The House of Life

1. Teach Yourself Meditation - a basic guide with plenty of practical exercises (see sample chapter)

 

2. Teaching Youself Tarot (avaliable from me as an e-book )- simple but practical

 

3. The Watkins Tarot Handbook: The Practical System of Self-Discovery-  Watkins, 2005, £9.99 - ISBN - 1 84293 1148. More advanced than TYT but very practical

'To have the benefit of this wonderful invention, the Keys must be inside you. This means that you must be able to call up the images of any Key by a simple act of will. When you can do this, the Tarot will be part of your very flesh and blood, and it will begin to effect far reaching transformations in your thinking and thus in your living.'

Paul Foster Case,The Tarot

The book offers the reader the keys with which to unlock the deeper significance enshrined within tarot imagery. The text presents all the techniques and approaches necessary to discover that the Tarot is a pictorial presentation of a complete magical philosophy. The book offers numerous practical exercises and sets the Tarot within the greater context of the Western Mystery tradition where it serves as a doorway to a rich and wonderful system of self discovery. The book is divided into two parts. Part I offers exercises, techniques and insights. Part II presents a ritual script, The Serpent Of Wisdom which may be used in a number of ways by individuals or groups.

4. The Aquarian Qabalah: A Contemporary Initiation Into A Secret Tradition - Watkins 2003 £12.99 - ISBN - 1 84293 047 8 (see sample chapter)  (now reissued as The Kabalah Experience)

'As we grow the Tree grows. It bears a different variety of fruit in the twentieth century that it did in the fourteenth, but it still fulfils its function of producing sustenance for the insatiable human soul in search of its own meaning. What is more its fruits are literally inexhaustible, since they constantly renew themselves with fresh supplies of Inner Energies. The harder we pluck the Tree, the more plentifully comes its amazing fruit.'

The Aquarian Qabalah presents a view of Qabalah which is suited to the times in which we live. It offers a new and unorthodox view designed for the times in which we find ourselves. The text is therefore immediately accessible and relevant to life today. The book does not purport to be a presentation of Rabbinical Qabalah but rather it is a new view from a Hermetic standpoint. The Aquarian Qabalah offers a redefined Qabalah to an emergent Aquarian generation. Qabalah is not a fixed and closed system of dogma. It is a living and dynamic system which holds true for every age. A new approach to an established tradition may offend the purists but it is in keeping with the very essence of the tradition itself. Qabalah has been enriched by the absorption of new material. The very ease with which current metaphysics have been integrated into the Tree of Life speaks highly for the original blueprint which can encompasses growth without modification or violation. The most recent of such offshoots is the merging of Tarot and Qabalah. This marriage is a by-product of the occult revolution of the late nineteenth century. Purist might indeed view this as a marriage made in hell, while others see it as the perfect partnership. Jung lends some support to the idea that Tarot images provide tools for transformation with the words, ‘It also seems as if the set of pictures in the Tarot cards were distantly descended from the archetypes of transformation.’ In any event it is partnership that it not likely to be dissolved .The Tarot and the dynamics of the Tree have become indissoluble. As Robert Wang clearly states in The Qabalistic Tarot, ‘The interlock of Tarot and Qabalah is so precise that the two systems are mutually explanatory.’ This is our starting point.

The Aquarian Qabalah continues the themes expressed through The Watkins Tarot Handbook. The book develops the intimate relationship between the Tarot and the Tree of Life. Using a workbook style, the book develops the experiential journey of self discovery. Through an integrated study of Tarot and Qabalah the reader ‘climbs ‘the Tree of Life interacting with the Sephiroth and the Paths in turn as an initiatory system into the living dynamics of the Western Mysteries. The active reader connects to the 10 Holy Sephiroth as a series of inner temples and to the 22 Paths and to the Paths via the related 22 Tarot Trumps. The journey plants the many seeds of the mass initiation arising in our mids: The Initiation of Aquarius.