Posted on July 31, 2025
| 3 minutes
| 519 words
| Rowan Drakenson
Descent of the Column
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.
Posted on July 30, 2025
| 4 minutes
| 703 words
| Rowan Drakenson
Anabasis Phase – Early Ascent into Programmable Astral Strata
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.