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Priests And Priestesses Program
The Sea Temple
The Fire Temple
The Temple Of The East
The Temple Of The North
The Four Temples
The
Four Temples and the Pillar of Light
The Fifth Nameless Goddess
The Mysteries Of Death And The OtherWorld.
Crossing The Threshold Into The New Millennium. The Inner
Temples And The Next Age
All workshop titles and descriptions
are strictly copyright (c) RJ Stewart.
Priests and Priestesses: A Three Part
Program
With R J Stewart
This is our main on-going work, and regular workshops and
classes are held in many parts of the USA. After completing
the three-fold initial training (described below), members
are eligible to join advanced workshops and meetings.
Priests and Priestesses 1
Opening
Out Our Inner Awareness And Abilities
Everyone is potentially a priest or
priestess, which simply means mediating or reflecting universal
being to one another. During this workshop we will explore
and experience ways in which men and women may attune to their
inherent abilities to be priests and priestesses, through
techniques handed down and taught within the esoteric traditions.
There is no dogma involved, and themethods used are found
in many forms worldwide.
Orthodox
religions often link priesthood with power politics, particularly
with the suppression of the feminine, of the Goddess. The
esoteric traditions, however, have retained the sacredness
of the feminine, and work with men and women equally. Many
of the techniques in our workshops are new, while others are
handed down from the great temple cultures of the ancient
world, from folklore,and from specific teaching traditions
passed on underground through centuries of oppression.
The
workshop is wide-ranging, and much of it will develop out
of the needs of the people involved.
Specific
topics are likely to be:
~Moving beyond daily personality
and sexuality.
~Finding the god and goddess
within.
~Relating to gods and goddess
of various pantheons.
~Mediating or reflecting divinities
and related energies.
~Working with partners and groups.
~Typical difficulties or problems
for modern individuals.
~The idea and power of ourselves
and others as timeless priests and
priestesses.
~Relating to the inner Mysteries,
and the themes of initiation and
consecration.
This is an intense practical workshop involving
meditation and mediation, vision, movement, subtle energies,
and altered states of consciousness.
This
workshop is open to all.
(c)
RJ Stewart
Priests
and Priestesses 2
Inner
Temple Traditions
In the second phase of this three part program,
we move on to deeper and more specific skills, inner contacts,
and changes of consciousness and energy.
This workshop includes:
~Working with the Convocation
of Timeless Priests and Priestesses, and
increasing the experience of the Flame of Being through inner
work in vision and meditation, and through approaching timelessness.
~Attuning to specific Inner Temples,
developing the skills to enter and leave them at will and
learning from individual and group contact with them.
~Attuning, empowering and consecrating
talismans. This is a powerful traditional technique for protection,
alignment, and strengthening inner contact. Please bring a
piece of jewelry for yourself only.
~Ensouling and awakening dedicated
objects. This is one aspect of the traditional art of attuning
the power of the gods and goddesses to consecrated objects.
These are not personal talismans, but dedicated objects used
in the work of the priest and priestess for specific purposes.
Please bring a suitable object (one only) to work with.
For those who have done Priests and Priestesses
1 OR at least one other fullweekend workshop
(c) RJ Stewart.
Priests and Priestesses 3
The Consecration Workshop And Ceremony
After working with Priests and Priestesses
1 & 2, members may take the third workshop, which includes
a Consecration ceremony.
This is a traditional "laying on of
hands" initiation, in which subtle energies and contacts
are awakened in the individual. The result is greatly heightened
inner awareness, and a clear attunement to the spiritual contacts
of the Timeless Convocation, a great stream of consciousness
that includes many inner Priests and Priestesses.
After the Consecration, members are eligible
to join advanced workshops, and ongoing small groups.
To attend this workshop, members must have
done Priests And Priestesses 1 and 2 OR at least one other
workshop and Priests And Priestesses 2.
(c) RJ Stewart.
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Temple Traditions
The Sea Temple
The
Inner Temple Traditions teach techniques of inner transformation.
An open workshop, suitable for new and experienced
people. Exploring the power and presence of The Sea Temple.
The Sea Temple is one of the major inner
sources of growth, change, and regeneration in our world.
In modern society there are no formal sea temples, though
they were widespread in ancestral cultures, either as formal
temples or as sacred places at the sea shore. During the weekend
we shall bridge betweenancestral traditions of a great spiritual
Temple, and the living consciousness of the Ocean today.
The Sea Temple also reaches from the greater
oceans out beyond our planet, into the Stars. Thus it is a
stellar Temple, and a temple of spiritual navigation.
The
workshop will include meditation, visionary experience, and
ceremony. As part of the ongoing Priests and Priestesses
program, this event will build inner contact between ourselves
and the greater spiritual beings who relate to us through
the Sea Temple.
Through geomantic (UnderWorld, earth magic)
connections, this workshop will include working with deep
sources of planetary weather, and earthquake and volcanic
power. We shall explore these first as mythic themes, then
discover how to relate to them consciously as modern individuals.
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The Fire Temple: Initiation and Illumination
The
Inner Temple Traditions teach techniques of inner transformation.
Ancient tradition tells us of the Fire Temple
which manifested in temple cultures of the past (Egypt, Atlantis,
Farsi,and many more). The eternal Fire Temple holds
the mystery of the inner spiritual fire and light, a state
of consciousness that many beings can, and do, share, transcending
time and space.
In our ongoing series of Priests and Priestesses
workshops with R J Stewart, open to new and experienced people,
we shall explore and commune with the temple of the Inner
Fire, situated in the South, the realm of Light. This
workshop brings us into direct contact with the Inner Temple,
which is both a state of consciousness and a place beyond
time.
The workshop will be wide ranging, and themes will include:
What is the Fire Temple?
Ancient tradition often associates the Fire
Temple with ancestral cultures, the great temple-building
civilizations of the past. Spiritual traditions teach that
there is an Inner Temple of spiritual fire and light, a state
of consciousness that many beings can, and do, share, transcending
time and space.
What are the Inner Traditions?
Outer religion often turns into politics,
but inner spiritual traditions teach
techniques of inner knowledge, and of inner transformation.
In addition to
techniques, the Inner Temple Traditions hold open lines or
living streams of
consciousness. As modern individuals we can access these through
our skills invision, meditation, and ceremony.
How does this work for the future?
We shall explore the influence of the Fire Temple on human
development,
especially concerning the dawn of a new century. The methods
used are uniquely developed for the workshop, and are not
found in publication.
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The Temple Of The East: Instruction
and Inspiration.
The
Inner Temple Traditions teach techniques of inner transformation.
How may we find instruction and inspiration?
Where do the long-term changes in human awareness originate?
What specific ways of learning and sources of inspiration
are appropriate for us now, as the century changes?
How will human arts, sciences, and consciousness manifest
in the future ?
We
shall explore these and other questions through meditation,
inner vision, ceremony, and discussion.
The Temple of the East is the realm of Inspiration,
and from deep inspiration, human culture manifests through
development of arts and sciences, including the spiritual
paths.
The Temple of the East contains many sources
of inspiration and instruction which we can access through
inner techniques...including specific methods which will be
taught, shared, and experienced in this workshop.
Themes will include:
~Opening contact with the inner
Temple in vision and meditation.
~Finding and working with Inspiration
and Instruction in your inner and outer life.
~Mythic powers, gods and goddesses,
archetypes, and the changing world.
~The future of formal religion
and materialist science.
~Regeneration and transformation
in the 21st century.
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The Temple Of The North: Destruction
and Regeneration.
The Inner Temple Traditions teach techniques of inner transformation.
How may we understand individual and collective
cycles of destruction and regeneration?
Where do the long-term changes in collective consciousness
and planetary life originate?
What specific ways of learning about change are
appropriate for us now that the century has changed?
Have we now entered an Apocalypse or a Harmonious
Millennium?
We
shall explore these and other questions through meditation,
inner vision, ceremony, and discussion.
The Temple Of The North is the realm of Regeneration, but
before regeneration there has to be destruction: nothing can
be reborn without dying.
The Temple of the North contains many sources
of insight and individual
transformation which we can access through inner techniques...including
specific methods which will be taught, shared, and experienced
in this workshop.
Themes will include:
~Opening contact with the inner
Temple in vision and meditation.
~Finding and working with cycles
of change in your inner and outer life.
Mythic powers, gods and goddesses, archetypes, especially
the Dark Goddess of uttermost destruction and universal regeneration.
~Relating past, present, and
future, through traditional themes of prophecy, initiation,
and rebirth.
~Individual liberation through
inner and spiritual arts and disciplines.
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Temple Traditions
The Four Temples.
The Inner Temple Traditions teach techniques of inner transformation.
What are the "Inner Temples"?
Why should we work with the Inner Temples?
How can the idea of the Inner Temples work for
us?
We shall explore these and other questions through
meditation, inner vision, ceremony, and discussion.
The Four Temples are states of Being, likewise
qualities of consciousness,
associated with the Four Directions. We can work with them
as,
The Temple of Instruction and Inspiration in the East
The Temple of Initiation and Illumination in the South
The Temple of the Ebbing and Flowing Tides in the West
The Temple of Destruction and Regeneration in the North.
Themes within the workshop will include:
~Opening and maintaining contact
with the inner Temples in vision and
meditation.
~Working with the elemental Temples,
of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth in our
lives.
~Mythic powers, gods and goddesses,
archetypes, and the changing world.
~The Four Qualities of Awareness:
Instruction, Initiation, Reception,
Transformation.
~The deeper powers of the Four
Temples: Inspiration, Illumination, Compassion, Liberation.
~ Harmonizing
the power of our consciousness and energy through the Center,
where the Four Temples meet as one.
The
Four Temples and the Pillar of Light
An
Inner Temple Traditions workshop with R J Stewart
This new workshop is part of the ongoing Inner Temples/Priests
and Priestesses series taught by R J Stewart from 1989 to
the present date.
During our two day intensive we will attune to the Four Temples
of the sacred directions of East, South, West, and North,
and discover their spiritual influence upon our changing world
in the 21st century, and their inner transformative potentials
for ourselves, for the future. The Four Temples are not merely
symbolic: they embody a spiritual continuum, existing beyond
time and beyond our individual lives, on the deep threshold
of consciousness, which is shared by many beings who act as
priests and priestesses to all orders of life.
The Four Temples act as storehouses for the wisdom of the
past , and as sources of new teaching, spiritual energy, and
inner contact in meditation, vision, and ritual.
The Pillar of Light is at the Center of All, and is the source
of the cosmos, of all being. It extends to our planet Earth,
passing inwards, from the stars, and issues from the center
of the Earth, passing outwards, to Moon Sun and Stars.
All men and women are potentially priests and priestesses
of the living Spirit. Interaction with the Four Temples and
the Pillar Light enable us to realise this potential, and
to join in communion with the inner convocations of Life,
Light, Love, and Law.
This workshop is open to all, and includes new material not
previously taught or published by R J Stewart.