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The Way of the Mysteries

COURSE  PROSPECTUS

for initial, supervised training

NOTICE  JANUARY  2005

THIS SCHOOL TEACHES  SOME QABALAH  (also spelt Kaballah) IN LINE WITH THE INSIGHTS OF THE  WESTERN MYSTERY TRADITION.  OUR METHODS AND TEACHING HAVE NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THOSE OF 
"KABALLAH CENTRE"  WHICH APPEAR TO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TRUE SPIRIT OF QABALAH (in any of its traditions). OUR INSTRUCTION DOES NOT  INVOLVE RED STRING , SPECIAL WATER OR  OTHER  GIMMICKS , COMMERCIALISATION OR "CULT"  IDEALOLOGY.. ALL OF WHICH WE CONSIDER TO BE ABSOLUTELY CONTRARY TO THE TRUE SPIRIT OF QABALAH   

 

(Contents of Knowledge Papers issued in lessons 1-4)

 

LESSON ONE

PAPER ONE:  About Meditation. Keeping a magical diary / meditation log. Administration

PAPER TWO: Magical Patterns.... Sacred Geometry. Magic and Mysticism. Qabalah. The Triple Goddess. Archetypes The Psychology of the psyche. Jungian mandalas (illustrated) Magic circles (illustrated0.Celtic festivals. Understanding and constructing Sacred Space (illustrated). Practical exercise.

PAPER THREE: Qabalah. Historical and magical overview. The Sacred Geometry of the Tree of life and how to construct it properly...(illustrated). Practical assignment.

PAPER FOUR: About pathworking. Avalon pathworking. Practical assignment. 

PAPER FIVE: Summary of assignments.

 

LESSON TWO 

PAPER ONE: The Good Earth.. introduction

PAPER TWO. More about Sacred Space. bringing down the fire. Practical exercise.

PAPER THREE: Qabalah. The four worlds (illustrated) The problem of free will. Tsimtsum (illustrated) . The Temple of Solomon and the Tree of Life (illustrated) . The sephira of Malkuth.

PAPER FOUR: Avalon pathworking . Practical assignment.

PAPER FIVE: About Avalon. Merlin. The Black Book of Carmarthen. Glastonbury as Avalon. Sacred sites and sacred islands and their significance (illustrated) The evolution of a site (Bryn Celli Ddu...illustrated) The mystery of the Red and the White.

PAPER SIX: Summary of assignments. 

 

LESSON THREE

PAPER ONE: The Machinery of the Universe.  Magic, Science and Mythology. Brain and Mind

PAPER TWO: The Hermetic Axiom: Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Magical terminology. The Seven Planes. & the Seven Directions (illustrated). Human consciousness operating on the Inner Planes. Celtic and Hermetic perceptions (illustrated). The Cosmic Spiral (illustrated). Stars and Chakras. The Electromagnretic Spectrum (illustrated). Celtic and Egyptian inner worlds. Composite illustration =  Chakras, Caers, electromagnetic spectrum, seven planes, Tree of Life. Stone circles as "chakras" on the landscape (illustrated). Raising the Inner Fire... practical exercises (illustrated)

PAPER THREE: Qabalah. Yesod and the machinery of the universe. Magical images. Magical Tides. Natural Law and Divine Law. Mythological Celtic comparisons. Practical exercise.

PAPER FOUR: Avalon Pathworking  Practical exercise (with illustration of symbolism)

PAPER FIVE: Mythology. Taliesin, Ceridwen and the cauldron. The Mabinogion and the Hanes Taliesin. About cauldron myth.

PAPER SIX : Summary of assignments. 

LESSON FOUR

PAPER ONE:  Introduction to Inner Plane contact, opening and closing rituals and belief considerations

PAPER TWO: The Grail. Origins. The Grail Questions. Ceridwen's cauldron and the Grail. Heaven and Earth. The Arthurian quest and sovereignty. Jung and "integration". Practical Grail exercise.

PAPER THREE: Qabalah. the sephira Hod. The Orange ray and the Green ray. Inner Plane Contact through the forms of Hod.  Dion Fortune and the Mass. The theology of Michael and the Messianic vision. Practical exercise and assignment.

PAPER FOUR: Avalon pathworking...practical exercise.

PAPER FIVE: Practical Magic. Making changes in consciousness. The problems with hallucinogenic drugs. Their use in ethnic cultures. Ritual and Talismanic Magic. Inner Plane contacts. Dion Fortune's commonsense approach.  Testing contacts, filtering. Signs that follow rituals. Rites and Wrongs. Pentagram rituals (illustrated)  ..practical ritual assignment.

PAPER SIX: Summary of assignments  

 

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