Symbolic Sorcery

Episode Ten: Tarot Key 2 - The High Priestess Overview: Basic interpretations and lessons on the High Priestess, letter Gimel, number 2. Meditation from the Book of Tokens. Application of the lessons for success in life. Discussion Topics: - The High Priestess is a primary symbol of subconsciousness. The powers of subconsciousness are represented by the symbolism of Key 2. The Laws (TORA) of subconsciousness: Association & memory. The Seven Hermetic Principles. - The Prima Materia of the Alchemists. Alchemical Water. Astrological Moon and the Third Eye chakra. - The letter Gimel and its important gematria correspondences: Camel, Rope, Wisdom, Gallilee. - The NET concept. Subconsciousness builds and records association-chains between symbols. This is responsible for all communication systems. We can communicate with the source of Inner Wisdom through developing a rapport with the subconscious symbol language. Mastering the occult symbol systems allows us to tune in to the thoughts of the great Adepts and Masters. - Interpretations of the prominent features of the symbolism and their meanings and teachings. Pillars, veil, palms & pomegranates, crown, cross, cubic throne, wavy robe, Tora scroll. - Readings from the Sepher Yetzirah and the Book of Tokens.

Episode Seven: Tarot Key 1 - The Magician Overview: Basic interpretation of The Magician, letter Beth, and Number 1. Meditation from The Book of Tokens. Entering into The Magician. Discussion Topics: - The number 1 symbolizes beginnings, self-consciousness, and attention. Relative unity vs. Absolute unity. - Beth: Correspondences. Meditation on the House. Reading from Sepher Yetzirah. Meditaton from The Book of Tokens. - The Magician: every act of attention is an act of magic. Thus, we are all truly magicians and are doing true magic all the time. - Lessons of The Magician: Self-consciousness receives power from above and projects it down below. - The importance of The Magician in Tarot: all numbers have the number 1 in them; the four suits of the minor arcana are the four magical implements on the Magician's table, and these implements also symbolize the Four Maxims: to Know, to Will, to Dare, to Be Silent. - Why the Tarot is such a powerful magical tool: mental imagery is the gateway to higher knowledge.

Synopsis: Review of the Net concept. Geometry of the Net. The language of shape. How Numbers relate to Geometry. Reshaping our Net into a Sacred Geometric form. How to Meditate on Sacred Geometry. Geometric Alchemical Recipies. Speaking the Magical Language of Geometry. Discussion topics: How the Net is built: Numbers, Topology and Geometry. The concept of Number is basic to the Net. The words we associate with Numbers give the Net its Topology. The advanced stages of Alchemy involve working with the Geometry of the Net. The importance of Geometry in the Western Mysteries. Greeks mathematicians: Pythagoras, Plato, Euclid. Sacred Geometric temple science. Pyramid power. The Geometric Alchemist gives precedence to Beauty over anything else. He knows he is headed in the right direction if what he desires is Beauty. Meditation with Sacred Geometry. We begin with concentration on Sacred Geometric shapes. The Circle, the Vesica Piscis, the Regular Polygons. Then we use compass and ruler as our magical tools as we ritualize the movements of symbolic creation. This enmeshes the Geometry into our Net. The pattern is crystallized in our memory field, it stabilizes and subconsciousness can use it as a model. Subconsciousness then rewires itself and reshapes itself following the Sacred Geometric form. Working with the Flower of Life, Tree of Life, Metatron's Cube, the Mandelbrot Set. Geometric Magic: with the Five Platonic Solids, Drawing the sigils of the angels: the language of the angels is found in the geometry of angles. Beauty and Gold await as long as the alchemist remains patient. The work of rebuilding the alchemical laboratory is really the work of the One Alchemist preparing the conditions for advanced stages of the Great Work.

The Net is a symbol of our subconsciousness. The Net of Numbers forms the deepest layers of the subconscious, which is universal. We can associate Numbers with Words as a master filing-system. This rewires our Net so that we can speak the Magical Language. Gematria by example: Numbers 15, 21, 26, 42, 52, 53, 65, 73, 496, many more. Gematria of the Tree of Life, Archangels, Planets, Zodiac, Shem ha-Mephorash. Qabalistic Alchemical Numerology: Reductions, Extensions, Articulations. Once we have built our Net so that we are capable of performing Gematria operations and meditations, we can then read into the deeper understandings of esoteric texts. The Rosicrucian alchemical language is made clear through an understanding of Gematria. The Rosicrucian Manifestoes: Fama Fraternitatis, Confessio Fraternitatis. Gematria is only one aspect of Qabalistic analysis of Numbers and Words. Future episodes will discuss how to deepen our practical knowledge of Gematria once we understand the esoteric meanings of the Hebrew Letters.

Overview: We need to transform our consciousness before we can perform truly effective magic. Numbers as the universal process of manifestation. Through alchemical distillation and crystallization of the Number pattern, we reprogram our subconscious mind. The result is that our mental images may become manifest as actualities with increasing rapidity. Discussion Topics: - What is true magic? Can anyone perform true magic? Answer: Yes, we are doing true magic all the time. Why don't we realize this? - How to attune our consciousness to the universal process of manifestation through the study of Numbers. - Basic meanings of the numeral signs 0-9. - Alchemical recipies for crystallizing the Number pattern: study, meditation, ritual. - Live meditation: Numbers Ritual on the Tree of Life. - Advanced methods of Alchemical Numerology: Reductions, Expansions, Articulations, Gematria, Notariqon. - Manifesting energy through the power of numbers: Magic Squares.

Discussion Topics: Overview of my own occult library. I've spared no expenses in aquiring the most important books. Breakdown of categories: Spiritual Lessons, Metaphysics, Meditations, Number Mysticism, Sacred Geometry, Tarot, Qabalah, Alchemy, Magic, Pathworkings. Spiritual Lessons: Paul Foster Case and Rudolf Steiner. Rosicrucianism and modern Initiation. Metaphysics: Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Cosmos. The role of the Christ in humanity's Earth evolution. Meditations: The Book of Tokens, Meditative Reading. Number Mysticism: Source Greek texts. Pythagoras, Plato, Nicomachus, Iamblichus, Euclid. Alchemy: Ripley's Compound of Alchymy, Triumphal Chariot of Antimony, 12 Keys of Basil Valentine, Splendor Solis, other source works. Sacred Geometry, Tarot, Qabalah: Overview, more on future shows. Magic: Golden Dawn, Bardon, classic Grimoires. Pathworkings.

Overview: Basic interpretation of The Fool, letter Aleph, and Number 0. Meditation from The Book of Tokens. Entering into The Fool. Discussion Topics: - The number 0 symbolizes the Source of all things. It is not nothing, but No-Thing. Existence, Subsistence, Persistence. Ain, Ain Suph, Ain Suph Aur. - Aleph: Correspondences. Ruach. Meditation on the Ox. Reading from Sepher Yetzirah. Meditaton from The Book of Tokens. - The Fool: what secrets are kept in this title? Until we experience the Tarot, we will be fooled by its true meaning. - Lessons of The Fool: Life on the Edge. - Why The Fool is different from all the other Major Keys. - Alchemical interpretations: Prima Materia.

Overview: How to approach the study: lists of correspondences and disciplined regularity. The importance of number symbolism. Discussion Topics: - Paul Foster Case: master Tarot teacher. Teaches in a way so that the students can discover important meanings themselves. - Builders of the Adytum: school of Ageless Wisdom / Mystery School. BOTA Tarot Deck. Lessons, membership. - What is Tarot? Basic ideas on Tarot as a book of Ageless Wisdom. How to learn it's basic language. The Tarot itself tells us how we should study it: Look at the cards. - Correspondences: Numbers, Letters, Objects, Intelligence, Path, Color, Note, Shape, Astrological - Patterns: Minor: 10 Numbers / Sephiroth; 4 Elements, 4 Worlds, 4 Divine 'Personalities': Ab, Aima, Ben, Kallah. Major: 3-7-12, Tree of Life: Numbers map to Sephiroth, Letters map to Paths; Cube of Space; The Tableau; Tetragrammaton. The ultimate mystery of Tarot: Thou.

Why I decided to start a show and what I plan to do with it.