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Central to all Spiritual practice is a single flame. This flame has a cosmology, it is the light of the Kabbalah, the transmutative flame of Alchemy and the staff of the Adept Magician. This flame is life itself and is one with its purpose, its true will. By its statement Spiritual Development is an organic response to life. This is my work, as above so below. (Paul Tisdell)
Life is the teacher of all teachers, understanding this can help all of us who wish to pass on our experience of finding the way to others, to be ever humble to its tutorage. When we stop developing, in a very real way we stop living, the flame goes out. When we stop loving the flame goes. If we become over zealous in any activity we may burn out. There is an art to maintaining the fire and ripening the fruits of life's labors, this we may call spiritual development.
If we study geology we must learn its language, the same for medicine, and so on, spirituality has its language as well. This spiritual language is the language of the Hermetic art, the art of life and its changes, the art of spiritual development. "The caterpillar spun a cocoon - digested itself, became something else, took wings and flew away". A lesson from life - the great teacher. read more
The word Kabbalah means Tradition, oral tradition. Legend has it that it was given to Abram when his name was changed to Abraham. There is much intellectual debate as to its origin and ownership. Those of us who approach the kabbalah from an initiatic position not one of dogma or intellectual study may say that there was never a time kabbalah was not.
The numerical value of the Hebrew word Kabbalah has the value of 137 which adds to 11 and then 2 – meaning knowledge of the Wisdom. The traditional meaning of kabbalah is tradition – oral tradition, a knowledge passed on via word of mouth. The Hermetic Kabbalah (read more) corresponds to the tarot cards, to the 22 Hebrew letters. The letter Phay has the totem of the mouth and corresponds via the hermetic kabbalah to the Tower tarot card. This card represents the tower of Babel where there was one language until the tower was struck. The path of Phay upon the Tree of Life connects the sepharah of Hod and Netzah – theory and practice. When you apply theory to practice you discover something else, the truth for yourself. The tower is struck and whatever you thought of a theory it has been struck via its practice, by the light of realization that only the Self can know.
The second sepharah – Chockmah – wisdom, has as its totem the mountain and all things phallic, and that the tower is. The tower reaches through Chockmah to be struck by the lightning flash from Kether the crown.
The archetypes of Hermetic Kabbalah suggest that the nature of the true kabbalah is to shatter all manner of dogma (towers) revealing the truth.
The experience of God will shatter all concepts that the mind can conjure. For the Lord you God is a consuming fire. read more
Alchemy - the art of change. If we cannot adapt to change we become encased in a pillar of salt, preserved for an eternity but dead, devoid of the very essence of life. In the life of the average man/women he is physically alive but spiritually dead. When dead he is spiritually alive but physically dead. Spiritual Alchemy awakens his spirituality, while he is physically alive leading him to the immortal truth of being. read more
Over 20 years ago after undergoing an intense awakening process Paul was asked as his task to compile the Hermetic art. Paul's reply at the time, "Yeah right, you've picked the wrong person".
Being a bit dyslexic, arguably the worlds worst speller and one who reads very little, one could well agree they picked the wrong person except for one thing: -- His work is evidence enough for anyone who knew him before, something extraordinary had occurred here.
I asked him why he chose video as the main medium of expressing his teaching?
"Well ---- about 10 years ago I had the help of a few artist friends and they did quiet a few paintings for me. Part of the tradition of the hermetic art is to contain the teaching in art-form, the art of the alchemist, the parables of the wise, the poetry of the touched all bare witness to this. There is a more practical reason for this I found -- a picture holds a thousand words, saves a lot of writing. So that period was highly productive. Another couple of friends got me into video and PC editing, here I found the meeting of the inner and the outer worlds . I could express the art with the word and image --- I did not have to say much, yet I said volumes. The student had to contemplate, meditate on the art and interpret it for themselves. I could really teach the unteachable. read more
The hermetic art gallery is a collection of images taken from various parts of the Hermetic work of Paul Tisdell. Most of the images are from the hermetic videos, Staff of the Wise, Sword and Shield and the CDROM the Foundation Stone. The hermetic art gallery with its commentary gives unique insights into the Hermetic tradition of Alchemy, Kabbalah, and Magick but its greatest gift may well be in the insights given into some of the obstacles faced as we walk the spiritual path in this new age. read more
The purpose of this website is to make available a work that is unique and original, yet a part of the traditional hermetic wisdom. The life's work of Paul Tisdell -- a teaching utilizing the ancient wisdom of Alchemy, Kabbalah and Magick and applying it to our everyday life, making it a spiritual life.
The work is presented on CDROM, DVD, VCD, Ebook and Audio CD in a manner that requires contemplation, meditation and application to extract its soul healing properties. Purchasing the Foundation Stone gives you the option to work with us through the Foundation Stone and to purchase material that is not available to the general public. This is not an issue of exclusivity but of understanding the material. read more
