The Hidden Universe

group of like-minded individuals can focus their intention to create an alien and non-human intelligence that has a form of independence from its creators. However, this independence comes at a cost: in order to continue to exist, the entity needs sustenance in the same way a living animal needs food and water to stay alive. For such beings, susten

Central to the Book of Enoch is a description of how a group of entities known as the Watchers came down from the heavens and became involved in the affairs of humanity. In the original Greek translation of the official Bible, the Aramaic word iyr, meaning “wakeful one” or “watcher”, was translated into the Greek equivalent word, egregoros, meaning

The 2nd-century BCE Gnostic philosopher Valentinius argued in his writings that the sensory universe is actually an empty vessel containing nothing but mind-created illusions. This idea had long been suggested in the Indian subcontinent as a central concept of Vedantism. For the Vedic philosophers the illusion is known as Maya. In ancient Greek ter

For the sin of giving humanity gnosis, Azâzêl was bound head and foot and thrown into a deep hole in the desert.

This extraordinary conclusion was first made by a group of scientists working in Copenhagen in the 1920s. Under the leadership of the great Danish physicist Neils Bohr, these dedicated researchers devised a model of reality in which subatomic particles have a statistical “reality” that becomes actual when they are observed. Not surprisingly, this m

Agrippa was born on 14 September 1496, in Cologne, Germany. He is best known for his 1533 publication, De Occulta Philisophia Libri Tres (Three Books of Occult Philosophy). The first book is on natural magic; the second on celestial magic; and the third on ceremonial magic.

The Watchers also feature in the official version of the Old Testament. It was a Watcher who appeared to Nebuchadnezzar in a dream: I was looking in the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed, and behold, an angelic watcher, a holy one, descended from heaven. (Daniel 4.13) Later, in verse 17, it is explained that the Watchers are angelic beings that

The word djinn is derived from the Arabic root jannah, meaning “hidden”.

In the period between the death of Abraham of Worms in 1458 and the first publication of The Book of Abramelin in 1608, the most influential occultist was, without doubt, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. Because one of his key ideas foreshadows The Book of Abramelin, it is worth backtracking a little to consider Agrippa here.