Convergences

15 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

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 oldest living religious tradition — a vast web of practice, philosophy, and devotion spanning four millennia.

24 entries

Buddhism

Twenty-five centuries of precise investigation into the nature of mind, suffering, and liberation.

19 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 — from the Dao De Jing's paradoxes to Zhuangzi's wild parables to the inner alchemist's silent laboratory of the body.

22 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