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Lectures listed here are given at The Gnostic Society of Los Angeles, California.  These programs are held every Friday evening at 8:00 PM.  Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are presented by Dr. Stephan Hoeller.  Lectures are free and open to the public (donations are appreciated).  Refreshments are offered following the lecture.  Further information is available by calling 323-467-2685. (Map and Directions)

Now all lectures given by Dr. Hoeller at the Gnostic Society in Los Angeles are available for download (in mp3 format) within a few days after the live presentation. The recordings are hosted in the new Gnostic Society Lecture Series Collection at BC Recordings (bcrecordings.net).  In addition, you will find at BC Recordings a huge catalog of past lectures by Dr. Hoeller, grouped by topic, and all available for immediate download. 

This page lists the current lecture series, with a view back through 2009. (An archival list of lectures delivered between 1996 and 2008 is also provided.)  For information about purchase and download of past lectures presented at the Gnostic Society, go to BC Recordings, an audio publishing effort advancing the work of Dr. Hoeller since 1979.

 

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June 2013:  Alchemy and Individuation

After concluding the experiences and the writing of the Red Book, C.G. Jung chose the archaic and abandoned art of Alchemy as the symbolic paradigm of individuation and he devoted several of his most profound works to this subject.  Dr. Hoeller intends to give a series in the Fall on the text and images of the Alchemical codex of "Zosimos of Panopolis", the Hermetic-Gnostic Alchemist who chiefly inspired C.G. Jung.  These talks in June are to serve as a background for the further Alchemical talks.  Two of these titles appear to be complimentary to our comprehensive collection on Alchemy at the BC Recordings website, and this message will be updated subsequently.

June 7:  Jung's Entry into Alchemy:  "The Secret of the Golden Flower"  The Chinese Alchemical treatise, presented to Jung by Richard Wilhelm and its mysterious connection with the Red Book.

June 14:  Principles of Alchemy; An Overview of the Great Art:  The process of transformation and its phases.  The elements and forces.  The objective of Alchemy.  "Be ye living Philosopher's Stones".

June 21:  Great Alchemists and Their Work:  Paracelsus the mystic physician and his Alchemical Medicine.  Gerhardus Dorn and other great Alchemical Masters.

June 28:  Alchemy and Religion:  Transformation and the Eucharist; Mercury and Christ; St. Thomas Aquinas and the "Aurora Consurgens".

April and May 2013:  Creativity, Imagination and Gnosis

Conventional religiosity has maintained that spiritual experiences were a gift of Divine Grace and Revelation.  The ancient Gnosis, as fortified by the New Gnosis of C.G. Jung holds that the deific spirit indwelling the human psyche is creative and can draw on transcendental intelligence for its purposes.  Dr. Hoeller explores the workings of such creativity.  (April lectures are available at the BC Recordings website, but May lectures are being merged with over 20 other Literature and Authors titles in creating two large new sets; stay tuned.)

April 5:  Creative Imagination; its Nature and Function:  Anciently seen as the source of Magic; later as the fountain of Art (Virgil was called a Poet and a Magician) and by Jung as the chief agent of individuation.

April 12:  The Artist as Gnostic Magician:  Writers of prose and poetry, painters and sculptors; composers and musicians in their relation to creative Magic.

April 19:  Creative Imagination and Ancient Gnostic and Hermetic Gnosis:  Evidence of Creative Imagination in the Nag Hammadi Scriptures and in Hermetic writings.  "The Treatise of the Eighth and the Ninth"; Hermetic Hymns and the Poimandres.

April 26:  Mystic Imagination and its Disclosures:  Christian Mystics; Ibn Arabi's Sufi Mysticism; William Blake and "secular" mystic visions.

May 3:  W.B. Yeats: The Poetry of Magic and Vision:  Magus of the Golden Dawn; protegé of H.P. Blavatsky; prophet of the Celtic Revival.

May 10:  Louis Claude de St. Martin; Mystic Poet; Unknown Philosopher:  The Life, Message and Adeptic Role of the Father of the French Martinist tradition.

May 17:  J.W. von Goethe and the Archetype of Faust:  The "prince of poets and poet of princes" admired by Freud, Jung, Rudolf Steiner; co-creator of the modern German language and Esoteric Sage.

May 24:  J.R.R. Tolkien; his Myth and Vision:  Creator of the greatest Myth of the 20th Century; traveler in an Alternative Reality.

May 31:  Robert Graves, the Poet of Myth:  Greatest living poet of the English tongue of his time. Imaginative myth-maker extraordinaire.

February and March 2013:  Types and Functions of the Feminine Soul

In these talks Dr. Hoeller discusses the Four Functional Forms of the feminine psyche as given by Toni Wolff, a pioneering associate of C.G. Jung.  These lectures include esoteric elements and "Red Book glimpses" not included in Dr. Hoeller's lectures on this subject in previous years.  (These recordings are available at the BC Recordings website.)

February 1:  Feminine Psyche: Feminine World Soul:  The trans-cosmic Feminine Principle and its psychological implications.

February 8:  The Mother:  First of Toni Wolff's Structural (and functional) Forms of the Feminine Psyche.  The Maternal Woman and her perennial significance.

February 22:  The Amazon:  The form most favored by modern and post-modern Feminists. Woman as fighter, activist and executive.

March 1:  The Medial Woman:  Woman as Oracle, and Intuitive.

March 22:  The Heteira:  The Woman Companion, Inspirer and guide.

January 2013:  The Psychology of the Beyond

Two lectures on Jung's Transcendental Psychology

In these lectures Dr. Hoeller interprets a little-known treatise by Barbara Hannah, an important disciple of C.G. Jung.  It was delivered in lecture form in 1968 on the occasion of the 80th Birthday of the foundress of jungian Psychology in the U.S., Dr. M. Esther Harding and was never published.  The content of this piece is highly unusual and unique.  (These recordings are available at the BC Recordings website.)

January 11:  The Immortal Body and Its Psychology:  The insights Jung received from Richard Wilhelm; the Nature of the "Beyond".

January 25:  Assembling the Psyche around its Deific Center:  Chinese and Western Alchemy, After-Death States, Symbolism of Kundalini Yoga.  Detachment from the finite; entry into the infinite.

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2012 Lecture Schedule

December 2012:  The World; Beginning, End and Transcendence

The 21st day of this month was widely heralded as a time of the ending of the World, of the Age, or at least of the Mayan Calendar, if even that.  We awaited the end of the World with some relevant talks leading up to it.  (Dec. 7th, 14th and 28th recordings are available at the BC Recordings website.)

December 7:  Origins and End of Mundane Reality:  Where does the World come from and where might it be going?  The Gospel of Thomas says:  "Know ye then the Beginning so that you inquire about the End?  For where the Beginning is there shall be the End also!"

December 14:  Jung, Aquarian Age and the Prophecy of "Liber Novus":  Where do we find ourselves in the sequence of "War, Magic and Religion"?

December 21:  Mayan End of the World Party and Program:  After some introductory remarks and appearance of the spirit of the Prophet Criswell, some unrestrained revelry celebrating the end of the world obtained.

December 28:  Annual Tarot Prognostication for the U.S.A.:  Dr. Hoeller¹s annual reading of the cards, this for the year 2013.

November 2012:  Expansion of Consciousness; the Gnostic Process in Our Lives

In this series, Dr. Hoeller sheds light on the Expansion of Consciousness as it is facilitated by various modalities available in our changing culture.  (These recordings are available at the BC Recordings website.)

November 2:  Death and Its Meaning in Gnosis and Consciousness:  This lecture is being delivered on All Soul's Day, known in many places as the "Day of the Dead".  An ancient saying declares:  "Memento Mori (Remember Death)".  We shall contemplate mystical and Gnostic aspects of the mystery of transition. Available free at bcrecordings.net.

November 9:  Consciousness and Literature; Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Modern Myths:  Can Tolkien's Hobbits bring us some Gnosis?

November 16:  Consciousness and Religion:  Is the New Religion foretold in Jung's "Red Book" emerging.  Can Martin Buber's "I and Thou" change into "I am Thou"?

November 23:  Consciousness and Chemistry:  Does the Psychedelic Revolution still have a future?  Can Hofmann, Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard still help us with Consciousness?

November 30:  Recognizing your Gnosis:  Often we hear the plaintive cry "I follow my spiritual practices but I notice no change!"  A graphic and practical way will be presented whereby we may recognize our expansion of Gnostic Consciousness.  Based on a personal revelatory experience of the speaker.

October 2012:  The Wife of Jesus (?): And the Feminine Gnostic Mystery

Late in September 2012, Prof. Karen King announced a new find; a fourth century Coptic papyrus fragment entitled by some "The Gospel of Jesus' Wife".  Dr. Hoeller evaluates this material and amplifies it with cognate information from ancient as well as modern Gnostic sources.  (These recordings are available at the BC Recordings website.)

October 5:  Jesus said "My Wife":  A Gnostic looks at the presumed evidence indicating that Jesus was married. Principal source will be Karen King¹s article in the forthcoming Harvard Theological Review, issue for January 2013. Available free at bcrecordings.net.

October 12:  Mary Magdalene; the ongoing Mystery:  How does the Gnostic teaching about the Divine Mystery relate to the ever re-appearing lesser mystery surrounding Mary Magdalene, and moreover how may we distinguish the real mystery from mere mystification?

October 19:  The Feminine in C.G. Jung¹s "Red Book":  The Soul; Salome; Helen-Baucis (the consort of PHILEMON); the Divine Mother in the lofty Height. How these figures relate to the Gnostic Feminine Image.

September 2012:  Myth and Humanity

In this brief series Dr. Hoeller reviews the role of Myth in the work of human transformation.  He uses the inspirer of the New School of Mythology, C.G. Jung, and two great mythologists, Eliade and Campbell to illustrate the transformative role and value of myth.  The material presented here is mostly different from earlier lectures dealing with the topic of Myth.  (These recordings are available at the BC Recordings website.)

September 7:  C.G. Jung, Master of the Great Myth:  C.G. Jung inspired a new view of Mythology, but he also created a new myth, which may be called the Great Myth of the New Aion and its God. Available free at bcrecordings.net.

September 28:  Mircea Eliade, Master of the Sacred, and Joseph Campbell, American Master of Myth:  Eliade, the Roumanian scholar and long-time professor of the University of Chicago has brought us a new view of the study of Religion in mythological terms.  This approach has been characterized as the nostalgia of the sacred.  Campbell as the most lucid interpreter of Jung's approach to myth, and as the herald of the Troubadour and Grail era of the Mythic heritage of the West.

August 2012:  The Odyssey of Depth Psychology

Throughout the 20th Century, Depth Psychology with its branches; Psychoanalysis, Analytical Psychology, Psychosynthesis and others became the normative discipline of soul and mind.  What were the origins of this discipline and what may be its future?  (These recordings are available at the BC Recordings website.)

August 3:  Occult and Mystical roots of Depth Psychology:  The Mesmeric-Hypnotic Revolution: Mesmer, Christian Science, New-Thought, "Metaphysics"; followed by early psychologists William James, Pierre Janet, Theodore Flournoy. Psyche and Psychical Research. Available free at bcrecordings.net.

August 10:  Jung and Freud:  Friends and Foes.  The origins of Psychoanalysis; its connection with Hypnosis.  The old and young prophet of Depth-Psychology:  The convergence of their views and the parting of their ways.

August 17:  The Coming of the Wizards:  The challenge of Esoteric teachers:  Blavatsky, Steiner, Gurdjieff and others to Depth Psychology.  Occult Psychology and Psychological Occultism.  Where does the Gnostic and Mystical Jung differ from from the occultists?

August 24:  The Gnostic, Hermetic, Alchemical and Kabbalistic Jung:  C.G. Jung's transvaluation of mystico-magical disciplines, and its effect on the world of Depth Psychology.

August 31:  Beyond Psychotherapy:  Jung's New Paradigm.  With the publication of Liber Novus (Red Book) Jung proclaims a New Aionic Age.  Will this create a new paradigm replacing psychotherapy or will the paradigm bring its own therapeutic overtones?

July 2012:  America's Secret Heritage

The Tradition of Esoteric and Secret Orders (Lodges, Temples etc) as it relates to the principles, organization and future of the American Republic.  A series of talks that is of special interest in this portentous election year.  (These recordings are available at the BC Recordings website.)

July 6:  Freemasonry, the Spiritual Patron of the U.S.A.:  The Masonic foundations of early America.  The philosophy of Freemasonry. The Hiramic Legend.  Franklin, Washington:  Were the founding Fathers really Brothers (of the Craft)? Available free at bcrecordings.net.

July 13:  The Esoteric Reform of American Freemasonry:  Albert Pike, the Mason who led Freemasonry to the mystical promised land.  The occult roots of post-Civil War Scottish Rite Masonry, and their future potential.

July 20:  The Distant Roots of the Masonic Tree:  Rosicrucianism, Ancient and Modern; and its Cathar origins.  Martinism; its founders, revivers; Martinez de Pasqually, St. Martin and Papus.  The Knight's Templar; their Masonic connection and their relevance today.

July 27:  Conspiracies, Magicians and Tricksters; true and invented:  The Illuminati; Middle Eastern Masons; Crowleyanity; the Bilderbergers.  Will the future of the U.S.A. still contain its esoteric essence?

June 2012:  Four Great Essays of C.G. Jung

From Jung's shorter writings, Dr. Hoeller selected four very significant titles which merit consideration at this time.  The material is evaluated in the light of insights from Jung's Red Book and related sources.  (These recordings are available at the BC Recordings website in the set "Jung's Hidden Wisdom".)

June 1:  The Symbolic Life:  Jung's epochal lecture on the religious aspects of the psyche, evaluated in a contemporary context.

June 8:  The Psychology of the Spirit:  Delivered as a lecture at one of the Eranos Conferences, this essay is a seminal work on the deeper aspects of Jung's Psychology.

June 15:  Synchronicity:  Entitled originally "Synchronicity, an a-causal Connecting Principle", this essay of Jung points to a mysterious and fascinating principle of psychic reality.

June 22:  The Psychology of the Eucharistic Mystery:  In an Eranos Conference Jung presented his singularly insightful paper "Transformation-Symbolism in the Mass" which has much bearing on Sacramental spirituality.

May 2012:  The Meaning of Dreams and Dreaming

These talks are designed to provide the inquirer with some keys to the interpretation of dreams.  Dreams are the relatives of visionary and Gnostic experiences, and thus of great interest to students of the spirit.  The principles here are Jungian with Gnostic amplification..

May 4:  The Practical Meaning of Dreams:  The Dream Experience and the ancient clarification of dreams given by Artemidorus.

May 11:  Dreams of Ego and Archetype:  The dream content of personal and transpersonal messages.

May 25:  A Special Event: New Light on Judas and his Gospel.  A brief, funny and thoughtful mystery play "A night with Judas Iscariot" performed by members of the Gnostic Center, written by the great scholar Marvin Meyer, introduced by Dr. Hoeller with an update of the very latest news about the Gospel of Judas.

April 2012:  Apocalypse:  Prophecy or symbol?

Recently, the publication of the book "Revelations; Visions, Prophecy and Politics in the Book of Revelation" by Elaine Pagels, arguably the best known scholar of matters Gnostic and of early Alternative Christianity attracted some considerable attention.  In these talks Dr. Hoeller evaluates some of Prof. Pagel's material, along with some of the contents of the book "Archetype of the Apocalypse; A Jungian Study of the Book of Revelation" by the late Edward F. Edinger.

April 13:  What is the "Apocalypse of John"?  The most puzzling book of the Bible and its manifold interpretations.  Roman politics, foretelling the future, or a metaphor for Kundalini symbolism?

April 20:  Gnostic Apocalypses:  The proto-Gnostic Ezra, Zostrianos, Thunder the Perfect Mind; Trimorphic Protennoia; The Secret Book of John and other books of the Nag Hammadi collection.

April 27:  The Depth Psychological Meaning of the Apocalypse:  The Depth Psychological Meaning of the Apocalypse.  The Archetype of the Apocalypse as seen by Edward Edinger; which is the "momentous event of the coming of the Self into conscious realization", an earth-shaking event both in the life of the soul and of the culture.

March 2012:  The Gnosis of the Light

This nearly forgotten Gnostic scripture, also called "The Untitled Apocalypse", is found in the Bruce Codex discovered in 1769.  It has only one translation (1918).

March 9:  Introducing The Gnosis of the Light:  Commenting on the overall nature and structure of the scripture and the original translator's introduction.  The text is a visionary description of inner worlds, not unlike Jung's Red Book.

March 23:  The Saving power of Messengership:  Seth, the Logos, Jesus and the Powers of Messengership, the Supernal Mother.

March 30:  Creation and the Powers of Gnosis:  The great conclusion of this scripture and the great concluding prayer of ecstasy.

February 2012:  Depth Psychology and the Esoteric Tradition

Was C.G. Jung a link in the Golden Chain of Wisdom?  Dr. Hoeller will trace the major features of the tradition of Inner Wisdom in relation to their new articulation in psychological terms by C.G. Jung.

February 3:  Jung and the Pansophic Tradition:  The tradition of universal Wisdom (Pan Sophia) and Jung's position within it.

February 10:  Hermetic Wisdom and the Teachings of C.G. Jung:  The winged messenger of the Gods and Jung as his modern interpreter.

February 17:  Jung as reviver of the Gnostic Tradition:  Gnosis and its great relevance to the prophetic message of Jung.

February 24:  Jung and the alternative Mysticism of the West:  The Holy Grail; the Rosy Cross; Kabbalah; Magic and Theosophy in Depth Psychological perspective.

January 2012:  Autobiographical Glimpses of Dr. Hoeller

Two special lectures by Dr. Hoeller in January 2012
Dr. Hoeller is currently engaged in writing his autobiography. He has been asked by many of you to reveal some portions of this material in lecture form, and he shares some of his personal reminiscences from his long career and speaks of some of his own "Memories, Dreams and Reflections".  (These recordings are available at the BC Recordings website.)

December 30, 2011:  Dr. Hoeller's Annual Tarot Forecast:  Prognostication for the United States of America for the year 2012.  (Audio recording with cards layout image are available for download at BC Recordings).

January 13:  Finding Gnosis in Post World War II Europe:  Glimpses of Gnostic experiences from early childhood and in youth as manifest in dreams, visions and wartime experiences.

January 27:  Serving the Gnosis in America:  In So. California from the 1950s into 2012. Los Angeles, the New Alexandria. Contacts with philosophers, Theosophists to Gurus and the like. Gnostic Church and Gnostic Society. Glimpses of the possible future.

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2011 Lecture Schedule

November & December:  Who was C.G. Jung?

Gnostic Psycho-biographical Glimpses of Dr. Jung

Since the latter part of 2009 Dr. Hoeller elucidated the content of Jung's mysterious work, the Red Book.  This time he reviews incidents of Jung's life and work, in part in the light of the long-secret revelations of Liber Novus (Red Book).

November 11:  Jung's Early Background:  Family background, childhood and student years, including glimpses of his Zofingia lectures.

November 18:  Spirits, Seership and the Youthful Dr. Jung:  Parapsychology, Occultism and his cousin Helene Preiswerk.

November 25:  NO LECTURE:  Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.

December 2:  Freud and Jung; Friends and Foes:  Psychoanalysis, Psychological Types, Synchronicities.  The controversial Sabina Spielrein.

December 9:  The Call of the Mystery:  Visions and Writing of the Red Book.  Confrontation with the mystery; the Source Experience of all later writings and actions.

December 16:  Memories, Dreams & Reflections:  What was concealed and Revealed.    The autobiographical fragments and their about to be published missing portions.  The mystic end of a mystic life.

December 23:  NO LECTURE:  Christmas Holiday weekend.

December 30:  Dr. Hoeller's Annual Tarot Forecast:  Prognostication for the United States of America for the year 2012.  (Audio recording with cards layout image are available for download at BC Recordings).

October 2011:  Feminine Archetypes; Symbolic and Real

Since the Nineteen Sixties much attention came to focus on the feminine archetypes of the psyche and on their manifestations in goddess figures, even in a quasi-monotheistic form as "The Goddess".  Dr. Hoeller evaluates these phenomena in terms of their psycho-spiritual relevance, sifting the spiritual wheat from the politicized chaff, on the basis of Gnosis and C.G. Jung's teachings by tracing the archetypes from their cosmic beginnings to their presence in today's culture.

October 7:  Feminine Archetypes in the Sky: The Three Women in the Moon  The concept of the Anima and its perceived vision in the symbolism of the Moon. Lunar magic and feminine archetypes.

October 14:  The Archetype of the Mother; Zodiacal and Human :  The Piscean, watery Mother Archetype and its complementary image in Virgo. The transformation of these images in depth-psychology. Freud's and Jung's views of these psychic forms.

October 21:  The Deific Feminine in Jung's Red Book:  The feminine soul ("Meine Seele"); The Romantic Salome, Sophia Returning, as in Jung's great painting (p. 155 of the Red Book) and the "Mother, who dwells in the highest circle".

October 28:  Sophia Past, Present and Future:  The Divine Sophia as present in Gnostic, in Biblical and in Eastern Orthodox sources as well as her manifestation today and prophecies for the future.

September 2011:  Death, the Last Enemy

Death is a universal human experience.  In these talks Dr. Hoeller returns to this always timely topic with a treatment of the subject connected with such subjects as altered states, visionary journeys and out-of-body experiences..

September 9:  Removing the Sting of Death:  The Gnostic tradition offers means whereby the Gnostic can state with St. Paul:  "Death, where is thy sting; Grave, where is thy victory?"

September 16:  Visions and Sacraments related to Death:  Rites of Passage from life to afterlife may assist us and our friends to meet the Grim Reaper, who might be rendered less grim as the result.

September 23:  Death and After:  Esoteric Insights into After Death States  Heavenworlds; purgatorial states; reincarnation; liberation from the wheel of birth and death and related after-death possibilities.

September 30:  Meaninglessness and the Fear of Death against the Good Death:  Death when approached with liberating insight.  Insights of various traditions, including the "Divine Mercy" movement in present-day Catholicism, which is removing fear of eternal damnation.

August 2011:  The Battle about God

The Monotheistic culture of the West is struggling today with its central Archetype.  The New Atheists:  Do Ehrmann, Hitchens and others think they are fighting God, while they struggle with Jehovah?  What have Gnostics to say on this matter and what can experiential spirituality, including that of Jung contribute to the battle?.

August 5:  Gnosis and the New Atheists: Was Nietzsche right that God is dead?  Are contemporary critics right that he never existed?  What can past and present Gnostics contribute to the debate?

August 12:  God as Experiment; Huxley, Heard and Huston Smith:  The discovery of the religious significance of entheogenic plants and chemicals.  Can consciousness-magnifying substances help people reach God?  Exploring the mysterious relation of entheogens, consciousness and mystical religion.

August 19:  Psyche and God:  Jung's statements about God in his psychological writings  His psychological discourses of the religious depths of the Psyche.  His statements on such topics as the Existence, Essence, Personality and Acts of God.

August 26:  The God of the New Aion:  The predictions about the New Religion of the inner God as found in the Red Book.  Phanes, Izdubar and "Christ, our Indwelling Lord". Is the New God Image related to the God of the esoteric tradition?

July 2011:  Kabbalah, Gnosis and Jung's Teachings

How Kabbalah and Gnosticism influenced Depth Psychology, especially in the teachings of C.G. Jung.  What is Kabbalah and how does it appear in Jung's experience and teachings and what is its relationship to Gnosticism?  (Madonna does not appear in this series! Ha, ha.)

July 8:  Kabbalah, its Nature, Structure and Origins:  The importance of emanationism, the Tree of Life; Gods and Demiurge in Kabbalah.  How Kabbalah deconstructed Monotheism.

July 15:  The principal Literature of Kabbalah:  The Zohar and the Sefer Yetzirah. The virtues and defects of literary Kabbalism.

July 22:  The "Prophetic" or Mystical Kabbalah:  Abraham Abulafia and his mystical Kabbalah.  The meditations of Abulafia; a Yoga for the West.  The compatibility of Abulafia's Kabbalah with Christian mysticism.

July 29:  The Lurianic Kabbalah and its Gnostic Features:  Luria, the Holy Lion of Wisdom.  Tsimtzum and Tikhun; their relationship to Gnostic Pleroma and Manichaen gathering of sparks.  The influence of Lurianic Kabbalah on Hassidism.  Understanding and misunderstanding Luria.

May and June 2011:  Myth, the Soul's Narrative

An Evaluation of Jungian Influenced Mythological Study From Homer to the Holy Grail, and from Faust to Tolkien, Humanity was ever inspired and informed by the myths of cultures and individuals.  C.G. Jung has exerted a great influence on the new school of mythology that developed in the 20th century.
The Red Book has informed us about Jung's own central myth and its source.  Dr. Hoeller evaluates the work of Jungian influenced mythologists and their approach to the realities of the soul.

May 6:  Psyche and Myth:  The nature and message of the mythology Jung inspired and its future role in the culture.

May 13:  The Enchanted Life:  The uses of Enchantment and ecstasy.  Myth and altered states of consciousness from Eleusis to the Nineteen Sixties.

May 20:  Erich Neumann and the Story of Amor and Psyche:  Jung's great disciple and his interpretation of a great myth.

May 27:  Mircea Eliade and the Nostalgia of the Sacred:  How to revive the Sacred and return it to the life of the culture.

June 3:  Synchronicity and its Myth of Interconnectedness:  Do inexplicable events have a startling explanation we have not recognized?

June 10:  Myth and Sacrament and Jung's Future Aion:  Jung's essay "Transformation Symbolism in the Mass" and the future of religion.

June 17:  Merlin the Mage: Was Jung his Mythic Heir?  Jung stated that Merlin's was his personal Myth.  How may we apply this myth to his work?

June 24:  The Undiscovered Self:  The Myth of Future Humanity  Jung's also noted work and his "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".  Their Message.

March and April 2011:  Jung's Great Mandala of the All

In Appendix A of the printed Red Book we find a large circular design slightly resembling a labyrinth or maze.  It is entitled SYSTEMA MUNDITOTIUS (System of all the World) and acts as a diagram illustrating the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos (Seven Sermons to the Dead).  Dr. Hoeller, who wrote the first ever book of commentaries on the Sermons (The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead, 1982) reviews the Sermons, along with their Red Book amendments by Philemon in the light of the system diagram.  This is a unique addition to his 2009-2010 lectures on the Red Book.  Note from the Scribe:  The March titles will have to be revised to reflect the actual content presented, since the material, as thought likely, required more time to complete, thus extending this series into April - - BC

March 4:  Microcosm and Macrocosm:  The First and Second Sermons.  The outer and inner circlesof the diagram.  Inner and outer Pleroma.  (Helios) God and Devil in the Cosmic system.

March 11:  The Third and Fourth Sermons:  The Paradox of Abraxas and the Tree of Life and Celestial Fire.  Did Jung correctly identify Abraxas with the Demiurge?

March 25:  The Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Sermons:  Heavenly Mother and Phallos; Community and Solitude.  The mystery of the Serpent and the Dove;  The human Spirit and the Ultimate God.

April 1:  Gods and the Forces in Human Community:  The Fourth and Fifth Sermons including Philemon's commentaries with images of the Mandala.

April 8:  The Sixth and Seventh Sermons and the total overview of the Mandala:  Finishing the Sermons and Commentaries and the detailed investigation of the Systema.  The image and close-up views will be projected on our screen.

April 15:  Jung's last great Initiation and his resulting Message:  In 1944, after a severe illness Jung had a triple vision of great import.  His experience resulted in three books:  "Mysterium Conjunctionis", "Aion" and "Answer to Job".  Their esoteric message as well as some deep insights from his correspondence with Fr. Victor White will be explained.

April 29:  SPECIAL LECTURE by Rev. John Goelz:  Kabbalistic Magic:  It's Value and Nature.  Introducing his forthcoming classes on the subject on various Tuesday evenings, 22 evenings of one path each evening.

January & February 2011:  Prophets and Prophecies

The approach of the year 2012, with its Mayan Prophecies brings prophets and prophecies into new focus.  It has been said that prophecy is not prediction, even though it purports to be so.  Prophecy may be understood as a contact with eternity, and a thread in the total fabric of meaning.

January 14:  Dr. Hoeller's Annual Tarot Forecast:  Prognostication for the United States of America for the year 2011.  (Audio recording with cards layout image are available for download at BC Recordings).

January 21:  From Shaman to Prophet:  Archaic Shamanism developing into prophetic religion. Prophets from the Old Testament to Mormonism. What may be today's prophecy? Are we the lost tribe of humanity (Israel)?

January 28:  Prophets of a New Age:  From Joaquin of Flora to Edgar Cayce and beyond. Andrew Jackson Davis, the American prophet, Swedenborg, Nostradamus.

February 11:  Prophecies of the Divine Feminine:  Lourdes, La Sallette, Fatima and others. Is there a deific feminine presence in history?

February 18:  The Kabbalah and Prophecy:  Abulafia and the Prophetic Kabbalah. Luria and his Gnostic view of past and future. Impact of recent scholarship ("The Great Angel" by Margaret Barker) on Kabbalah and Gnosis.

February 25:  C.G. Jung's Prophecy of the New Aeon:  New Aeon prophecy in The Red Book and its sequel in "Aion" and "Answer to Job". New Aeon against "New Age".

October through December 2010:  Jung's Psychological Types in the Light of the Red Book Revelations

"Psychological Types" by C.G. Jung was the first book he wrote after finishing the Red Book material.  Jung wrote to a friend that the entire book "Psychological Types" was written by him on the basis of 30 pages in the Red Book.  (Find out the types of all of your friends as well as perhaps your own type!).

October 1:  Introducing the Types:  Revealing Human Character.  What are Introvert and Extrovert?

October 8:  Man of Earth:  The Sensate Type and the world of the senses.

October 15:  The Fire of Emotion:  The Feeling Type and its potential.

October 22:  The Human as Thinker:  The wisdom and folly of the Thinking Type.

November 5:  The Nature of Insight:  The Intuitive Type and the power of foresight.

November 12:  Toni Wolff's Four Forms of the Feminine Psyche Pt. 1:  Mother and Heteira; traditional housewife and inspiring lover-companion.

December 3:  Toni Wolff's Four Forms of the Feminine Psyche Pt. 2:  Amazon and Medial woman; woman executive and psychic-prophetess.

December 10:  Creative Fantasy, Gnosis and the Types:  The visionary way.

December 17:  Poetic Vision and the Types:  Prometheus and Psychology.

September 2010:  Visionary Writing; Myth and Prophecy

With the publication of the Red Book, C.G. Jung has officially entered the ranks of visionary writers.  Visionary, or mystical literature has been here for a long time before Jung; in fact Jung has identified some such writings as originating in the experience of original images, notably in the case of the Nag Hammadi library.  In these three lectures Dr. Hoeller draws parallels between Jung and other visionary writers and give other helpful hints, as to how we may develop talents by way of the Active Imagination.

September 3:  Ancient and Modern Visionary Writing:  Examples from the Secret Book of John, the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, the writings of the Prophet Mani, the Acts of Thomas and others.  A modern example:  "The Rose of the World", written in Soviet prison will be reviewed.

September 10:  Visionary Women and their Writings:  Hildegard von Bingen, Mechtild of Magdeburg, Julian of Norwich and Madame H.P. Blavatsky.  A modern visionary work, "Talking with Angels" by four Holocaust victims will be explained also.

September 24:  Red Book and Middle Earth; Jung and Tolkien as Visionaries:  The two magic mythmakers and psychopomps of the last century.  Were they both perceiving other realities and how may we do likewise?

August 2010:  The Images in Jung's Red Book

In an interview Dr. Sonu Shamdasani said that these "images become active imaginations in their own right" besides being "representations and elaborations of the material and the fantasies".  Dr. Hoeller interprets and presents for meditation the images of the Red Book.

August 6:  Introduction to the Red Book Pictures:  Liber Primus and First Part of Liber Secundus.  Initial Image; Soul as White Bird; Serpent; Hell; Seigfried's murder; Elijah and Salome; Scarab; Death; Izdubar and others.

August 13:  Second Part of Liber Secundus:  Ship at night; 5 cosmic regions, 12 Incantations; Twelvefold Tree of Life; 12 Great Mandalas.

August 20:  Third Part of Liber Secundus:  East West Mandala; Encircled Cross; Shadow; Dragon & Sun; Diamond Philosopher's Stone; Prophetic Tetramorph; Love Triumphant.

August 27:  Latter Part of Liber Secundus and Appendix A:  Cosmic Tree, Philemon, Sophia, Jewel, Chinese Castle, Many Faces and Light.  The sketches which preceded paint and brush.  System of the Entire World, which illustrates the Seven Sermons to the Dead.

July 2010:  God and God-Image:  A Mystery of Jung's Gnosis

Jung's Red Book as well as other works, particularly Answer to Job and Aion bring into focus the issue of the changing God-image which Jung saw as having evolved in the history of the West, and as undergoing a new development today.  Dr. Hoeller draws on the sources and ramifications on this subject as present in the Red Book and more intimately in Jung's letters to such friends as Erich Neumann, Fr. Victor White and others.  A creative comparison of Jung's God-Image and of Gnostic God-images will be made.

July 9:  God-Image, Self and Transcendent God:  An introduction to Jung's concept of the God-image, the individuated Ego, and the deities and singular transcendence of Religions.

July 16:  Evolving God-Image and Immutable Divine Reality:  How can one know God and God-images?  How did they evolve to their present status?  What is Jung's position regarding the "God above God"?

July 23:  Jung's New Revelation and Philemon, its Prophet:  The union of the opposites and the reality above opposites.  What is the meaning of the Messianic principle?  Who is Philemon, the new teacher of Wisdom?

July 30:  The Key to the Dilemma of God and God-Image:  Abraxas of the Gnostic and Abraxas of Jung.  Philemon's Red Book commentaries on the Seven Sermons and the light they shed on the true God, the Demiurge and the Self.

June 2010:  Jung as Prophet of the Future

Insights into the pre-cognitive Aspects of the Red Book.  The predictions contained, often in symbolic form, in the Red Book are evaluated and related to some of Jung's writings.

June 4:  The Religion of the Future:  Jung's essay "The Symbolic Life" as indications of the future religion of the West.  Jung's practical advice for contemporary religion as contained in his book on this topic.

June 11:  Jung's "Answer to Job":  His last visionary work as seen through the eyes of the Red Book.  Jung's most frankly visionary work and its relevance to the predictions of the Red Book.

June 18:  Jung's book "Aion":  War, Magic and Religion.  The three stages of the future development of the Psyche and of the World-Soul as manifest in Jung's psycho-historical work "Aion".

June 25:  Freedom and Psyche:  Jung's advice for Society and History.  What are Jung's directives for a psychologically healthy and creative society?  (Dr. Hoeller's book "Freedom; Alchemy for a Voluntary Society" may serve as related material.)

March through May 2010:  C.G. Jung's Alchemy

In 1959 Jung wrote in his Epilogue to the Red Book: "I worked on this book for 16 years. My acquaintance with alchemy in 1930 took me away from it . . . In 1928 . . . Wilhelm sent me the text of the "Golden Flower", an alchemical treatise.  There the contents of this book found their way into actuality . . . " In a similar vein, he wrote in 1938: "My deceased friend, Richard Wilhelm . . . sent me "The Secret of the Golden Flower" at a time that was crucial to my own work. This was in 1928. I had been investigating the processes of the collective unconscious since the year 1913. The text that Wilhelm sent helped me out of this difficulty" . . . i.e. the way that the revelations of the "Red Book" could be made available to the public. In this series Dr. Hoeller reviews the entire body of Jung's alchemical work, viewing it - - as Jung declared - - as a continuation of the work begun in the "Red Book".

March 12:  The Secret of the Golden Flower:  Chinese Alchemy and Richard Wilhelm open the way for Jung to give to the world his insights gained in the visions of the Red Book.

March 26:  A Basic Outline of the History and Nature of Alchemy:  What was the image of Alchemy that attracted C.G. Jung?

April 9:  Psychology and Alchemy:  Jung's chief work on Alchemy.  The major statement regarding the nature of Alchemy.

April 16:  Rosarium Philosophorum:  The ten images of the Transformation in the light of Red Book insights.

April 30:  Philosopher's Stone and Elixir of Life:  The two symbolic objectives of Alchemy and the Red Book disclosures.

May 7:  Zosimos; Alchemy, Sacrament and Gnosis:  Gnosis into Alchemy; vision and Alchemical Sacrament:  Eucharistic Transformation symbolism.

May 14:  Mysterium Conjunctionis:  Jung's Alchemical statement of the Mystery of the Bride Chamber.

May 21:  Red Book approach to Alchemy:  How Alchemy may be practiced today on the basis of the Red Book.

October 2009 through February 2010:  Introducing C.G. Jung's Red Book

October 2009 marked the publication of Jung's long awaited early visionary work entitled "Liber Novus" (The New Book), popularly known as the Red Book.  Now Dr. Hoeller in brief and introductory form elucidates all of the book, chapter by chapter.  Since the material in the lectures is quite diverse, the lectures do not have a single title but are identified by chapter numbers and titles as found in the book.  This allows those who own a book to identify the lectures by the requisite chapters in the Red Book.  (Available in MP3 audio format at the BC Recordings website.)

October 23:  Jung's Red Book: Background and Book I; Chapter I:  Book I is entitled "The Way of What is to Come", and Book I, Chapter I is introduced by "The Spirit of This Time" and "The Spirit of the Depths", and is entitled "Refinding the Soul".

November 6:  Jung's Red Book, Book I; Chapters II, III, IV, V:  Soul and God; On the service of the Soul; The Desert; Experiences in the Desert; Descent into Hell in the Future.

November 13:  Jung's Red Book, Book I; Chapters VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI:  Splitting the Spirit; Murder of the Hero; Conception of the God; Mysterium Encounter; Instruction; Resolution.

November 20:  Jung's Red Book, Book II; Chapters I, II, III, IV, V, VI:  The Images of the Erring; The Red One; The Castle in the Forest; One of the Lonely; The Anchorite; Days I and II; Death.

December 4:  Jung's Red Book, Book II; Chapters VII, VIII, IX, X, XI:  Remains of Earlier Temples; First and Second Day; Incantations; The Opening of the Egg.

December 11:  Jung's Red Book, Book II; Chapters XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII:  Hell; The Sacrificial Murder; Divine Folly; The First, Second, Third and Fourth Nights.

December 18:  Jung's Red Book, Book II; Chapters XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI and Preview of "Scrutinies":  The Three Prophecies; The Gift of Magic; The Way of the Cross; The Magician

January 15:  Dr. Hoeller's Annual Tarot Forecast:  Prognostication for the United States of America for the year 2010. Results - - An image of the cards  (Audio recording available for download at BC Recordings).

January 22:  Jung's Red Book, Conclusion of the final chapter of Book II:  The Return of Salome; Encounter with Satan; The Kabiri; The Royal Son.

January 29:  Jung's Red Book, Scrutinies Part 1:  More teachings of the Soul; Predictions of darkness: Beginning of World War I.  Reappearance of Philemon, The Shadowy Woman, Conjuration of the Dead.

February 5:  Jung's Red Book, Scrutinies Part 2:  The first four of the Seven Sermons to the Dead, with commentaries of Philemon.

February 12:  Jung's Red Book, Scrutinies Part 3:  The remaining three sermons of the Seven Sermons to the Dead; Philemon's commentaries and discourse.

February 19:  Conclusion of the Red Book:  How to treat Gods?  The identity of Philemon.  The mysterious Shade in the Garden.  Excerpts from Appendix C.

February 26:  How to Approach and Understand the Red Book:  Dr. Shamdasani advises us to study Jung's essay on the Transcendent Function to approach the Red Book.  We will review this important essay in the light of our exploration of the Red Book.  A summary of the Red Book's main teachings.

September 2009:  The Coming of the Gnostics

In this series, delivered in the month of the Golden (50th) Anniversary of the Ecclesia Gnostica in America, Dr. Hoeller indicates his vision of the past, present and future of the Gnostic Tradition, particularly within the context of the tasks of the contemporary Gnostic movement.

September 4:  The Survival of the Gnostic Tradition:  From the late Antiquity through such movements as the Priscillianists, Bogomils, Cathars, Mandaeans, Templars, Rosicrucians, Theosophists to the French Gnostic revival at the turn of the 19th to the 20th centuries.

September 11:  GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY LECTURE:  Gnosis in Los Angeles, an Account of the Last 50 Years of Gnostic Work in Los Angeles.    In this historic narrative, Dr. Hoeller will recount his own early contacts with the Gnostic tradition; the coming of the Gnostic Church to L.A. in the person of Richard, Duc de Palatine in 1959 and the subsequent story of our movement and his hopes for the future.

September 18:  The Awakening of Gnostic Consciousness in the 20th and 21st centuries:  The two sources of the Awakening:  The objective; being the discovery and translation of the Nag Hammadi Library; the other subjective, the discovery and proliferation of consciousness altering agencies, sometimes called the Psychedelic Revolution.

September 25:  C.G. Jung, the modern Gnostic Prophet:  In anticipation of the imminent publication of the "Red Book" we shall review Jung's personal development as Gnostic; his "Seven Sermons to the Dead" and his crucial role in the publication of the Nag Hammadi Library.

August 2009:  Mystics; The Practitioners of Sacred Altered States

In spite of orthodox belief systems which dominated their cultures, mystics of every religion, including the Christian, have practiced divine theophanies that were related to the Gnosis of Gnostic and Hermetic provenance.  An analysis in Gnostic and contemporary terms is presented of the lives and experiences of several mystics from medieval to post-modern times.

August 7:  Angelus Silesius and the school of Rhineland Mystics:  Between the 13th and the 16th centuries there flourished in Southern Germany a great mystical movement, replete with visions, prophecies and ecstasies.  One of its pioneer representatives was Angelus Silesius, often called "The Cherubic Wanderer".  This talk will introduce us to this visionary and to the phenomenon of Rhineland Mysticism.

August 14:  Meister Eckhart; a Visionary for all Seasons:  A wise man and visionary of considerable Gnostic overtones, Meister Eckhart has much to teach contemporary students of mysticism.  His insights and teachings are of considerable relevance to mystical phenomena of all ages and traditions.

August 21:  Great Mystic Women:  Juliana of Norvich and Hildegard Von Bingen.  One English, the other a Rhineland German, these two outstanding female mystics bear testimony to Divine Joy and Wisdom and will inspire us today.

August 28:  Huston Smith; modern Scholar and Mystic:  Our contemporary and teacher, Huston Smith authored the well-known textbook "The World's Religions" (Earlier title:  "The Religions of Man").  He is also a pre-eminent advocate of psychedelics within the context of religious experience.

July 2009:  Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century

Newsweek Magazine claimed in April of this year that Christianity is dead.  There appears to be an upsurge of Atheism and Secularism in Western culture.  Dr. Hoeller presents an analysis of these trends in the light of Gnostic teachings and insights and he will point to the spirituality of the future.

July 3:  The United States, a Spiritual Nation:  The Hermetic, Masonic and Rosicrucian spirit of the U.S.A.  An esoteric tribute on the eve of Independence Day 2009.

July 10:  The Middle Eastern roots of America's Gnosis:  Descending from Hermetic, Gnostic and Neo-Platonic sources, culminating in Templar traditions as well as Sufi, Ismailia, Druze mysteries, the U.S.A. became the new home of Alternative Spirituality.  NOTE:  After the lecture Dr. Hoeller will interview Andy Hill about his new book "No-Where Land".  Mr Hill authored a famous story about us 5 years ago in the L.A. Weekly.  Book signing follows.

July 17:  America:  Birthplace of 19th Century Esotericism:  Spiritualism, Mormonism, Scottish-Rite Freemasonry, Theosophy and other alternative spiritual movements and their Message for the future.

July 24:  Manly P. Hall and California Spirituality:  The Plato of Los Angeles; his true story and his present unfair critics.  Eclectic spirituality conjoined with Southern California Creativity.

July 31:  Jung; his Gnostic Psychology and the Lost Gospels:  Jungian and other 3rd Force psychologies in California.  The Gnostic scholarship of the Institute for Antiquities and Christianity in Claremont.  The possible coming Gnostic Renaissance.

June 2009:  Alchemy: Its Stages of Transformation

In the past, Dr. Hoeller has periodically returned in his lecturing schedule to the subject of Alchemy. For several years, the topic of the three stages of Alchemical Transformation has not been used by our speaker. This vital subject is discussed utilizing previously unused material.

June 5:  Alchemy, the Great Art:  An introduction to Alchemy, utilizing magical, religious and psychological material of past and present.  How may one prepare for one's own Alchemical Process.

June 12:  The Black Stage (Nigredo):  The breaking down of the consensus reality.  The forming of the original substance of being (Prima Materia).

June 19:  The White Stage (Albedo):  The dawning of the light of higher consciousness; the arising of enlightenment.  Envisioning the heavenly light (Lumen Dei) and the natural light (Lumen Naturae).

June 26:  The Red Stage (Rubedo):  The melting of all realities in the red-hot Alchemical fire.  The ultimate fusion of the opposites.  The unifying of reality (Unus Mundus).

May 2009:  The Mysteries; Ways of Entering the Kingdom of the Gods

The ancient Mediterranean World harbored a set of unique institutions devoted to the practice of transcendence and Gnosis. In these talks, Dr. Hoeller speaks of three exemplary mystery systems as well as about the overall nature of the mystery process and its practices.

May 8:  The Mysteries:  Active Means of Ultimate Transformation.  "Ultimate Transformation" is a term popularized by Mircea Eliade.  Its nature and role in human life will be elucidated in this talk.

May 15:  The Mysteries of Eleusis and their Grand Secret:  The most universally esteemed of the mystery institutions; its mythic structure and some of the secrets of its practice (as discerned by Hofmann, Wasson and Ruck) will be explained.

May 22:  Dionysus and his Mysteries of total Rapture:  The wild and ecstatic god Dionysus; his archetypal significance and the nature of his Mysteries.

May 29:  The Gnostic Mysteries, Ancient and Contemporary:  Indications of Gnostic mystery practices appearing in Gnostic scriptures and their continuation in Manichaean, Cathar and contemporary Gnostic mystery practices.

April 2009:  Three Modern Wise Men

The lives, teachings and contemporary relevance of three sages, whose contribution helped to transform the consciousness of the 20th and 21st Centuries.

April 3:  Aldous Huxley; Wisdom through Literature:  A giant of modern literature, Aldous Huxley became also a major exponent of the quest for non-ordinary, spiritual consciousness. His novels, such as "Brave New Worlds", historical studies, including "Grey Eminence" and compilations of mystical Gnosis, like "Perennial Philosophy" have helped to focus the attention of our culture on concerns of the spirit. In this lecture Dr. Hoeller will pay tribute to Huxley and analyse his contribution.

April 17:  Gerald Heard, Philosopher of the Spirit:  Author of works on spiritual philosophy, teacher and lecturer, creative critic of the culture; Heard is an insufficiently appreciated pioneer of the Age of Consciousness. A born mystic, he also became an early and responsible explorer of the potential of psychedelics for the expansion of consciousness.

April 24:  Heinrich Zimmer, Prophet of the New Mythology:  Advisor of C.G. Jung, principal teacher of Joseph Campbell, Zimmer spent his regrettably short life (1890-1943) giving new and spiritual dimensions to the study of Mythology. His work was continued by Campbell, Eliade and Watts, and endures in the role of myth in the 21st Century.

February through March 2009:  Prophecies and Seers; Have They Seen the Future?

A Hollywood Prophet said:  "We are all interested in the future, because that is where you and I will spend the rest of our lives."  In these talks we cast a glance at the nature of prophecy, its value and pitfalls and our own prophetic potential.

February 27:  Nostradamus, Master of Time Travel:  The ever popular medieval occult physician and his revelations in "The Centuries".  Is Nostradamus relevant to our period of Time?

March 6:  Prophecies of the Eternal Feminine:  Lourdes, Fatima and other Marianic predictions as well as less well known feminine prophetic sources.

March 13:  NO LECTURE:  Montségur Day Commemoration.

March 20:  The Book of Revelation:  Perpetual source of excitement of certain sects, this book may be a psycho-spiritual text with Jungian overtones.  Views of the late Edward Edinger on this subject.

March 27:  The Future, is it Good or Evil and is it Now?  End time scenarios, Armageddon, Rapture and other recurring excitements versus Gnostic insight and liberation.

January and February 2009:  Creativity and Gnostic Imagination

Ancient teachers and practitioners of Gnosis, envisioned creativity as a way of invoking transcendental intelligence and beings of the high Aeons.  Such theurgic magic reveals true creativity as transcendentally altered consciousness.  In this series Dr. Hoeller explores the Gnostic Magic of Creative Imagination.

January 2:  Dr. Hoeller's Annual Tarot Forecast:  Prognostication for the United States of America for the year 2009. Results - - An image of the cards  (Audio recording available for download at BC Recordings).

January 16:  Creative Imagination; a Gnostic form of Magic:  C.G. Jung rediscovered an ancient Gnostic process and called it "Active Imagination".  Such modern developments will be compared and evaluated in the light of ancient Gnostic theurgic insight.

January 23:  The Practice of the Creative Presence; an Introduction to Gnostic Theurgy:  How one may rise to the Divinities and return to earth with much of their consciousness.

February 6:  The Awakening of Gnostic Imagination in Hermetic Sources:  The way to Illumined Consciousness according to Hermes Trismegistus.  The Poimandres, the Eighth Reveals the Ninth and other sources explored.

February 13:  The Imagination of Love; Troubadours, Sufis and other Magi on the Way of Love:  An eve of Valentine's Day offering.

February 20:  Entheogens and their Creative Imagination:  The work of R. Gordon Wasson, Jonathan Ott, Carl A.P. Ruck on the role of entheogenic agencies (plants, fungi etc) in the working of creativity, especially in ancient mysteries and religions.