The Venusian & Bardic Arts
Ars longa, vita brevis. "Art is long, life is short."
The Venusian & Bardic Arts: Introduction
Book XIII gathers the Venusian and Bardic culmination of the Royal Art: redeemed imagination, Beauty as ascent, song as remembrance, art as sacred participation, and myth as living transmission after Revelation.
- Foundations of the Bardic Opus
- Beauty & Ascent
- Music of the Spheres
- Bards & Poets
- 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
- Emblemata
- Play, Dance & Sacred Performance
- The Play of Life
- The Bard's Songbook & Practice
- Language & Culture
- Iconographic Motifs, Themes, & Allegories
Foundations of the Bardic Opus
Creation and Sub-Creation: Book I and Book XIIIThe Royal Art as the rectification of authorshipThe Baptizing, Consecration & Atonement of ImaginationMythopoeia: Creation of the Song & StoryOriginal & Final ParticipationBeauty & Ascent
The Path of Beauty: Plato's Eros & the Ascent through the BeautifulBeauty & TruthThe Venusian ArtsThe Connoisseur, The AestheteArt as Theurgy: The Sacred Act of CreationPlotinus - Raising the soul to the superior worldThe Beauty of FormsThe Muses
The Nine Muses: Daughters of MemoryMother of MusesAwen: “poetic inspiration”Invocation of the MusesMusic of the Spheres
The Music of the SpheresThe Power of SoundFicino's Musical Magic & the Orphic HymnsThe Dionysian Mysteries: Ecstasy & Sacred IntoxicationBards & Poets
The Sacred Lineage of BardsAncient MythmakersApolloOrpheus: The Mythic BardTaliesinHomer: The Blind SingerVirgil & The AeneidHesiodOvid’s MetamorphosesVäinämöinenDante AlighieriWilliam ShakespeareWilliam BlakeJohn Milton & Paradise LostJohann Wolfgang von GoetheJ.R.R. TolkienSamuel Taylor ColeridgeT.S. ElliotJohn KeatsBob DylanMalcolm GuiteThe Bardic Craft — Poetry, Music & Theurgic Expression
The Bardic ArtsThe TroubadoursThe Poet-MysticsPoets to ComePoetic Meter & VerseThe Sufi Mystic PoetsRomanticism & The Romantic MovementThe Mythic ArtsArt & 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 PowerNatureAmor & PsycheArchitecture, Image & Symbol
Sacred Architecture & the Geometry of BeautyIconographyTypographyThe Royal Color SchemeThe Coat of ArmsRoyal Art: ImageryHeraldryEmblemata
Liber Emblematum Artis RegiaeEmblemata: Renaissance EmblemsThe Heroic Devices of Claude ParadinGeorge Wither: A collection of emblemes, ancient and modernePlay, 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 OrpheusSilence: The Ground of the SongCourtly LoveThe PoetPoetry as “Making”How to Be a PoetThe Temple of MusicLanguage & Culture
Cockney Rhyming SlangThe Homeric HymnsThe Orphic HymnsJanusThe Last BardThe Twelve Ladies of RhetoricIconographic Motifs, Themes, & Allegories
A working list of Iconographic Themes & AllegoriesHomo bulla: “man is a bubble”Four Allegories: Perseverance, Falsehood, Fortune, & PrudenceThe Combat of Love and ChastityThe Triumph of LoveNine Muses, the seven Liberal Arts, the four Cardinal Virtues, and the three GracesThe Mundus ImaginalisThe Alchemical GardenPhysiognomyHans Urs von Balthasar: Beauty & Theo-DramaRembrandtThe Bardic Synthesis: Creation, Culture, and the New Song