Hmm, yes indeed! There is a very interesting zodiacal theme with this card but I didn't have time to detail that in my initial message. I'm hoping to follow up with something about that as it's come up in the Inner Abbey members' dreams lately....By February 28 we'll have a line up of 7 planets!

@@alchemicalweddings7489 Oh that's the new moon in the US! In Pisces. Lol. It's all coming together.

@grailarts I looked out for your email but I either missed it or it didn't get through for some reason. Could you try forwarding it again and put 'tarot course' in the subject line?

You're welcome, thank you for tuning in!

Hello! You're a bit late but not too late, especially as you already know the book. Which email address should I use for you?

I feel a bit odd about leaving my email here. Can you delete this reply once you read it?

@@grailarts No worries, message me at [email protected]

@@alchemicalweddings7489 I sent you a second email . I hope you receive it this time.

I could have missed your email because I get a LOT into that account, not just from the Tarot course and I know I missed some others in the past week. Would you mind resending to my HalcyonPR email address so I can take a look? Thank you and apologies for the hassle, we have almost 40 people now so it's been quite a lot to manage at once as I'm setting it up.

@@alchemicalweddings7489 No need to apologize. I should have reached out sooner. Thank you for getting back with me, I will resend the request. Again, if too much, no worries. Best.

@@backrowboogie3053 I just received your email and have sent you the first session materials, it's great to have you with us!

@@alchemicalweddings7489 I've just seen the material and am very excited. Beginner here, so everything is with fresh eyes. I'm grateful for this early Xmas gift!🎇🎄🎇

It's a pleasure to meet you! <3

Thank you for your thoughts on this Thomas, I like the fact you are not welded to any one system and it makes sense to have different models for different purposes and times. I also reflected that Gray's tree might be one of the other trees, the Tree of Assiah, perhaps? Either way, Force is a pivotal card and is, in fact the very centre of the tarot, being number 11 of 22.

@nayra_amanecer I don't recall seeing it Maya so I will look again tomorrow, or you could forward to me again? [email protected]

@@alchemicalweddings7489 Thank you, Charlotte. I'll forward it again.

@@nayra_amanecer Thank you Nayra, I received the second email and have sent you the course materials. It's lovely to meet you! Charlotte x

Thank you for tuning in ❤

You are welcome. Thank you for listening 🙂

Dear Ian, I'm thrilled that your book has arrived and that you are as happy as I was to discover the work of Nina Roudnikova. Regarding the image you saw in your vision 20 years ago - was that the one containing the infinity symbol? it seems you have a true affinity with this work, maybe a karmic connection 🙂 I certainly agree that this is an incredible spiritual stream in which to immerse oneself, an endless wellspring of inspiration. I'd love to hear more about your own experience and to share more of mine. Are you happy to do so here? Charlotte

@@alchemicalweddings7489 Dear Charlotte, thank you, and yes, the infinity symbol. I agree with you on the possibility of a karmic link, and a connection with Steiner's Goetheanum (another dream vision before I'd even heard of the building). Would email be okay with you for a fuller sharing? I'm a little reticent to use a KZbin comments section for such deeply personal experiences. Ian

@@yaean by all means, yes, you can email me on: [email protected] - it'd be great to learn more about your experience and journey.

Incidentally, if I might make an offering: Kerrie Hide's 'Love's Oneing' is a work I think you'll find nourishing.

@@yaean Hello Yaean, thank you for your encouraging words, I'm happy that this struck a chord, as it did with me when I first became aware of this link myself. It is also wonderful to see you reference the beautiful work of VT, Christ and Sophia, which is a really important spiritual guide for the times we live in. I'm very happy to discuss this further, either here or in private. Thank you as well for deciding to read The Solar Way. Nina Roudnikova was VT's initiator, a pupil of G.O.M., bridge to the great metaphysical philosopher, Vladimir Shmakov and also a spy for the White Russians in exile. Kerrie hide's work sounds wonderful, too, I shall look it up now! Cx

In what respect? Personally I am very much Christian so that's certainly not MY goal 🙂

You are very welcome, I'm so happy that you are getting something out of it. Olive Pixley deserves to have her light taken out from under the bushel as the work she produced is extraordinary by any standards, especially for Christians seeking profound theurgical guidance.

Thank you for mentioning very rightly the wonderful Adrienne von Speyr - I have some of her books and went through a phase of reading her work many moons ago. I don't know Barsotti but I do have Maria Valtorta's book on the Man God. You've inspired me to revisit her! I didn't know she was controversial but it seems to be a shame. Much as the anthroposophical society through out its most divinely inspired mystics, including Tomberg and Judith von Halle.

@@alchemicalweddings7489 Again thanks. Balthasar seemingly was Barsotti's spiritual director at one point. I remember ordinary people I knew who would never open the bible highly enthusiastic about MV's book. I will look into Tomberg's book next I think. I hope I understand what he is trying to say. Thank you again for sharing your unusual sources. Reading is an important part of appreciating life and other people.

@@jjcm3135 I hope you will enjoy Meditations on the Tarot - whilst 'unorthodox' to man eyes, it was endorsed by Catholics of the stature of Father Bede Griffiths along with von Balthasar and blessed Pope John Paul II. You share my love of books and reading - one of my first joys in life.

@@alchemicalweddings7489 Great. Re Fr Bede another student of CSL wrote a great book in A Severe Mercy Sheldon Vanueken. That book lingered. There is a man here in Ireland Roger Buck (youtube) who promotes V Tomberg. I found him a help. Re Stalin the book by Simon Montifiore (??) was like reading the sequel to Dostoevsky's novel The Devils. Mysticism tends to end in politics. Sts. Seraphim of Savrov & John of Knonstadt foresaw what was going to happen in Russia too.Thank you again. Will continue to look out for your videos. We live in interesting times.

I love a good novel and especially Russian literature. The Master and Margarita is one of my absolute favourites, not only for its brilliant sardonic wit and observational power, but also the fact that Bulgakov was a fearless critic of the Stalinist regime, frequently terrifying his friends with the directness of his scathing critiques. He was such a brilliant writer that Stalin couldn't bring himself to have him killed and instead went to his theatre productions over and over again. I also love the work of all the Inklings, as well as The Leopard by Lampedusa and A Glastonbury Romance by John Cowper Powys. Also Anna Karenina and classics of English literature such as Wuthering Heights and Middlemarch. Poetry is also one of the greatest ways to reach spiritual truths - Rumi, Omar Khayyam, Matthew Arnold, Emily Bronte, Shelley, Blake, Shakespeare....I suppose we could go on!

@@alchemicalweddings7489 Thank you. Thats very rich. I read a few: Bulgakov's novel (if i remember there was an unfortunate death at the start of the novel; this is the most I ever laughed at a death). Stalin loved & was an authority on Georgian poetry so I see what you mean. The Leopard is on my kindle. Yet to read. The Romance never heard of. AK, WH & MM deeply moving. Im ignorant on poetry. Yes I will try and get the Romance one now. So Im glad I asked & you replied !

@@jjcm3135 It seems to me that you really got Bulgakov's humour - a few times on my first reading I cried laughing until my sides ached, he truly captures the utterly farcical yet nonetheless horrifying essence of the situation faced by citizens in relation to the Bolshevik regime. On the matter of Stalin, he was very deeply immersed in the occult and employed it to great effect during his time in office. This began with a form of ancient Georgian 'moon magic', which a Georgian history professor once told me about. Fascinating and terrifying by equal measure when you consider what the egregore of communism became.

Hello again Dear Victor, it's good to hear from you, I've been wondering how you are bearing up. Thank you as well for your own insights into the karmic experience of (re)birth and death. For what it's worth, I strongly believe we will reunite with those we love when we pass over and that in the final reckoning, only love is real. The Olive Pixley exercises include repeated affirmations and contacts with ancestors, which in general is integral to the Avalonian tradition. Her Armour of Light exercise has this feature, along with a couple of others. Much love, Charlotte x

@@alchemicalweddings7489 it has been tough because I was with her a long time basicqlly as her taker and she was relatively young at 62... There were years of high tension and stress and im just trying to release and surrender to the feelings in some sense slowly. And yes I also feel that fear is not a thing in and of it self but the lowest gradation of love. I will have to focus on my self more and my life and the wonderful authors you share will help me in this task. Have a nice sunday ☀️💜

How wonderful to learn something of your journey - I'd like to know more sometime 🙂 It is also a blessing indeed for you to invoke Our Lady of Walsingham, who The Solar Way is, of course, dedicated to, along with St Seraphim. If you haven't paid a visit to her shrine in the East of England I can highly recommend it, provided it's accessible to you of course. "He or she who walks the Solar Path is outwardly lonely, but he or she is united with the Source and his brothers and sisters in that depth of the Heart where all facets disappear. Scattered in space - sisters and brothers of the Solar Path, the Path that runs over the paths - is it not gratifying to exchange greetings on the pages of this book, provided for the development of the Solar synthesis of paths by the synthetic consciousness of the editorial office." ❤

P.S. - in response to your query about the parts which are often discarded - yes, these can, in fact, be the flecks of gold we are really seeking! The Paraclete will manifest in ways that are surprisingly accessible, present and tangibly real.

@@alchemicalweddings7489 I'd be glad to share my zig-zag path at some point. 🙂 Do you have other means of internet contact? I have questions about other places of spiritual significance in England. My wife and I would like to visit/pilgrimage in '25 and Walsingham is on my bucket list. Just realized, btw, that you've put Olive Pixley meditations on your channel. Can't wait to listen in. p.s. - The Solar Way is... well... on it's way. Excited!

@@backrowboogie3053 Of course, you can email me at [email protected] - but put something in subject line that will standout, like SOLAR WAY or similar, as I get a lot of emails for work and miss a lot as well! Some of my favourite spiritual sites in England - as well as the countless generally beautiful places - are Walsingham, Chalice Well and the Tor at Glastonbury, White Leaved Oak, Oxford, all of it, but especially New College, and any pretty historic church I can find :-) The Church of Christ the King in Gordon Square, London, is particularly wonderful, as is St Peters, Berkhamsted.

Bite sized pieces this time, Thomas, I thought another vast tome the size of the Book of Thoth would push everyone over the edge! 😅

Thank you so much for your warm words....the whole reason I do these videos is to connect with fellow seekers and to reach those people who are very likely working in near isolation, just as I was myself for many long years. During that time, which lasted almost 30 years, I was also so glad to see the lamps of fellow hermits shining along the way. I am still glad for it, although I am somewhat less isolated these days. As a born again Christian aged 21 I was a relatively blank slate, but some incredibly formative books came into my hands at that turning point in my life. One was The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, which I still believe is one of the greatest works of spiritual literature ever written. On so many occasions pages of that book literally manifested for me and others I came into contact with and I still give it as a gift to those I feel will respond to its beauty. Perhaps you know it already.... The second book was the seminal Prayer by Hans urs von Balthasar, which opens the door to the deepest mystical heart of catholicism, an aspect of the faith that is perhaps too often missed in the controversies associated with the institutional church. This in turn led me to the book that became 'the big one' - Meditations on the Tarot, by the Christian hermeticist, Valentin Tomberg. If you are going to read one work of occultism, I'd make it this one 🙂 Many of the other authors whose work I explore on this channel lead back to Meditations on the Tarot, including Nina Roudnikova, whose book, The Solar Way, I'm reading from here. Nina was Tomberg's initiatory when he was a young refugee in Estonia, with both of them having escaped the Red Terror in Russia. She, in turn, was a pupil of the legendary St Petersburg Magus, G.O. Mebes, whose Tarot Majors and Tarot Minors are incredible works that really help define the kabbalistic root of the Western Mystery Tradition. The other author I focus on is also a 'White Russian' refugee, Vladimir Shmakov, whose Holy Book of Thoth is an incredible work of metaphysical synthesis which attempts to harmonise kabbalah with Vedanta. This one is considerably more complex than the others, however, and I'm still trying to grasp it properly myself....

@@alchemicalweddings7489 Thank you for this thorough and considerate response. Prayer, The Prophet, & Solar Way are in my near future. 🙂 I had a long-winded response, but I don't want to hijack the intent of this video post for Victor. Suffice to say that we share milestones in our search, MOT being the highpoint. I need to tell you that I am very grateful that I was able to find the Our Father Course through your comments for another video. It is difficult to find the "how's" of Tomberg's work. (if that makes sense?) Also, thank you for reminding me that this a lonely and narrow path. I needed to read those words. Have a blessed Sunday. (ps. I'm off to view the new post on suggested readings. Thank you!)

@@backrowboogie3053 Thank you my friend, I hope you are also having a blessed and beautiful Sunday 🙂 I don't think Victor would object to any comments.... VT was indeed a very enigmatic character and so much of his occult work was quite literally done in private and in response to very particular world events. Olive Pixley is similar in this respect. She wasn't seeking personal glory and would probably have kept her light under a bushel if it wasn't for friends and publishers insisting that her sublime spiritual work needed to reach the light of day and a wider audience. I would not hesitate to recommend her books either - especially The Armour of Light, The Magnet, and Ascension Exercises, but they are sadly very hard to come by. I am in the process of writing/editing a small volume which amalgamates some of her spiritual exercises with by own chakra/healing work, some of which I've share don this channel. It is too soon to republish her books in full as they are still in copyright, but I do think they need to be more widely available than they are at this point in time. The archives of the Inner Abbey Order do hold copies but they're only accessible to members. Membership is free but does require joining the coursework (essentially Christian and based on the Avalonian tradition): innerabbey.co.uk/

@@alchemicalweddings7489 This is very interesting, thank you! I look forward to your volume. I see that the group mentions Chartres Cathedral. The cathedral plays a role in Michael Frensch's novel The Veridian Sail. I believe that Frensch knew Tomberg in some capacity. Thanks for pointing the way!

@@backrowboogie3053 Frensch did not know him personally but he was integral to the process of publishing Meditations on the Tarot and was very much a link in the proverbial chain. Some members of Frensch's circle are still alive and active in the ongoing work, though usually behind the scenes. As you may have gathered, there is something of a Tomberg Renaissance happening at the moment, as more souls come to recognise the importance of our dear friend as a guide in such times. We have also completed the Rosicrucian sun cycle of just over 100 years, whereby the profound occult work initiated by the St Petersburg group has reached the stage of fruition and may be revealed more fully to the world.

@multiinuteis I am so very sorry to hear about your loss of your mother, may her soul be at peace in her heavenly abode and a light that always shines upon you. I am about to catch a train for a work appointment but I will reply more fully when I'm back at my desk. May the comfort of the Paraclete help ease your suffering.

Dear Victor, I'm back again after my journey. I have been contemplating what sort of video I might make for you but I need to think about how best to do this. I will turn to my inner guides for inspiration on this one. Much love to you my friend, I agree that she is in a better place now - and also that you will be reunited with her there. Cx

@@alchemicalweddings7489 okay! Don't worry about making a video or feel obligated/oressured to do it... It is only a request for a friend that is hurting. If natural inspiration comes/connections in your mind arise then do it, otherwise no need to create a video. I loved the video neutralization of binaries and one where you talked about atlantis and how thoughts were intimately linked with creating the outer reality... As if we even had to be careful with our thoguhts because manifestation happens so rapidly. Of course that is still true today. Our thoughts do become reality and sometimes I regret being a bit pessimist. I took care of my dear mother, 2017 she had Gastric bypass and had not been well since. Then last month she had a reversal to original anatomy but sadly she got worse and could not eat... anyway she was so fun... Her profession was a librarian and considered the "Mother of Poets" in my city.. she would organize events to raise money for poets that were not doing so good. I am left with a hole in my heart but I know she is my guardian angel now. Take care and dont fell pressured, only if it comes naturally. Love your videos, take care 💜🙏🏼

Yt deleted my reply but i simply said only do it if you feel like it and there is a spark about the subject, dont feel pressured into doing it by me. Also my mother made events for poets who were broke and needed money. She was amazing, loved to dance and tbe oracle I-ching. I loved the video neutralization of binaries and one where you spoke about atlantis and how thoughts and wirds woyld manifest almost instant into a material reality with little delay between action and reaction. Only do it if an inspiration come, dont feel pressured by my request at all. Much love ❤🇧🇷

Welcome!

@@scherryvalentine9673 I don’t know her views on that, I only really engaged with her a quite long time ago when I discovered her as a Christian mystic. I then learned she was ostracised like Tomberg. I’m guessing many anthros, either for or against JVH, are against vaccines?

@@alchemicalweddings7489 Good morning, thank you for your response. I would not necessarily say that anthropops are against vaccines. Many of them took the Covid shot, no different than the human population at large in that regard. She was ostracized because her writings, some of them, were in direct conflict with Rudolf Steiner’s indications. I look at her separately from VT although they share the same ex communication. I think it is wise to view all things with fresh eyes without bias. I am only now allowing myself space to look into VT. I do not have a clear understanding yet of his work, but I never had the initial feeling of mistrust with him that I had when encountering the work of JvH. I have not looked deeply into her work either, to be honest. But I have no desire in my heart to do so, for whatever reason, I do not question my heart on this. I wish her no harm or ill will! And it concerns me that the AS would ostracize anyone who seems to be genuinely trying to strive toward truth, beauty, and goodness. We all lose our way and make mistakes. It doesn’t seem Christlike. They could have denounced her writing but loved her in spite of her writings and lectures. Same with VT, although in his case I am not sure what it is that they found inexcusable. Perhaps you know? Your interest in Esoteric Christianity has no doubt led you Christian RosenKreutz and Mani. Yes? I love them. I am looking to learn more about them. Have you done any work on these two individualities? Cheers, Scherry

Thank you for making contact, I'm very glad the readings are useful in some way. Similarly, I find that reading the work out loud helps me to absorb them in a new way, not least of all as I have to concentrate more. I love the Tarot Minors and feel very grateful to G.O.M., Nina Roudnikova, her friend Catarina and Nicholas Girs, who helped to rescue and preserve them from oblivion. I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.

Hello Frater, the Tarot Minors were part of the course taught to GOM's inner circle pupils, including Nina Roudnikova, author of The Solar Way. It was Nina who preserved GOM's original lecture notes before escaping Russia for Estonia and ultimately sending them to Brazil with a trusted friend. In South America, they eventually found their way to Chile, where another inner circle initiate of GOM, Nicholas Girs, had travelled to. Girs was a great Martinist teacher who founded lodges secretly in Europe and then Chile, where he was revered as a beloved Master. he taught the Tarot Minors course until his death, alongside the Majors. So, in answer to your question, yes, both the Tarot Majors and Tarot Minors books are translated directly from GOM's original work. If you end up reading both The Solar Way and the Minors, I believe you will notice a similarity of style, a certain lightness of touch and lucidity which is characteristic of Nina. This is in contrast with the very deep astral occultism and kabbalistic inclination of GOM, which characterise the Majors.

@@alchemicalweddings7489 thank you for detailed and insightful response. I ordered The Solar Way last night and am looking forward to it arriving tomorrow! Your description of GOM’s Encyclopedia is spot on, from my POV, definitely heavily kabbalistic, astral occultist. I read it last summer via some website where I basically translated every page, it was captivating but needless to say, took a lot of work… on various levels. Did you add footnotes, commentaries or other supplements to your translated versions of the encyclopedia? I’m considering reading up on it again but at a much slower pace. Thank you for your contributions. 🙏🏽

​@@E_915 It is wonderful to meet a fellow traveller who was similarly drawn to read G.O.M's masterwork, which is no easy task by any estimation, whatever the language! That said, I did find that once you get used to his style and the idea of numerical 'deconstructions', it's like a gateway opens and the voice of the master starts to come through clearly. I found Arcanum XI (Force) in particular quite astonishing in its kabbalistic denouement of the Fall and feel that G.O.M. far surpasses the earlier French occultists in his understanding of kabbalah. Probably most other occultists before or since full stop. I did include some footnotes to each Arcana, mostly based upon Meditations on the Tarot, which is where my inspiration to discover G.O.M. came from in the first place. I found the similarities between the respective tarot works just as enlightening as the differences, fascinating in fact. As I got further into the Russian schools I felt as if each one of them - Tomberg, G.O.M, Roudnikova and Shmakov, each brought something very different and valuable to the overall corpus, whilst also constituting a unified whole - truly the Synthetic Philosophy! I hope you enjoy The Solar Way, which is a much lighter read than the others. Nina R is very important and in terms of occult work, serves as a bridge between the occultism of G.O.M. and the metaphysics of Shmakov. The latter really IS complicated. It was incredibly difficult to translate and also pretty difficult to understand, as I'm nowhere near as knowledgeable about Vedanta as I am about Kabbalah - and here I'm limited as well! I like to think of G.O.M. as being The Magician of the Group, Nina the High Priestess, Tomberg The Hermit and Shmakov The Fool, based on the relative emphasis/importance I think they give to these arcana respectively....

I should also say that I have an Academia page where I've uploaded various chapters from all these books and plan to keep adding more: oxford.academia.edu/CharlotteCowell

@@alchemicalweddings7489 thank you for help. I read almost all of your academic papers and after reading the Tarot interpretations from GOM’s major and minor arcana, I decided to order those two as well. As it stands I’ve now ordered MoT, HBT, The Solar way, Major and Minors. 🙏🏽 By the way, you are spot on about Shmakov’s HBT, it took me an entire year to finish. At times painstakingly reading a paragraph or even a sentence many many times, to even try to penetrate a semblance of understanding. However once becoming familiar with his style of communication it became super rewarding. I personally think it helped me rise to a higher level of understanding. What a titan.

Thank you for checking in, Mr Tomberg has opened doorways for so many of us, or at least helped us to understand the world beyond the veil. I'm so pleased to meet a fellow traveller. Cx

Tomberg was, as you say, of a very high intellectual vibration and something of a genius with languages. He was appointed to leadership of the Estonian branch of the Anthroposphical Society in his mid thirties and by all accounts was a dazzling teacher. During his anthroposophical years he lectured widely, both in Estonia and elsewhere, in Germany, Holland also England, visiting the standing stones in north Wales where Steiner had also had such a wonderful experience. He was described by one attendee as being like a 'comet', who struck the audience like a shooting star and was an immensely engaging speaker. He was also popular with women, which tends to be a good indicator of a charismatic individual. Not only women, he attracted truly devoted friends throughout his life and I think we can assume he was a genuinely fascinating but also enigmatic character. He also had a very good sense of humour and worked extremely closely with his beloved wife, an aristocratic Russian woman who had been a student of Mebes and was his collaborator on MotT. The IAO seems to have done a fantastic job of attracting exactly the right people, without doing any sort of advertising! 🙂

you are far from lazy in your personal practice, which is a lot more important! On the other hand, you have so much valuable experience and knowledge to share that it's very worth making a record if you can 🙂 I'm at a bit of an advantage with Mebes and co. as I studied Tomberg for so long, really to the exclusion of all other tarot teachings, so by the time I got to the rest of the Russian Templars it was second nature. You and Tom are far more immersed in the core Golden Dawn and Avalonian works, which are quite different when it comes to tarot but very complementary in other ways. Olive Pixley is a very important bridge for me in this respect and I did wonder, when visiting the site of her former home, whether her and the Tomberg family ever crossed paths, as they lived quite close together! I'm guessing not, which made me a bit sad as I'm certain they would have been a great solace and support to each other, in so many ways, as each had an abundant supply of what the other greatly needed....I hope they managed to make acquaintance in the world beyond the veil.

Hi Thomas! The Minors are much easier to get through and benefit from Nina Roudnikova's clear and concise style, also present in her own book, The Solar Way (she took notes as an inner circle student of G.O.M. and it's largely thanks to her the teaching was saved). When I first started reading the Majors I found them incredibly complicated, but when I got used to the format it was like a door opening that suddenly made sense. Obviously there is a high kabbalistic and Pythagorean underpinning to that work and G.O.M. himself was a mathematics professor, with a mystery name of the angel of mathematics, Butator. Interestingly, Vladimir Shmakov hailed G.O.M.'s work as essential but also described it as 'downright impossible', but Shmakov's own work is far more complex in my view!

You're welcome Dan, I think it's a very important book and an invaluable source of information about a fascinating part of history and culture.

I understand what you are asking here as I share the struggle and can be very hard on myself, judging myself far more harshly than I ever do other people - I think it might be a fairly common 'complex' amongst spiritual seekers and in itself I think is a form of pride on the one hand (ie, I'm so important than my every transgression is a seismic cosmic event) but also doubt/lack of confidence on the one hand, doubting that God can REALLY love us, despite our many flaws. Like me, you can probably rationalise your way out of it fairly well, but still have a lack of confidence in the self, even if you have abundant faith in almighty. Tomberg also writes of this immense challenge, of facing up to our fallen human condition, also speaking of the sense of shame we feel when confronted with the flaws and mistakes of our earthly incarnation. It is, in truth, a meeting with the threshold guardian and it can go on for a very long time! Tomberg always recommended prayer and I always think that praying for those less fortunate is a useful exercise at any time, no matter how we are feeling about ourselves. Olive Pixley's exercises are also very useful in this context as they are specifically geared towards strengthening the light body and auric shield. The golden cone of confidence and other exercises which utilise the 'peacock light' I think are particularly good. Gnostic teachings can be depressing, which is one of many reasons why I tend towards a more universal form of Christianity. I do believe in universal salvation and this is another reason to be less hard on the self, as it is logically ridiculous to think that EVERYONE except me (or you, or any individual) will be taken back to the heart of God and our divine spiritual homes! It is also well worth remembering that Jesus Christ was the ultimate scapegoat for humanity and even though we try to follow in His footsteps, we don't have to offer ourselves up as human sacrifices in the same way, as He did this once and for all, on behalf of the whole of humanity. I hope you are well my friend, it's good to hear from you! Cx

Thank you for your kind words and for taking the time to answer ;) I agree with you that I tend to be much harder on myself than I am with others. These authors you bring up and your sweet voice are a blessing to me.. I'll do my best to pray more often because when I did my life was much better.. being more selfless than selfish. Hope to see a new video from you when you can 💜 Take care from 🇧🇷

@@multiinuteis You're very welcome, your kind words are also a blessing and it's lovely to see you here again - and I also feel better when I pray, it's essential for survival IMO! x 🙂

I was (still am) devoted to St John Paul II and I've always had very strong catholic leanings, in the true spiritual sense of it being the Universal religion and, indeed, an incorporation of the perennial philosophy. I attend the High Church of England which in many respects is more traditionally catholic than the modern RC church. Tomberg wanted to unite the Churches of Peter (Catholic) and John (Rosocrucian), which is hope I share.

@@alchemicalweddings7489 I wish you the best on your journey. What I have personally found is that there is only One Church and it’s Jesus’s. It’s probably one of the hardest times in history to become Catholic for many reasons. The Church has been infiltrated however there are always individual churches that have a traditional Or high mass that you can find if you search. The Anglican Church does not have a valid Eucharist which is what people are missing. The Eucharist is real it’s is indeed supernatural and one won’t encounter that at a Protestant church no matter how it’s dressed up. Even at a novus ordo Catholic Church one will still encounter Christ’s body and blood To be United we can’t have our toes in two worlds we have to convert and be initiated into the Universal Church. We have to weave ourselves into the spiritual fabric of Christs Body and it’s not True and Whole outside the church. There are many misconceptions people have about Catholicism but it’s a mystery we can only understand if we fully participate Good luck on your journey

You're welcome! There are also a few of the arcana on my Academia page if you have that: oxford.academia.edu/CharlotteCowell

Hi there, yes there is an error with the image that proved difficult to resolve in the Amazon back office but the links are to the correct books. www.amazon.com/dp/1916336515 and UK: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916336515

Dear Amanda, that is wonderful to hear, I'm so glad your dreams are fruitful, I've always found that to be one of the most interesting aspects of esoteric work and so helpful for deepening insights into the spiritual realm and how we fit into it. I have quite an active imagination and pulsing lights are quite significant in Olive Pixley's work, which is very much about light and breath, the 'ruach Elohim'. Funnily enough, one of the precursor exercises to the Peacock light involves visualising 'bulbs' of light beneath the armpits and in the hip sockets on an inbreath, which then become radiant orbs which expand into the chest and abdomen on an outbreath 🙂

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Hi Thomas, thank you so much for you thoughts on this as I've been wanting to talk to you about this for a while. In a nutshell, somebody asserted to me that both Gray and OP essentially got all their mystical information from a (living) master in Germany and others associated with his school, as opposed to receiving it directly from the spiritual world. This theory interested me very much because there IS an intuitive correlation between what OP teaches and what this German school teach, even though the particulars are very different. The German is focused on Hebrew letters for one thing, but the idea of breathwork and building a light body are very similar. I was unable to say much about OP as I only know what little I read in her books and about Gray I know very little, but I thought that YOU might be aware of a possible hidden source in Germany who greatly influenced him and OP? For instance, when you say she is a full initiate (which I entirely agree with), is this from purely spiritual initiations, which I would consider the most valid, or also from a mystery school or schools in England (eg DF) and/or Germany? Also do you consider that DF is essential Steiner-ish in her own initiation?

I used to draw and paint a lot when I was a teenager but dropped it in favour of writing as I got older. I know what you mean as I can picture it all extremely clearly, but I think I lack the skill to put it down on paper. I'm moving house soon so perhaps I'll pick it up when I'm in a wilder natural environment!