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The image (or lack of same)? At this point I've traced Juliet Ashley's lineage back as far as photos and documentation extend. John Gilbert's other main teacher, Rev. Matthew William Shaw aka Rhodonn Starrus, is a tougher proposition. Born in Pennsylvania, he became a Universalist minister, serving in a church in the Allentown, PA area. In 1952 he and two other ministers of the Universalist Church, Revs. Omar Zasluchy and Owen Symanski, left the church to protest the upcoming merger between their denomination and the Unitarian Church. (They believed that the Unitarians planned on taking over the congregations, churches, and bank accounts, and then discarding every element of Universalist teaching and tradition; as it turned out, they were right.) In 1952, the three of them were duly consecrated as bishops by Bishop Robert Monroe of the Liberal Catholic Church, and founded the Universal Gnostic Church (UGC). Rev. Shaw had already founded the Modern Order of Essenes as a healing order associated with his church, and took it with him into the UGC. In 1972 he relocated to the Boulder, CO area where he became a friend and associate of Dr. Juliet Ashley, and received initiation into the orders she headed -- the Order of Spiritual Alchemy, the Holy Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Ancient Order of Druids in America -- while she became active in the Modern Order of Essenes and the Universal Gnostic Church. John Gilbert described him as a gifted teacher but a strict taskmaster, who demanded the best from his students and usually got it.
I have yet to find a photo of the man, or accurate information on his birth and death dates -- I gather from what John told me that he died sometime in the 1980s. I have also been unable to find much of anything about Bishop Robert Monroe of the LCC -- there were plenty of schisms in the LCC's history, and he apparently ended up on the wrong side of one of them, so he's just a name in a few old lists at this point. I hope to be able to get more information on him, on Matthew Shaw, and on the early history of the UGC as things proceed.
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The body of light
Date: 2022-11-21 06:23 am (UTC)What is your understanding of the body of light?
Is it the next stage for humans?
Many thanks
Re: The body of light
Date: 2022-11-21 07:41 pm (UTC)Re: The body of light
Date: 2022-11-21 10:26 pm (UTC)Re: The body of light
Date: 2022-11-21 10:33 pm (UTC)Re: The body of light
Date: 2022-11-22 02:16 am (UTC)Does the Way of the Golden Section have a method of working with the body of light?
And would you recommend doing work with the Celtic Golden Dawn after finishing WotGS?
Thanks
Re: The body of light
Date: 2022-11-22 04:04 am (UTC)2) No, that's a different system. WotGS is the first book in a series of its own; The Occult Philosophy Workbook, just out from the same publisher, is the next in that series, and The Way of the Four Elements, the third book, will be out next year. Other books that are compatible with the same system are The Druid Magic Handbook, the two volumes of The Dolmen Arch, and the entire collection of material for the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose, which you can download for free here:
https://octagonsociety.org/archives/fhr/
That ought to give you something to work with for the next little while. ;-)
Re: The body of light
Date: 2022-11-22 04:26 am (UTC)I think I am confused about the bodily structure of the next, higher life. I assume that the channels and centers of the etheric body and also the astral body will be with us on a higher plane.
My current work focuses on giving form to the etheric and astral bodies. As well as perfecting those bodies themselves.
Is the body of light a separate effort all its own?
Best,
E.S.
Re: The body of light
Date: 2022-11-22 04:34 am (UTC)Re: The body of light
Date: 2022-11-22 04:35 am (UTC)Thanks!