Faring Forth is not a miscellany of reflections but a threshold.
It stands as a gate into the living stream of Hermetic and theurgic operation,
where philosophy and practice do not merely converse but conjoin
in the reformation of soul and body.
In this place, alchemy ceases to be a figure of speech and reveals itself as operation;
pathworking ceases to be fantasy and shows itself as true ascent and descent through the planes of being.
The traditions gathered here—Hermetic philosophy, Chaldean fire-theurgy, the alchemical art of fixatio, and the disciplines of later initiates—are not relics of a forgotten age.
They form a chain still unbroken, whose links are fire and light.
To step within that chain is to consent to the same purgations, absorptions, and incarnations endured by the adepts of old.
Such work does not flatter: it burns, dissolves, and remakes.
Those who accompany these texts will find not abstraction but practice.
What is written here is less a commentary than a summons,
less a record than an initiation.
Rowan Drakenson’s writings, including Solar Dominion, belong to this current.
They stand within the long discipline that runs from the Hermetic treatises through Agrippa and Paracelsus, from Lévi to Bardon.
Their concern is one: how the influx of the divine may be received,
fixed in the marrow,
and radiated outward into the fabric of life.
The cube is a timeless symbol of structure, foundation, and material reality. With its six equal faces and right angles, it represents stability and manifestation, anchoring energy into form. Unlike the tetrahedron, which embodies transformation, the cube holds and contains, serving as the geometric essence of Earth—solid, enduring, and unshaken.
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