Hidden Wisdom
an introduction to Ritual in the Western Esoteric Traditions

four non-residential weekends in the heart of Glastonbury
with Andy Cooper
Third Degree Initiate of the Western Mystery Tradition

Sat 10th / Sun 11th Oct 2009
Sat 5th / Sun 6th Dec 2009
Sat 6th / Sun 7th Feb 2010
Sat 10th / Sun 11th Apr 2010

Times:
Sat: 9:30am – 8:30pm
Sun 9:30am – 4pm

• Brochure

REGISTRATION:
The Isle of Avalon Foundation
The Glastonbury Experience,
2-4 High Street,
Glastonbury, Somerset, BA69DU
TEL: 01458 833933
Email: mailto:office@isleofavalongfoundation.com?subject=Query re: Hidden Wisdom
Website: http://www.isleofavalonfoundation.com/

COST:
£440
deposit £50

The Western Esoteric Traditions are a little understood corpus of spiritual practices that have been handed down from ancient Egypt, via the Qabalah of the Jews, classical Greece and the renaissance philosophers and alchemists to the modern practitioners of esoteric science in all its forms.  This series of four weekend workshops introduces participants to the spiritual practices of the Western Esoteric Traditions centered around Qabalistic and Egyptian ritual.

On this course you will learn:

• The history and development of spiritual practices from ancient Egypt to the present day
• The purpose and historical context of ritual in the Western Mystery Tradition
• The set up of a temple and the key roles and responsibilites of the ritual officers
• How to design, write and perform rituals in the traditions of the Qabalah and ancient Egypt
• How to perform ritual techniques such as the Qabalistic Cross
• Simple techniques for emotional clearning and dealing with personal issues that arise as a result of spiritual training.

Andy Cooper is a Third Degree Initiate of the Western Mystery Tradition and a very experienced practicing ritualist.  His lineage comes from Dion Fortune, the founder of the Society of the Inner Light, through Ernest Butler, the founder of the Servants of the Light (SOL) and Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, its current Director of Studies.  Andy holds a PhD in Esoteric Studies and is a certified trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a Reiki Master and an initiate of the Huna tradition of ancient Hawaii.  He is the Director of Studies of the Academy of the Opened Ways, a fully chartered and contacted daughter school of the SOL that integrates psychotherapy, hypnosis and esoteric science into a new curriculum focused on the coherent development of the emotional, mental and psspiritual aspects of a person.