Forthcoming Events
We look forward to seeing everyone again at Clarendon Events and start this new year on a serious note looking at the inner world of man in relation to the traditional understanding of the Seven Deadly Sins, how we might interpret it today in terms of our inner compulsions and what that has to teach us about ourselves. We are pleased to welcome back our friend Dr. Jeremy Naydler to lead this enquiry. Further Clarendon Events announcements will follow soon. These will include details of a return visit of the Georgian Women's choir Sathanao from Tbilisi in May 2012, last heard in part at a much applauded concert at Clarendon in December 2010.
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS
A talk by
Dr. Jeremy Naydler
Sunday 18 March 2012 at 7.30pm
Donations: £10.00 (Students: £5.00)
Pre-Christian in origin, the tradition concerning the Seven Deadly Sins was originally an esoteric teaching associated with the arduous inner discipline of cleansing the soul from the negative aspects of the seven planetary energies, so that it might return to its celestial home. Today the tradition can be understood as providing a guide-map to becoming conscious of our dark and, therefore, very hard to see, inner compulsions. Becoming aware of them, we may experience the peculiar suffering that accompanies the realisation of how flawed we are, but we may also awaken to a more authentic moral and spiritual centre within ourselves.
Dr Jeremy Naydler holds a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies, and is the author of three books on religious life in antiquity, most recently The Future of the Ancient World: Essays on the History of Consciousness (2009).