(Open to All)
Hawkwood College June 1st to 3rd 2012
"The Other Arthuriad"......
The Magic of Tolkien
JRR Tolkien stated that the express of the purpose of his mythology in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and other writings was to offer an alternative British mythology to the tales of King Arthur.
During the 1940's Dion Fortune and others developed the Arthuriad into a magical system, whilst Tolkien refined his mythology. This workshops shows how the two can come together utilising the practical methods of the Western Mystery Tradition,
including meditation and ritual.
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TOLKIEN workshop |
Back in print after many years in a new, well illustrated, edition.
Get it from:
http://www.skylightpress.co.uk/
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It was the Celtic bards who laid down the foundation of inner wisdom that has come down to us as Arthurian legend, passing their traditions to the Arthurian romancers of the 12th and 13th centuries. Thus the Celts provide an immediate bridge that leads to a very ancient world. Focusing on the Brythonic Celtic material and the "Taliesin" cult whose lineage preserved the mysteries through the Mabinogion and other texts, Awen: the Quest of the Celtic Mysteries reveals the sources of the British sacred tradition right back to the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, and, as some believe, further back still to even more ancient sources.
Through the aligned symbolism of the goddess, the sacred king and the stars, a compelling picture is built of a thriving mystery tradition which marries the constellations to the landscape, exploring as an example the interwoven five-fold and seven-fold stellar geometry of Moel ty Uchaf stone circle in North Wales, and the stellar alignments on the landscape of Cadair Idris.
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