On Thursday July 3rd, 2014 the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon will

present a discussion and readings by the host from his forthcoming book

"Hermetic Yoga, Beyond the Middle Pillar." This will be an important

advance preview in our series on modern Hermetic practical magick. We

will trace the concept and the development of this tantric yoga of the

West from its origins in Ancient Alexandria starting with the

Orphic-Pythagorean "Music of the Spheres" through the astrological Soma

Sophia and the Alchemical "Ladder of Metals." We will show how the

blending of the Hebrew Kabbalah, with its Tree of Life and Adam Kadmon

concepts, into the Rosicrucian Hermetic expression led German mystics

Jacob Boehme and his follower Johann Gitchel to conceive of a Western

chakra arrangement similar to that used in the East. A short version of

this technique survived as the Golden Dawn's "Middle Pillar" ritual. Now

we can reconstruct and operate the full system. So if you want to bring

power down the Lightning Flash and activate all your mystic roses in the

Western manner, tune in and we'll raise the Dragon.