The Templum Kabbalah Course is now in its
third year. The site has grown over
the last year, and continues to do so with additional course materials, examples, rituals,
and guides. The basic syllabus is given below with payment guidelines, offered through
Credit cards/Paypal, Amazon, or Money Order.
For details, see the new site at http://www.kabbalahcourse.com
The one-year Kabbalah Course offers a
guided introduction to the Magician's Kabbalah, with individual exercises, practices and
lessons tailored to your own requirements, run over the website and by
correspondence and e-mail.
Furthermore the course includes:
1. Access to course pages on the site for participants only.
2. Monthly session notes based on the Magicians Kabbalah on-line book.
3. Regular correspondence with myself on all matters arising from your study.
4. Supplementary material including rituals, exercises and practices (unique to this
course).
6. The Magicians Kabbalah book
The syllabus covers themes and aspects of
particular interest to the follower of the Western Mystery Tradition, although we also
touch on more traditional aspects of Kabbalah, as well as applying some of the latest
findings in cosmology to the Tree. The twelve lessons cover:
We also touch on allied subjects such as Alchemy,
Cosmology, Tarot and the Golden Dawn system.
The AIM of the course is to equip you with a scheme for broadening and comprehending your
own personal enquiries.
Firstly, welcome to the one year Kabbalah Course run through the website. I trust
that you find the year ahead a valuable aid to your continuing studies and work. I will
begin by introducing the general aim of the course, the structure of the lessons and the
teaching format we will be employing.
The general aim of the course is to present to you a way of thinking based on the Kabbalah
and related concepts. Thus we will be employing both the science and art of Kabbalistic
principles to demonstrate a way of thinking about the Universe. I make no claim that this
is the only way of looking at the Universe, but it may prove to you a useful way of
gaining a more consistent and comprehensive perception of your relationship to the
Universe.
The structure of the lessons is based on twelve sessions, to which each of which is given
a month of study and practice. Each session has a worksheet, which is broken down into
session points, work points, reading materials, links, exercises and a link to the
discussion area. This worksheet ties together the essential elements of the work ahead.
The first session aims to demonstrate the
emanative nature of Kabbalah, both in its theory, practice and communication. The session
points provide eleven essential statements about Kabbalah, each of which can be expanded
as your time allows. By providing simple seeds of thought, the process of exploration can
be guided in a focused direction.
The work points following the session points are for your practical discipline. In session
one, it is important to learn to draw the tree. This provides the basic template for all
our studies and constrains the work to a glyph both simple and complex. If you are
familiar with the Tree and able in its construction, use your artistic ingenuity to create
the Tree in other media.
The Reading Materials section synthesizes relevant works by other authors. This is by no
means a prescriptive list, of course. Its intention is to provide a central hub from which
to work, spanning out to other workers both past and present. As the course progresses, we
will develop this list to be more specific and review works as we work on them. For
session one, we need only refer to works dealing with the reception and transmission of
Kabbalistic teachings through history to place the current work in context.
The On-Line Links section provides further seeds for discovery. In Session One I have
provided a link to a vast list of sites that demonstrate relevance to Kabbalah. Again, you
may explore these links as your time permits, recalling that it is the history of Kabbalah
we are particularly interested in.
The Exercises section should be worked on as the month progresses and follows from the
work points. The exercises are designed to activate ways of thinking that will build over
time. The section for session one includes four exercises that can be carried out
simultaneously and can be continued throughout the following sessions.
The Discussion Area link points to the Templum Group on Yahoo, where we will meet in a
virtual fashion, for chat, discussion and posting issues and answers on the discussion
board. I see this as an organic reflection of the year, so please ensure that you register
with Yahoo, download the Messenger system and sign up to the group.
Finally, I hope this Aims sheet has clarified both the general aim of the course and the
specific aims of session one, as well as detailing the method by which the course will
manifest. If you are feeling particularly ambitious, and should you complete the exercises
to your immediate satisfaction, you may like to write the names of the Sephiroth,
commencing with Kether and ending with Malkuth, down the side of this Aims document, one
Sephirah to each paragraph, and realise that Kabbalistic structure can assist in the
construction of all manner of work.
To apply, e-mail applications@kabbalahcourse.com