#130 - Hagia Sophia, Sanctum of Kronos with Peter Mark Adams

Summary

In this episode, Peter Mark Adams explores the intricate connections between the Hagia Sophia's architecture and ancient theurgistic rites from Late Antiquity. He delves into the Performative Theurgical Spiritual Tradition rooted in the School of Athens, highlighting its implications for reincarnation and spiritual ascent. Listeners gain insights into Adams's latest work, 'Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos,' while engaging with responses to their questions.

Key takeaways

• 1Theurgistic rites from Late Antiquity embedded in Hagia Sophia's architecture.
• 2Connection between the School of Athens and a spiritual tradition focused on reincarnation.
• 3Peter Mark Adams is the author of 'Hagia Sophia / Sanctum of Kronos' published by Scarlet Imprint.
• 4Exploration of spiritual dissent in modern times.
• 5Examination of how architecture can encode ancient mysteries.

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Transcript excerpt

salutations listeners and welcome back to the glitch bottle podcast where we uncork the uncommon in magic mysticism and the generally misunderstood I'm Alexander F and today as usual we are so esoterically elated to welcome back to the podcast author poet esoteric researcher and essayist and healer Peter Mark Adams and we're going deep into the world and the mystery the theurgistic mystery of the Hagia Sophia the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul Turkey I know many listeners know it's considered one of the architectural treasures of the world currently a mosque the Byzantine Emperor Justinian the first commissioned the creation of this incredible structure so many centuries ago but so fascinating encrypted within the structure itself is a powerful esoteric ritualistic theurgistic we may say and tyranny resisting force and there's a spiritual aim that is embedded within the Hagia Sophia's stone the mathematics of its design the light the auditory aspects the visual representations the choice of the marble everything has a very intentional purpose and Peter Mark Adams has decrypted this powerful esoteric mystery in his latest home from scarlet imprint Hagia Sophia sanctum of chronos spiritual descent in an age of tyranny I have to say listeners as usual this book is just as all of Peter's work it's an incredible study of the esoteric doctrines and spiritual traditions encoded in other materia in this case it is the Hagia Sophia itself as I know many many listeners know Peter is among many other things an author a poet an essayist specializing in the ethnography and visuality of ritual sacred landscape esotericism consciousness and healing and for many reasons Peter is the perfect person to put quill to parchment and to write this tome not only because of his background in decrypting esoteric mysteries such as...

Excerpt from Glitch Bottle, Feb 20, 2023. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.