evelynne joffe institute of esoteric studies

01/07/2023

Forgiveness is not a matter of exonerating people who have hurt you. They may not deserve exoneration. Forgiveness means cleansing your soul of the bitterness of ‘what might have been,’ ‘what should have been,’ and ‘what didn’t have to happen.’ Someone has defined forgiveness as ‘giving up all hope of having had a better past.’ What’s past is past and there is little to be gained by dwelling on it. There are perhaps no sadder people then the men and women who have a grievance against the world because of something that happened years ago and have let that memory sour their view of life ever since.”

Rabbi Harold S Kushner

08/04/2023

Dear Rachel, the world will miss you. A shining woman, a brain that was exceptional and a dear friend. Go in joy and peace.

23/01/2023

New Beginner Kabbalah course starting February 16th and new monthly Advanced Kabbalah class starting February too. Please email me on evjoffe@gmail.com if you are interested

05/09/2022

The next Beginner Tarot course will start on September 24th and run till December 3rd on Zoom.
If you are interested in joining please contact me on evjoffe@gmail.com

09/07/2022

07/08/2021

New Beginner Tarot Course online starting on August 21st. Please email all enquiries to evjoffe@gmail.com

03/02/2021

TGA Melbourne Workshop - Kabbalah a Short Introduction
with Evelynne Joffe

(This is a Zoom webinar – it is open to anyone who would like to attend. Registration can be completed any time before 4pm, Friday February 5th (AEDT). The Zoom link will be sent to attendees via email later that evening. The registration form is located here https://www.tarotguild.org.au/event/melbourne-workshop-kabballah-a-short-introduction-evelyn-joffe/. Please ensure that you have this event in your calendar, as registration is non-refundable. For those unable to attend, a recording of the workshop will be made available for purchase in our online shop.)

Kabbalah is the esoteric teaching of Judaism and is the basis of all Western esoteric teaching whether it be Rosicrucian, Golden Dawn, Masonic Order or Tarot. In this talk we will explore the Tree of Life. I will explain the diagram of the Tree and give an introduction of the Hebrew letters.

This lecture is a follow up to Evelynne’s talk in November 2020 on Tarot on the Tree.

01/02/2021

Beginner Tarot starting on February 13th on Zoom. All enquires to evjoffe@gmail.com

06/01/2021

Happy New Year everyone. Beginner Kabbalah starting in February on Zoom!! So anyone outside of Melbourne can join. Any enquiries please contact me on evjoffe@gmail.com.

26/10/2020

TAROT ON THE TREE OF LIFE – with Evelyn Joffe

Saturday 7th of November 1.30-3.30pm

“The Tarot, the most satisfactory of all systems of divination, rises from and finds its explanation in the Tree and nowhere else. That may seem a dogmatic statement to the scholarly historian searching for traces of the origin of these mysterious cards, and, we may add, most lamentably failing to find it: but when it is realised that the initiate works the Tarot and the Tree together, that they dovetail into each other at every imaginable angle, it will be seen that such an array of correspondences could be neither arbitrary nor fortuitous.” Dion Fortune – Mystical Qabalah

It is known that the great authors of the decks that we use most often today (Waite, Crowley etc) were students of the Kabbalah as members of the Golden Dawn. Studying the tarot in conjunction with the Tree of Life gives an added dimension to understanding the cards. In this talk we will explore these correspondences and the Tree of Life spread.

(This is a Zoom webinar – it is open to anyone who would like to attend. Registration can be completed any time before 4pm, Friday November 6th (AEST). The Zoom link will be sent to attendees via email later that evening. The registration form is at the bottom of this page. For those unable to attend, a recording of the workshop will be made available in our online shop.)

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23/03/2020

Hope you are all safe and sane. All groups and classes are now live online via Zoom. Consultations via Skype or phone. Be well, be kind 😘

02/03/2020

Beginner Tarot starting on the 14th March. There are a few spots left, if you are interested in joining please email me on evjoffe@gmail.com🙂

16/01/2020

The presentations and courses by me on Kabbalah and Tarot are now on sale at Global Spiritual Studies for just 10 days. You’ll also find great courses on sale by other teachers. Take advantage of this rare opportunity. There’s also a survey where you can indicate what you most want in online courses. www.globalspiritualstudies.com.au

12/11/2019

Workshop 15th December 2019

LILITH THE BETRAYED.

In Hebrew mythology, Lilith is seen as the Demon of the Night and throughout the centuries has come to symbolise the patriarchy’s fear of the feminine as dark and evil.

In this workshop we will explore the myth of Lilith and attempt to come to an understanding of the processes of resentment, rejection, exile, release and redemption. It is only through the reconciliation of these processes in ourselves that we are able to achieve balance, integration and wholeness.

This is open only to women and is extremely beneficial in understanding the traditional expectations put on modern women and how we can deal with the repressed sides of our nature.

Please email me on evjoffe@gmail.com if you are interested in attending.

14/10/2019

“For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . .

When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.”

Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Art: Edgar Degas

12/08/2019

New 10 week Saturday Beginner Tarot Course starting early September.
Please PM if you are interested.

15/02/2019

“Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and the other half--the material--is fed with bad food.”

Paul Brunton

Art: Lucian Freud