with Dan Winter, Vincent Bridges, Erik Berglund & Roger Green
6 days of seminars in the heart of Prague including day trip to Kutna Hora
sponsored by www.FengShuiSeminars.com & www.AcademySacredGeometry.com ITINERARY
April 9th Highlights International group 6 days of seminars held in the heart of Prague arrives into Prague Teachings from Dan Winter – International expert on Alchemy, Sacred April 10 – 15 Geometry, Bio Feedback, Ancient cultures and Bloodlines, includes Prague 6 day unique teachings from Dan Winter on the alchemist John Dee. seminar & tour. Teachings from Vincent Bridges –Vincent Bridges is an authority on the English Alchemist John Dee. He will be giving numerous presentations at April 16th the Prague Easter event – espeically on the angelic writings of John Dee. Group departs for home Erik Berglund (Celtic Harpist, Tenor and Spiritual Healer). Angelic Harp Music, Singing, and Healing Stories with Erik Berglund. Local guest speakers including Michal Juza, Cheryl Yambrach Rose-Hall, Radovan Foit and Jiri Maria Masek. Visit sacred sites and special off the track locations, walking tours. Visit the ancient alchemical township of Kutna Hora. Prague seminar held in a renovated building completely based on ecological principles and design using green materials – a special place in the heart of Prague, includes vegetarian restaurant and tea house on site. Celebration Saturday dinner and cruise on the beautiful Vltava River. Price includes lunches, transport, and tuition. Accommodation ideas and suggestions based on your price range in Prague.
page Prague – The Golden City into the Rosy Heart of Alchemy and the Science of The Sacred
o rich and beautiful was The greatest flourishing of Alchemy in Prague five centuries Europe came during the reign of Rudolf ago that it was called 11 (Fifteenth Century), when important “The Golden City” (die Czech and foreign alchemists lived in Goldene Stad) - and the Bohemia. This was a prosperous period name, like its beauty, for the city: famous people living there in has remained. that age include the astronomers Tycho The fame of the Brahe and Johann “crossroads of the Kepler, the painter medieval world” spread Arcimboldo, the along the great highways alchemists Edward and rivers of Europe and Kelley and John fired the imagination Dee, the poetess of generations of Elizabeth Jane poets, peasants, artists, Weston, and many philosophers and others. alchemists. The Feng Shui of The architecture of this Prague is based on fairy-tale city, dominated it being surrounded by a great castle, ancient by 7 hills, similar to pinnacles and spires of the 7 hills of Rome, So rich and gold-filled churches, and the 7 hills of captures a mysterious, Dublin’s “Loves beautiful was mystical quality rarely Body” written by Prague five encountered in the world today. James Joyce. Legend has it that Princess Libuse, who 7 church sites occupy the 7 hills of centuries ago could tell the future, founded Prague on Prague - and the ancient plan of this that it was the spot where she saw a man carving a powerful location was to establish a threshold, in Czech called a ‘Prah’ for his pattern of 5 sacred sites inside and 7 on called “The house. the outside- making the symbol of the Golden City”. It is said that the 9th Century Prince “Rosy Cross” an almost perfect geometric Borivoj established a settlement above the symmetry. river Vltava on a hill shaped like the back Dan Winter and local teachers of a sea-pig, the old name for a dolphin. and authors will be pointing out the It’s a lucky thing the place eventually remarkable insights into the planning of came to be called Prague, not Sea-Pig! this alchemical city Nicknames for Prague have included Prague is widely considered one of “the Mother of Cities” (Praga mater the most beautiful cities in Europe with urbium, or “Praha matka mest” in Czech)” preserved examples from all periods of and “City of a Hundred Spires”. its history and is among the most visited
page 3 The architecture of famous Astronomical Clock located in the mystical town square, the Prague Castle this fairy-tale where we will study its constellation city, dominated alignments, and the famous Charles Bridge, and many other ‘special off by a great the track locations” that only our local castle, ancient authors and teachers can show and teach some of its hidden secrets. pinnacles and The Czech Republic boasts more than spires of gold- 2,000 preserved castles and chateaux, more per square mile than any other filled churches, country. Our retreat-tour will also include captures a days of teaching and exploring in Kutna Hora, built on a silver ore field near the mysterious, legendary Sedlec Ossuary “Bone Church” mystical and our visit to the only Alchemical Museum in the world. quality rarely Your host Roger Green, has traveled and encountered taught in Prague every year for the past cities on the continent. Since 1992, 10 years, and sponsored one of his first in the world the extensive historic centre of Prague international Feng Shui, Sacred Geometry has been included in the UNESCO list today. and Ecology conferences there in 1998. of World Heritage Sites. According to Eight have been held all over the world Guinness World Records, Prague Castle is since that time, the last being in Budapest the largest ancient castle in the world. 2006. Prague offers historic towers, cathedrals, bridges and verdant hills. We will have some walking tours of Prague, visiting the
page The role of Kutna Hora.
Kutna Hora was a silver mining town, which began, in medieval times in Bohemia. Its sacred geometry is embedded in the town’s architecture and underground labyrinths. Also more than 20 ceramic prehistoric cultures have been discovered in the area. Two “henges” circular sanctuaries made of earth and wood and a thousand years older than Stonehenge, were recently discovered. The town developed during the Gothic period into the second most important city next to Prague, a royal city endowed with monuments that symbolized its prosperity and is now a UNESCO heritage site. The Church of St Barbara, a jewel of the late Gothic period, and for an adventure in architecture, the Sedlec Ossuary referred to as the famous “Bone Church” and the Cathedral of Our Lady at Sedlec, which was restored in line with the Baroque taste of the early 18th century, were to influence the architecture of central Europe. These masterpieces today form part of a well-preserved medieval township, along with a clutch of great little bars and restaurants serving fresh beer and traditional food. The meals at V Ruthardce and the beer at the Dacicky beer hall are some of the best you’ll find in Bohemia.
page The Dan Winters teachings and seminars Into the Rosy Heart of Alchemy and the SCIENCE OF THE SACRED
If we want to learn lucid • Discover how to apply all this to the dreaming, death survival, true inner alchemy -which renders our solar inhabiting, bliss, inner merged into the inner fires of bliss gravity making, earth grid - and its beautiful alchemical physics. engineering, and to be • Why the importance of GOLD? What is able to decode the ancient its physical and spiritual significance? mysterious alchemical Do the science with us - dance with the teachings- then join us in Prague this worlds most advanced sacred spiritual April Easter time in 2009. There will be science animations - walk down the a special “Easter time” emphasize on the actual paths in Prague (whose name angelic teachings of the famous English means ‘ portal or gate’ and threshold) Alchemist John Dee. where it all happens still today. 1. Understand the origin alchemy What Dan has to say… – as science: The word KHEM means The very original fengshui magnetic plan ‘from the place of the BLACKNESS’ for this city is in fact literally a rose! Historically this meant – Egypt was The fractal heart of this city – a place the lineage of the black skinned (Enki where we personally learned – lucid / Atun). But since Enki / Atun (and dreaming works better – is where the his Akunatun / Moses lineage) were “charge compression” is fractal. Gold Powder scientists – this also Here is where John Dee perfected his came to mean ACCESS TO THE PLACE The very original angelic physics of Ophanim Enochian OF THE BLACK HOLE. Access to BLACK fengshui and Golden Dawn, his echoes are still HOLE principle refers to the electrical felt in the city map where whole areas symmetry required to induce the magnetic plan are named for alchemy, and his story with IMPLOSION or PHASE CONJUGATION for this city Rudolf II. principle. Why did the great bloodline of the is in fact Golden Dragon use this city plan to ignite 2. Chemical implications – in visual terms literally a rose! and immortalize their blood? Should you – for REAL modern day alchemy: do the same? a) Gold Powder Physics (Manna / ORMES /PGM Metals / the SPICE...) Come and play with us b) Biologic / Agricultural science – as we teach: behind these ‘clathrates’ or bioactive phase conjugators • The real science BEHIND alchemy 3. Historical Precent / and Allegoric • The real science and physics Beauty: of Angelic Beings a) How alchemy tests for pure • Learn the true alphabet symmetry of the intention by testing which wave is star hearts. ‘shareable’ • The real physics of the magi (matrix of AGni) in MAGic
page b) Introduction to the biologic meaning f) how this literally forms the Plasma of PURE INTENTION - in EKG and EEG Field of what is the BODY of angelic Coherence Measure. Literally the beings (www.goldenmean.info/ Biologic Alchemy of Heart and Brain angelscience) c) In the Grail Literature this psychology of the perfection of purity is called 5. Intro to the Advanced Shemannic ‘Siege Perilous’. Science of Moving your Plasma Body into Stars- 4. How the science of Alchemy played a) sun God ‘An’ out in the Geomancy and History of b) meaning of THE NINE / the ENNEAD Prague: / and the plasma physics of SRI a) the Rose Geometric in the original YANTRA vs 9 CHAKRAS ( goldenmean. Geomantic Map of the City info/whaledreamers b) history of the Kings and Royalty c) how star map navigating played out – Alchemy Lane – and.. in VOYNICH MANUSCRIPT / CEILING c) appearance and history of JOHN DEE AT DENDARA / the concept behind and the OPHANIM in Prague URIELS MACHINE: d) Ophanim / Enochian history, science, which is all about navigating the phase and symbol set / alphabet vs- the conjugate plasma body of your aura actual symmetry of IMPLOSION thru the lucid dream - and thru death e) how the letters inform the symmetry d) finally transcending the death dream operations of fusion / - how the map of death (kluver) was discovered : www.goldenmean.info/ immortality alchemy and how that teaches us how our death dream / star entry corresponds precisely to the sequence of (braiding between dimensions) folding operations of DNA’s strands: the electric “PURPOSE OF DNA”
6. The big story of galactic history of the DRAGON CULTURES (with their CZECH history) - in the galactic and stellar history of DNA
page Vincent Bridges is an authority on the English Vincent Bridges Alchemist John Dee. He will be giving numerous presentations at the Prague Easter event – espeically on the angelic writings of John Dee.
Vincent Bridges is a town square of Hendaye. The authors’ well known author and explorations of this symbolism lead them researcher in the USA. from the cross of Hendaye in the Pyrenees, He was featured on and the Gothic cathedrals of Europe, to the History Channel’s ancient Egypt, the secret origins of Atlantis documentary “Nostradamus: 500 Years in Peru. Later” (2003) as the on-camera tour guide and Historical Consultant. He was also the A Monument to the End of Time: Alchemy, featured historian for the History Channel’s Fulcanelli and the Great Cross “Lost Book of Nostradamus” (2007). In 1926, an enigmatic alchemist called “Language, the Fulcanelli published a book called “Le Vincent is a world traveler, having instrument of organized and led tour groups to southern Mystere des Cathedrales”, or Mystery of the Cathedrals, which explains how Gothic the spirit, has a France, Egypt and India. He has produced his own translation of the I-Ching, and cathedrals have hermetic and alchemical life of its own his Egyptology work is widely respected secrets encoded into their architecture and sculptures. In 1957, a second edition – even though and quoted by scholars as diverse as John Major Jenkins, Moira Timms, and Daniel appeared, and included an extra chapter it is only a Colianus. Vincent was also featured in on the significance of a monument in the town of Hendaye in the Pyrenees. The reflection of The Learning Channel’s documentary Atlantis in the Andes (June 2001). He has monument – an engraved pedestal with the universal been instrumental in the creation of three a pillar and engraved cross – was built around 1680. The Mysteries of the Great Idea.”– schools or educational organizations – The Fifth Way Mystery School, The Newport Cross of Hendaye is a thorough exposition Fulcanelli, Le Earth Institute in Newport, New Hampshire of the hidden meaning encoded into this Hendaye Cross. Mystere des and Pendragon College. Angels in the DNA: The Emerald Modem cathedrals He is co-author of: Mysteries of the Great and Dr. Dee’s Ophanic Language by Cross at Hendaye: Alchemy and the End Vincent Bridges of Time This book reveals one of Western “Language,” Fulcanelli tells us, “the occultism’s deepest secrets: The alchemical instrument of the spirit, has a life of its transformation of base metal into gold own - even though it is only a reflection is also the transformation of the current of the universal Idea.” This Gnostic Iron Age into the Golden Age. Based on meta-linguistic mysticism is the core of the work of the enigmatic 20th-century illumination itself; the language of light alchemist Fulcanelli, the book illustrates emitted and received by the DNA may be how the greatest alchemical secret is the original of all languages, the ultimate that of time itself and that coded into an language of initiation. Could the Ophanic obscure monument in the Basque country be the “computer code” that unlocks the of southwestern France – the cross in the meme? www.VincentBridges.com
page John Dee, Edward Kelley and William Shakespeare: Alchemy and espionage at the court of Rudolph II
In his now-famous diary, on December 19, The Secret Identity of Edward Kelley 1586, John Dee writes: While the modern tendency has been to 19 Dec. On the 19th day (by the new dismiss Edward Kelley’s gold-making as calendar), to please Master Edward a trick to ensnare the gullible, there is no Garland (who had been sent as a question that many people alive at the messenger from the Emperor of Muscovy time thought it was real and said they to ask me to come to him, etc) and his witnessed it. As Lyndy Abraham, Charles brother Francis, E.K. made a public Nicoll, and Lauren Kassell have all written demonstration of the philosophers’ stone about in more detail, “an incredible in the proportion of one grain (no bigger series of attested transmutations remain” than the least grain of sand) to 1 oz and a from Kelley’s years on the continent, with 1Ž4 of common (mercury) and almost 1 eyewitness accounts ranging from French oz of the best gold was produced. When alchemist Nicolas Barnaud to Elizabethan we had weighed the gold, we divided it courtier Sir Edward Dyer to Dee’s son (and up and gave the crucible to Edward at the Dyer’s godson) Arthur, and once-removed same time. accounts from many others, including the Who are these “Garland brothers” Holy Roman Emperor himself. Kelley’s who witnessed such a significant gold-making apparently so convinced demonstration? Could one of them, Francis Sir Edward Dyer, and Dyer’s intelligence Garland, be the cover name for secret report back to England so convinced agent and courier William Shakespeare? William Cecil, Lord Burghley, that If in fact Dee’s courier was William Burghley later used Dyer as an emissary to Shakespeare, this connection to John Dee try to get Kelley to come back to England. and Edward Kelley and their intersecting But who really was Edward Kelley? He magical and alchemical circles can help introduced himself to Dee originally under us answer two of the most vexing question the name Talbot, and Dee accepted him in Shakespearian scholarship: first, why despite the apparent confusion. Kelley’s is it so difficult to find references to the crucial role in the angelic workings, and Bard in his own time? And second, how his reputation as an alchemist, make the and why does the work of someone who silence on his background and origins is all but invisible through 1593 become even more significant. By following the associated with the plays that for more few clues that do exist, we can arrive than two decades dominate Elizabethan at a whole new perspective on the real and Jacobean drama, and become the “Edward Kelley.” most-read and most-performed plays in the English language?
page John Dee, Edward Kelley and William Shakespeare: Alchemy and espionage at the court of Rudolph II (Cont’d)
The Apocalyptic Angels of Dr. John Dee Did the Ophanic angels communicate a new language of light, one that contained the DNA matrix of life, to Dee and Kelley in the 1580s? Was this working designed to be intelligible only to those with an understanding of higher mathematical dimensions? And was it meant to usher in the apocalyptic unveiling of a new precessional age? The answers would appear to be yes, and this insight can be Did such basic Elizabethan theatrical found in the deep geometric structure of devices as the use of curtains come the Ophanic language itself. from John Dee and Edward Kelley’s crystal scrying? Did Dee himself supply Vincent soon to be released book: the design from which the nine great Shakespeare, John Dee and the theatres of Elizabethan London were Hermetic Revolution: Alchemy and built? Were Dee and Kelley the source Espionage in the Magickal Theatre and inspiration for the education and of Elizabethan England sudden rise to prominence of the young By Vincent Bridges and Teresa Burns playwright, William Shakespeare? Can © 2009 the plays of Shakespeare be considered the mystery plays of a neo-pagan Hermetic revolution in 16th century England? Shakespeare, John Dee and the Hermetic Revolution: Alchemy and Espionage in the Magickal Theatre of Elizabethan England takes a new look at Shakespeare’s plays, and Dee and Angels Kelley’s apocalyptic aspirations, to find the outline of an Imperial mysticism that has roots in the ancient Hermetic mysteries of precessional astronomy and the survival of the western Goddess tradition. From Shakespeare’s magical mystery tour of 16th century esoteric currents, the book also looks forward, examining how the Hermetic revolution led to the scientific and political revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries.
page 10 A week of bliss in one of the most beautiful and magical cities in the world
Angelic Harp Music, Singing, and Healing Stories With Erik Berglund, Celtic Harpist, Tenor and Spiritual Healer
“I had the joy Erik Berglund is a Louise, the Yucatan, the Hawaiian islands unique recording artist and the Holy Land. His music was played of hearing Erik who like the troubadours for Queen Juliana’s funeral in Holland play for the of yore, combines his and broadcast throughout Europe. He extraordinary musical has recorded many albums, including the first time while talents with the Spirit following CDs: Angel Chants, Harp of in Brazil this and power of God’s healing gifts. Erik sings the Healing Light, Angel Flight, Healing like an angel with a refined tenor voice Harp of Heaven, Angel Beauty, Harp of summer. Not accompanied by the crystalline sounds the Healing Waters, Somewhere, Endless only was the of his Irish harp. Erik spent 19 years in Light, Harp Music for Children, Creating New York City where he studied harp with Abundance, Angelic Harp Music and Angel music beautiful legendary harpist Mildred Dilling, the Paradise. but I was able teacher of Harpo Marx. Inner Alchemy Healing with Erik Berlung He has performed his at our Prague Easter event. to watch magical healing music Erik works on all the the crowd at the United Nations, traditional needs of health, Cathedral of St. John the relationship, financial and transform Divine, Carnegie Hall, and career issues. He particularly before my eyes. The Lincoln Center in New works through the causes York. in the inner planes: mental, I watched the He has performed in emotional, etheric/memory crowd come major cities from Athens, where causes are stored waiting London, Paris, Berlin, to be healed. alive while Jerusalem, Tokyo, Osaka, For many years Erik hosted he played, the San Francisco, Los Angeles, Mount Shasta Millennium, an Miami, Washington D.C., international gathering of light room was full of Toronto and Sau Paulo workers held in California each colors and love to power points such as summer. Erik has developed Machu Piccu, the Great several workshops including flowed. I will Pyramid, Glastonbury, Abundance, Relationships, never forget it.” Easter Island, Mt. Fuji, Healing, and Angel Workshops. ~Laura Bushnell, the Grand Tetons, Lake His work is inspired. California
page Michal Juza Michal studied architecture at the University but, due to his conflicts with the communist regime, was working as a craft-worker for 9 years. He and his wife Eva (historian of architecture) became potters in their own business. After the revolution, they owned a gallery with their pottery products in the Prague Castle from 1997 till 2004. They extended their activities also to working with people with combined handicaps (working with “arte-therapy”) In 2002 he made use of his personal audience with H. H. Dalai Lama and asked him to print his hand in the clay. This souvenir was devoted to and is preserved in the Prague St. Vitus Cathedral. Alchemy and craftworking At present, besides his own work, Michal is engaged in the spirituality of craftwork. He is guiding his students through the secrets of ergomorphine (a hormone arising during the handicraft manual work). His presentation is about the interconnectedness of alchemy, handicraft and the old guild practises of Europe.
Cheryl Yambrach Rose-Hall Cheryl is a portrait painter, visionary artist and researcher. Using historical data along with her psychic impressions she creates empowered works of art based on sacred sites and their mythology. Excelling in spiritual portraiture, Cheryl is collected by many discerning luminaries, including Gary Zukav, Neale Donald Walsch and Jean Houston. Her artwork has shown world-wide, including the Nelson Rockefeller Collection, the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum and the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Her work has been extensively published in a wide variety of forms — books, articles, magazines, CDs, Doreen Virtue’s oracle decks — and has been featured on the Wisdom and Travel Channels. In Prague, she is co-founder with her husband, of Daghda Vision s.r.o., a company dedicated to global cultural exchange, art, film and publishing. She divides her time between studios in Mount Shasta, CA, Ireland, and Prague. Having returned to her European roots, she is excited by the reawakening of ancestral resonances, which she weaves through her fine oil compositions. www.cherylrose.com/works.php
page 10 Radovan Foit Radovan has been a consultant in Trade and Politics both to government and private clients in the Czech Republic, He also specializes in the heritage of the Ancients in the field of Astrology, Geomancy and Tarot. He published the book of predictions and initiation quest The Last Ritual and historical novel Lichtenburk- the prophecy of Lichnice. He has been for a long time teaching at the Prague Academy of New Slavic Spirituality ANOSS. He is guiding seekers on their spiritual quest and through the sacred places of the planet Earth and namely the Kingdom of Bohemia. His project The Last Ritual at Lichtenburg combines both his spiritual experience, his literary efforts and the heritage of the Ancients.
Jiri Maria Masek Jiri is founder of the Czech alternative internet daily OSUD.cz (destiny.czech) and spiritual school “Anoss” – The New Slavonic Spirituality Academy. He has been interested in the alternative medicine and spiritual issues since his serious disease in 1994. He is the author of the Czech bestseller 2012 Zlata brana otevrena “2012 Golden gate opened”. He lectures on many spiritual themes with the special focus on 2012 and the energy – shift happening from the Mayan Calendar predictions. Since 2007 he founded his own spiritual center in Prague called – “Vysehrad” – The Star center jiri masek´s Je mi jasno.
2012 – The END, or the NEW BEGINNING? What are the signs of time we live? What are the effects on our physical and spiritual energies? What can we expect? What is the reason of these coming changes? Is this the last chance ?
page 11 About John Dee
John Dee in fact invented the famous “Enigma Machine”- used in world wars by the Germans as a ‘code language device’ and also appearing in the Da Vinci Code. He was the first to utilize the wheel method of cryptography. John Dee was a noted English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, occultist, and consultant to Queen Elizabeth I. He devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy, divination, and not describe the language as “Enochian,” Hermetic philosophy. instead preferring descriptors like In addition to being the father of modern “Angelical”, the “Celestial Speech”, the mathematics and several other features “Language of Angels”, the “First Language of modern society (like the English of God-Christ,” the “Holy Language,” or Language), Dee was laced with magic. “Adamical” because, according to Dee’s He communicated with Angels and wrote Angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise down the “Enochian sigils or Enochian to name all things. The term “Enochian” Keys”. These are the keys to the heavenly comes from Dee’s assertion that the realms and what they represent is as Biblical Patriarch Enoch had been the last deep as your imagination will take you. human (before Dee and Kelley) to know Specifically, he sought to contact Angels ... he sought to the language. through the use of a “scryer” or crystal A student of the Renaissance Neo- contact Angels gazer, who would act as an intermediary Platonism, Dee did not draw distinctions between Dee and the angels. These through the use between his mathematical research and “spiritual conferences” or “actions” were his investigations into Hermetic magic of a “scryer” conducted with an air of intense Christian and divination, instead considering piety, always after periods of purification, or crystal both ventures to constitute different prayer and fasting. Dee was convinced of facets of the same quest: the search for a gazer, who the benefits they could bring to mankind. transcendent understanding of the divine Enochian is a name often applied to an would act as an forms which underlie the visible world. occult or angelic language recorded in Dee straddled the worlds of science intermediary the private journals of Dr. John Dee and and magic just as they were becoming his seer Edward Kelley in the late 16th between Dee and distinguishable. One of the most learned century. The men claimed that angels men of his age, he had been invited the angels. revealed it to them. Dee’s journals did to lecture on advanced algebra at the
page and his work on practical mathematics (navigation, for example) were simply the exalted and mundane ends of the same spectrum. His ultimate goal was to help bring forth a unified world religion through the healing of the breach of the Catholic and Protestant churches (at war with each other at the time note: the Thirty Years War) and the recapture of the pure theology of the ancients. According to scholars, in his lifetime Dee amassed the largest library in England and one of the largest in Europe. The word incunabulum means cocoon or cradle and refers to something either in infancy or in metamorphosis. It is also referred to as the printed books prior to 1501, and has been extended to mean any rare and hermetic collection of books. John Dee used the term incunabula to University of Paris while still in his early refer to his library, which contained twenties. He spent much time and effort the most comprehensive collection of in the last thirty years or so of his life to information since the Library of Alexander attempting to commune with angels in burned. order to learn the universal language of Dee’s glyph, whose meaning he creation. explained in Monas Hieroglyphica. Dee was an intensely pious Christian, The Hieroglyphic embodies Dee’s but his Christianity was deeply influenced vision of the unity of the Cosmos and by the Hermetic and Platonic-Pythagorean is a composite of various esoteric and doctrines that were pervasive in the astrological symbols. Dee wrote a Renaissance. He believed that number commentary on it, which serves as a was the basis of all things and the key to primer of its mysteries. DEE’S GLYPH, knowledge, that God’s creation was an Ben Jonson includes a scrying session, act of numbering. From Hermeticism, he during which the spirits render up the WHOSE MEANING drew the belief that man had the potential name of Dee, in his play The Alchemist HE EXPLAINED for divine power, and he believed this (1610). divine power could be exercised through IN MONAS mathematics. His cabalistic angel magic HIEROGLYPHICA. (which was heavily numerological) John Dee page The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
The term Rosicrucian (symbol: the Rose Cross) describes a secret society of mystics, allegedly formed in late mediaeval Germany, holding a doctrine “built on esoteric truths of the ancient past”, which, “concealed from the average man, provide insight into nature, the physical universe and the spiritual realm. “
The temple of the Rose Cross and the Three Parts of the Wisdom of the Whole Universe • Alchemy • Astrology • Theurgy From The publication of the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis (1614) Theurgy means ‘divine-working’. The first recorded use of the term is found in the mid-second century neo- Platonist work, the Chaldean Oracles. The source of Western theurgy can be found in the philosophy of late Neoplatonists, especially Iamblichus. In late Neoplatonism, the spiritual Universe is regarded as a series of emanations from the One. From the One emanated the Divine Mind (Nous) and in turn from the Divine Mind emanated the World Soul (Psyche). Neoplatonists insisted that the One is absolutely transcendent and in the emanations nothing of the higher was lost or transmitted to the lower, the rose cross which remained unchanged by the lower emanations.
page 10 The publication of the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis (1614) The manifestos caused immense excitement throughout Europe: they declared the existence of a secret brotherhood of alchemists and sages who were preparing to transform the arts, sciences, religion, and political and intellectual landscape of Europe while wars of politics and religion ravaged the continent. The works were re-issued several times and followed by numerous pamphlets, favorable and otherwise. Between 1614 and 1620, about 400 manuscripts and books were published which discussed the Rosicrucian documents. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (or, more commonly, the Golden Dawn) was a magical order of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, practicing a form of theurgy and spiritual development. It was possibly the single greatest influence on twentieth century Western Esoteric thinking. It was to deeply influence the Freemasons and the Theosophical Society,
The Golden dawn page 11 About Alchemy
The fundamental events or qualities/ states of being or becoming in Western Alchemy are: blackening, whitening, yellowing and reddening. This corresponds to the four elements: earth, air, water, and fire. This also corresponds to the four qualities: cold, hot, moist, and dry. Through the process of using mercury, sulphur, water, and fire, all in a ritualized fashion, the artifex - the student can achieve transmutation of the elements; through dissolution, coagulation, distillation, condensation, disintegration and bonding. Alchemy was the forerunner of chemistry. That’s why some of the most beautiful glass artworks are made in the Czech Throughout the Ages, Republic! Ummon said to humanities experience The working with gold in Egypt was with the ‘elements of assigned to a priestly class centered in the his monks: nature’ have deeply temple of the god Ptah at Memphis. Ptah “medicine and fascinated us, and for was the patron of smelters and goldsmiths, some, hold the secrets his temple was “goldsmithy,” and his sicknesses of transformation and Universal meaning. priests were distinguished by such titles as are mutually Alchemy was chiefly concerned with “Great Wielder of the Hammer,” and “He transmutation of metals into gold and the who knows the Secret of the Goldsmiths.” dependent. finding of a universal remedy for diseases... Pythagoras stated that quadernity look! the a pouring together...of all the known defines the spectrum of possibilities in science and mythology of each age. the physical world. Aristotle posed the entire universe There are many interpretations of this field fifth element, the quintessence. The is nothing but of endeavor available today, each depicting alchemists were seeking to bring this slightly different stages, signs, and words fifth element down to Earth, through medicine. now describing them. It is a vast mythological the repeated transmutations of matter. tell me, what is system of symbols and metaphors, beings The Gold that was sought however was and stories, geometries and diagrams, not always the material gold. To observe your self? “ elements and heavenly bodies, designed to the alchemical process is to observe the Zen Teaching represent aspects of the human psyche and process of creation itself, and to thus learn spirit, as well as provide guidance towards the secrets of divine genesis. Alchemy the nature of the Universe. was a process reveling a way of giving enlightenment to the soul.
page 15 About Iamblichus
Iamblichus was the Iamblichus placed chief representative of the transcendent Syrian Neo-Platonism, incommunicable though his influence “One”, the monad, spread over much of whose first principle the ancient world. is intellect, nous. He was the son of a Immediately after the absolute One, Iamblichus rich and illustrious family, and he is said lamblichus introduced a second super to have been the descendant of several existent “One” to stand between it and introduced the priest-kings of Emesa. Among the dying ‘the many’ as the producer of intellect, or idea of the soul’s oracles of late antiquity, he was a brilliant soul, psyche. This is the initial dyad. The pagan philosopher offering a religious whole of Iamblichus’s complex theory embodiment and philosophical synthesis, the beauty is ruled by a mathematical formalism in matter, of which echoes down to the present day. of triad, hebdomad, etc., while the first He has influenced all western esoteric principle is identified with the monad, believing matter traditions, including modern Freemasonry, dyad and triad; symbolic meanings being to be as divine as Rosicrucian’s and Alchemist throughout also assigned to the other numbers. The the ages. theorems of mathematics, he says, apply the rest of the He initially studied under Anatolius absolutely to all things, from things divine cosmos. of Laodicea, and later went on to study to original matter. But though he subjects under Porphyry, a pupil of Plotinus, the all things to number, he holds elsewhere founder of Neo-Platonism. Around 304, that numbers are independent existences, he returned to Syria to found his own and occupy a middle place between school at Apameia (near Antioch), a city the limited and unlimited. Iamblichus famous for its Neoplatonic philosophers. described reality’s first forms as they Here he designed a curriculum for bloom from the One in Pythagorean studying Plato and Aristotle, and he terms – as Numbers. From the One, wrote grand commentaries on the two there comes Two. The Two generates the that survive only in fragments. Still, for Many. These Numbers aren’t the familiar Iamblichus, Pythagoras was the supreme counters used in practical transactions One authority. and measurements, but divine presences. Iamblichus introduced the idea of the Their patterns resonate across succeeding soul’s embodiment in matter, believing levels, giving rise to the regularities of the matter to be as divine as the rest of sense-realm. the cosmos. This was the most fundamental point of departure between his own ideas and those of his Neoplatonic predecessors, who believed that matter was a deficient concept.
page 12 The Souls Journey is so thorough that my “self” is in some sense the totality. Amblichus insisted The embodied soul was to return to that spiritual flowering could only be divinity by performing certain rites, powered from beyond the boundaries or theurgy, literally, ‘divine-working’. of personal identity. We must open Some translate this as “magic”, but the ourselves to influences from outside, as a modern connotations of the term do not lotus to light. And again a paradox: these exactly match what Iamblichus had in “external” influences remind us that from mind, which is more along the lines of the Erotic vantage they aren’t “outside” religious ritual. Still, these acts did involve us at all. Iamblichus, like the shamans some of what would today be perceived of old, taught that the soul is housed not as attempts at ‘magic’. Theurgy means just by the physical body, but also by an ‘divine activity.’ Iamblichus contrasted invisible and immortal frame. This ‘spirit- theurgy with theology, or ‘divine words’ body’ is made of the same stuff as the – talking about the Erotic cosmos isn’t the stars. The spirit-body can only be sensed same as living it. through the imagination -- indeed, it is the Iamblicus’ ideas of theurgy, were imagination. written in famous book “On the Egyptian divineMysteries”. Iamblichus’ analysis was that the transcendent couldn’t be grasped “The Greek philosopher Thales said, with mental contemplation because the “all things are full of gods.” The transcendent is supra rational. Theurgy is universe is stocked with objects that a series of rituals and operations aimed at point to the mystery of the One. Our recovering the transcendent essence by souls too harbor such reminders, retracing the divine ‘signatures’ through in the form of images. Iamblichus’ the layers of being. This vast unity – the favorite word for these numinous cues entire cosmic cascade – is our home. was synthemata, a Greek term that And, more mysteriously, it is our identity. literally means “tokens” or “signals.” Who am I? Iamblichus taught that there Synthemata are witnesses of the gods’ are two valid answers. From the angle of presence. They act as mirrors in which ordinary awareness, I am a being with a the soul’s sacred element can view its body and an inner life or soul, sharing own divinity. Iamblichus prescribed a world of other bodies and souls. I am the rites and meditations of pagan an individual, limited in knowledge and power. And I am mortal. This finite religion as means of guiding the soul’s identity is who I am. But it isn’t all that I attention to the synthemata around am. From the standpoint of cosmic Eros, and within it.” this individual life blends into the life of The Teachings of Iamblichus: Between Eros daimones, gods, archetypal Numbers, and and Anteros By Leonard George the One. My immersion in the universe
page 13 As he got older, he noticed the ancient known as the Chaldean Oracles). Could network of oracles was falling silent these strands be woven into an integrated one by one, like wells that dry up when worldview profound enough to hearten their aquifer is exhausted. In his old the philosophers, majestic enough to age, Iamblichus witnessed the awe and comfort simpler folk? unthinkable. Emperor This was the challenge Constantine turned Iamblichus set for away from the pagan himself… path to embrace Iamblichus the god of a eventually did fringe cult called play a role in Christianity. a revival of The pallor pagan though. of the pagan Eleven spirit troubled centuries after Iamblichus. his death, a But he thought copy of his it could be major surviving nursed back to work came health. Iamblichus into the hands of dreamed of a pagan Marsilio Ficino, the Reformation. Neo-Platonist philosopher “His remedy for the pagan of the Italian Renaissance. malaise was a return to the roots of Ficino translated it into Latin, giving it the antique wisdom: the most venerable title it is known by today -- De Mysteriis, spiritual practices, especially those of or On the Mysteries. The Renaissance the eldest societies (Egypt, Babylonia, fascination with ancient spirituality was Assyria); the fountainheads of classical fueled in part by Ficino’s enthusiasm for thought (Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle); and Iamblichus.” the major mystical movements and texts The Teachings of Iamblichus: Between Eros of later antiquity (the Mystery cults, the and Anteros by Leonard George, Hermetic writings, and a visionary book www.LapisMagazine.org spirit
page 14 page 19 page 20 page 21 page 22 The Alchemy of Prague
April 9th NAME Arrival Day in Prague ADDRESS THE PACKAGE April 10-15th 6 days including lunches, seminar tuition, musical performances, walking tours, day trip in STATE coach to sacred sites, and Saturday Night River cruise party. COUNTRY
Note: Please book your own accommodation in ZIP/POSTCODE Prague based on your own budget. CONTACT PHONE NUMBERS Our seminar space is very close to the main old square of Prague. We have a list of suggested Hotels in the area
Fees: Booking before 6th of March: CONTACT EMAIL Package 1180 Euros Booking after 6th March: Package 1350 Euros PAYMENT METHOD
Payment Bank Transfer • Convert into US dollars if you need on day of Sending Check payment on current exchange rate.
• Credit Cards – Visa and Mastercard available Credit Card: n Visa n MC with 3% surcharge Name on Card • Bank transfer available Number • Payment check in US dollars available Expiry date / / • Payment check in English GB available CVV security number
More details www.FengShuiSeminars.com page 21 www.AcademySacredGeometry.com