View From The Big Hills

This fourth lecture was given in Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London on the 28 th  of May 1975. As mentioned previously, like most genuine esoteric fraternities, the thinking and practices of the group developed and changed over the next forty years. Some elements of what was said then are perhaps a little dated now, but essentially these lecture notes remain of historical interest and  may also provide some practical pointers for those  with eyes to see, particularly the points on "contact".  *      *      * This evening, we continue our series of inaugural lectures with a talk on Elementary Esoteric Physiology. 1.   The Individuality   What is it? Essentially, those aspects of a person which developed in the earlier part of the current evolutionary phase, and which will persist until the end of this phase. It is sometimes called the “Higher Self” in contrast to the “Lower Self” or Personality, and it comprises the den...

Continuing my series of posts on the inaugural lectures of the London Group, included below is Lecture 3, which Alan Adams presented at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London on the evening of 7 th May 1975. Like all healthy esoteric fraternities, much changed and developed in the thinking and practices of the group over the next 4 decades. Some elements are now dated, but essentially this lecture remains of interest historically and  to any seeker after wisdom. It is after all one of a handful of inaugural lectures which hooked the “fish” who subsequently joined the three adepts who seeded the group from Dion Fortune’s Society of the Inner Light. This is where it started.  ELEMENTARY ESOTERIC ANATOMY Clearly, the world and humankind were once very different from what they are now. As the Earth developed, so did the bodies of humankind. In every one of us there was developed a response to each phase of evolution — a vehicle to enable us to live and work in the conditions of...

The London Group was formed by previous members of two esoteric groups strongly linked with Dion Fortune -- the  Society of the Inner Light and the Society of Western Mythologists.  The former of these groups had changed its direction, teachings and  practices, resulting in a number of members leaving to pursue avenues they believed were more appropriately aligned to serving the needs of the emerging Aquarian Age.  The latter had closed its temple in the early 1970s. It had been a working group founded by three previous members of the Society of the Inner Light, two of whom had lived in Queensborough Terrace.  They left the Society, feeling that new forms were needed for a New Age, and that the Society was running in contradiction to this need. Similarly, Basil Wilby, more well known as the author Gareth Knight, also left the Society shortly after them for the same reasons.  There was new work to be done, and new people were needed to do it.  To that e...

  “Modern life has developed the concrete mind to a high degree. It is a good servant but a very bad master and can provide one of the principal blockages to the manifestation of the true human. Its very nature tends towards formalisation and the precise pigeon-holing of all impressions and data received by it. What it cannot identify and label it will not admit exists, and, as the workings of the spiritual nature are rarely capable of such limitation, they are seldom admitted. So, in the majority of people the spiritual stimuli rarely come through to the physical brain and have little effect on the life.” -          Aquarian Occultism by Susan Rotcliff