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Focus on Rivendell Temple’s new Stained Glass Windows. Nosce te Ipsum On the cover
of our latest video The
Rites Of Magick, you will see a photo of our temple's stained
glass window. Along with this inspiring acquisition, we were fortunate to obtain the older, and larger, stained glass window from Hollywood’s legendary Sorcerer’s Shop. This marvelous antique work of art was transported to us from Beverly Hills, and installed in the north wall of the adytum--as shown in the accompanying photos. The window measures an awesome five feet by four feet, and illuminates our Seasonal Grail and Eucharist implements.
Our thanks to Alice Phillips and to Lady Babbetta for helping to enrich and beautify our Magical ashram. Thabion Focus
on Pathworkings We had our basic lower triad working by the Summer of 1973, and I was using a measure of the inspiration derived to write the mystic adventure novel Adamson's Quest - which is still running as a serial in The Seventh Ray.
We have gone on with our inner plane explorations to perfect a deep space method of astral time travel, having taken fascinating journeys back to ancient Alexandria, and Solomon's Temple. After many years of adventure, exploration, and discovery on the inner planes, we feel confident that our system is as powerful and effective as any similar program in the West, or even the East -- with the added advantage of being safe, and carefully controlled.
Thabion
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The five foot by three foot depiction of the Order’s Septagram
Symbol was designed by me and rendered in stain glass by local artist
Alice Phillips of Silverado Glass; the same collaboration of talents
that produced the earlier round "Goddess Tanit" window.
These stained glass windows contribute
to our Temple’s spiritual atmosphere, and will be especially appreciated
by those anchorites confined to the sacred precincts during their
three day Holy Guardian Angles retreats in preparation for Inner Order
initiation.
le behind Kerpol's guided astral journeys were
the several "attention points" that the narrator, or guide,
would describe for his students. At each of these stations a very
personal and individual symbolic, or oracular, message was received
and committed to memory. This made the mystic journeys truly worthwhile,
instructive -- and even initiatory --rites of passage. Once in possession
of this key concept, it was not difficult for me to apply the method
to the kabbalistic structure of the Tree of Life and its twenty-two
Paths leading to ten Sephiroth. My main reference in this task was
Gareth Knight's classic Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism.
By 1980 we had made a breakthrough
in Pathworking conceptions with the design and construction of a vehicle
for accessing the Sephiroth above Tiphareth. Explorations in this
mode led to our eventual penetration of the Da'ath Gate, and
our radical new Path and Tarot contribution (see The Seventh Ray,
Book II, the "Red Ray" ). 
In the accompanying temple
photos you can see our large Dark Mirror suspended face-down
over the center of the Magick Circle, with the appropriate symbols
of the Sephira and the Path of the working displayed
on the top in the nature of an altar. Astral travelers lie in a "ground-star"
under the mirror, stare up at a tattwa (or other symbol) and
project their spirit bodies through The Gate under the guidance
of the leader. A pathworking to Yesod is dramatically depicted in
our new DVD video documentary, |
Text, Artwork and Photos are © C.H.S Inc., 2005, all rights reserved. For questions/comments regarding the OTA, please contact Archimage Thabion at kingsword@aol.com. |