Ars longa, vita brevis. "Art is long, life is short."
The Venusian & Bardic Arts: Introduction
Book IX gathers the Venusian and Bardic dimensions of the Royal Art: Beauty as ascent, song as memory, art as theurgic expression, love as refinement, and myth as living transmission.
- Beauty & Ascent
- Bards
- The Bardic Craft — Poetry, Music & Theurgic Expression
- Story, Myth & Living Narrative
- Mythopoeia — Living Myth
- Mythic Works & Narrative Traditions
- The Venusian Path — Love, Eros & the Feminine
- Architecture, Image & Symbol
- Play, Dance & Sacred Performance
- The Play of Life
- The Bard's Songbook & Practice
Beauty & Ascent
The Path of Beauty: Plato's Eros & the Ascent through the BeautifulBeauty & TruthThe Music of the SpheresFicino's Musical Magic & the Orphic HymnsThe Power of SoundThe Venusian ArtsThe Connoisseur, The AestheteThe Nine Muses: Daughters of MemoryMother of MusesBards
The Sacred Lineage of BardsAncient MythmakersApolloOrpheus: The Mythic BardKing David: The Royal PsalmistTaliesinHomer: The Blind SingerVirgil & The AeneidHesiodOvid’s MetamorphosesVäinämöinenDante AlighieriWilliam ShakespeareWilliam BlakeJohn MiltonJohann Wolfgang von GoetheJ.R.R. TolkienBob DylanMalcolm GuiteThe Bardic Craft — Poetry, Music & Theurgic Expression
The Dionysian Mysteries: Ecstasy & Sacred IntoxicationThe Bardic ArtsThe TroubadoursThe Poet-MysticsPoets to ComePoetic Meter & VerseThe Sufi Mystic PoetsRomanticism & The Romantic MovementAwen: “poetic inspiration”The Mythic ArtsArt as Theurgy: The Sacred Act of CreationArt & LifeThe Role of the ArtistLife Lived or UnlivedArt & RhetoricMy message is my messageStory, Myth & Living Narrative
The Fairy Tale as Initiatory NarrativeParables & StoriesSnow WhiteRobin HoodMythopoeia — Living Myth
Creating a Living MythMythopoeia: Myth-Making A Meta-MythosThe Mythic ImaginationMythic Works & Narrative Traditions
European Fairy Tales & the Brothers GrimmHans Christian AndersonModern MythsThe NibelungenliedSong of RolandOne Thousand and One NightsThe MabinogionVedic Epics: Mahabharata & RamayanaDon QuixoteGreat Mythic Epics WorldwideThe Venusian Path — Love, Eros & the Feminine
Courtly Love & the Longing of the SoulLoveThe Path of LoveThe Forms of LoveTurn Armor into AmorEcho & NarcissusMercury & MinervaLife is RelationshipThe Sacred Marriage: Sol & Luna, Mars & VenusThe Ars Amatoria: The Art of LoveFeminine PowerNatureArchitecture, Image & Symbol
Sacred Architecture & the Geometry of BeautyIconographyTypographyThe Royal Color SchemeThe Coat of ArmsRoyal Art: ImageryHeraldryEmblemata: Renaissance EmblemsLiber Emblematum Artis RegiaeThe Heroic Devices of Claude ParadinThe Alchemical GardenPlay, Dance & Sacred Performance
Performance ArtThe Mystery Plays of Medieval EuropeSacred Dance: Ritual Movement and Sufi TurningThe Play of Life
The Play of LifeThe Play, Game, Dance, The Play - Living Art & Poetry, MasteryThe Eternal ChildPanThe Bard's Songbook & Practice
The Songbook — Canticles of the Crown
The Bard Within the Royal ArtThe Hymns of OrpheusFrom Song to Silence: The Bridge ForwardCourtly LoveLeonard Cohen: “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ‘a poet is a person who takes the vision of the child into the powers of the adult.’
Poetry as “Making”Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHow to Be a PoetT.S. ElliotJohn KeatsThe Temple of MusicCockney Rhyming Slang