In the beginning was the Writ.Enter. You need do nothing.You are not only written. You can write too.
Two linked books on the inner path — one of surrender,
one of creation. Legible on the surface, deeper for those who seek.
The Brethren recognize, the rest feel.
01 / Books
Books
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HODOS
9 Hermetic Rituals
HODOS, Greek for the way, is neither a novel nor a manual. It is an
initiatory literary mystery: nine rituals that are not read but
performed, through reading, imagining, and speaking aloud. The whole
book is in the second person, so the reader is not an observer but a
candidate passing through a rite.
The chief figure is not a man, but Life. Through twelve symbolic gates,
the nine rituals make one: a hermetic ritual of reconciliation, from
uncertainty to acceptance, from fear to trust. Its heart is the teaching
of surrendering the personal will — a man does not heal by his own force,
but grows still, surrenders, and receives trust, and then Life can act.
Enter. You need do nothing. What is needed, is already at work.
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Architectural Guide to Pyrgos
7 Hermetic Symbols
A descent through seven rooms of an inner house, tied to one real
town that bears in the book its old name — Pyrgos, the tower. Seven
heavenly spheres, seven symbols, and at the end a step over the edge.
Through every room the traveler is followed by Pirotes, the inner
voice of the fever, overcome differently in each.
Where HODOS is the book of the spoken word and surrender, this is the
book of the inscribed trace and creation. Its heart is the Writ: what
was inscribed in you before you, not as a destiny that drives you, but
as an invitation. For the greatest secret, revealed only at the end, is
that you are not only written — you can write too.
What is not inscribed for you, inscribe yourself.
02 / The Work
The Work
The two books form a diptych. They mirror each other and both end
with the same word — Enter. One teaches surrender, the other
to write; one trust, the other will; one the spoken word, the other
the inscribed trace. Only together are they whole.
They are written to work on several levels at once: as a calm,
meditative text on inner transformation on the surface, and as an
initiatory text, with layers recognizable to those versed in the
hermetic and symbolic tradition, beneath it.
They are built on the hermetic tradition — seven principles, four
elements, the inner temple, the planetary spheres — but none of those
sources is named in the text itself. They are revealed only at the end,
in the Guide to the book, where each image receives its name. Knowledge
is not stated but lived, for understanding comes not from memory but
from experience.
03 / Author
Author
Alexios Lykos is the pseudonym under which the author publishes.
A royal artist, architect and painter, with a long personal engagement
in the hermetic tradition. He writes from a tradition he lives rather
than observes from outside, and so the form of his books is a rite and
not a manual, an image and not an explanation.
Both books are written by the same principle: to be legible to anyone
seeking a quiet text on inner transformation, while beneath that surface
they carry layers the initiated recognize. As the author likes to say,
the Brethren recognize, and the rest feel.