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. Philosophy, Virtue, & Law

XI. The Story of the New Earth

XII. Royal Theocracy

XIII. The Book of Revelation

The Astral Library of Light
0. The Great Story

0. The Great Story

Lore & Mythos…

  • Story, Myth, & Reality
  • The Great Story
  • The Eternal Fable
  • Dramatis Personae & Archetypal Powers
  • Narrative Architecture & The Grand Story of Time
  • JRR Tolkien’s Legendarium
  • Lore & Lineages
  • Language, Word, & Creation
  • Fairy Tales: The Perilous Realm
  • Mythopoeia (Living Myth)
  • Inspiration, Muses, and Awen
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Story, Myth, & Reality

What is a Story? The Nature of Story & RealityThe Reality of Fantasy: Myth is Truer than HistoryMyth & ConsciousnessSacred Storytelling Enchantment of One’s Reality-StoryThe Mythic High Fantasy RealmThe Mythic ArtsLiterature & The Story of ExistenceThe Play Within a Play: Story, Recursion, and Meta-NarrativeThe EpicGod Loves a Story

The Great Story

The Great Story as the Meta-Frame of the Royal ArtOnce upon a time, in the beginning…The Eternal Story: Cosmic High Fantasy EpicThe Master Storyteller: Prime CreatorThe Storyteller: MythweaverSub-Creation: Creating As A CreatorThe Book of Lost Tales

The Eternal Fable

The Beginning of the Story…The Eternal FableThe War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of DarknessThe War in HeavenThe Dark TowerThe Dark LordTruth vs. The Lie the Remnant and the Rule
The Mythic Structure of Time: Cycles, ages, prophecies, and eschatology

Dramatis Personae & Archetypal Powers

The Hero - the protagonist Archetypal Characters in The StoryMeeting A New Character The Sons of Light & the Sons of DarknessThe Dark Lord: The AdversaryThe Shadow & The Dark LordBelialEvil Shapeshifting Reptilians

Narrative Architecture & The Grand Story of Time

JRR Tolkien’s Legendarium

Tolkien’s Legendarium & Mythic StoryThe One Ring of Power
The Hero’s Journey & The Universal QuestThe Story Grew in the Telling: The Opus as Open NarrativeEucatastropheHeroic Romance Story: ThemesThe Heroic Romance

Lore & Lineages

Lore & The Master of LoreAncient Mythmakers

Language, Word, & Creation

Language: Language Distorts and Shapes RealityLogos & Mythos: Language & Creation

Fairy Tales: The Perilous Realm

Fairy Tales & Fantasy StoriesFaërie: “The Perilous Realm”Annwn: The Mystical Otherworld

Mythopoeia (Living Myth)

Creating a Living MythMythopoeia: Myth-Making A Meta-MythosThe Mythic ImaginationThe Ainulindalë: The Music of the AinurJ.R.R. Tolkien

Inspiration, Muses, and Awen

Awen: “poetic inspiration” The Nine MusesInvocation of the MusesMother of Muses
The Participatory Myth: You Are the Hero of This StoryThe Long Exile: The Middle of the StoryThe Wasteland: The World Without the StoryThe Fellowship: Companions on the QuestThe Return and the Telling: The Story After the StoryComedy and Tragedy: The Two Masks of the Great StoryTime and Narrative: Sacred Time and the Shape of the Story
The Map and the Territory: World-Building as Sacred ArchitectureThe Wound: The Sacred Injury That Drives the QuestThe Threshold: Crossing Between WorldsThe Book Within the Book: Sacred Texts as Living Presences in the StoryThe Audience: Who Is Watching? Who Is Listening?Dreams and Visions: The Story Told in SleepProphecy and Destiny: The Story Already WrittenThe Enemy of Story: Literalism, Reductionism, and the Death of MythSilence, the Ineffable, and the Limits of Story
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