Readings, Not Equations
Three goods, three principles, one tempting table—but resemblance is not proof. This essay explores what transformation-minded readings of corn, wine, and oil can illuminate, while marking the point where analogy begins to say more than the evidence allows.
The Tree, the Ladder, the Road, and the Labyrinth
A symbolic map does not tell us where the soul lives. It gives the soul a way to imagine where it must travel.
Hermes at the Crossroads
A six-part series on Greek Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, Hermeticism, Greek education, early Christianity, Jewish and Kabbalistic traditions, and the shared human work of symbolic self-formation.