1	Geometric Alphabet »
The architects of Babylon drew straight lines, hard geometry to define edges and perimeters. They measured the arc of the sun with triangular devices, plumbs dropping straight down like descending vertebrae . . .
2	Ash »
I hung on the tree for thrice three days . . .
3	Heaven »
The canopy of heaven was to be built by three brothers, blacksmiths all . . .
4	An Age of Exploration »
Today, a part of me begins the long journey back to the States. While my quest into the jungle is complete, my work is far from finished . . .
5	Labyrinth »
Do you know the difference between a maze and a labyrinth? . . .
6	Heart »
There is an old belief about the heart: it is the seat of the soul. If you eat a man's soul, much like you would devour a fish, you assume his spirit . . .
7	Fish »
There is the old truism about fish: give a man a fish, and you offer him hope; teach him how to fish, and you give him purpose . . .
8	Moth »
Moths, by virtue of their fascination with light, are children of the Moon (that poor widow who pines so for her lost King) . . .
9	Cage »
"Black Iron Prison" is the term you'll hear used by the modern Gnosis seeker. It's a reference to the Archonic Construction of the Universe, a theory that multi-dimensional intelligences are preventing us . . .
10	Spine »
There is an old myth about the spine: it is the last part of a mortal man to decay. While the worms take the flesh and the trees drink the blood, the spine remains resolute and firm . . .
11	Ax, Awl & Trowel »
On the night of the full moon, when the circle hung low and fat in the black night, a brother came to his sibling's temple . . .
12	Abandon »
When the Tower fell, the thirteen stonemasons tried to arrest its collapse with their hands and bodies. For three times twenty-two generations, their families had been slaved to laying stone, and they knew nothing else . . .
13	Sacrifice »
Philip Kendrick wakes up in his comfortable chair. He is wearing his favorite robe, a dark blue kimono—the one given to him by a biker with an angel tattoo, more than twenty years ago during a febrile weekend, lost in the Mohave Desert outside Needles . . .
14	Triangle »
Aegenus proved the existence of the triangle by merging two circles, thereby demonstrating the marriage between the line and the curve . . .
15	Serpent »
I want to point you to the story of the tail-devourer, the serpent who was God's first Creation. Self-sufficient, the tail-devourer was perfection . . .
16	River »
Rivers figure predominantly as barriers and as symbols of transformation. Heraclitus believed you could never step in the same river twice . . .
17	Burnblack »
I've tried to find the source of this quote, but it has eluded me. Like a number of the mythological and symbolic elements within my dreams, I'm starting to believe it is an admixture. There is a fusion going on in my head . . .
18	Intent »
Our cells hum with intent. Our DNA is informed by intent. It is not ours. No, it was there before we became conscious . . .
19	Strength »
He is the strongest; and his strength lies not in his body—scarred by the violent efforts of so many others—nor in his hunger, which ravages his mind and fills his veins with a restlessness . . .
20	The Final Law of Entropy »
Language betrays . . .