A gateway into the interior worlds.
This course is consists of two, regularly scheduled practice sessions, along with a Question and Answer period for those enrolled in IHS Courses. It is a perfect opportunity to meet other IHS students, receive clarification on your course work, and find your pathway into the interior worlds of esotericism.
Welcome to the Table and Enjoy the Feast of the Pilgrim
Since initiating our various online programs over ten years ago, the Institute for Hermetic Studies has received requests from students asking for means of connecting with each other online, receiving feedback on their practices, and developing a larger community and connectedness to others on the Path.
To provide this framework we have created these bi-weekly sessions, and have chosen two images to illustrate their purpose. The first is the lovely sunset over as seen through the windows of The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. This image very accurately depicts the description given by the French alchemist Jean Dubuis of what the interior experience of "The palace of the Sun" can look like or be visualized as for meditation.
The second image is that of a table for a small and intimate gather of friends for an evening of discussion and enjoyment. It is with this approach that we wish each of you to have as we enter into this world of self-realization, and self-actualization - the ultimate domains on the Path of Return.
Sessions are held on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month, from 9:00pm until 10:30-11:00pm Eastern Time.
A Zoom link will be provided to enrolled attendees.
The Path is walked alone, but not by ourselves alone.
The spiritual journey is one we do by ourselves, for ourselves, and form which, we connect to all areas of life more fully and completely. To our students, or anyone who may wish to have a place to come and visit once in a while, we are offering these bi-weekly sessions of practice, learning, and fellowship.
Course Work for those New to the Path as Well a More Experienced Practitioners
The Institute for Hermetic Studies offer a wide ranging variety of courses that covers the entire body of practice from meditation and visualization to interior initiation, and the Body of Light. These are to be done at each student's own pace. Significant support materials are provided along with the audio and visual recordings. Below is a small sample of the IHS course offerings.
Example Curriculum
- Week One 4.01 (Raw Video) Elements, Virtues, and Tarot Decks (78:52)
- Week Two 4.02 (Raw Video) Elementals and Invisible Beings, Ens, Golden Chain of Homer, & Soul Retrieval (77:29)
- Week Two -Addendum - Chant of the Elements
- Week Two - Addendum - Eliphas Levi and the Elements
- Week Three - 4.03 - Elements, Elementals, and Some Odds and Ends (74:18)
- Week Four - 4.04 - Assumption of the Godform (by Keith Joseph) (82:24)
- Addendum - Week Four - The Power of a Second Personality
- Week Five - 4.05 - Follow-Up to Assumption of the Godform and General Q&A (84:00)
- Week Six - 4.06 - Pathology of Sublime & the Energies of Saturn (by Anne Beckley) (61:21)
- Week Seven - 4.07 - General Discussion (79:24)
- Week Eight - 4.08 - Inner Energies, Essence and Drops, Sexuality and Energy (78:23)
- Week Nine - 4.09 - General Discussion, and Secret Stuff (86:03)
- Week Ten - 4.10 - The Kali Yuga, End Times, Age of Aquarius, and You (71:30)
- Week Eleven - 4.11 - Meditations on the Shin, Attitudes Towards Self, and Power of Nightmares (74:41)
- Week Twelve- 4.12 - Summary of the Path and Understanding Karma (79:55)
- Week Thirteen - 4.13 - Invocation of Divine Names (58:47)
- Week Fourteen - 4.14 - Ancient Gods, Modern Practices; Reviving Past Egregores; Three Books on Meditation (74:14)
- Week Fifteen - 4.15 - General Questions and Answers (67:56)
- Week Sixteen - 4.16 - General Questions and Answers (Some good stuff) (89:28)
- Week Seventeen - 4.17 - All Sorts of Good Stuff (73:18)
- Week Eighteen - 4.18 - Chakras, Middle Pillar, Elements, Liturgy of Hermes (80:07)
- Week Nineteen - 4.19 - (Some Recording Missing) Central Channel and Psychic Grounding, Importance of Strength in Spiritual Practice (28:24)
- Week Twenty - 4.20 - Power of Silence, How to Banish, Why We Need Strength, & Problems With Predictions (91:38)
- Week Twenty One - 4.21 - The Rose Cross Ritual, the IHS Chapel Meditation (74:07)
- Chapel Meditation Instructions - PDF
- Week One - 5.01 - Chapel Meditation, What are the Adepts? (75:56)
- Week Two - 5.02 - Importance of Breathing, Lucidity, Meditation w/Sleep, What Is Inner Self? (75:45)
- Chapel Meditation -Example from 1930s
- Week Three - 5.03 - Comments on Money, Service, and Esotericism; Daily Practice (86:58)
- Week Four - 5.04 - Esoteric History, Pentagram & Hexagram Rituals (78:37)
- Week Five - 5.05 - Activating Intuition, Blending Heart and Brain, Power of Mars, the Lowers Spheres of the Tree (65:06)
- Week Six - 5.06 - Head and Heart Meditation, Brief History of Hermeticism, Activating Alchemical Images (72:32)
- Week Seven - 5.07 - Active Imagination and Pathworking for Connecting Day and Night, Predictions and Responsibilities (64:56)
- Week Eight - 5.08 - Microcosm, Power of the Self, Blake and Imagination as God (95:20)