The Work of Paul Tisdell

The name I was given is Paul Tisdell, however, it is of little to no significance who or what I am, nor the trials and revelations that brought me to this point or present moment. It might be better to think of me as no-one.
In the hermetic tradition, every true initiate is Hermes, by this the ego cannot attach easily to any grandeur and glamour, it can remain humble to the influx of the light of the soul that inhabits it.
So, I am a Hermes, thrice great, holding in my hand the staff known as the caduceus, the three alchemic principles in action and completed as a stone.
The work I present to you is the reflection of my stone.
A foundation stone, the basis upon which to build a meaningful spiritual life. There are events in our lives that are very meaningful, they have a statement, they say something. If you have some objectivity, you can stand back and see what it says. Most of us do this at turning points in our lives, we have relationships with people, relationships with people end, they change, and you change, everything changes. The art of change, transmutation, is Alchemy. Alchemy has its own language. Sometimes we see the writing on the wall.  Where is this wall and what language is the writing?
We all experience this writing throughout our lives, our desires and needs often justify ignoring the obvious. Here in simplicity is the basic foundation of enlightenment, overcoming desire and attachments so you can see in its light. Understanding is the light of enlightenment, without understanding we are all in the dark, simple enough? It is not complicated, our justifications for desires and attachments are simply clouds dimming the Sun; the clouds are the wall where the writing appears, it appears in the event.
The writing on the wall! the conversation we all have with the source of our lives, our soul, our personal God, the divine spark that entered this body and gave it life, the Alpha and Omega, it is there at the beginning and end, the hissing serpent that bites its tail; this is the sound of silence.  I often say, hush thy mouth and seal thy lips – if you do this, and place your finger on your lips as a gesture of silence, the next and most obvious action, no matter what your culture or racial background is, the sound is Shhhhhh……, the fire serpent, the sound of silence.
The conversation of life asks questions of you, events have a statement, what does it say – first question. The questions are the foundation of knowledge, when you have the answer to the question you have knowledge, you understand. The foundation stone, your spiritual dwelling, a house, a life that has a living spirituality, a day to day conversation.  You enter your Self, your dwelling, the Foundation Stone is set in stone, the solid answers to the questions – this is the Foundation Stone of your house – enter the ‘Way’.
When you answer these questions you connect with your conscience, a ray of light from the divine spark.  This is what this website is about, to help you read this language, connect with your soul personally and in time realize you were always this, you were just distracted for a moment.
The Members section gives you an opportunity to enter this conversation and its sacred language. Practices to be applied, lessons learnt, a path trodden. Know for thyself, thyself! There is something greater than the ego.
My work
This is the hardest thing I have had to do, take ownership of this work, I am its author.  Each dawn I awaken with the Sun and it sheds new light on an ancient world view.
Our being, even the warts are a whole. Nature turns death into compost, a vibrant substance, it does not waste anything. She does this by law, your body is lawful, a part of this lawful whole, do you think the mind is lawless?
When we understand these laws and consciously apply them the mind and body have a shared existence. Nature is not separate from this dynamic but without spirituality we separate ourselves from this whole, and we enter the cult of the ego, me, me, me.
Often when work like this is presented the one who brings it forward is attacked and the work mocked, criticized with all manner of intellectual argument. These arguments are simply avoidance mechanisms of the ego suppressing the soul. This work is soul food, spiritual nutrition, it is simple. All of the grandeur expressed in divinely inspired works is who you are.
Does ‘God’ exist? Do ‘Masters’ exist? Do ‘You’ exist? When you master an aspect of yourself, the Master exists. When you realize there is a force that is greater than the ego, God exists.  Look at a flower – why is it that shape, is it a random act? Are you a random act, a freak of something called evolution? There are laws and principles within this not so random creation, these laws and principles are within you as well, they are you. Knowing them and applying them consciously does make a difference to life. This work is a master plan of consciousness.  Consciousness is not random or meaningless, it is conscious, awake, and aware, just like you – a thought, there is you and the thought, did you conjure the thought or did it appear, it is not you but you have it. Everything that comes before your consciousness is conscious within you. Every time the ego loosens its grip, the limits of consciousness loosen – evident when we rest the selfishness of me, we become aware of the welfare of others. This is why the masters suggest service is the way to God. Understanding the laws and principles that separate you from it, enables you to gradually let go into its embrace. The ego is a babe, innocently trying to find its place, the soul its mother, and the spirit its father. You are the eye in this triangle, my work sheds some light so you begin to see.

The Changing

(The below I had posted to my Facebook page (3/01/25)
and thought it appropriate to also place here)

There is something that I wish to talk about with you. There is a limited number of people who actually read my posts and even less who actually take from what I offer.

There are many who speak of a change that will affect the consciousness of man, the earth is ending, the second coming, etc. etc. Well, it is happening and how it plays out is up to how we as humanity react to these changes.

If lite rain, rains on a tiled roof it is hard to hear, if you hear it at all, but on a tin roof it is easily heard. You can hear rain on the tin roof and the why’s are obvious. Mankind is going through a change in his/her psyche, or I could say we are becoming more psychic. We have a growing sensory perception, we feel stuff, even ideas come to mind, you know when someone is going to ring you, not an uncommon thing, just a coincidence?

If you have no clarity of mind, no will power to still the mind, stop thoughts and stories becoming a feeling, and feelings becoming thoughts, in simple terms that most will understand, you are fucked if the perception of the mind opens beyond the limits of the real world.

With the advent of modern medicine, chemicalized food, and an environment that is so full of poison, most people are already tripping in the illusionary plane called the ‘real world’. Television, movies, media creating all manner of illusionary planes, not to mention religious fantasy of righteousness and devotion to rubbish that is so unbalanced it sees its fellow man as creatures called non-believers and they should be slaughtered for not holding the same dogmatic belief that all worship. I am not pointing at any one sacred revelation, I am however, pointing at the madness of those who do not really understand what it is about. This is another form of fans and their football violence, but the teams have their belief, not experience of God, beliefs to justify their madness.

I have said for some years now that man’s present demise requires a change in consciousness. Simply overcoming greed is a change in consciousness and that would change the life of many as well as the well-being of Earth, you know that sacred planet we inhabit.

So let me cut to the chase, the awakening of the psyche, we could call it women’s liberation, for the psyche is Eve, who came from the rib of Adam. Do you think a rib could represent the Moon, if this is so, Adam is the cosmos or as the kabbalists call him Adam Kadmon, the heavenly man. Hermetics, which goes back to Egypt and beyond tells us man is the mini universe, microcosm of the macrocosm. This ancient art tells man’s organs etc. are ruled by the planets and so too the herbs, thus they heal the organs, i.e. dandelion is ruled by Jupiter and so too is the liver which dandelion remedies – all of Nature is held by these laws. What appeared at the end of the flood to show harmony was restored?  A rainbow!  The 7 sacred planets. There it is, hidden in plain sight in Genesis, Noah’s ark, where life on Earth after a disaster was to start again, 7 days of creation – ring any bells?

Adams rib, the crested Moon, does not the Moon reflect the Sun’s light, it governs the tides and the cycles of woman. In Alchemy, there is the marriage of the Sun and Moon, both hemispheres of the brain, day awareness and night dreaming, this is confirmed by what Jung call synchronicity, 11/11.
Have you experienced the prophetic nature of dreams, how they reflect upon your daily life and so on? Dreams are the world of the psyche, psychics see things in the dreaming mind, premonitions, intuitions, feelings, visions etc. etc. “I was just thinking of you, and you rang, what a coincidence”???
The only thing limited to the body is the body, and you, if you believe that the body is all you are.
It is very easy to become deluded, trying to sort out the mind, its ideas, thoughts visions etc. Mind is not limited to our senses, our beliefs may veil its eye, but it has an eye nevertheless. If you want a horse to pull your cart, you must train it – this little story tells us, “Train the mind”, you are not it, it is your servant, or you are its slave. Simple enough?  You can watch TV all day, change stations, the volume, even turn it off if you have the freedom of will to do so, but wait there is more, addictions are hard to master, they cannot be mastered without some self-mastery, after all it is you who is addicted, not what you are addicted to.
The Bible has many examples of purification after 40 days of trial, fasting etc. It is said one must be 40 years of age to enter Kabbalah, this is a pun. 40 is the Hebrew letter Mem, the primal root of water.  I call water ‘mind’, and water is ruled by the Moon.
Mem, say MMMM, you will find your mouth is closed.
All of those trials and suffering to silence the mind. Try to still it for one minute, it will probably ask you, “is it a minute yet?”, after 30 seconds.

From this I hope you draw the idea that to master the mind one must first silence it, meditation! Once you have some mastery of meditation you can become present and still the mind, also you will have noticed that if you focus your attention, the mind stills.

If the psyche opens its portals of perception and you have not trained the mind, not confronted your demons, your beliefs and attachments – madness awaits. Look around you, there is madness everywhere, it is getting worse day by day. Wars, greed, authoritarian rule, false and true information.  Where is the stability to be found? In you, you must stabilize your mind or the medico-pharma authoritarian regime will turn you into a controlled zombi, a threat to no one, especially their profit margins.

I cannot train you on Facebook, it is a challenge to train someone anywhere, in a way one has to bash the student with a stick every time the mind wanders, I think the Buddhist call it Vipassana.  Unless you know what it is to not be possessed by mind, how can you cope with an influx of mind’s perception. 

The great work is before you, self-transformation also called transmutation, base metals to Gold. Gold is the alchemic metal of the Sun whose symbol is a circle with a dot. Without the Sun what can you see?  Without the Sun you are not. The dot in the centre, self-awareness. There is much more to say here but there is enough for the sincere student of ‘know thyself’, to get the idea. If you are not doing the work, you are wasting this life, and it will be difficult to stay balanced in these changing times. If you have no centre, no point of the real, no point of relativity, you are lost at sea, in the ocean of mind.
Paul Tisdell