“Release yourself — only you can.” The cable-tow is one of the most simple concepts in Masonry, right? Or is it?…
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A phenomenology of suffering at the edge of language, where the split between subject and object gives way.
There are many streams, or disciplines, now joined in the urgent effort of “overcoming” the subject-object divide in our world…
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A 1944 Masonic classic on where the legend at the heart of the Third Degree actually came from.
The story or legend of Hiram Abiff is one of great interest to members of the Craft. Following upon the publication of my Emblems of Freemasonry…
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A Sufi teaching on the threshold within — the isthmus between worlds we always already stand in.
The human reality is itself a barzakh between divine and cosmic realities. To know oneself as this threshold is the beginning of wisdom…
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