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.
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.
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.
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.
The Assumption of Discrimination
After fixation, discrimination does not immediately appear as an embodied condition. In the vision that grounds this account, it first appears as present but not yet assumed. It is perceived as a sword, distinct from the operator, suspended within the noetic field. It can be oriented, directed, and brought to bear, but it does not yet compel. Its presence indicates availability rather than authority.
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Prolegomena
The following text is offered as technical field notes, reports of visionary contact subjected to textual triangulation, and fragments of initiatory cartography. Interpretation is kept to a minimum. No universal claims are advanced, and no promises of attainment are implied. Seriousness is expressed through precision, patience, and a refusal of spectacle. The subject here is work, not experience pursued for its own sake.
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Emergence
The phase designated as Emergence marks the terminus of the sarcophagus-gestation sequence and, within the internal logic of the reference corpus, the completion of the Greater Stone. At the same time, it inaugurates a qualitatively different mode of perception. Unlike earlier stages, which are structured around containment, sealing, and interior incubation, Emergence is not defined by the appearance of a new symbolic environment but by the completion of the human work itself. Instead, it is characterized by an alteration in the operative body itself. The decisive change is registered as an influx rather than a displacement: the vessel does not open outward, but becomes luminous from within.
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Gestation in the Gold Coffin
Beyond the gateway, within the vast noetic edifice, the operation contracts from an expansive condition of presence into a single, deliberately prepared center: the sarcophagus. The shift is structural rather than dramatic. What had first appeared as immersion in an architectural totality is now gathered into a precise locus intended to receive, contain, and stabilize transformation. The sarcophagus does not arise spontaneously within the field. It is erected, positioned, and deliberately staged within the white-and-gold precinct, then placed further inward, nearer to source, as the work intensifies. Its situation marks it as an instrument embedded within an already ordered noetic architecture, not as an isolated object suspended in abstraction.
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From Threshold to Structure
What follows does not treat the “temple” as a symbol or metaphor, but as a reported perception of large-scale architecture encountered after a threshold event, described as it appears rather than as it is explained. The structure presents itself immediately as a coherent environment: vast, ordered, and internally differentiated. It is apprehended as a single complex rather than a discrete chamber, composed of multiple sections that open into one another, with ceiling heights and internal volumes exceeding any ordinary interior. The impression is not dreamlike or unstable. The space possesses firmness, proportion, and continuity, presenting itself without ambiguity or distortion.
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Crossing the Noetic Threshold
The crossing occurred without preparation or exertion. Awareness did not rise, strain, or gather force. It found itself, without transition, on the far side of a line that had already been reached. The sensation was not one of accomplishment but of quiet admission, as though a door long standing had been opened, briefly, and without announcement.
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When the Perfected Body Breaks the Membrane
The perfected subtle body produced in rubedo is a coherent vessel: luminous, sealed, and internally ordered. In alchemical language it is the stabilized conjunction of sulphur and mercury; in Hermetic terms it is a pneuma purified of admixture. Its integrity allows ascent, yet that same integrity renders it intolerant of containment within structures that do not match its order. When enclosed within an incorrect boundary, it does not adapt. It concentrates.
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Stagnation of Mixis
After rubedo, the perfected vehicle stands as a clarified and coherent subtle body: luminous, bounded, and capable of bearing intelligible fire. In ancient sources this stage marks the soul’s passage from interior alchemy to theurgic ascent, from labouring within matter to approaching the higher architectures governing incarnation. It is here, at the juncture between subtle autonomy and the upward path, that the first and most perilous encounter arises.
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Hecate’s Membrane and the Descent of Noetic Fire
At the threshold known among the ancients as Hecate’s Membrane, the direction of the Work is never to be gathered from inward sensation, for sensation speaks in the language of ascent while metaphysics speaks in the order of hierarchy. The organism may feel itself rising, clarifying, or entering a subtler light, yet the principle remains fixed: Nous is above soul, soul above its luminous vehicle, and the body stands at the farthest verge of density. Whatever motion the noetic Fire makes into soul or body must therefore be called a descent, even though its arrival is often accompanied by the soul’s tremulous awareness of elevation.
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Rubedo and the Perfected Body: An Expanded Hermetic Analysis
Rubedo is not a prolongation of whitening but a mutation of being. The older Hermetic and theurgic lineages describe it as the moment when a new interior constitution appears, capable of enduring and shaping the descent of Fire. However varied the terminology, the doctrine is consistent: no reddening is possible without the subtle vessel.
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