Posted in Sefer Yetzirah on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Keter
You cannot conceive the many without the one.
Plato, Dialogues, Parmenides
No God – Within most texts explaining the mysteries of the QBL you will see oblique and opaque references to something called God as if we all know what this means. The etymological beginnings the word God or a God in its true meaning refers to [...]
Posted in Sefer Yetzirah on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“The heart in the body is like a king in battle…”
Sefer Yetzirah, Saadia version 8:4
The warrior king looks out over the field, dark clouds roll in from the east; from his chariot he considers the weapons in his hands. First the sword in his right.
“The blade of this sword I have forged has [...]
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Hermetic Lessons – Pythagoras
Why Pythagoras?
Pythagoras is one of the corner stones of “western” mathematics although Pythagoras’ Theorem for which he is most well known was not actually created by him. Pythagoras built a spiritual cult around him in a Greek colony in Italy which was closely tied to the idea of reincarnation, vegetarianism and “not [...]
Posted in Hermetic Lessons, tagged Drama, Hermetic Lessons on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
H.P. Lovecraft
Medium Term Plan
Course Objectives
• Acting Styles – horror, suspense, melodrama, accents
• Direction
• Writing
• Adapting a text for the stage
• Set design
• Lighting
• Costumes – period dress 1920s
Lesson Plans – 8 lessons, 50 minutes each
Starters
• Read “From Beyond” by Lovecraft in circle, each pupil reading one paragraph each. Instruct pupils in reading skills –tone (spooky, [...]
Posted in Hermetic Lessons, tagged Hermetic Lessons, mathematics on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Learning Objectives
Citizenship
History
Initiative and inventiveness
Starter – Story
Tell story of Archimedes pay particular attention to his ingenuity and his sense of duty as a citizen. Emphasize his coffin design as evidence of the spiritualisation of maths (i.e. sacred geometry).
Main Activity – Eulogy
Students must write either a eulogy to Archimedes at his funeral, or they must base a [...]
Posted in Hermetic Lessons, tagged Drama, Hermetic Lessons, Science on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hermetic Lessons – Science, Astrophysics
Mercury is in retrograde again. But don’t be down hearted! If anyone is a teacher here, they willprobably experience some difficulties during this time. Your more able students will be fuddled by it,your less able students, who very generally tend to be the more disruptive ones, will go a bit haywire. [...]
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Hermetic Lessons – Drama
Its funny teaching kids how to act and then letting them go for it. You can immediatly tell the difference between two types. They are what I call internal actors, who build up an idea of the character and then explode or dribble it out of them into performance (depending on their [...]
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Cranked out another bizarre lesson in Yr 1 maths to assist the facilitation of thinking skills and mind mapping. We’re doing algebra, and they’re really good at it but I am concerned that I am turning them into machines for it. I am determined that they do not come to maths and leave purely as [...]
Posted in Poetry on July 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Misunderstanding Europa II…
Deeper,
deep water, currents, cold tendrils,
descend on to the coral,
and the warm rocks,
phosphorescent with intelligence,
like the thoughts of a prisoner,
the cradle of a civilisation.
Descend, in an aquasphere,
with four windows,
mirrors and a flame,
twirling on the rope,
an inverse lighthouse,
descend, rotate, perambulate.
Hidden thoughts lurk
amidst the crannies and the crook,
fleeting, grasping, they flicker and feed,
on open thoughts queueing
like [...]
