Book

Hearth: Volumes 2-3

The second compiled volume of the Beyond the Veil notebooks, continuing the Hearth essays into serpent symbolism, etymology, and the mechanics of initiation. Its central figure is copper: heated copper glows, polished copper reflects, and neither shines on its own, a law the author turns into an initiatory chain in which the serpent, the Sanskrit naga or Hebrew nachash, exposes the first initiate; the woman, the Maga, receives and radiates; and the man, the Mago, is illuminated second, an esoteric rereading of Adam, Eve, and the bronze serpent of Moses built on the Hebrew root nasha, to dazzle or entrance. Further essays range across Nagaloka as the hidden domain of the threshold guardians, Shiva's serpent Vasuki and Vishnu's Shesha as emblems of the nothingness that carries the visible world, the oracle as a mouthpiece that speaks vision rather than opinion, and the Pythia, the Hebrew navi, and the Sanskrit rishi as witnesses to the same trance-borne sight. The scan reproduces the complete 236-page compilation with its 135 illustrations, pairing volumes two and three of the series.

Included with membership.