This is The Way … Following an Ancient Path

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Jackie Nonweiler, MSc, PhD Psychology Candidate and Life Activation Practitioner, interviews Julia Tiffin about The Ritual Master Path in September 2024. See the original YouTube video entitled ‘Your NEGATIVITY STOPS Your Spiritual GROWTH’. This interview talks about an ancient path of the Warrior and overcoming negativity.

Image (left): IMAGE TOP RIGHT – Bronze sculpture by Matteo Pugliese from his Extra Moenia series.

[Jackie Nonweiler] Hello and welcome to the show today. I’m here with Julia Tiffin, who is also my Guide in the Modern Mystery School in the lineage of King Solomon. Today we’re talking about the Ritual Master path. Julia, thank you for being here today. I just want to start by asking you, How long have you been a Ritual Master?

[Julia Tiffin] Since 2004, so that’s 20 years.

What is being a Ritual Master to you?

[Jackie Nonweiler] Why did you become a Ritual Master in the first place? What is being a Ritual Master to you?

[Julia Tiffin] When I found out about the Ritual Master program (it was before Healers Academy when I heard about this path) I really didn’t think I was ready for it. I was working with the 12-Step Program for codependency in my late 20’s, and I certainly didn’t think whatever that [the Ritual Master Path] was, sounded like me. Then, when I was in the Heaters Academy program, I heard a lot of people speaking about this program, and it was starting to itch at me. It wasn’t so much a desire that I must do this – it was a heartpulling. It was something pulling me, a compulsion, what I would call a calling. And I have, fortunately or unfortunately, learned from a young age to follow this calling, whether it’s something you really want to do or not, but the calling is your heart’s higher intelligence that something must be done. I say unfortunately only because it was as a result of my father’s death when I was 15 that a door opened inside of me to know what it feels like when your heart pulls you, and that if it pulls you, you must go in that direction. So short story, it was a very strong, heartpulling and a calling that there is something here, and it’s part of who I am, and I must move towards it.

[Jackie Nonweiler] Yeah, thank you for sharing, and now that you’ve been been a Ritual Master for 20 years, and Ritual Master plus plus plus, right (?) – there are some steps and initiations and some special training, and things have gone on a long way, what is being a Ritual Master?

[Julia Tiffin] It’s an absolute, and I really do mean the word absolute: it’s an absolute commitment to being the best version you can be. This then means you truly do have to face your shadows and know that the world around you is really going to show it to you. In those moments, really take the opportunity and be brave to see it, to shift it straight away, so that those shadows don’t block the light that you hold. Then you can bring more light into the world through your very energy field, and just through these initiations, we (basically) have been allowed to hold more light. But it’s our own negativity that can stop the amount of light we can hold, and the more light that we hold, the more clarity we can bring to humans about what is truly good for them [as well as ourselves]. It’s almost as if being a Ritual Master is about drawing the line in the sand between the influence that negativity has on people [and ourselves], and saying, “No, I will be a pillar of light. I will work as hard as I can to shift the shadows out of me. I will use all the tools and ceremonies and obligations that I need to do, so that I can carry that light.”

First of all, I need to make sure I don’t stop the light by taking care of my own shadows. But then I also have to use the ancient tools so that I can carry more light and bring that into the world so that people know what is truly good for them.

It’s really the line of confusion between what we think is good for us and what isn’t good for us that takes people out, and it can so easily, by just one degree, be off. I’ve seen it in my own life as I’ve tackled my own shadows, but I see it in the world around me. I see people going down rabbit holes where they lose themselves in opinions, arguments and concepts that are, quite frankly, taking them down a path that’s not joyful. The clarity between what is actually joyful and what you think is joy, is kind of distorted in the world right now. 

As a Ritual Master, we have hidden knowledge about the potential of humans and who we are in the universe: it’s a very sacred and privileged knowledge to have. In fact, we get a lot of sacred and privileged knowledge, which is not just knowledge for knowledge’s sake. We actually get to test it out. You know, ‘Is this actually real and true?’ I come from a family where there was a lot of maths, and so we tested things, such as theorems. ‘Does this work? Does this hold true?’ So the knowledge we get, it’s not parrot feeding by any means. ‘This information here feels good to me but let’s go and test it. And now that I know it holds true, this sacred knowledge is there to be used –  as it is a privilege to have this.’ Since I have this information, now I’m obliged to do something about it. For example, if I know that my neighbor is in distress, maybe they’re very sick, and no one’s coming to take care of them, and they need someone just to go and shop for them. If I have that knowledge: What, am I not going to do anything about it? No, I’m going to do something about it, right? So when we get more sacred knowledge about who we are, it’s so important to take action, for instance, we need to make sure that, when you see people with funky ideas and they think it’s correct, but they don’t understand that these thoughts are creating their reality, that we do something about it. That’s one of the most fascinating things about who we are in the universe, on this little piece of rock we’re spinning around on, that in the universe, this is where we get to test our thoughts and what they become.

If we have funky thoughts, we’re going to have a funky life. So bringing more light into people’s lives, into consciousness, is actually what Ritual Masters do. We bring light, not only into our physical environment: that’s one piece of the puzzle – I’m one person living in one area of the world, and I travel on planes sure, but that’s still a limited amount of influence. The big difference with Ritual Mastery is that when we get this privilege of carrying more light through the initiation, together with this obligation to clean our shadows, we have a contract to do something with that knowledge that we receive about who humans really are. Then, when we use the sacred tools that we receive, it can actually impact areas of thinking within the planet’s consciousness, and affect how humans think about things [towards positive thinking].

It’s a highly privileged path with a lot of responsibilities, meaning that we can now respond to the information, to the light, and to the initiations we’ve received. I hope that long-winded story has clarity in it for you?

Tell me more about the Path of the Warrior

[Jackie Nonweiler] Yeah, absolutely. You speak a lot about these sacred initiations and tools. What is that about? Where do these come from, and what is the historical basis? Because as Ritual Masters, we receive teachings about what this means, and information about the historical links indicating that Ritual Masters have been around for 1000’s of years, right? So do you mind explaining a bit about about this?

[Julia Tiffin] It’s so fascinating to me because our movies have changed so much since 1997! It’s wild how we have so many allusions to a hidden path, to hidden warriors doing hidden things. It’s pervasive in our media. It’s wild. And one has to ask the question, is there some truth to it? The very reason that the Mystery School is online today is because something significant happened in human consciousness in the year 1997, on the 7th of the 7th month: something that was known about for 1000’s of years. In the time of King Solomon, they knew these significant dates when things were going to happen. As a result of the alignment in 1997, literally overnight, more light came into human consciousness. If we track the historical shifts we’ve made, technological shifts, changes in media – it is kind of radical what’s happened since 1997 – since the advent of the smartphone and access to knowledge and technology in third world countries [for instance]. The list is endless.

There are now so many movies about hidden warriors fighting something out of balance, not good on the planet. And yeah, this is real, many of us are hidden on the tube, on a plane, sitting in our offices. We’re just hidden all over the place, battling negativity one thought at a time.

Now, onto lineage: something which perhaps I didn’t grasp at first, was the importance of lineage. But never mind, because as I said to you earlier, many people who follow this path are questioners. I’m certainly come out of a questioning, testing background as well. We get told: this is a lineage. It’s unbroken. It dates back even beyond King Solomon. And then we get told, because of that, it has power and authority. Fine, but I haven’t tested that yet and I don’t know what that means. We also get this amazing [historical] chart showing us the unbroken lineage, which is evidently the key, because there are traditions on the planet where lineages have been broken. But I still don’t know what that means. I’m just getting information.

Before I even did Ritual Master, I got a series of tools, rituals, meditations, prayers and more in Empower Thyself and had begun testing them. And even before that – I come out of originally, a Catholic tradition. I also questioned this heavily so that the nuns threw me out of catechism when I was six. I was one of those naughty kids – the bright kid that asked the questions.

Then I began to use these tools [from Empower Thyself]. Okay, it worked. So I kept using them, and kept using them. They got stronger. I got stronger, they got stronger, I got stronger, they got stronger, I got stronger. As I was going along, I began to understand, lineage means that ancient tools, the initiations, which have been handed down from word to ear, from mouth to ear for 1000’s of years, and have been tested by 1000’s of people for 1000’s of years, intelligent people, for that matter, means that they work.

When I got a chance to hand these tools down myself, after some training and some time [in the Empower Thyself Class & Initiation], I began to observe (what I would call) a sacred fire that runs through these sacred initiations, through these rituals, that gives these rituals and initiations the incredible potency and authority to work in the world despite the world of human logic (which is based on observable data). So initiations have been handed down from the holy realms, as crazy as that sounds, and they have been done in the same way for 1000’s of years. This opens a sacred gateway for humans to then hold more light. With Ritual Master, it’s a bit more than holding more light: it’s about having ancient symbols that are actually in your structure, that keep a fence up, keeping negativity further away from humans. That’s why you have to very clear about your own negativity, so you keep that line, that light, very strong within you. 20 years later, and I am still here, because it holds true.

3000 years ago, King Solomon knew that a lot of light was going to come into our section of the universe. We were going to move out of that state of the ‘dark ages’ as we called it on the planet. In 1888, we had all this technology with the industrial revolution. We’ve had radical growth since then, and it was going to reach a point where human consciousness was going to start asking questions: ‘Hang on a second? That isn’t right. That doesn’t work. There must be a better way’. And we see it. It is radical. Just when someone tries to do something that’s a bit off, someone exposes it.

At the same time, there are people using incorrect information to throw people off track. That is why the need for Ritual Masters is so important, because we bring in the light of clarity, the Hermetic Ray that doesn’t even tell people, but it literally just brings the light in to help people to ask: Does that really bring me joy? Is that really the path to good and beauty? Is all of that convoluted stuff that you tried to tell me – is that ‘truth’ really bringing me to a good state?

When you actually test the tools and use them and give them some time and apply them, you realize lineage is very, very sacred: to be part of a lineage which is unbroken, part of a team of people that have done their best to be the best that they can be. These people have faced the things that are not pretty in themselves, have been willing to be exposed, for others to see when they were not being their best selves, and then to be willing and brave enough to change it, so that they can say to people, ‘Hey, you can shift. You don’t have to always be the same way.’ This is the path and together with other things we do, we help humanity at large.

The Path of Technology vs The Ancient Way?

[Jackie Nonweiler] Yeah. I think, I’m a bit younger, right? And quite a few people in my kind of generation really doubt the power or the value in doing something that’s been done for 1000’s of years. Really, it’s an incredible part of this generation: to value doing something new, and innovation. And there’s something magickal and powerful about having, I mean, even trying to fathom someone 3000 years ago, let alone 8000 years ago, doing the exact same ritual that I do now. I mean, of course, it holds power – 8000 years! I can’t even imagine how long 8000 years is, and so it’s difficult, honestly, to go through the world now as a young person, and to see all of these people distracted and letting this distortion in, not believing that something so ancient could be effective. What you see is a lot of contamination that’s happened through New Age spirituality, and people are turning to drugs and to other people to get their answers. That’s putting something that’s not God between you and God, which could never be good. It could never be in alignment, right? And it’s hard to watch people do that over and over and over again, because they say, ‘Well, it’s brought me value’.

And then we say, but ‘How much value? Has it solved your problem?’, or ‘Are you still seeking and still searching for something that you haven’t found yet?’

[Julia Tiffin] It’s funny, because I know there’s 20 years between us, right? And yet, in some ways, I started on the path at 29 so I was a young person, and I totally understand this piece. I really do and, more so, living in a colony, right: so South Africa, Australia, the US, we effectively broke away from the motherland. We’re gonna be the kind of people that question the old.

Image (right): IMAGE BOTTOM LEFT – Photograph by Julia Tiffin, Buried Alive I, 2002, Colour print, 100 x 100cm, Edition of 5, from her Buried Alive series. More information on Julia’s artwork is here.

[Jackie Nonweiler] We push back!

[Julia Tiffin] Yes, so trust me, I’m on the same page – I may as well be American, you know, and so for me, tradition or lineage wasn’t obvious to me. I see in some cultures like, let’s say Japan, it’s super obvious that it has got weight. Not so much for us.

Here’s the other piece, is that although I am much older, I’m still actually part of the younger generation. Those of us, there’s about 80% or so of us, born between 1975 and 1985 came in with the next soul structure. So there are seven different souls groups, shall we say, scheduled to be born on the planet. Between 1975 and 1985, Indigo coloured souls came in strongly. There were, of course, a few people scattered beforehand, like Einstein that also had it. Rudolf Steiner knew this was coming, and wrote rigorously about these new kids coming and the new school system we needed, and knew how different we were. We bring the energy that is facilitating this new paradigm to come in. Hey, guess what? We have (advanced) computers, we have smartphones, AI. We have Facebook, Instagram, Social media. I mean, we have apps. Oh my God, apps! How do the older generation deal without apps? We were wasting so much time without an app. So we really do innovate the new.

But the one weakness we have, and this is a fantastic segue, Jackie, is not respecting the old. The old generation, the previous soul group of violet, are here to teach us that there is value in understanding the things that work already. We can then bring in a new piece of energy that reveals an advanced way of being. Those that are younger are far more refined in holding this Indigo Ray, than myself. I’m like one of the tired, frontline members of the army, now battle weary <giggle>. I look at the younger people and think ‘Whoa they’re aliens. Oh, that’s advanced.’ They are remarkable to me. They’re amazing. But it’s a real achilles heel for us younger generation not understanding that we have to reach back to the past, to that which is forgotten, profound and that which works. It IS possible to do this, and then we can bring it together with our new paradigm knowledge and ways. We need to work together. To be honest, if we don’t, we’re actually creating another form of apartheid. And what I mean by that is: not understanding the need to bring things together, and not keeping ourselves separate. Because we will never create union if we don’t recognize that which worked before but that we may have forgotten, and then bring it together with new paradigm ways. In fact, maybe, how’s this for a concept, the key to really being successful, to bringing in this new technology, ideas, concepts, ways forward, is to reach back to the magick of the past, because that’s where the ancient power is, so that we can bring this new, innovative stuff and actually make it real, make it solid on this planet. That’s the piece that I think is missing in our younger generation.

For me, it’s so important to bring this information out, because I know our generation much younger hold the keys to build a much better world. Some of the old ways have to go but some of the old ways that are ancient and have been proven to be good and beautiful – we have to bring them back.

[Jackie Nonweiler] Yeah. And I want to wrap up on a quote from The Mandalorian that: ‘This is the way, This is the way’. In movies I think all of us know the inspiration when we see respect and awe, watching things about old warriors, the Knights Templars and the people whose responsibility it is – their one life’s mission – to uphold honour for whatever group they’re a part of, whether that be a kingdom or some sort of colony or something. The Ritual Master’s role and responsibility is to uphold this honour and to hold humanity actually in the light. If it’s something that calls to you, you can ignore it. But in my experience, it doesn’t work that well, because it starts to get really painful to ignore your mission, your responsibility and your destiny on earth. This brings us back to what Julia said right at the beginning, which was that she didn’t think she was ready, but she did it anyway!

If Ritual Master, Empower Thyself, or the Life Activation, or just this path in general, is calling to or if you’re interested, please do reach out to Julia Tiffin or Jackie Nonweiler!

About Julia Tiffin

Julia is a Modern Mystery School Speciality Teacher working globally to share ancient teachings to help you find your unique you & your navigational system within to live your most fulfilled life. She has trained since 2004 within the Modern Mystery School and specialises in the ancient arts of Healing & Sacred Geometry. She has a background as an international Fine Art photographer, exhibiting internationally and lecturing at tertiary institutions in South Africa.

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