“Then he said, ‘Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.’” —Genesis 32:28 From Philo, On the Special Laws, Book 1, Section 118 (transliterated): ὁ δὲ Ἰσραὴλ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦτον ἔχει τὸν ἐν ἀνθρώποις καὶ θεῷ
We are living in the age that Philo foresaw, the age of scattered light beginning to unify. It is the age of many souls awakening to their divine memory. Yet this age of awakening is not a time of effortless illumination. It is an age of wrestling, an agōn, a
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There is a moment, rare and searing, when you know, truly know, that you are dreaming. It is not a mental realization but a spiritual one. You are inside the vision, and yet above it. This terrible clarity, some would call it lucidity, may be the soul’s faint memory