FORTNIGHT OVERVIEW
The Shadow, Pagan/Celtic/Masonic
Europe
Summer - Fortnight 8 (Wind+Earth)
Jung's Ego
Feast/Jul
9: The search for meaning and purpose.
The Shadow, Set and the killing of Osiris. Scattering of consciousness
(Osiris), Isis (Anima) seeking the lost part. Farming metaphor. Osiris
rising and Barley sprouting. Barley Harvest. Hallucinations of humans and
LLM''s. Development of Masonry, Rosicrucians, Golden Dawn in mediaeval
Europe. Wicca, witchcraft, pagan festivals, seasonal attunement, conflation
of paganism with Catholicism. Virgin Mary as Animus. Devil, OTO,
Crowely.
First 5 Day Ko Day 1-5 of 8th Fortnight
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| Practice | Jung’s Alchemical Mandala Drawing (Medieval Lens)
Historical Practice: A medieval mystic, inspired by Jung’s alchemical studies, drew mandalas symbolizing soul growth. In a scriptorium, using plant-based pigments, they meditated on the mandala’s unfolding, per Psychology and Alchemy. Self-Practice: Draw a circular mandala with colored pencils, focusing on growth patterns. Meditate on it for 10 minutes, reflecting on how it symbolizes your soul’s expansion. |
Teresa’s Convent Gardening
Historical Practice: Teresa encouraged her nuns to tend convent gardens, meditating on creation’s stability, planting herbs like thyme to nurture community. Self-Practice: Plant an herb like thyme, meditating on community roots. Spend 15 minutes tending it, reflecting on nurturing stability. |
Hildegard’s Nature Walks
Historical Practice: Hildegard walked through meadows, observing plants like sage for spiritual insight. These meditative strolls, described in her letters, grounded her in creation’s order. Self-Practice: Walk in a park, observing plants. Meditate for 20 minutes on nature’s order, journaling how it grounds your spirit. |
Alchemical Earth Meditation
Historical Practice: Alchemists like John Dee meditated on soil, symbolizing the prima materia. Kneeling in laboratories, they visualized roots anchoring their souls, per Emerald Tablet interpretations. Self-Practice: Sit on the ground, holding soil. Visualize roots anchoring your soul for 15 minutes, focusing on stability, and journal any grounding sensations. |
Thomas Merton’s Garden Meditation (Medieval Lens)
Historical Practice: A medieval mystic in Merton’s style meditated while tending herbs, praying for community stability, inspired by Merton’s writings. Self-Practice: Tend a plant or garden, praying for stability. Meditate for 15 minutes, reflecting on nurturing creation, and note your thoughts.. |
| History | Sextus/Constantine Rome | Sextus/Constantine Rome | Sextus/Constantine Rome | Sextus/Constantine Rome | Sextus/Constantine Rome |
| Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal | Sophia's rescuer battles demons, rearranges their heaven | Sophia's rescuer battles demons, rearranges their heaven | Sophia's rescuer battles demons, rearranges their heaven | Sophia's rescuer battles demons, rearranges their heaven | Sophia's rescuer battles demons, rearranges their heaven |
Second 5 Day Ko Day 6-10 of 8th Fortnight
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| Practice | Jung’s Earth Archetype Meditation (Medieval Lens)
Historical Practice: A medieval mystic, inspired by Jung, meditated on the “Great Mother” archetype, visualizing roots grounding their soul, per Symbols of Transformation. Self-Practice: Sit in a garden, visualizing the “Great Mother” grounding you. Meditate for 15 minutes, journaling how it fosters stability. |
Florentine Mystic’s Earth Contemplation
Historical Practice: Mystics meditated on Tuscan soil, sitting among vineyards, visualizing their souls rooted in divine creation, inspired by Neoplatonism. Self-Practice: Sit in a garden, touching soil. Meditate for 15 minutes, visualizing your soul rooted in divine creation, and journal your reflections. |
Rosicrucian Stone Meditation
Historical Practice: Proto-Rosicrucian mystics contemplated polished stones, symbolizing eternal stability. Holding them during prayer, they sought inner balance, tied to alchemical symbolism. Self-Practice: Hold a polished stone and meditate on its stability for 10 minutes. Visualize it grounding your spirit, then reflect on balance. |
Sethite Gnostic Earthly Gnosis Ritual
Historical Practice: Sethite Gnostics meditated on the material world as divine gnosis, offering grains in hidden rituals, as in The Gospel of the Egyptians (Nag Hammadi). Self-Practice: Offer grains in a quiet space, meditating on divine creation for 10 minutes. Reflect on grounding wisdom, noting insights. |
Hildegard’s Botanical Healing
Historical Practice: Hildegard prepared plant-based remedies, like chamomile infusions, in her convent infirmary. Praying while mixing herbs, she nurtured patients’ souls, as in Physica. Self-Practice: Prepare a chamomile tea, praying for healing. Sip slowly, meditating for 10 minutes on nurturing your body and soul, reflecting on earth’s grounding energy. |
| History | Medieval Alchemists | Medieval Alchemists | Medieval Alchemists | Medieval Alchemists | Medieval Alchemists |
| MytMythos of Yeshe Tzogyalhos | Sophia's Redeemer continues cosmic labors | Sophia's Redeemer continues cosmic labors | Sophia's Redeemer continues cosmic labors | Sophia's Redeemer continues cosmic labors | Sophia's Redeemer continues cosmic labors |
Third 4/5 Day KoDay 11-15 of 8th Fortnight
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| Practice | Pagan-Christian Harvest Offering
Historical Practice: Syncretic communities offered grains or herbs at altars during harvest festivals. Praying for abundance, they honored earth deities and Christian saints. Self-Practice: Offer grains or herbs on a small altar, praying for abundance. Meditate for 10 minutes, reflecting on gratitude and earth’s nurturing cycle. |
Rosicrucian Herbal Offering
Historical Practice: Proto-Rosicrucian mystics offered herbs like lavender at altars, symbolizing earth’s bounty, grounding their spirituality through offerings. Self-Practice: Offer lavender on a small altar, praying for grounding. Meditate for 10 minutes, reflecting on earth’s bounty, and note your thoughts. |
John Dee’s Crystal Meditation
Historical Practice: Dee meditated on crystal spheres, symbolizing earthly purity. In his study, he visualized their clarity grounding his soul, blending alchemy and mysticism. Self-Practice: Hold a clear crystal and gaze into it for 10 minutes, visualizing earthly purity. Journal how it anchors your spiritual focus. |
Alchemical Salt Purification
Historical Practice: Alchemists meditated on salt, symbolizing earthly purity. Sprinkling it in circles during contemplation, they sought grounding, per Rosarium Philosophorum. Self-Practice: Sprinkle salt in a circle around you, meditating on purity for 10 minutes. Visualize it grounding your soul, then reflect on stability. |
Jung’s Stone Carving Meditation (Medieval Lens)
Historical Practice: A medieval mystic, following Jung, carved symbols on stone, meditating on earthly stability, per Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Self-Practice: Carve or draw a symbol on a stone. Meditate on its permanence for 15 minutes, reflecting on earthly stability. |
| History | Masonry | Rosicrucians | Rosicrucians | Rosicrucians | Rosicrucians |
| Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal | Sophia's Redeemer unveils his light | Sophia's Redeemer unveils his light | Sophia's Redeemer unveils his light | -Sophia's Redeemer unveils his light | Sophia's Redeemer unveils his light |
Group 3: Earth – Ego (Mastering the Self)
Elemental Focus: Earth symbolizes stability and
the Ego, the conscious self that must be disciplined.
Thematic Tone: These exercises root the soul in
divine truth, inspired by Gospel of Truth’s call to overcome the Ego.
Phase 1: Hylic (Body and World – Practical
Rules and Physical Actions)
Basis: Gospel of Philip teaches grounding the
body in divine purpose.
1. Exercise: Touching the Mother Earth
Basis: Thunder, Perfect Mind.
Kneel and touch the ground, saying,
“I am the earth and the light within it, the mother who grounds my soul
in eternity, anchoring my Ego to truth.” Visualize roots connecting you
to the divine, and feast on grains.
Source: Thunder, Perfect Mind.
2. Exercise: Planting the Divine Seed
Basis: Gospel of Truth.
Plant a seed in soil, saying, “The
seed of truth blossoms in the soul, growing from the earth to the light
of gnosis, transforming my Ego into light.” Visualize your Ego becoming
divine, and feast on carrots.
Source: Gospel of Truth.
3. Exercise: Carrying the Ego’s Weight
Basis: Alchemical texts.
Hold a stone, walking slowly, and
say, “Truth is a weight that frees the soul, turning the stone of Ego into
an altar of light, lifting my soul to gnosis.” Place the stone down, releasing
its burden, and feast on potatoes.
Source: Gospel of Philip.
4. Exercise: Drawing the Circle of Truth
Basis: Sethite rituals (Nag Hammadi).
Draw a circle in the dirt, saying,
“The kingdom is a circle within you, binding the Ego to the truth of the
divine, grounding my soul in eternity.” Step inside, feeling the earth’s
support, and feast on beets.
Source: Gospel of Thomas.
5. Exercise: Offering of Soil’s Surrender
Basis: Pistis Sophia.
Raise a handful of soil, saying,
“The earth receives the soul’s surrender, as I offer my Ego to the light
of eternity, freeing my soul from illusion.” Scatter the soil, visualizing
your false self dissolving, and feast on corn.
Source: Pistis Sophia.
Phase 2: Psychic (Praise of Aeons and Divine
Beings)
Basis: Apocryphon of John invokes divine beings
to transcend the Ego.
6. Exercise: Hymn to the Divine Mother
Basis: Thunder, Perfect Mind.
Chant, “I am the mother who bears
the light, rooting my soul in the earth of eternity, guiding my Ego to
divine truth.” Visualize her as a radiant tree, offering a bowl of grain
to the earth, and feast on barley.
Source: Thunder, Perfect Mind.
7. Exercise: Invocation of Christos’ Root
Basis: Christos in Pistis Sophia.
Face the earth, saying, “Christos
is the root of salvation, planting the seed of gnosis in my soul, anchoring
my Ego in light.” Visualize him grounding your soul, and feast on olives.
Source: Pistis Sophia.
8. Exercise: Praise of the Aeons’ Foundation
Basis: Aeons in Codex Brucianus.
Chant aeon names, saying, “The aeons
are the roots of the divine, grounding my soul in the earth of eternity,
lifting my Ego to gnosis.” Visualize their light in the soil, and feast
on peas.
Source: Codex Brucianus.
9. Exercise: Prayer to Barbelo’s Strength
Basis: Barbelo in Apocryphon of
John.
Kneel, saying, “Barbelo is the foundation
of all light, the mother who anchors my soul in truth, strengthening my
Ego for the divine.” Visualize her as a mountain beneath you, and feast
on lentils.
Source: Apocryphon of John.
10. Exercise: Chanting the Pleroma’s Soil
Basis: The Pleroma in Gospel
of Truth.
Chant, “The Pleroma is the
soil of eternity, where my soul takes root in the light of gnosis, transcending
the Ego’s illusion.” Visualize the divine realms as a fertile field, offering
a stone to the ground, and feast on squash.
Source: Gospel of Truth.
Phase 3: Pneumatic (Sublime Matters – Altar Work and Mental Focus)
Basis: Nag Hammadi texts and Jung’s active imagination
and mandala meditation for divine communion.
11. Exercise: Altar of Earth’s Light
Basis: Earth in Thunder, Perfect
Mind.
Create an altar with soil
and a green candle, saying, “The earth is the cradle of the divine spark,
holding my soul in the light of eternity, grounding my Ego in truth.” Visualize
the earth as a gateway to the Pleroma, and feast on spinach.
Source: Thunder, Perfect Mind.
12. Exercise: Active Imagination of the Divine
Root
Basis: Jung’s active imagination,
adapted to Gospel of Truth.
Place a plant on an altar,
closing your eyes to say, “The root of the soul is the light, growing from
earth to the Pleroma’s embrace, revealing my soul’s truth.” Engage in active
imagination, dialoguing with the plant as a manifestation of Barbelo, visualizing
her guiding your Ego to gnosis, and feast on kale.
Source: Gospel of Truth.
13. Exercise: Mandala of the Mountain’s Ascent
Basis: Jung’s mandala meditation,
adapted to alchemical texts.
Draw a circular mandala on
an altar with a stone at its center, saying, “Truth is a mountain that
leads to the stars, lifting my soul beyond the Ego’s weight to the divine
center.” Meditate on the mandala, visualizing a mountain path to the Pleroma,
integrating your Ego into the divine, and feast on broccoli.
Source: Gospel of Philip.
14. Exercise: Contemplation of Sophia’s Fall (Day
14 – Fast Begins)
Basis: Sophia’s descent in
Pistis Sophia.
Place soil on an altar, meditating
while saying, “Sophia fell, yet her light endures, as my soul seeks gnosis
amidst the earth of illusion, yearning for the homeland.” Visualize her
struggle, fasting to reflect on her 13 Repentances.
Source: Pistis Sophia.
15. Exercise: Sophia’s Earthly Ascent (Day 15
– Fast Continues)
Basis: Sophia’s rescue in
Pistis Sophia.
Place a white stone on an
altar, saying, “Through ascent, the soul finds its home, as Sophia rises
from earth to the land of light, guiding my soul to eternity.” Visualize
her ascent, fasting to seek the eternal homeland.
Source: Pistis Sophia.
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