Convergences

19 Traditions, One Field

Each tradition mapped against all others with explicit confidence ratings. Not syncretism — resonance, documented.

XXI

Tarot

A 78-card symbolic system from 15th-century Italy.

26 entries
כתר

Kabbalah

Jewish mystical tradition mapping how the infinite becomes the finite.

18 entries
Au

Alchemy

The art of transformation — from Hellenistic Egypt through the Islamic golden age to European laboratories.

18 entries

Elder Futhark

Twenty-four symbols of the ancient Norse and Germanic world, dating from around 150 AD.

24 entries

Western Astrology

Celestial divination tracing from Mesopotamian omen-reading (~2000 BC) through Hellenistic synthesis to modern practice.

19 entries
𓇳

Ancient Egyptian

The symbolic language of the oldest continuous civilization — from the earliest pictographs (~3200 BC) through three millennia of refinement into the Mystery schools that seeded Western esotericism.

15 entries

I-Ching

The Book of Changes — one of the oldest texts in continuous use, built from sixty-four six-line figures (hexagrams) and eight three-line figures (trigrams).

72 entries

Christian Mysticism

Christianity's contemplative spine — the mystics who mapped the soul's journey through darkness into union with God.

21 entries

Christianity — The Gospel

The evangelical and charismatic Christian tradition.

18 entries

Sufism

The mystical interior of Islam — a path of spiritual stations, passing states, and the progressive dissolving of self in divine reality.

20 entries

Hinduism

The deities and philosophical ground.

17 entries
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Tantra

The esoteric vehicle of the Hindu traditions.

7 entries

Vajrayāna

The esoteric vehicle — the third turning of the wheel.

14 entries

Theravāda

The elder school — the original teaching preserved in Pali.

5 entries
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Zoroastrianism

The oldest revealed monotheistic religion, founded by the prophet Zarathustra in ancient Iran, perhaps as early as 1500 BC.

18 entries

Daoism

The Way that cannot be named.

17 entries

Daoism — Neidan

The inner laboratory.

5 entries
Ω

Greek Mysteries

The initiatory traditions of ancient Greece — from the Eleusinian rites through Orphic creation myths, Pythagorean sacred mathematics, and Platonic metaphysics.

23 entries

Ifá

The divination system of the Yoruba people of West Africa — a vast oral corpus organized around 256 sign-figures (Odù), each containing stories, prayers, medicines, and ethical instruction.

21 entries