Image and text from the ‘Ash and Seed’ weekend… * As our ‘briefing’ on Friday evening had elicited the information that several of our Companions were ardent pebble collectors… *
Author: Stuart France
Writer and Director of T.O.L.L.
Walk on…Walk on…
* Through dead dwellings of the living… * * * * And on… * * Under a dead dwelling of the dead… * * * * And on… * *
Golden Hours…Golden Hours…
Image and text from the ‘Ash and Seed’ weekend… * * It is difficult to conceive, perhaps, the birth pangs of a Giant which stands for a land mass… *
Bearings…Bearings…
Images and text from the ‘Ash and Seed’ weekend… * * One of the good things about our association with The Silent Eye… * * Is that we get to
Land of the Exiles 2014 – a vision of the hillside ritualLand of the Exiles 2014 – a vision of the hillside ritual
A fictionalised account of the hillside rite from the Land of the Exiles workshop 2014, extract taken from Doomsday: Dark Sage. The seeing stone is chill against my spine as
The Birthing – A vision of the birth of the SchoolThe Birthing – A vision of the birth of the School
A vision of the birth of the Silent Eye at its first Derbyshire workshop, The Song of the Troubadour. Account taken from The Initiate. …There was smoke again, and flames,
That which does not die…That which does not die…
The Soul Attains – Edward Burne-Jones Elaine He fences right well yon Knight of Arthur’s realm. Lancelot Yet he seems to my mind a little coy. Bedivere Perhaps size is
Seed Thoughts…Seed Thoughts…
The Outer is reflected Emotion… The Inner is reflected Form… The Outer reflects the Inner and the Inner reflects the Outer… The Principles, work not for themselves but for others.
Leaf and Flame: The Foliate Man #5…Leaf and Flame: The Foliate Man #5…
‘…I would beget and would be begotten I would eat and would be eaten I would hear and would be heard I would be understood being all understanding. Dance ye
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“Short body and thick waist, with bulging buttocks spread more delicious to the taste was the one she by her led.” – J.R.R Tolkien #4: La Chapelle Verte “In which
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“…The loveliest lady there on him glanced with eyes of grey: that he found anyone more fair in truth might no man say…” – J.R.R Tolkien #3 La Belle Dame
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“…for at the hue men gaped aghast in his face and form that showed; as a fey-man fell he passed and green all over glowed…” – J.R.R Tolkien #1. ‘…Any
An Uncouth Clod-Hopper…?An Uncouth Clod-Hopper…?
Illustration- John Howe …In the silence which had fallen upon the company, a loud wailing from without the Mead-Hall could be heard by all those present. Into the house that
Harvest of Being 2015: Ilkley Moor…Harvest of Being 2015: Ilkley Moor…
Skein of Time …Gloom. We head into a green gloom of Heber’s very own making, for the late evening light is still bright in the sky… and almost immediately we
Harvest of Being 2015: Ilkley Moor…Harvest of Being 2015: Ilkley Moor…
XXIV THE 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
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III A BAPTISM OF FIRE Joshua said, “Judas Thomas, while you are still in the world, attend to the questions of your heart, and it shall be revealed to you:
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HYMN TO ATEN O Living Aten When you first took your throne in splendour High in heaven’s precinct, truly did life then begin… From the eastern horizon Risen and streaming
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Eyes to see Faces in the Cave light glow… Ears to hear The heart beat Of radiant souls.
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The second of three posts answering some of the questions we are asked regularly about the Silent Eye, its methods of teaching and our workshops. While we have tried to