DAVID BETH was born to German parents in Angola, Africa. University educated in medieval and modern history, he has lived all over the world from Nigeria to Brazil and Los Angeles to London in answer to his spiritual calling.
David carries the transmissions of various Western magical and esoteric currents and has been a student of Afrocentric forms of spirituality and magic for more than 25 years.
He is a priest (Houngan Asogwe) of Haitian Vodou and an initiate of various secret societies. In the first decade of the 2000s he rose to occult fame as the head of Michael Bertiaux’ Voudon Gnostic organizations and through his publications with Fulgur Ltd.
He has since developed his own system of esotericism which strongly rejects spiritual transcendentalism in favour of an eroto-magical communion with the spirits of the Kosmos. Known as the Kosmic ‘pandaemonic’ Gnosis it branches it manifests in various groups working either in an Afro-magical and Vodou environment or through Western esoteric paradigms. With students all over the world much of their work is done outside of occulture and the public eye.
Fully devoted to his esoteric life and research, David now lives in Southern Germany from where he also operates esoteric press Theion Publishing together with his associate Jessica Grote. David is currently putting the finishing touches on his next book on the eroto-luciferian mysteries of Adonism which is forthcoming with Theion Publishing in spring.
www.theionpublishing.com
www.kosmic-gnosis.org
The Kosmos is alive and our Souls know it. But the Soul as well as this knowledge of a Kosmos in which every phenomenal body[1] is en-souled has been starved in most people. Resurrecting our Souls is a necessary step if we want to ever re-enchant the Kosmos and find intrinsic meaning in life and death. In the following paragraphs, I want to point towards a unique Gnostic vision and pathway, the pandaemonic ‘Kosmic’ esotericism of David Beth. [...]
Approaching David Beth’s Kosmic Gnosis
Published first on: The Spiritual Survival, by JESSICA GROTE
The Kosmos is alive and our Souls know it. But the Soul as well as this knowledge of a Kosmos in which every phenomenal body1 is en-souled has been starved in most people. Resurrecting our Souls is a necessary step if we want to ever re-enchant the Kosmos and find intrinsic meaning in life and death.
In the following paragraphs, I want to point towards a unique Gnostic vision and pathway, the pandaemonic ‘Kosmic’ esotericism of David Beth. Although it is mainly taught from Master to chela in personal transmission and thus has remained privy to a selected circle of initiates, spores of its Gnosis have seeped into the outer world through various channels and have enthused esoteric visionaries and dreamers alike.2 To me, this pathway is not only a choice of a particular occult or Gnostic practice and philosophy but an affirmation of my experience of Life, my affirmation of the Mysterium of the Soul. As interest in this ‘Gnosis of the Other’ continues to rise outside our circles, I hope that this humble contribution may be of some aid to any sincere seeker.
The pandaemonic reality that a kosmic Gnostic experiences in luminous moments of kosmic vision is an unrepeatable coalescence of phenomena into an image, whose soul enthuses the visionary. This is the daemon that possesses him. One might mistake such an experience for what has been termed in the words of esoteric and mystic traditions a ‘union with the godhead.’ But describing it like this would be based on reducing the Kosmos to an expression/appearance of a transcendent or abstract idea, be it called ‘divine,’ ‘god,’ or ‘the absolute.’ The concept of ‘one-ness’ or ‘unity with all’ is no different. Its root is the idea of one transcendent, primary ‘being’ that underlies and unites everything.
In today’s world, especially in the West, Soul has been desecrated.
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