Receiving the Black Flame

In this powerful esoteric tableau, Lucifer — the Light Bearer, misunderstood by dogma yet central to Gnostic illumination — is seen transmitting the Black Flame to Cain, the archetypal first outcast, the marked son.

This piece encapsulates a primordial moment of initiation, a forbidden inheritance. Cain’s embrace is not one of submission, but of reception — of burden and gnosis. The hammer in his grasp marks him as one of the Sons of Fire, builders, blacksmiths, the shapers of reality through suffering and rebellion.

Lucifer’s wings bear a hidden sigil, an occult glyph known only to the initiated — a symbol passed down through shadows, across aeons, from the Watchers to the adepts. His expression is neither cruel nor kind; it is necessity. Cain bears the Mark, freshly seared in red, now made sacred.

At their feet, a cluster of grapes lies untouched — a symbol of sacred blood, divine intoxication, and Edenic memory.

This artwork belongs to Matei’s ongoing series of allegorical transmissions, where archetypes and occult knowledge emerge through myth, form, and symbol.

Each line is a scripture.
Each shadow — a hidden teaching.

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