At the edge of myth and memory stands the Black Madonna, guardian of thresholds, bearer of the unseen, and guide of the soul’s descent and return. In this three-part series, Dennis Klocek traces the thread of Sophianic wisdom from ancient Gnostic streams into the living stream of today’s mystery work. Through esoteric meditative practices and imaginal exercises, we are invited to walk the inner path from fractured will toward spiritual coherence. The Black Madonna emerges not as a relic of the past but as a living being, one who accompanies us as we transform longing into trust, desire into vision, and suffering into seed.

From soul breathing to symbolic feeling, from the pain of Sophia’s exile to the gesture of Anthroposophia rising in our time, these teachings help connect us to the deeper rhythms of spiritual becoming. Themes include the polarity between thought and will, the karma of silence, the mysteries of Kamaloca, and the creation of soul organs through inner art. With reverent clarity, Dennis takes us to meet our shadow with compassion and our calling with courage, guiding us toward the heart-eye that sees through symbol, into mystery, and forward into the work of a new culture born not of fear, but of freedom.

• Lecture 1
  Healing the split between thought and will, the polarity spirit and will. The role of the Madonna in the creation, impulse and development of impulse as spiritual beings, the I and the Me, original purpose of I being, Sophia’s drama and yearning, creation of the Sophia Achamoth (Pistis/faith- knowledge, trust action), Lucifer and self feeling, motive as soul force, the illusion of matter, antipathy and sympathy as soul forces, soul breathing exercises, converting images to symbolic language of feelings, penetrating my will.
  
• Lecture 2
  Topics include the distinction between my will and the ruling will of the cosmos, the significance of silence, seeing the spirit behind the manifest world, Kamaloca, karma and world will, The Black Madonna and esoteric tradition, the Marian church, Jaccus figure, working with the ABC process, disputing self feelings, issues around clairvoyance, the difference between soul experience and spiritual experience, working with symbols, constructing soul organs of perception, issues of trust, surrender, and blame.
  
• Lecture 3
  Topics include how to judge the validity of spiritual experience, creating the heart eye through art, Demeter and Persephone, the kore figure, Anthroposophia as the second face of the Black Madonna, traditional culture into a culture of freedom and anxiety, transforming desire into transcendent will, humility and blame, Metanoia- changed thinking, transformed desire as imagination, the burned and devoured god, the scattered and buried god, the becoming process of an art work, techniques for finding a symbol of my catharsis.