The Astral Library
  • The Royal Path
  • Way of the Wizard
Mystery School

The Royal Art

0. The Story

I. Book of Formation

II. The Primordial Tradition

III. The Lineage of the Patriarchs

IV. The Way of the Christ

V. Gnostic Disciple of the Light

VI. The Arthurian Mysteries & The Grail Quest

VII. The Hermetic Art

VIII. The Mystery School

IX. The Venusian & Bardic Arts

X. The Story of the New Earth

XI. Royal Theocracy

XII. The Book of Revelation

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IX. The Venusian & Bardic Arts

IX. The Venusian & Bardic Arts

  • The Philosophy of Beauty — Venus as Path to the Divine
  • Legendary Bards, Musicians, Poets, Storytellers
  • The Bardic Tradition — Poetry as Incantation
  • Art as Theurgic Act — Creating as the Gods Create
  • Story, Myth & Parable
  • Mythopoeia — Living Myth
  • The Venusian Path — Love, Eros & the Feminine
  • The Feminine Path
  • The Play of Life
  • The Bard's Songbook & Practice
Ars longa, vita brevis — "Art is long, life is short."
The Venusian & Bardic Arts: Introduction

The Philosophy of Beauty — Venus as Path to the Divine

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 Muses

Legendary Bards, Musicians, Poets, Storytellers

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. Tolkien

The Bardic Tradition — Poetry as Incantation

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 Arts

Art as Theurgic Act — Creating as the Gods Create

Art as Theurgy: The Sacred Act of CreationArt & LifeThe Role of the ArtistLife Lived or UnlivedSacred Architecture & the Geometry of BeautyArt & RhetoricPerformance ArtMy message is my message

Story, Myth & Parable

The Fairy Tale as Initiatory NarrativeParables & StoriesSnow WhiteRobin Hood

Mythopoeia — Living Myth

Creating a Living MythMythopoeia: Myth-Making A Meta-MythosThe Mythic Imagination

The Venusian Path — Love, Eros & the Feminine

The Feminine Thread: Sophia's Hidden Narrative Through the Western MysteriesCourtly Love & the Longing of the SoulLoveThe Path of LoveThe Forms of LoveTurn Armor into AmorEcho & NarcissusMercury & MinervaLife is RelationshipThe Sacred Marriage: Sol & Luna, Mars & Venus

The Feminine Path

Feminine PowerNature

The Play of Life

The Play of LifeThe Play, Game, Dance, The Play - Living Art & Poetry, MasteryThe Eternal ChildPan

The Bard's Songbook & Practice

  • 🪕The Songbook — Canticles of the Crown
The Bard Within the Royal Art
From Song to Silence: The Bridge ForwardThe Hymns of Orpheus
European Fairy Tales & the Brothers GrimmHans Christian AndersonModern MythsThe NibelungenliedSong of RolandOne Thousand and One NightsThe MabinogionVedic Epics: Mahabharata & RamayanaRobin HoodDon Quixote Great Mythic Epics Worldwide