The answers to these and other questions about esoteric Freemasonry are found two centuries before the establishment of the English symbolic or non- operative lodges. Where? At Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland. There the Initiation and related secrets were known, practiced, and clearly shown in wall carvings. Esoteric Freemasonry was established in Scotland by the Knights Templar within two generations of their suppression by the Inquisition. We examine the Templars, their assimilation of spiritual knowlege from the Middle East, their brotherly association with the stone masons, the Templar diaspora, and its influence in the development of Scottish symbolic Freemasonry. The course syllabus can be found through the link below.

• What were the roots of Gnosticism?
• What were ancient Jewish and Hellenistic Gnosticism all about?
• How has Gnosticism been preserved and transformed from ancient to modern times?
• How is it relevant today?

This Seminar takes us on a tour of Mithraism, which probably gave gentile Christianity (both Gnostic and Proto-Orthodox) its understanding of Heavenly Redeemer and Holy Sacraments; the Jewish Mandaeans, who survive today and accept John the Baptist as their Messiah; numerous Gnostic sects and their founders; Manichaeaism (the original religion of St. Augustine of Hippo) and its perpetuation into medieval Europe through the Albigensians (derogated as "Cathars" by their enemies); the Albigensian diaspora and its connection with the Hermetic Renaissance, Rosicrucian Enlightenment, post- diaspora Templarism, and the development of European esoteric schools and Gnostic Ekklesiae; and finally we examine modern Gnostic schools and Churches and see how the ascetic ideals of so-called Negative Gnosticism have been totally transformed.

JIVA's mission is to educate people into the science of Vedic Astrology as taught in the long tradition of astrologers from Jagannath Puri in Orissa India. This knowledge originates in the ancient wisdom tradition of India known as the Vedas.

Preparation begins with email contact (LK@wisdomseminars.org) and an application, which is the same form used for acceptance into Ordination training for the Home Temple. If you are already in the program, you are also accepted for T:.H:.G:. Initiation and merely need to make an email request to proceed. If not, you will need to apply with character references. (http://www.hometemple.org/EApplication.htm). You will need to purchase Initiation into the Grail Mysteries shown in the picture above. It is available through Home Temple Publications and in e- book form at www.wisdomseminars.org, as well as at all internet book stores. You will need to listen to the eleven introductory tapes, which can be ordered either as cassette tapes from Home Temple Publications or purchased is MP3 files that can be heard or downloaded from your computer through the password-protected THG portal at www.wisdomseminars.org. You will then be scheduled for the March conference calls and given passwords for printable and multimedia presentations that help you prepare for the Passover Moon All-Night Initiatic Vigil, Vigil Analysis, and instruction on Wesak self- initiation and beginning the First Empowerment.

If you would like to proceed, email the Grailmaster at LK@wisdomseminars.org.

Click on Loren's altar photo to go to his church web site. Click on the link below to go to his photos of the Hidden Chapel of Mary Magdalene.