Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

In the sixth century CE, from the heart of the Syrian mystical tradition, a text emerged that would become one of the most extreme and "Highly Intense" documents in the history of Western esotericism: The Book of the Holy Hierotheos on the Hidden Mysteries of the House of God . Attributed to Hierotheos, the legendary teacher of Pseudo-Dionysius, this work provides a rigorous and almost hallucinatory roadmap for the Ascent and Descension of the Divine Mind —a process through which the soul is systematically taken apart, deified, and ultimately returned to the absolute unity of the Source. To understand the Book of the Holy Hierotheos is to confront the concept of "Universal Transubstantiation." Unlike the more cautious mysticism of other traditions, Hierotheos teaches that the human soul is not merely a "creation" of God, but a "fragment" of the Divine Mind that has become "thickened" and "cooled" by its descent into the ma...