A.A.T. Studios
Hermeticism, Kabbalah, alchemy, astrology.
The parts most books leave out.
A.A.T. Studios publishes fiction and non-fiction rooted in the Western Esoteric Tradition — Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Kabbalah, alchemy, astrology.
The catalog includes a non-fiction map of the whole tradition, drawn from Böhme, Luria, Paracelsus, and Steiner. A novel that teaches real Western tropical astrology through the story of someone learning it badly. An anthology where Hermetic orders share strip malls with rival Rosicrucian lodges and angels argue about bathroom protocols. And a serial novel released in episodes, based on the Corpus Hermeticum, in which a young man in Alexandria fails a ritual, eats terrible cheese, and meets God.
Everything is available to read on-site. Every title is narrated by the author as audiobook.
Where to Begin
Works
The Invisible College
A complete map of the Western Esoteric Tradition. Kabbalah, alchemy, Rosicrucian cosmology — from the Ungrund to the Philosopher's Stone, drawing on Böhme, Luria, Paracelsus, and Steiner. Nothing is meant to be believed. Everything is meant to be tested.
The Worst Astrologer in the World
A divorced freelance writer is asked to shut down a practicing astrologer's office after she has a stroke. Instead, he starts reading charts — badly, then less badly, then well enough to be dangerous. A novel that teaches real, professional-level Western tropical astrology through the story of someone learning it.
The Great Work
And Other Administrative Matters. Nine stories set in the gap between the sacred and the bureaucratic — Hermetic orders that can't fix their roofs, demons contractually obligated to manifest over Zoom, and an Ascended Master who hasn't attended a quarterly meeting since the French Revolution.
The Hermetic Comedy
A novel in thirty-six stories. A young man in Alexandria prepares a ritual, performs it strenuously, fails, eats terrible cheese in the dark, and meets God. Then he has to ascend through the planetary spheres, which is worse. Based on the Corpus Hermeticum. Released episodically.
The Keeper of Questions
What if the Serpent was right? A reimagining of the Garden of Eden in which the Serpent is not evil but old, patient, and waiting for someone brave enough to ask a real question. Ada is the first person to choose knowing over comfort — and nothing in the Garden survives that choice.
The Light-Bringers
A mythic fable of creation, exile, and awakening. Drawing on Gnostic and Hermetic cosmology, the story follows the first light from its source through emanation, exile, and the long work of return. Meant to be heard.
Episodic
The soul's ascent through seven planetary spheres — currently in the Sphere of the Moon · 8 of 36 stories released
The Observation Deck New
Psychopompos and the Governor of Mercury survey the system from above. The view is clarifying
The Welcome
A young woman arrives at the threshold. The welcome is gentler than she expected. The rules are different here.
The Hidden Guide
A daimon appears — not the kind from the textbooks
The Choosing
The soul is offered its vehicle. The terms are non-negotiable
The Watcher's Weariness
A daimon who has watched the same soul repeat the same mistake across four lifetimes explains why he hasn't quit
Before the Names
What existed before language shaped the cosmos into categories
The School of Athens
The philosophical schools, competing and contradicting. Everyone is right. Nobody agrees
The Shepherd of Minds
A young man in Alexandria prepares a ritual, fails completely, eats terrible cheese, and meets God
Audiobooks
Every title is narrated by the author. New episodes of The Hermetic Comedy release in audio alongside each written story.
The Seven Garments
Your natal chart, read through the Hermetic tradition, turned into a novel-length document written entirely for you. ~75,000 words. A three-act mythic narrative, seven named garments, ten letters from the daimon at different ages of your life, four parallel lives from the same chart, and a practice system that cross-references all of it.
One person’s Saturn garment might be called “The Wall.” Another’s might be “The Ledger.” The names come from the chart. Nothing is templated.
“Your Mercury is in Scorpio in the eighth house, conjunct Pluto. You have spent your life learning things that other people would rather not know, and carrying the weight of knowing them. We have named this garment The Underwriter.”
from a commissioned document“At forty-two, the daimon writes: You are about to be given a second life. Not metaphorically. A door you thought was closed permanently is about to open, and you will not be the same person who walks back through it.”
from a letter at age 42Subscribe
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