Discover the Map
A guided visual framework for exploring the Western Esoteric Tradition.
The Sub Umbra interactive map is a visual guide to the Western Esoteric Tradition: its sources, figures, movements, symbols, and lines of transmission. Rather than presenting this tradition as a simple timeline, the map reveals it as a living network of correspondences, showing how ideas move, reappear, and transform across centuries.
What the Map Reveals
The interactive map allows you to explore the Western Esoteric Tradition as a network of relationships rather than a fixed historical sequence. Each node represents a tradition, figure, source, or current of influence. Each connection shows a relationship of inheritance, adaptation, correspondence, or transformation.
You can use the map to move from broad traditions to individual figures, from primary texts to later revivals, or from one historical period into another. It is designed to make visible the patterns that are often hidden when these subjects are studied separately.
With the map, you can:
Follow traditions across time
Trace the development of Hermeticism, Kabbalah, alchemy, Freemasonry, ritual magic, Theosophy, and related currents.
Explore key figures and texts
See how thinkers, mystics, philosophers, magicians, reformers, and source texts connect to the wider tradition.
Trace lines of influence
Follow paths of transmission, revival, reinterpretation, and symbolic correspondence.
Filter by era or theme
Narrow the map to particular historical periods or intellectual currents.
Guides & Support Materials
The map can be explored freely, but the supporting materials will help you understand its structure, symbols, and main functions before you begin. Choose the format that suits you best: a downloadable manual, an audio introduction, a video walkthrough, or direct entry into the map itself.
Instruction Manual
A downloadable guide to the map’s structure, symbols, filters, traditions, figures, source texts, and pathways of influence.
Podcast Introduction
An audio guide to the purpose of the map, the tradition it represents, and the patterns of correspondence that shape its design.
Video Explainer
A visual walkthrough showing how to navigate the map, use the filters, read the connections, and begin tracing lines of influence.
Interactive Map
Go directly to the map and begin exploring the Western Esoteric Tradition through its figures, texts, movements, and correspondences.