Category: News

Sally Annett and Stephen Pope have collaborated to create a series of Kabbalistic painting courses in France for 2021. Both Sally and Stephen have trained in the Kabbalah Society Toledano Tradition in London with Warren Kenton, and both now live in South West France where they continue their studies and work.

These courses highlight the central themes of Annett’s and Pope’s work, that of Nature and The Divine Feminine Principle.

The courses are all-inclusive in luxury venues, with three available options from June to September, each with a slightly different emphasis, technique and materials.

Please go to the website of Annett’s studio, the ATELIER MELUSINE, for further information. Links below:

https://www.atelierdemelusine.com/holistic-painting-courses-at-the-chateau-mareuil
https://www.atelierdemelusine.com/summer-school-august-2020
https://www.atelierdemelusine.com/residential-courses-in-france-2021

Or contact Sally direct on email annett897@btinternet.com

Please see PDF here

Patterns of Creation
Logos and the Tree of Life in the Gospel of John
by Stephen Pope

Weekly two-hour sessions via Zoom with Stephen Pope BD MA
co-hosted by Rev Dr Megan Wagner

This course illuminates the spiritual teachings in the Greek-Aramaic text of the Gospel of John, so that they become, for you, the living reality that is beyond their symbols.

Stephen and Megan will help you to experience the spiritual truths contained within the original Greek-Aramaic Gospel for yourself, taking you beyond the everyday, unconscious mind, into your eternal essence.

This formless, eternal essence, which exists within the heart of every human being, is called Logos in John’s Gospel, and usually translated as Word: Eternal Presence that contains and connects every living thing within the great circle of life.

We will explore Stephen’s fresh translations from Greek and Aramaic, look at the roots of the Gospel teachings in the original Biblical Hebrew texts and realize the profound spiritual truths contained within its rich symbolic language and sacred geometry of the Tree of Life.
Read more here….

This course is s now closed.

An Online Workshop with Andy Henry
For further information, please see PDF here. Thank you

Booking: Please book your place with Amyas on taijiwuxigonglondon1@gmail.com

Please note: For admin related queries please contact Amyas at taijiwuxigonglondon1@gmail.com.
For queries about the study, experiences or practice, please email Andy at taijiwuxigong@hotmail.com

Maggy Whitehouse

This course has now begun.

Please contact maggy@maggywhitehouse.com for more information.
https://treeofsapphires.com/mystery-school

Kabbalah is Hebrew for ‘receive’ and this ancient oral tradition is the foundation of all the Western Mystery Traditions. Written teachings crystalize and become locked into religion, the oral tradition continues to reveal the mystical and eternal truths behind the form. Kabbalah teaches us who we are; why we are here; what we can do; how to balance our lives and the relationship between the Divine, the Universe humanity and all creation.

‘The Kabbalistic Universe’ – Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi
FREE Online Study Group with Marie-Elsa Bragg

This course is now closed.

In these challenging times, this online study group will examine ‘The Kabbalistic Universe’ by Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi. Each week a small portion of the text from the book will be set to consider, and then our meeting will explore the text through contemplation, meditation and collaboration. Students who have studied with Halevi for many years, and those beginning to explore, are welcome. As Halevi always said at the beginning of his many Summer Schools at Hawkwood in Stroud: ‘We will always find more when we return to the teaching.’

PARADISE LOST for KABBALISTS
An Introduction to Milton’s epic with Peter Brennan

^{…Let my lamp at midnight hour
Be seen in some high lonely tower,
Where I may oft out-watch the Bear
With thrice-great Hermes, or unsphere
The spirit of Plato, to unfold
What worlds or what vast regions hold
The immortal mind, that hath forsook
Her mansion in this fleshly nook…}
IL PENSEROSO

Paradise Lost has always excited fascination and controversy, confronting as it does the existence of evil in a divinely ordained world. Although an explicitly Christian poem, Milton drew on a profound understanding of the fundamental truths that underpin all esoteric practice. In order to illuminate these, we shall consider a carefully chosen and representative selection of crucial passages from this astonishing work. In the process, we will come to see how Milton’s cosmic drama can directly assist us as we seek our own spiritual evolution.

The themes we shall consider include:

– Comprehending the divine source of all human creativity
– ‘Riding the chariot’ between the worlds of the extended Tree
– The necessity of the satanic, ‘testing’, aspect of creation
– The importance of looking inwards for true enlightenment
– The responsibility of being human, deriving from free will
– Understanding that divine providence accompanies us on our earthly journey

No previous knowledge is required. What can seem a daunting poem quickly becomes accessible and enjoyable once it is read aloud and clarified.

Peter Brennan has studied Kabbalah in Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi’s (Warren Kenton) school for over 20 years. He was for many years Head of English at The Latymer School in north London and has subsequently taught over 60 courses at City Lit College in central London. Last year he gave a well-received talk on Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man as part of the London group’s programme of events. He especially enjoys disclosing the esoteric basis of English poetry, from Chaucer, Spenser and Shakespeare to the present day.

Peter Brennan’s teaching shows literature to be an engagement with the most serious questions of moral, emotional and spiritual life. His vast and detailed knowledge of texts allows him to challenge his students, and himself, to find new orientations in life through reading, study, and discussion. His teaching can help people, and it continues to help me, to make meaning out of literature and of life. – Dr Tom Jones, Senior Lecturer and Director of Research in English, University of St Andrews

Cost: £50 Payable via bank transfer only for UK Companions; please contact Peter at  brennos@hotmail.com for details. Interested parties living outside the UK, please use PayPal by clicking on this PayPal link. Thank you.

SIGN Up via Paypal

Dates: Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th January 2021

Time: 15:30 – 18:00 hrs via the Zoom platform. The waiting room will open at 15:00 hrs. Zone Times: London, UK. The Zoom link will be emailed several hours in advance of the first session.

Handout: The course handout will be emailed to you when you have enrolled on the course.

PDF available here.

‘It is like a ladder in the midst of his home whereby he may ascend and descend.’ Hekalot (mystical) text 6^th Century

The Workshops: Held over three to four days in January 2021
Dates: 16^th, 23^rd, 30^th/ 31^st

This course is now closed.

The Tree of Life and the extended Tree, called Jacob’s Ladder, are models of the laws of existence, which can be observed within every living thing – especially within ourselves. They are our working tools in the Toledano Tradition.

It is recommended that every Kabbalist constructs their own Jacob’s Ladder and Tree of life as an expression of their conscious commitment to Self – knowledge.  When they have been completed and hung on our walls they may be used as an aid to meditation, contemplation, dialogue and reflection.

For furture information go to https://toledanotraditionstudies.com

Or contact joanna.browne@kabbalahsociety.org

INTRODUCTION TO KABBALAH
THIS COURSE IS FULLY BOOKED!

For future online Courses, please register your interest at info@toledanotradition.com. Thank you.

Joanna and Kurt Browne will be teaching four introductory sessions in October/November 2020 which will aim to use theory and practice to bring the Teaching to life and provide clarity and perspective, whether applied to our own journey or to world events and history.

Each session will be conducted through the Zoom platform.

Click here for further information and to register.

An Online Workshop with Andy Henry
See PDF for further information

Please note:
All admin related queries to Amyas at taijiwuxigonglondon1@gmail.com.
For queries about the study, experiences or practice please email Andy at taijiwuxigong@hotmail.com.

The Human Spirit

Regrettably, due to Covid-19,  the International Kabbalah Conference in The Netherlands has been cancelled. We hope to be able to organise it somewhere in the future to meet you all in good health.

Magda and René