About the House
For centuries, the woman called Maryam Magdalene has been remembered through the lens of later tradition—sometimes saint, sometimes sinner, sometimes goddess, sometimes symbol.
I came looking for the woman herself.
That search for Maryam led me far beyond the borders of Christianity and into the more complex world that formed her: one filled with Jewish apocalyptic sects, Christian gnostics, and both Egyptian and Mesopotamian desert mystics.
What I discovered was not simply a historical figure or a feminine icon, but a particular spiritual path:
Embodied gnōsis, guided by sacred texts that lay buried in the sand for centuries, waiting for another chance to awaken the Living Wisdom of human beings.
With Maryam's guidance, I found in these texts a treasury of insight that gave me the courage to follow my own sacred way of knowing.
The House of Divine Radiance grew from that surprising discovery.
Here, I share historically grounded research, careful engagement with ancient texts, sacred practice, ritual, and creative synthesis. The work draws especially from Jewish and early Christian mystical traditions, including the apocalyptic and ascent traditions that understood human transformation as a journey through the visible and invisible worlds.
My work as a writer, researcher, priestess, and musician has developed through many years of following the path before I knew its true name. The last eight years have been a pilgrimage through the Middle East and North Africa, during which I have immersed myself in the Jewish, Gnostic and Eastern Orthodox Christian, Mesopotamian, and Sufi wisdom traditions, along with their sacred languages.
I now live in Cairo, where I continue my research alongside the study of Coptic language, embodied sound healing methodologies, and desert musical traditions. Those who wish to know more can find my in-depth personal bio here.
Within the House, teachings and rituals are rooted as closely as possible in the languages and worlds of the texts themselves. Depending on the tradition being explored, I work with Hebrew, Jewish Aramaic, and Coptic as sacred languages for study and ritual, while also drawing upon Syriac and Greek where appropriate.
From time to time, I also share personal messages I receive from Maryam Magdalene during contemplation. Most are fresh reflections inspired by the canonical and gnostic teachings of Yeshua. I offer them as gifts for those who feel drawn to receive them. Readers who are not interested in this aspect of my own journey will find plenty else here rooted firmly in history.
Rather than asking anyone to adopt a new belief system, the House invites us to recover forgotten streams of wisdom while awakening the living stream of wisdom already within ourselves.
This work is rooted in scholarship, but it is not scholarship alone.
Ancient texts become meaningful when they are lived.
Every teaching, transmission, and ritual returns to the same question:
What would it look like to embody this ancient wisdom now?
If you have been looking for a place where historical depth, contemplative practice, sacred language, and embodied transformation belong together—