A Tradition Revealed - Joe, with a handul of friends, Louise, Ruth and Leo, learn things about the old monk and the ancient, indeed far more ancient than one might suppose, Rose Priory that lead them far beyond the limits of their worldly imagination!

The three languages of colours, divine, consecrated, and profane, classify in Europe the three estates of society, the clergy, the nobles, and the people. The large glass windows of Christian churches, like the paintings of Egypt, have a double signification, the apparent and the hidden; the one is for the uninitiated, the other applies itself to the mystic creeds. The theocratic era lasted to the renaissance; at this epoch symbolic expression is extinct; the divine language of colours is forgotten, painting becomes an art and is no longer a science.

There follows an extract from my book Notes on Meditation. People I have spoken with since its publication have expressed...

a comprehensive overview of the origins of Kabbalah, the Tree of Life, the significance and use of letters and numbers, and shows how through studying the symbolism and engaging in the disciplines of the Kabbalah it is possible to enter the Secret Garden of the Soul and become aware of the spiritual reality therein.

For more than five hundred years the word ‘Glastonbury’ meant an abbey, not a town. One of the greatest and most ancient in the kingdom, Glastonbury Abbey claimed to be ‘the fount and origin of all religion in England.

From the beginning, and even more so at the present day, definers of the term ‘Gnosticism’ have tended to follow the approach of Humpty Dumpty, who told Alice that, ‘When I use a word … it means exactly what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less’.