What is the Theory of Descent?
An accessible presentation of the central thesis.
Read now →Begin with the introductory text, then discover why embodied existence matters before meeting the philosophers and principles whose insights help shape the theory. More official English editions will be added as this living project develops.
The Greatness of the Physical Plane
Why body, space, time, and resistance are not punishments, but conditions for divine potentials to become lived experience.
Read now →Plotinus and the Theory of Descent
From the One to multiplicity — and from difference to conscious communion.
Read now →Pseudo-Dionysius and the Theory of Descent
Negative theology, the circulation of light, and the Mystery beyond words.
Read now →Rhythm and Process
Why experience requires duration — and why no cycle returns us to exactly the same point.
Read now →Nag Hammadi Between Fall and Descent
How ancient texts preserved two different meanings of embodiment: alienation and creative participation.
Read now →Alisa Rushton’s NDE and the Theory of Descent
Unity, multiple perspectives, potentials, embodiment, and the challenge of integrating an extraordinary experience.
Read now →Eriugena and the Theory of Descent
Manifestation, theophany, the four divisions of nature, and a return that integrates experience.
Read now →Meister Eckhart and the Theory of Descent
The ground of the soul, the birth of God, detachment, and the passage from inward Unity to embodied experience.
Read now →David of Dinant and the Theory of Descent
The radical unity of God, matter, and intellect—and the question of why Unity appears as multiplicity and experience.
Read now →Amaury of Bène and the Theory of Descent
Radical immanence, the Amalricians, and the question of how God can be present in everything without erasing difference.
Read now →Nicholas of Cusa and the Theory of Descent
Learned ignorance, the infinite, and the coincidence of opposites—without erasing ethical difference.
Read now →The Enneagram and Unity
The circle, triangle, nine points, ego, and the journey from potential to lived experience.
Read now →The foundations
Source, potential, individuality, otherness, and return. This collection is currently in Portuguese.
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