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From Athens it traces the golden chain of initiatic succession to Alexandria, and from there to Tralles, Miletus and Aphrodisias in Asia Minor – the last great Ionian centres of Hellenism and rural paganism. Finally, it examines covert Hellenist, Procopius of Caesarea’s  reactions to the building in the sixth century – shortly after the building had been completed. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003ePart II, Sacred Landscape\/Sacred Architecture, explores the key tenets that govern the sacrality of landscapes and by extension, sacred structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003ePart III, The Immateriality of Stone, reads the visual language of the building itself, both structurally and decoratively; and decodes the clues left for us by its designers 1,500 years ago. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003ePart IV, The Return of the Golden Age of Kronos, concludes the quest by unveiling the hidden landscape of the soul encoded and occluded within the building’s structure. This work is, ultimately, about the recovery of a shared spiritual legacy of which the esoteric communities of today are direct spiritual descendants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eThe text is supplemented by a glossary, and two appendices: Gamze Güzen’s Astrological Elective Reading for the Commencement of Construction of the Hagia Sophia in 532 ce; and Harper Feist’s The Design and Reflective properties of the Original Dome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eAs with Peter Mark Adams’s previous works, this is an adept, rich and immersive book, illustrated with evocative and evidentiary images in colour and black \u003cem\u003e\u0026amp;\u003c\/em\u003e white.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scarlet Imprint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46102137143432,"sku":null,"price":87.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9695\/6040\/files\/ChatGPTImageJul4_2026at09_37_34AM.png?v=1783183067"},{"product_id":"ani-mystic","title":"Ani.Mystic","description":"\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eGordon White’s sequel to his acclaimed \u003cem\u003eStar.Ships\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of adventure and encounter, of optimism and healing. \u003cem\u003eAni.Mystic: Encounters with a Living Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e is, explicitly, a magician’s book, a dreaming book, one which aims to fundamentally shift the discourse within the western magical tradition. Gordon explains, ‘the sole preoccupation of this book is exploring and uncovering animism as a dangerous category of European thought…’ \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eGordon begins by giving the standard definition of animism as ‘the belief that the world is made up of persons, only some of whom are humans,’ before taking us with him ‘to its farthest epistemological hinterlands.’ In dialogue with teachers of Indigenous knowledge, spirits, angels, star people, saints, plants, and beast masters and mothers, Gordon weaves a new story of trans-species collaboration and custodianship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eTo get to that point, he interrogates and dismantles a series of constructs: materialist-naturalism, the notion of invasive species, the nature-culture divide and the binaries of domestic vs wild and forest vs garden, and the concept of ‘animism’ itself. We are then shown what it means to think with Deep Time, with Country and in Ceremony. Solutions and best practice are drawn from dialogue with the cultures he partakes in and the disciplines of magic and permaculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eOur journey begins in an airport hotel bar in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and the story unfolds through encounters with forest spirits, shark gods and cities of the dead. From stone altars in Micronesia, ancestral Maori pâ, and Aboriginal songlines to lecturing on UFOs at the Guggenheim in New York and avenging angels in London, the journey gathers momentum. We experience songlines, fire storms and rain dragons in Tasmania, and are finally brought into ceremony with Ayahuasca in Peru.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large preFade fadeIn\"\u003eGordon is transformed through his encounters with a living cosmos, and in the Telling. In walking in the magician’s footsteps, the candour of his heartbreaks and triumphs, we are invited to come into right relation ourselves, toward the cosmic aim of mutual flourishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scarlet Imprint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46102149791880,"sku":null,"price":67.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9695\/6040\/files\/ChatGPTImageJul4_2026at09_42_29AM.png?v=1783183360"}],"url":"https:\/\/obscurabibliotheca.com\/collections\/religion.oembed","provider":"Obscura Bibliotheca LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}