UNA LUX
Thirty-three gates of remembering. Gnosis, Hermeticism, the Tao, the Buddha, the Gospels, Jung and the physicists, read side by side.
Not sure yet? Read Gate I free (PDF, 1.2 MB).
The essence is the same everywhere. This book walks you through it in three movements.
Nigredo, albedo and rubedo are the three stages of the alchemists' Great Work: the darkening, the whitening and the reddening. Thirty-three gates, one for each vertebra of the spine.
Nigredo
The darkening. Seeing the game as a game: the screen, the spark, the fall, the blind architect and the crucible.
- IThe Crack in the Screen
- IIKnow Thyself
- IIIThe Field before the Form
- IVThe Spark
- VThe Fall of Wisdom
- VIThe Blind Architect
- VIIThe Render
- VIIIThe Cave and the Feed
- IXAs Above, so Below
- XThe Two Hands
- XIThe Crucible
Albedo
The whitening. Meeting the shadow, passing the seven spheres and their seven habits of mind, then dissolving into silence.
- XIIThe Shadow
- XIIIThe Tide
- XIVThe Spin
- XVThe Lure
- XVIThe Crown
- XVIIThe Blade
- XVIIIThe Hoard
- XIXThe Lie in Wait
- XXThe Light-Bearer
- XXISolve
- XXIIThe Silence
Rubedo
The reddening. Coming back to life awake: entanglement, the observer, the gold, and the spine of light.
- XXIIIThe Eighth
- XXIVEntanglement
- XXVThe Observer
- XXVIThe Wave and the Water
- XXVIIThe Infinite Sphere
- XXVIIICoagula
- XXIXThe Wedding
- XXXThe Gold
- XXXIThe Station
- XXXIIThe Ninth
- XXXIIIThe Spine of Light
Every gate is nine pages, always in the same order.
So you can read it straight through in a season, or open it anywhere and spend a single evening with one gate.
- The plateA full-page op-art tunnel with the gate's symbol at its centre.
- The epigraphOne line from the tradition that opened the gate.
- The teachingThree pages in plain modern English.
- The figureA diagram that shows the idea instead of explaining it.
- One light, many lampsSix voices from six traditions saying the same thing.
- What science actually saysWhere the science ends and the poetry begins. No quantum hype.
- The practiceThirty-three seconds, and one question to carry.
- The keyA single sentence to keep.
Choose how the light arrives.
Digital edition
- All 333 pages, with the violet key pages
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Obsidian hardcover
- 7 × 10 in, 333 pages
- Printed op-art case, star tunnel cover
- Printed to order and shipped worldwide
Collector's edition
- Black cloth, holographic foil star
- Op-art painted page edges, ribbon marker
- Numbered
Start at the first gate.
The front matter and the whole of Gate I, free, no email needed.
Questions
Is this a religion?
No. UNA LUX belongs to no church and asks you to join nothing. It reads the gnostics, the Hermetic texts, the Tao Te Ching, the Upanishads, the Buddha, the Gospels, the Sufis, the Stoics, Jung and the physicists side by side, and lets you notice where they agree.
Why can I pay nothing for the PDF?
Because a teaching about light should not be locked behind a paywall. If the book helps you, pay what feels right. It keeps the channel going and pays for the printed editions.
Is the quantum part real science?
Every gate ends with a page called What Science Actually Says. It names the real research, says plainly what it does not prove, and marks where metaphor takes over. Quantum physics does not prove mysticism, and this book never pretends it does.
Does it talk about evil, Lucifer or the Illuminati?
Yes, without conspiracy. Gate XII looks at the shadow, Gate XX at the old myth of the light-bearer, and the book is clear about one thing: harm and the seven deadly sins are the opposite of the light.
When can I order the hardcover?
The hardcover is printed on demand and shipped worldwide. The collector's edition is numbered. Get the PDF, even at $0, and you will hear first when ordering opens.
Is there a Hungarian edition?
It is in progress. Everyone who has the PDF will hear first when it is ready.