Welcome to my Blog

Merlin’s Secrets

Do you know that mythology and ancient folk tales contain powerful techniques for self-development? Do you know that these ancient stories contain powerful patterns of the deep mind which can be used for self-empowerment? These patterns can help you discover your unique talents and abilities. People think that it is a hard job to work…

Continue Reading Merlin’s Secrets

The Fisher King

I am happy to announce that the online meditation for the fourth Tarot Trump is ready. In the Smith-Waite tarot this card is called the Emperor, but this title does not give much information about the nature of this card, nor about its history or mythology. To understand the full impact of this card, it…

Continue Reading The Fisher King

Merlin’s Secrets

Do you know that the Arthurian Mysteries are a metaphor for self-development? Are you aware that the Arthurian knights and ladies are archetypes that live and work in your very own mind? What exactly is the Grail and whom does it serve? You, who are on a sacred mission to become the best version of…

Continue Reading Merlin’s Secrets

The Digital Journey

Due to the Corona pandemic we have discovered the benefit of teaching by means of weekly webinars. For this reason we have included this way of teaching in our program. The series of webinars are called “The Digital Journey”. It is an adventure into the classical Mysteries that starts with the famous words that were…

Continue Reading The Digital Journey

The Sailing Lessons

While we are all still enduring the stress of the pandemic we are going through for over a year now I want to tell you a little bit about some of the important strategic choices Initiates in the Hermetic Mysteries apply to their lives: We all deal with difficult times in our lives, there are…

Continue Reading The Sailing Lessons

The Light of Memory

Coming Sunday, July 5, we meet again at the 15th edition of the FREE webinars. This time we are going ignite the Light of Memory. It is also called the Light of Knowledge. Knowledge differs from Wisdom in the sense that Knowledge is the result of lived experience. This evening we are going to contact…

Continue Reading The Light of Memory

The Lamp of Power

Coming Sunday, June 28,  we meet again at the 14th edition of the FREE webinars. This time we are going to ignite the Lamp of Power. A lot of people long for power, but with that power also comes responsibility. How do you handle power safely? Sunday we talk about how to apply the important…

Continue Reading The Lamp of Power

The Light of Truth

Coming Sunday, June 21,  we meet again at the 13th edition of the FREE webinars. This time we are going ignite the Light of Truth. It is also called the light of Sacrifice. The word “Sacrifice” has gradually gotten a negative meaning. But the original meaning is Sacri-fice; making something Sacred through transformation. Coming Sunday…

Continue Reading The Light of Truth

The Lamp of Wisdom

Coming Sunday, June 14,  we meet again at the 12th edition of the FREE webinars. This time we are going to ignite the Lamp of Wisdom. With this light you will get access to the sources of Universal Knowledge that our ancestors visited before us. When the Light of Wisdom is lit, the Inner Self…

Continue Reading The Lamp of Wisdom

The Lamp of Love

Coming Sunday, June 7, we meet again at the 11th edition of the FREE webinars. This time we are going ignite the Lamp of Love. When the Light of Love is lit deliberately and with intention, the Inner Self becomes empowered. It is very important to be good friends with your Inner Self because it is…

Continue Reading The Lamp of Love

Know Thyself

Coming Sunday we meet at the 10th edition of the FREE webinars. It is Pentecost and that means that we are doing something that links into the high energy of this sacred day. The theme will be “Know Thyself”, this adagio that was written above the doors of the ancient Mystery Temples. Maybe you think:…

Continue Reading Know Thyself

Clashing Rocks

Unfortunately I had to postpone the meeting of last Sunday due to computer problems. My excuses for all those who tried to login in vain. The computer issues are fixed now, so the topic planned for last week will be our focal point coming Sunday. So what’s on the plate? While we are gradually opening…

Continue Reading Clashing Rocks

The Clashing Rocks

While we are gradually opening up our societies, we get a view on the damage done to our economies. A lot of people will discover that what appeared to be a certainty, will have vanished overnight. Companies will become insolvent, people lose their income, are not able to pay their bills, with all the consequences……

Continue Reading The Clashing Rocks

The Magical Moors

We have another week of lockdown ahead of us. In the Netherlands the safety measures are lifted just a little bit, maybe in your country too? A critical phase. Can we discipline ourselves enough to make this spark of freedom into a window of opportunities? For a successful journey towards a healthy society, it remains…

Continue Reading The Magical Moors

The Seed of Hope

Click here to see the video at YouTube How are you doing during this long lockdown? In the beginning of the pandemic there was a fearful excitement everywhere. It was frightening, new, unexpected and we all needed to adjust very quickly. Now the crisis lasts longer and we are approaching another level of stress and…

Continue Reading The Seed of Hope

Healing meditation

In times of illnesses our ancestors worked together with those spiritual beings that are specialized in different types of healing. They left for us a broad spectrum of methods to help and comfort us in times of great need. These forces are still available to us! Among them are healing gods, saints and angels and…

Continue Reading Healing meditation

The Fountain of Hope

It has been a while ago since you heard from me. I have been withdrawn a little bit from the internet lately. But these are strange times. The developing Corona pandemic is causing a lot of fear, uncertainty and stress. Everyone is asked for their expertise to solve this crisis. So it is important for…

Continue Reading The Fountain of Hope

You are fired!

Thanks to all my critical reviewers. I have news for you; you are all fired! Your opinion is not inspiring, soul searching or even interesting. You can give your opinion about me, but I choose not to listen. Your critical reviews are your private projections: your public outcries of your personal incompetence to contribute to…

Continue Reading You are fired!

Window Dressing

Staring at my smartphone I surf over the internet, searching a solution for my emptiness. Reading all the tempting articles of smart marketeers, I get sooo tired! I put away my cell phone and go to bed. I am done! I pull the blankets over my head, hoping for a decent night of sleep: I…

Continue Reading Window Dressing

Copycats

As an author I regularly notice how other people sometimes use my texts without giving me the credits for it. In some cases complete pages are copied and pasted without naming me as the source. The copycats think they are smart but they don’t realise that the energy is not the same when they re-use…

Continue Reading Copycats

Don’t look back!

Today I am preparing the upcoming Temple Training. It is such a joy to be able to dig so intensively in beauty, because coming Sunday we will be investigating the Orphic Path; the Orphic Path is the spiritual path that works with beauty, nature symbolism and art. Among the Western Mysteries there are beautiful mythological…

Continue Reading Don’t look back!

More about Bees

Today I am contemplating the quality of the materials I am going to use for my products in the Magical Treasure Boxes. I am looking at my stock of beeswax. This is such an interesting material; by choosing this for some of the items, I support the bees and the people who take care of them. The question…

Continue Reading More about Bees

The Golden Veil

Today I will be working at the development of the tarotcard the Fool. The Cave of the Fool is connected to Air of the Wise. I always associate Air of the Wise to the Golden Breath. The Golden Breath is an experience; you experience it at those moments, that it is as if a golden…

Continue Reading The Golden Veil

The Doors of Wonder

DO YOU RECOGNISE THIS? I experience these moments as true divine gifts: suddenly the world shows its beauty. I have those moments when I am writing, when I am creating art, in ritual, outside in nature. .. Do you recognise this, when the doors of beauty open? I am really curious to learn how you…

Continue Reading The Doors of Wonder

Frog logics

Are you curious to learn how frogs try to reach Illumination? Then read my parable … enjoy! It is silent in the frog pool, nothing happens there. Frogs live in murky muddy pools with standing water. But when there is no flow, the plants start to rot and the air begins to stink! The problem…

Continue Reading Frog logics

David Bowie on Magic

Bowie writes about his experiences with Magic, and tells joking that it actually works 😉 Q: “So were you involved in actual devil worship?” A: “Not devil worship, no, it was pure straightforward, old-fashioned magic.” Q: “The Aleister Crowley variety?” A: “No, I always thought Crowley was a charlatan. But there was a guy called…

Continue Reading David Bowie on Magic

The Mages

The temple community consists of trainees and initiates of different degrees. Initiates serve as models for every member of the group to create awareness of ideal archetypes. The functions – not the people themselves – serve as transpersonal models for development of every member. These projections are part of the initiation process, called the “Illumination…

Continue Reading The Mages

Deep Night

While the World sleeps I float through the streets at night Throwing billions of sparks around me Bejewel the blackened sky sew them as diamonds on my black mantle. Thus I create that Mystical Space to give the Inner Self a Universe to fill: with expectations, ripenings and potential. For I am the Keeper of…

Continue Reading Deep Night

The Deep

How do you experience your life? As a wasteland, a barren place where nothing can flourish? A place of constant trauma where you roll every day into the next drama? Then come with me on a journey; I invite you to visit the Deep. The Deep… a place that is not a place. A force…

Continue Reading The Deep

White Lady

Flying away from the world I meet twilight’s dream; The White Lady leads me to the forest fen Illuminates my face and reflects me in Moonlight. Where does she come from and where does she lead me? She is neither human, nor night itself, woven from ancestral memories and veils of fog. She floats in…

Continue Reading White Lady

Eternal Eye

I am the Everlight, the Eye of Timeless Space, Constant and immortal, white and bright. No shade has force to bind down my might. I reclaim my Throne, and poor down a golden beam Create the Shining Stairway seen by Jacob in his dream. Set foot on that path of light, I open it in…

Continue Reading Eternal Eye

Light

When the world is still In the darkness, I lay on my dewy bed My rosy cheeks glister with early morning dew. I feel the blood-dimmed tide is loosed and the ceremony of innocence begins: The darkness drops and birth blood fills the sky. I feel It is moving slowly now, passing the gate in…

Continue Reading Light

Silence

I am the Priest of Harpocrates and the Servant of Silence I open the Realm of the Sun at Midnight! I call upon the Blue Lotus of Eternity as the wordless speaker in the Land of Stars (Ina Custers-van Bergen – The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony, drawing from the Temple of High Magic)

Continue Reading Silence

THE DREAM

This morning I had a lucid dream. A very familiar voice was talking to me: it was the voice of the Inner Plane Teacher that I work with most often. He took me to a very special place and started a very serious conversation with me… You have to understand that the teachings of the…

Continue Reading THE DREAM

TEMPEL TRAINING – DE HERMETISCHE KABBALA

De Hermetische Kabbala is het samenhangende systeem dat alle Westerse Mysterie Tradities met elkaar verbindt, de sleutel die de deur naar innerlijke wijsheid Hermetisch opent, het fundament van de training binnen alle traditionele magische scholen. Dit semester ligt de nadruk op het ontwikkelen van onze ‘innerlijke werelden’ van onze eigen Hermetische Tempel.   Wil jij…

Continue Reading TEMPEL TRAINING – DE HERMETISCHE KABBALA

Further to my statement in support of Ina Cüsters-van Bergen and her school

Further to my statement in support of Ina Cüsters-van Bergen and her school, my comments provoked a backlash of venom and malice from these bloggers… as might have been expected. The following statement was today posted on the Servants of the Light Website by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and I think it is important that it is…

Continue Reading Further to my statement in support of Ina Cüsters-van Bergen and her school