Latin for "light" it is pronounced "lux," and rhymes with "toots," as in "toots a horn." Mystically, each letter is related to Egyptian deities: Isis, Apophis and Typhon, and Osiris, respectively. It also corresponds to the Gnostic supreme deity IAO.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...