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Category: Mystery Schools

October 25, 2018 + #Silenti, Child of Light, esoteric psychology, Mystery Schools, Spirituality, Truth and Esotericism

The Origin of Me

Out of a hidden fear, we seldom examine our personal origins – this sense of ‘me’. Yet, if we let go that fear, the journey can teach us so much, and leave us with an emotion of deep belonging. We can explore this with a meditation, rather than the intellect; if you’d like a little journey? Be quiet and become conscious that our everyday … Read More The Origin of Me

October 11, 2018 + #Silenti, Consciousness, Mystery Schools, Spirituality

A Chip Off the Old Block (part 2 of 2)

by Steve Tanham

In Part One, we looked at the implications of one of the hot topics in modern physics: that of Block Theory, and its two offspring theories – Expanding Block Theory and Evolving Block Theory. These dull names hide a very exciting and radical view of the universe – our world – and the dynamic part that awakened humans can play in it. We don’t … Read More A Chip Off the Old Block (part 2 of 2)

September 13, 2018 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, enneagram, esoteric psychology, Gurdjieff, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirit, Spirituality

Principles of Fire (6): A Tribe of Two

by Steve Tanham

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi Jalaluddin Rumi was a 12th century Sufi mystic, whose approach to the ‘real’ was remarkably modern. This should not surprise us. Anything spiritually true will have that immediate and familiar ring about it – the sense of a homecoming, … Read More Principles of Fire (6): A Tribe of Two

September 6, 2018 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, enneagram, esoteric psychology, Gurdjieff, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirit, Spirituality

Principles of Fire (5): A Tribe of One

by Steve Tanham

They who set out to discover the twin meanings of the word ‘self’ must walk a certain path. The route to the deeper, real self lies only in the journey through the everyday self. Without this study – and its consequent effects – there can be no personal transformation. We have to learn to look at ourselves with intensity if we are to begin … Read More Principles of Fire (5): A Tribe of One

August 23, 2018 + #Silenti, Child of Light, Consciousness, enneagram, esoteric psychology, Gurdjieff, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye School, Spirit, Spirituality

Principles of Fire (4): Essence and Reunion

by Steve Tanham

Continued from Part Two of this topic In previous posts, we have seen that how we view and interact with the world is conditioned by how our egoic self has developed; from oneness with Mother in the womb, through birth as an independent entity, to the reactive adult whose life mirrors that of a suit of armour, grown, protectively, over the real and eternally-new … Read More Principles of Fire (4): Essence and Reunion

July 12, 2018 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mystery Schools, Spirituality

The Feather

by Steve Tanham

There was a feather on his pillow when he settled down to sleep that last time. He had no idea where it had come from. If it was time to die, so be it… Always the same beginning to the dream; the swim to the hidden beach on the Greek island, the beautiful sun blazing down on his naked body–far from the world he … Read More The Feather

July 5, 2018 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye Workshops, Spirituality

Castles of the Mind (2)

by Steve Tanham

Continued from Part One As the group walk through the arched entranceway to the interior of the castle, a new feeling emerges: one of ‘being in it, together’. The transition from outer to inner space of the newly considered ‘organism’ of the castle brings with it other changes of perspective. One of these is that a process – that of the weekend, itself, has … Read More Castles of the Mind (2)

July 3, 2018 + Alchemical Poetry, Mystery Schools, Mystical poetry, Spirituality, The Beloved

Veil of Blue

by Steve Tanham

Beyond the blue is something more Where green leaves end is azure’s home No distance fades or feathers this Transition in the air of Life No boundary we don’t set in stone ➰ Before the Green my eyes appear Not open – grow – from matter’s heart Creating depth with brain that knows What it remembers, nothing more The veil of knowing is the … Read More Veil of Blue

June 28, 2018 + #Silenti, Consciousness, esoteric psychology, Mystery Schools, Silent Eye Workshops, Spirituality

Castles of the Mind (1)

by Steve Tanham

Like the best of ideas, it begins with a partly-seen ghost, the glimmer of an edge of something that will work…. Ideas are great, but, unless something is practical and consistent on the day, its value is limited to fuelling a ‘greater’ idea that will be. And then the right idea expands, filling out, not linearly, but with emotions that billow like a spinnaker on … Read More Castles of the Mind (1)

June 14, 2018 + #SE18Characters, #Silenti, Jewel in the Claw, Mystery Play, Mystery Schools, Spirituality, The Jewel in the Claw

Jewels in the Claw (viii)

by Steve Tanham

Continued from Part Seven. He – the man with the packing cases – picks up his empty tea cup and begins to walk towards the small table near the entrance door of the large room in which the mystery play ran its course. It’s important that everything is cleared, he thinks; restored to how it was, pristine… Laughing to himself, he realises that he … Read More Jewels in the Claw (viii)

June 7, 2018 + #SE18Characters, #Silenti, Jewel in the Claw, Mystery Play, Mystery Schools, Spirituality, The Jewel in the Claw

Jewels in the Claw (vii)

by Steve Tanham

Continued from Part Six. The tea cup is empty, but he continues to hold it – lost, happily, in his reveries on the edge of what was the stage, the royal court floor… He looks down at the cup and then lifts it to toast the great lady from the Saracen world, an unfinished woman who surprised a Queen of England… or did she? … Read More Jewels in the Claw (vii)

May 31, 2018 + #SE18Characters, #Silenti, Jewel in the Claw, Mystery Play, Mystery Schools, Spirituality, The Jewel in the Claw

Jewels in the Claw (vi)

by Steve Tanham

Continued from Part Five. Sipping the tea, his hands clasp around the warm cup. The gesture reminds him of the way she took her husband’s arm, at the end of that first glimpse of what The Queen had in store for him. She, John Dee’s wife, Jane, never entertained the notion that she would not stand, shoulder to shoulder, with her foolish but magnificent husband … Read More Jewels in the Claw (vi)