3. Judas as “the Scapegoat” The Judaic tradition of the scapegoats, which has analogues to Middle Eastern rites, is intrinsic to the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ. Two goats would […]
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Author: Joseph Azize
Good Friday, 20 April 2025
This article is the first of a series. 1. Bennett on “The Time of Christ” I have already summarised what Bennett wrote about the mysterious action of Christ, and especially, […]
Read moreJ.H. Reyner “No Easy Immortality”
This is the strangest book. Published by George Allen & Unwin in 1979, it opens with this startling line: “What do you want to ask?” said my Angel one evening.(1) […]
Read moreGurdjieff and Central Asia
There is an interesting story in In Search of the Miraculous. Gurdjieff is speaking about the Stop Exercise. “I will tell you of one case in my own life. It was […]
Read moreAbba Evagrius: Various Sayings
I have mentioned on this site the 1954 volume, Early Fathers from the Philokalia, edited and translated by Evgenia Kadloubovksy andGerald Eustace Howell Palmer. https://www.josephazize.com/2017/08/12/from-ouspensky-to-the-philokalia/ One of the gems unique to this volume is […]
Read moreNelson, Shakespeare and Hermetism
Jane E. Nelson, Shakespeare and Religio Mentis: A Study of Christian Hermetism in Four Plays, Brill, 2022. This book is in seven main chapters with miscellaneous additions. The chapters are “1. […]
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Shakespeare from the Perspective of the Fourth Way
In the East my Pleasure Lies: A Fourth Way Interpretation of Shakespeare’s Plays, Beryl Pogson, Eureka Editions, Utrecht, 1999 Beryl Pogson (1895-1967), a pupil of Maurice Nicoll who, after his […]
Read moreWhat Is behind “Gurdjieff in Tibet”
What is behind the ideas in Layne Negrin’s Gurdjieff in Tibet? In an earlier post, I explained in broad outline the radical flaws in the book, and I shall say a […]
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Blake: Audio Recording “In Search of the Miraculous”
In listening to his audio recording of In Search of the Miraculous, I more than once recalled how in The Supreme Art of Dialogue, my friend A.G.E. Blake wrote: “‘Genius’ was originally […]
Read moreHelen Adie: “I asked Jane Heap.”
This is from the meeting of 11 November 1982. Hyacinth: Mrs Adie, on Tuesday night my mother rang me and told me my grandmother is in hospital. She asked me […]
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