JOSÉ GABRIEL ALEGRÍA SABOGAL

Written By G. McCaughry

José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, MA., 2026.

Frontispiece for Dr. Litwa’s Hermetica I, illustrated by JGAS.

José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal, MA, is an artist and art historian, born in Berlin and raised in Lima, Perú. He is currently completing his doctoral research with the help of the Max Planck Institute for Art History, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome. His research interests include religious iconography and Sanskrit philology, the comparative study of religion, and Gnosticism in particular. His visual work makes use of the line technique found in renaissance copper plate engraving but applied to drawings. Both the themes and their treatment José explores are essentially anachronistic and follow the initiative of developing a symbolic language that aspires to a timeless nature.

Other Published Work (Anathema Publishing Ltd.): IAO: Ophite Iconography (2022) and Semesilam: The Eternal Sun (2024).

G. McCaughry

Gabriel McCaughry is a scholar-practitioner of the Mystery Traditions, with sustained research interests in Spiritual Alchemy, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, theological exegesis, non-dual metaphysics, esoteric Buddhist systems, and traditional craft lineages. His work is informed by a devotional praxis oriented toward what he terms the Omni-Cipher—the ineffable ground and manifold radiance of the Pleroma. He is the founder and CEO of Anathema Publishing Ltd. and FOUNT Ultd., publishing houses dedicated to rigorous esoteric, philosophical, and initiatory works.

His first book, (h)Auroræ (Anathema Publishing Ltd., 2018), presents an initiatory framework for Alchemical self-transmutation, approached less through doctrinal exposition than through poetic inference and symbolic density. The text seeks to gesture toward modes of knowing that exceed discursive language, inviting the reader into a contemplative engagement with paradox, polysemy, and the interior logic of the Great Work. Rather than prescribing conclusions, (h)Auroræ functions as a catalyst—an intellectual and spiritual crucible through which the attentive reader may apprehend their own process of transformation.

https://www.anathemapublishing.com
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