19 May David Beth
David Beth
LECTURE
Totenbaum: The Coffin and the Mysterium of the Living-Dead
In this thought-provoking lecture, David Beth explores the coffin as a mystico-magical symbol at the heart of a holistic spiritual worldview. Far from being a mere vessel for the dead, the coffin emerges as a potent magical object and a threshold—a gateway into death understood as the tabernacle of Life itself.
Drawing upon his deep experience as a priest of Haitian Vodou and a leading initiate of animistic esoteric traditions, David will illuminate the coffin’s role in spiritual transformation, ancestral communion, and the ecstatic embrace of mortality. Particular emphasis will be placed on ancestral veneration and the initiatic pathways that reveal death not as an end, but as the most vital force in a truly awakened existence.
Bio
David Beth was born and raised in Africa, living all over the world in service of the spirits. He was initiated as a priest of Haitian Vodou (Houngan Asogwe) in Port au Prince, Haiti and is also an adept of various Western occult and esoteric systems. David serves as the current Heresiarch of the Kosmic Gnosis – a magical current focused on chthonic mysteries and sorcery. University educated in Germany and the USA, David is also the co-founder of esoteric press Theion Publishing. He has lectured and published his writings internationally.
