Read

Sub Umbra can be read in three ways: through people, through traditions, and through texts.

Use this page as a starting point for exploring the written material on the site.

Key Figures

Begin here if you want to explore the lives and works of the major thinkers, mystics, philosophers, ritualists, and symbolic architects who shaped the Western Esoteric Tradition.

Traditions

Begin here if you want to follow the larger historical currents: Hermeticism, Kabbalah, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, ritual magic, Theosophy, and related streams.

Library

Begin here if you want to read or locate the primary sources and important texts that sit behind the Sub Umbra essays, map, and studies.

These three sections are designed to be used together. A figure may lead you to a tradition; a tradition may lead you to a source; a source may send you back into the map with better eyes. Sub Umbra is not arranged as a straight corridor.