There’s something potent about learning magic through story. Not the sanitized, academic kind of learning where concepts get pinned to pages like dead butterflies, but the living, breathing transmission that happens when you follow a…
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The Gnostic Caravan Day 23: Yaldabaoth, The Cosmos
(The Ruler and the Ruled) There’s a particular recognition that arrives at the end of every genuine spiritual journey: the thing you’ve been fighting, transcending, working to overcome is itself part of the totality you’ve…
Reading the Apocryphon of John
I’m currently reading The Apocryphon of John, and if you’re into narrative alchemy, chaos magick, or treating mythology as functional technology rather than ancient fantasy, this text is essential reading. Not for historical curiosity (though…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 20: Norea, The Moon
(The Fire-Breather Who Needs No Consort) There’s a particular quality that belongs to those who stand at thresholds between worlds, who can navigate the seen and unseen with equal fluency, who possess power so complete…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 19: Sophia, The Star
(The Soul’s Adventure) There’s a particular quality that belongs to hope after devastation, to light discovered in the deepest darkness, to the recognition that what looked like irredeemable failure was actually the beginning of the…
Post-Structuralism and Chaos Magick: How Two Paths Discovered Reality Is Constructed
Deconstructing Truth, Constructing Reality: Where Philosophy Meets Chaos Magick This visual essay maps one of the most compelling parallels in consciousness work: how academic philosophy and occult practice arrived at identical conclusions through completely different…
System Update: From Rigid Rules to Reality Hacking
Reality is open source code, not carved stone tablets. The old operating system promised absolute truth if you followed the right protocol: rigid rituals, fixed symbols, formal proofs. It assumed reality was external, objective, waiting…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 17: Marcus the Magician
(The One Who Made the Wine Bubble) There’s a particular kind of power that makes authorities nervous not because it threatens violence but because it refuses domestication. Not the power that seeks permission or apologizes…
The Morpheus Paradox: Why Spiritual Teachers Must Remain Students
Or: What The Matrix Can Teach Us About Conscious Transformation There’s a moment in The Matrix that most people miss. It’s not when Neo stops bullets or when he resurrects from death. It’s quieter, more…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 16: Carpocrates (Temperance)
(The Alchemist of Opposites) There’s a particular kind of wisdom that emerges not from choosing sides but from learning to work with all sides simultaneously. Not the false balance of compromise where everyone loses a…
Weekly Transmission: Becoming the Problogger Warlock
December 8-15, 2025 Last week was one of those inflection points where multiple threads suddenly braided themselves into something coherent. The kind of week where you look up from your work and realize you’ve been…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 14: John The Baptist, the Hanged Man
(The End of Prophecy) There’s a particular quality that belongs to thresholds, to the liminal moments when one era is ending and another hasn’t quite begun. When the old certainties are dissolving but the new…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 13: Barbelo (Strength)
(The Providence of Everything) There’s a particular kind of power that doesn’t announce itself or prove itself or justify itself. It simply is. Not the strength that comes from dominating others or suppressing what’s difficult,…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 12: Basilides, the Wheel of Fortune
(The One Who Mapped the 365 Dimensions) There’s a moment when you realize that everything you thought was random is actually pattern. That the chaos you’ve been experiencing has architecture. That what looked like accident…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 11: Hermes Trismegistus: the Hermit
(The One Who Found Light in Solitude) There’s a particular quality of knowing that can only be discovered alone. Not the knowledge acquired from teachers or transmitted through texts, but the understanding that emerges when…
The Three Types of Humans: Which Story Are You Living?
There’s a text the early Christian church tried to suppress because it proposed something dangerous: that not all humans are created equal in their capacity for spiritual awakening. The text describes three distinct types of…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 10: Marcellina (Adjustment)
(The Strength of Standing in Darkness) Marcellina steps forward today as the one who teaches us how to stand inside the dark without being swallowed by it. Her presence carries the kind of strength that…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 9: Abraxas, the Chariot
(The Force of Pure Action) There’s a quality of momentum that can’t be argued with or negotiated. This is not reckless speed, but rather a purposeful motion. This is not chaos, but a dynamic force…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 8: Adam and Eve, the Lovers
(The Dual Forces Who Chose Awakening) There’s a moment in every partnership, every deep connection, when two people must decide whether they’ll stay comfortable or grow together. Whether they’ll maintain the illusion of safety or…
The Gnostic Caravan Day 7: Valentinus, the Hierophant
There’s a particular ache that comes with wondering how history might have unfolded differently. What if the road not taken had become the main highway? What if the voice nearly heard had shaped the dominant…