Images and Text from the Silent Eye Workshop: Whispers in the West… God’s own Garden… * Two Tone Support… * Mottled Mother Lode… * Earth’s Tail End… * Immovable Object
Author: Stuart France
Writer and Director of T.O.L.L.
A Preponderance of Stone…A Preponderance of Stone…
Image and Text from the Silent Eye Workshop: Whispers in the West… Sky and Sea… * Crudeness of Precision… *Maw of Earth… *Inner and Outer… * Before and Beyond… *
Portraits…Portraits…
* Photographing stones… * * Is not like photographing people. * * Stones do not, normally, insist upon presenting their best side. * * Or veto the unhappy results. *
Wish you were here…Wish you were here…
* In Olden Times, Holidays were originally just that… Holy Days. The whole community would lay aside their workday duties and together engage in deeply or intrinsically symbolic activities that
The Lion’s ShareThe Lion’s Share
“Tell me,” said Joshua, “why is that person carrying a lamb to the city ?” Judas Thomas said, “So that he may kill it and eat it.” Joshua
A Harmony of Eight…A Harmony of Eight…
* The point sits at the centre of the square, where its two diagonals intersect. * * From the same intersection, another square can be drawn at right angles to
Primitive Minds…Primitive Minds…
* “We will never know what they thought, what they were trying to achieve.” But we still have the sun set and the sun rise… Participate in only a few
Keys to Heaven: Design…Keys to Heaven: Design…
* … By Fox! That is ‘Mister…’ to you. ‘C.J.’ – Charles James… * Sue saw the Banner Torches, unlit. I heard the drums. We both said in unison, “That’s
Keys to Heaven: Sobriety…Keys to Heaven: Sobriety…
* With our third term, ‘sobriety’, we start to rise… By accepting the control we attempted to impose on the world in our ‘planning’ and singularly failed to exert upon
Keys to Heaven: Gluttony…Keys to Heaven: Gluttony…
* The Norse God, Odin, hangs over all. His attendant wolves symbolise our lower self, and both their names can be translated, ‘greed’, which leads us to glut… * For
Keys to Heaven: Planning…Keys to Heaven: Planning…
* Baldrick, famously, hatches cunning plans which always back-fire. * Dick Dastardly, equally famously, hatches devious plans which always back-fire, and he usually has to be saved from destruction by
Spirit of ‘What-Not’…Spirit of ‘What-Not’…
* We can, perhaps, now understand, a little of where this diagram is coming from. It may be that this figure is supposed to represent a tetrahedron, yet because of
Triads: Derivations…Triads: Derivations…
* DERIVATION OF THE TRINITY Contd THEREFORE… 136 = 1 (1 + 3 + 6 = 10 = 1) 163 = 1 (1 + 6 + 3 = 10 =
Triads: The Trinity…Triads: The Trinity…
* … The One is All, yet the One is ‘three’? The trinity is actually, a unity? Three ‘persons’ in one? The paradoxes and enigmas are wont to pile up
Triads…Triads…
* The ancients possessed a conception of numbers all but lost to modern times. Had they not possessed such a conception nothing could have led them to the ideas which
‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Tower…‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Tower…
* To complete our pentagrams we returned to our core principles and considered the shadow. * The setting was not the swiftly flowing Spey but a quitely progressing brook which
‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Circle…‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Circle…
* As the weekened progressed we were to work our way around ‘the limbs’ of an elemental pentagram. * Two sites from the region were given over to each element.
‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Armchair…‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Armchair…
* As the weekened progressed we were to work our way around ‘the limbs’ of an elemental pentagram. * Two sites from the region were given over to each element.
‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Enneagram…‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Enneagram…
* As the weekened progressed we were to work our way around ‘the limbs’ of an elemental pentagram. * Two sites from the region were given over to each element.
‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Whirligig…‘Aye’ of the Unicorn: Whirligig…
* As the weekened progressed we were to work our way around ‘the limbs’ of an elemental pentagram. * Two sites from the region were given over to each element.
The Quest for Immortality: Anomalies…The Quest for Immortality: Anomalies…
* Given that much of the Epic of Gilgamesh has found its way into the Hebrew Book of Genesis in a somewhat garbled form… Why, we may wonder, is the
The Quest for Immortality: Masks…The Quest for Immortality: Masks…
* It has to be owned… The Temple Space has never looked finer. Mind you, we say that every year! * Even Coyote, a late, somewhat incongruous addition to proceedings
The Quest for Immortality: Gods…The Quest for Immortality: Gods…
* The workshops serve as a Celtic Cauldron of Plenty… Everyone gets what they most need. How is this possible? How is it possible that three years on from
The Quest for Immortality: Dreams…The Quest for Immortality: Dreams…
* When the people of Uruk rebel against the tyranny of Gilgamesh, they petition the Gods… * Hearing their plea the Goddess, Aruru, fashions the twin of Gilgamesh from the