UNITED STATES / 2023–2026

Teaching in the
United States.

Ancient languages, philosophy, ritual texts and guided practice.

Between 2023 and 2026 I developed and taught a sequence of independent courses for U.S.-based students. The work began with Greek and Latin and gradually widened into philosophy, hymnody, late-antique ritual texts and guided practice.

The format changed with the material: six-week language courses, focused two-part studies, two- or four-night rites and month-long sequences. Greek and Latin were read aloud as well as translated. Lectures could move into recitation, guided meditation or a ritual exercise built from the text itself.

The point was not to separate scholarship from practice. A text could be read closely, heard in its original language, and then carried into meditation or ritual without losing its historical frame.

Format6 weeks · 2–4 nights · month-long sequences

LanguagesGreek and Latin read, translated and recited

MethodLecture · source work · recitation · guided meditation

Greek and Latin were part of the work, not decoration.

Pronunciation, grammar and translation were taught through the texts students had actually come to read: hymns, poetry, prayers and ritual language.

6 weeks

Greek for MysticsSix weeks of Ancient Greek built around pronunciation, the alphabet, essential grammar and direct reading of hymnic and ritual sources.

GREEK

6 weeks

Latin for MysticsSix weeks of Latin history, pronunciation, morphology and reading, moving into religious texts and recitation.

LATIN

2 parts

Luna & SolA two-part Latin study: Horace for Luna and Ovid for Sol, joining poetry, Roman solar and lunar traditions, pronunciation and recitation.

LATIN POETRY

3 studies

Greek for Mystics II · Hekate, Aphrodite & HermesThree focused studies of Orphic hymns in Greek. Each deity became a way into epithets, pronunciation, close reading and recitation.

ORPHIC HYMNS

Ideas were read through texts, not summaries.

The Philosopher’s Flame series moved from Alexandria to Pythagorean and Neoplatonic thought, then to Dante, keeping philosophy tied to the works and worlds that carried it.

Part I

The Philosopher’s Flame · Ancient AlexandriaAlchemy, philosophy and religious exchange in Alexandria, with attention to late-antique figures and the transmission of esoteric learning into the medieval world.

ALEXANDRIA

Part II

The Philosopher’s Flame · Neoplatonism & PythagorasMetaphysics, number, soul and contemplation through Pythagorean and Neoplatonic traditions.

PHILOSOPHY

Part III

The Philosopher’s Flame · The Divine ComedyDante through Virgil, Beatrice, descent, purification and ascent, reading the poem as a philosophical and spiritual architecture.

DANTE

4 parts

Voices of the Orphic GodsOrphic divine names, cosmology and sacred speech, with hymns including Zeus and Nyx read and voiced in Greek.

ORPHIC HYMNS

Some texts needed more than a lecture.

These courses were built to hold study and practice together. A source was introduced historically, read closely, heard in recitation, then carried into guided meditation or ritual work.

4 parts

The Logos RitualA four-part presentation of my own theurgic philosophy, centered on language, invocation, sacred speech and the passage from word to ritual act.

THEURGY

2 nights

Emerald RiteA two-night rite around the Tabula Smaragdina, combining lecture, recitation and a guided meditation built from the text.

HERMETICA

2 nights

Ruby RiteTwo nights with the Ars Notoria: historical framing, close reading, recitation and guided meditation around knowledge, prayer and illumination.

ARS NOTORIA

Rite

Sapphire RiteA source-centered rite around the Liber XXIV Philosophorum, the Book of the Twenty-Four Philosophers, approached through lecture, recitation and guided contemplation.

XXIV PHILOSOPHERS

Rite

Diamond RiteSaint Bonaventure’s Itinerarium mentis in Deum: Latin, the spiritual senses, ascent through creation and guided meditation shaped by the architecture of the text.

BONAVENTURE

Five texts. Five different ritual problems.

LIMINA was a five-part sequence in the Greek Magical Papyri and related late-antique material. Each meeting combined historical context, textual structure, voice and practice.

LIMINA I

Greek Magical PapyriAn entry into the PGM as a corpus: manuscripts, ritual language, divine names, voces magicae and the problem of reading practice from surviving texts.

PGM

LIMINA II

The DaimonThe daimon as a problem of soul, identity and ritual agency across Greek and late-antique sources.

DAIMON

LIMINA III

The Mithras LiturgyThe ascent sequence in PGM IV, read as text and performance through Greek, cosmology, voice and ritual structure.

PGM IV

LIMINA IV

The Charm of SolomonPGM IV.850–929: mediated divination, solar invocation, ritual preparation and the movement from human question to oracular speech.

DIVINATION

LIMINA V

The Stele of JeuPGM V.96–172: invocation, release, identification and command, followed by full recitation, vocal work and meditation.

PGM V

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