NOCKWOOD

I. The silence before the word​

In the beginning of 2016, when the veil of the sky grew thin and the wind passed through the reeds of DeJoux House like a cold breath upon my spine, I entered a room of my own making. No light allowed, save the lamp of intention. No voice, just an inner whisper from my ancestors and the ancestors of this chamber. I went into the Silence. 

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II. A voice that was not a voice

On the second night, as my mind emptied and as the mirror was turned, a voice introduced itself—not in sound, but in figure. It named itself: Pomandres, the shepherd of men. Disciple of Re, guardian of the threshold between Pneuma (Spirit) and the Anthropos (Body). Its form was not words, but a lattice of gold threads— symbols spanning the depths of being. It did not instruct. It unfolded. Pomandres revealed to me the Ladder of Aeons—a structure of 36 emanations that defines the path to our true natures. Each Aeon a face of the divine. Each one paired in Syzygy—of birth and love, silence and voice, fracture and wholeness.

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III. The seven days

For seven days, I remained in vigil. The work was dictated to me not in words, but in resonances. I became the stylus. Pomandres the scribe.

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On the first day, the hierarchy was received: Bythos (depth), Sig (silence), Nous (mind), Alethia (truth), and in reverse to error, illusion, damnation and Sophia (wisdom) cast naked into the void.​

On the second, the shadow resonances were made known—reflections behind each Aeon, the echo of what is often left unsaid.

The third day brought the sacred structure: 36 cards, six suits, three layers, syzygy-locked and mirrored in meaning and energy.

On the fourth, the circle of progress—a ritual layout for invoking clarity through of the alignment of inner and outer; of fragmentation and wholeness; of reconnection to nature and the awakening our true nature. 

The fifth day burned with color. Each glyph, each card, each pattern was given form by vision and vibration.

On the sixth, the practices were shown: A single draw for alignment, Mary's cross of invocation; the hidden Aeon spread, and the meditation of the Pleroma.

On the seventh, silence again. And the book was closed, but the gnosis (knowing) remained.

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IV. The card deck as vessel

Each card in this deck is a door.  The symbols are not seen, they are felt. The shadows are not design, they are resonances whispered into the space behind meaning.  This is not a divination tool. It is not a game. It is not a metaphor. It is a living structure, drawn from the residue of ancient cosmologies. The same Aeons that Valentinus once whispered about in hidden schools. The same energies that Jung embraced in his confrontation with the unconscious.

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V. Aeonology: The perennial praxis 

This system is a ritual praxis—a daily practice for the restoration of spiritual equilibrium and the exploration of the infinite inward. Gnosticism reborn—not as creed, but as map. Not as academia, but as action.

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To hold this deck is to step onto the ladder of the Aeons. To speak its names is to awaken ancestral memory. And to use it daily is to join the eternal rhythm of becoming, breaking, and becoming again.  Pomandres, Shepherd of Man, has departed. But the structure remains for all to make use of.

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“The light I saw was not a light. The form I touched was not a form.
Yet I am changed by it. And you will be too.”
— Pomandres