"When we encounter a series of events in the world, our bodies sense them first and foremost. Following from this encounter, we tend to link aspects of those events by means of likeness. Increasingly we form metaphors which link and network those events in terms that are informed by our growing stockpile of metaphors. First, they are simple, but they grow more complex. Our thinking then, begins to range across those associations we have already formed. It begins to deepen its

Tetragrammaton - the four letter name of God is a blueprint for working across the four stages of manifestation: intent, imagination, planning, and taking actions. These letters code the four elements of fire, water, air and earth, and operate in an intricate ecology of four "worlds" unified by a fifth. This four plus one structure also resonates with the observations made by Jean Gebser - that human history is identifiable in five key structures: the archaic, the magical, th

"An “occult” magical system is typically a taxonomy of possible events, ordered and arranged with a hierarchical element, and also with a method by which components of the schema can be randomly selected, as in divination. It is in a sense a random-access ontology. Because the taxonomy comprises a whole, it serves to provide interpretations for virtually any event that can arise. It is not a taxonomy of specific things or objects; it is not exact, but rather loose. Each level

"Language is the first, most fundamental magic. It reveals worlds, just as it conceals them. Consider this: words themselves, once we know them, appear to come out of nothing, fully formed and granting their meaning to our thought as if it were always, already there. Linguistic meaning arises as fiat and epiphany, after which we cannot imagine the prior state. The archetypal creation ex nihilo begins with a word. Order is brought to chaos by means of a vibrating breath. Once