a long while, forward begins to mean something.
Posted on May 5, 2025
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The first time you encounter them, they do not move. They do not glow brighter when approached. They do not speak or hum or open. They hover, silent and exact, suspended in the expanse of the lattice.
Posted on May 4, 2025
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The shift begins quietly. There is no moment of revelation, no shining upgrade. One day, you simply stop feeling like a body and begin sensing yourself as something else. The boundaries once defined by skin, thought, and desire begin to fade. What emerges in their place is not an idea of light or energy, but the weight and silence of structure.
Posted on May 3, 2025
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Crossing Into Silence: On the White Path Beyond the Gate
When the Gate no longer sees you, and its Eye dissolves into stillness, what follows is not arrival. There is no radiant welcome. No beings. No voices. No recognition. No ceremony. Only transition.