The Royal Art: Table of Contents

• ∞ Running Throughout: Music, Art, & Aesthetics
• ♔ The Royal Art: Master Outline ♕
• I. The Father, The Son & The Kingdom
• III. Lore & Mythos
• II. Kabbalistic Book of Formation
• IV. The Lineage & Tradition
• V. The Way of Christ: The Course
• VI. The Life of the Christ
• VII. The Holy Knight & The Grail Quest
• VIII. The Arthurian High Fantasy World
• XIV. The Attainment of the Grail — The Great Achievement
• IX. Alchemy — The Great Work
• XIII. Masculinity, Femininity, & the Sacred Marriage — The Coniunctio
• X. The Mystery School — Initiation & Transmission
• XI. Magic & the Wizard
• XII. The Passion of Yeshua — The Climax
• XV. The Passing of Arthur & the Transmission Forward
• XVI. The Current World & Prophecy
• XVII. Royal Theocracy, Tradition & Sacred Order
• XVIII. Eschatology — The Book of Revelation

The four timelines — Eternity, Myth, Sacred History, and the Soul's Journey

∞ Running Throughout: Music, Art, & Aesthetics

• Songs, poetry, canticles
• Symbols, images, emblems
• Art style and aesthetic vision
• The Coat of Arms
• The Colors of Royalty
• Medieval art — the Tree of Virtues
• Daniel Cramer's Rosicrucian Emblems
• Latin Aphorisms and Mottos
• The Symbolic Codex
• The Correspondence Tables
• The Calendar of the Royal Art

♔ The Royal Art: Master Outline ♕

The Overarching Curriculum, Story, and Teaching — Arranged Along the Spine of the Soul's Journey

I. The Father, The Son & The Kingdom

God & the Kingdom

• God the Father — the Nature of God
• The Kingdom of Heaven — your true Home and Inheritance
• The Son & the Christ — your true Being and position in Creation
• Light — the primordial nature of Reality
• The Father and Son are One

The Fall & the Exile

• The Separation — the tiny mad idea
• The Authority Problem — the attempt to supplant God; true Sovereignty; we are created, not Creator
• Lucifer, the Fallen Prince of the Angels
• The Fall of Sophia
• The Shattering of the Vessels
• The Fall — from Unity to fragmentation
• The Exile — the creation of the World and the forgetting of the Kingdom; Paradise Lost
• The Prodigal Son — the master parable of the entire opus

III. Lore & Mythos

The Great Lore & Mythos — What Is the Story?

The mythic meta-narrative. The soul first hears its own Story and recognizes itself.

• The Tale of the Exiled Prince — the master myth
• The Prince cast out from the Kingdom
• The Wasteland — the blighted realm of separation
• The Wounded King / Fisher King
• The Dark Lord — the Adversary (the ego's shadow)
• The Call — the messenger arrives; the Prince remembers
• The Quest — to recover the lost Treasure (Grail, Stone, Crown, Kingdom)
• The Once and Future King — the promise of Return
• The Hymn of the Pearl
• The Dramatis Personae — Prince, Princess, Merlin, Lady of the Lake, Knights, Hermit, Dragon, Guardian Angel
• Story as the structure of Reality itself

The Ego & Its World

• The Psychology of the Soul
• The Body — Adam Kadmon in exile
• The World — the dream of separation
• Projection — the four laws
• Perception — the veil over Reality
• Sin — the belief in separation and wrongness; sin is impossible
• Guilt
• Fear
• The Deep Fear — that we live in a dark, meaningless, and fundamentally unloving world
• The Drama of the Ego — sin and punishment, attack and defense, judgment and innocence
• Hell — the place of separation from God
• The Grand Conspiracy — "a delusional system" we have perpetuated on ourselves
• Idols of Clay
• Temptation
• Crucifixion and Death — as the ego understands them

The Answer

• The Holy Spirit — God's Answer to the separation
• The Miracle — the shift from fear to Love
• The Course — ACIM — the one universal Curriculum
• Resurrection — the overcoming of death

II. Kabbalistic Book of Formation

Cosmology & Formation — How Is Creation Structured?

The architecture of Reality. The blueprint the soul must learn to read.

• The Primordial Light / Ain Soph Aur
• Creation of Existence — the Logos / the Word
• The Divine Name: Tetragrammaton — YHVH
• The Cube of Space
• Adam Kadmon — the cosmic body
• The Tree of Life — map of consciousness, cosmology, initiatory ascent
• The 10 Sephiroth (Kether to Malkuth)
• The 22 Paths / Hebrew Letters
• The Four Worlds: Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah, Assiah
• The Garden of Eden and the Four Rivers
• Sacred Geometry — Pythagorean Tetractys, Number, Proportion
• The Emerald Tablet of Hermes — "As Above, So Below"
• The Hermetic Principles
• Sefer Yetzirah: the Book of Formation
• The Music of the Spheres
• The Seven Classical Planets
• The Twelve Zodiacal Signs
• The Tria Prima: Salt, Sulphur, Mercury
• The Four Elements: Fire, Water, Air, Earth
• Tarot — the pictorial Book of Wisdom encoding the stages of the Soul's Journey
• The Pillar of Light
• The Pattern Shown on the Mountain
• The Veil and the Rending of the Veil
• From Kether to Malkuth and Back Again

IV. The Lineage & Tradition

Sacred History & Lineage — Who Came Before?

The mythic history of the Tradition. The Golden Chain. The soul learns it is not alone.

Primordial & Antediluvian

• Creation of Humanity
• The Angelic Adamic Language
• Kabbalah — the original knowledge Adam received from God
• Garments of Light / Garments of Skin
• The Cherubim at the Gate and the Flaming Sword
• Cain and Abel — violence and conflict
• Seth as "the appointed one" — the Seed of Seth
• Seth plants three seeds on Adam's grave at Golgotha
• Sefer Raziel: Book of Mysteries
• The Watchers and the teaching of occult arts
• Enoch: Scribe of Heaven — translated and enthroned as Metatron
• The Book of Enoch
• Fall of Atlantis — the scattering of primordial knowledge into different cultures and priesthoods
• Tower of Babel
• The Flood / The Deluge — Noah's Ark
• The Covenant
• Pillars of Hermes
• Sacred Vault of Enoch
• The Flame of Tradition — Aurea Catena, the Golden Chain

Patriarchal & Hebraic

• The Order of Melchizedek — the Royal-Priest-Magician-Alchemist Lineage
• Abraham and the Sumerian Priesthood — Abraham's Covenant
• Egyptian Alchemy of Horus and Magic of Isis
• Moses — Exodus, wandering in the desert, Manna from Heaven
• Staff of Moses and Rod of Aaron — crafted from the Tree of Life
• The Law of Moses: the Tablets of the Law
• The Ark of the Covenant
• The Tabernacle in the Wilderness
• The Holy of Holies — Menorah, Shewbread
• The priestly vestments and breastplate — Urim and Thummim
• The Holy Anointing Oil: Chrism, Christos
• The Shekinah
• Jacob's Ladder
• Israel: "He who wrestles with God" — the 12 Tribes
• Zion and Jerusalem: the Holy City
• Babylon: the Babylonian Exile

Solomonic & Prophetic

• David — Royal Line, Psalms, the promised Throne
• Wisdom Literature — Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs as inner-Temple texts
• Solomon — mastering demons, Temple construction, Wisdom Kingship
• The Temple: Jachin and Boaz, the Royal Arch
• David retrieves and transplants the sacred trees — the Queen of Sheba recognizes the wood's destiny — Solomon buries the wood in the Pool of Bethesda
• Temple destruction and rebuilding
• Zoroaster
• The Magi as priest-astronomer lineage archetype
• The Sangreal — Royal Blood, the Golden Thread

Pre-Christian Mystery Streams

• Pythagorean Tetractys and Number
• Music of the Spheres
• The Essene Mystery School — Children of the Light
• John the Baptist — prophet, forerunner, wilderness initiator

V. The Way of Christ: The Course

— The Interior Path — What Do I Do?

• The Universal Curriculum — ACIM as the one course
• The Purpose of Time — a teaching and learning device
• Repentance — turning back (metanoia)
• Re-training the Mind
• The Eye of the Needle
• Forgiveness — the central practice
• Atonement — At-One-Ment
• Healing our Mind — all healing is of the mind
• Relationship — the crucible of transformation
• Holy Relationship
• The Holy Instant
• Holy Encounter
• Special Function
• Prayer
• Surrender
• The Pearl of Great Price
• Redemption: Salvation
• Vision — seeing with Christ's eyes
• Right-Mindedness
• Perfect Peace

VI. The Life of the Christ

Yeshua's Life as Initiatory Story — What Does the Path Look Like Fully Lived?

The life of Yeshua as the archetypal map of the Christ Path.

• The Teacher of Righteousness
• The Messiah — the Anointed One
• The Essenes: the community dedicated to birthing and supporting the Messiah
• Birth and Nativity — the hidden King born in lowliness
• Baptism in the Sacred River
• 40 Days in the Wilderness — the ordeal of temptation
• Ministry — teaching, healing, miracles, parables
• Transfiguration — the revelation of the Light-body
• The Cornerstone Rejected

VII. The Holy Knight & The Grail Quest

Grail Quest & the Chivalric Life

— How Do I Live Nobly While Seeking?

The Knight takes up the Quest. The active life of the seeker in the world.

The Holy Knight & the Code of Chivalry

• Chivalry: the Esoteric Order of the Sacred Warrior
• The Code of the Holy Grail Knight
• The Sacred Vow
• The Vestments of the Holy Knight
• The Page, the Squire, the Knight, the Prince, and the King
• The Knight's Initiation
• Whom Do You Serve?
• Virtue
• Martial Arts as spiritual discipline — Bushidō, Budō, Kata

The Quest

• The Call to the Grail Quest
• Knight-Errant — departure into the unknown
• Entering the Deep, Dark Forest
• The Lands Adventurous
• Enchanted Realms: navigating the Mystical
• The Voice in the Forest: the Mysterious Summons
• The Questing Beast
• Trials and Tribulations of the Knight
• Tests of Faith
• Tests of Knightly Virtues: Sin and Temptation
• The Temptress
• The Damsel in Distress
• The Loathly Lady
• The White Hart
• The Black, White, and Red Knights
• The Broken Sword
• The 12 Tests of the Knight
• The Test of the Mirror
• The Labyrinth
• Self-Overcoming
• The Shadow of Fear
• The Dweller on the Threshold
• The Black Gate — crossing the threshold into the Mystery
• The Initiatory Underworld — Descent
• The Bridge of Death

VIII. The Arthurian High Fantasy World

— The Landscape of the Adventure

The mythic world itself — the imaginative body of the Quest.

Avalon & the Druidic Roots

• Avalon
• Glastonbury
• Atlantis, the Druids, and Avalon
• The Druids
• The Celtic-Druidic and Christic Traditions

Merlin, Arthur, and the Establishment of Camelot

• Merlin — the Wizard, prophet, and guide
• King Arthur Pendragon
• The Sword in the Stone
• The Lady of the Lake and the Gift of Excalibur
• Camelot
• The Land of Logres
• Queen Guinevere
• The Round Table
• The Siege Perilous: the Seat of Destiny
• Knights of the Round Table — a Zodiac Tale
• Courtly Love
• The individual Knights: Galahad, Lancelot, Percival, Gawain, Bors, Tristan, Balin, Mordred, Bedivere, Kay, Gareth, and others

The Great Arthurian Drama

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Tristan and Isolde
• The Love Triangle (Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot)
• Morgan le Fay
• The Imprisonment of Merlin

XIV. The Attainment of the Grail — The Great Achievement

The Knight arrives. The Wasteland is healed. The Temple is rebuilt within.

• The Chapel Perilous
• Trevrizent the Hermit — counsel and penance
• Corbenic: the Grail Castle
• The Grail Procession
• The Grail Question: "What is the Grail?" / "Whom does the Grail Serve?"
• The Catechism of the Grail
• The Four Hallows: Cup, Spear, Stone, and Sword
• Solomon's Ship
• The City of Sarras
• The Angels of the Grail
• The Courts of Joy
• The Vision of the Grail
• The Healing of the Fisher King
• The Healing of the Wasteland

IX. Alchemy — The Great Work

— What Is Happening to Me as I Quest?

The transmutation process overlaying the entire Journey.

• The Magnum Opus: the Great Work
• Prima Materia — the raw, untransformed self
• The Alchemical Mountain — Mons Philosophorum
• The Athanor — the furnace of transformation
• Nigredo — confrontation with darkness, putrefaction, ego death, the dark night
• Albedo — purification, washing, the White Queen, lunar consciousness
• Citrinitas — illumination, solar consciousness, the dawn of Wisdom
• Rubedo — perfection, the Red King, the completed Stone, embodiment
• The Seven Alchemical Operations: Calcination, Dissolution, Separation, Conjunction, Fermentation, Distillation, Coagulation
• The Tria Prima: Salt, Sulphur, Mercury
• The Philosopher's Stone — Elixir of Life
• The Alchemical Dragon — chaos, fear, the guardian of treasure
• The Ouroboros
• The Red King and the White Queen
• The Three Weddings
• The Three Dark Nights
• The Three Palingeneses
• Arbor Philosophorum: Tree of the Philosophers
• Book of Scripture and Book of Nature

XIII. Masculinity, Femininity, & the Sacred Marriage — The Coniunctio

The union of opposites. The Grail received from the Feminine. The King finds the Queen.

• The Masculine Journey and Path — the Knight, Warrior, Builder, King
• The Feminine as Muse, Lover, Initiatrix — Sophia, the Lady of the Lake, the Grail Maiden
• The Feminine Journey — ????? (the living, unresolved Mystery)
• The Masculine as Lover — ?????
• The Dolorous Stroke — the Wounding of the Sacred Masculine
• Receiving the Gift from the Feminine
• The Grail Maiden: Bearer of the Mysteries
• Christo-Sophia: Christic and Sophianic Mysteries
• Christ-Magdalene Mysteries
• Divine Mother: Isis, Mary
• The Shekinah in Exile
• Courtly Love
• Romance, Seduction, the Sacred Erotic
• The Alchemical Wedding — Red King and White Queen
• The Princess of the Grail: Elaine of Corbenic

X. The Mystery School — Initiation & Transmission

— How Is This All Transmitted?

The institutional vessel. Grades, degrees, rituals, lineage.

The Temple

• The Temple as central symbol — ordered consciousness aligned with divine law
• Solomon's Temple — the Tabernacle, the Holy of Holies
• The Ashlar and Cubic Stone — rough self to perfected form
• Jachin and Boaz — the Pillars of polarity
• The Cornerstone, Keystone, Royal Arch
• The Lost Word — the Forgotten Name
• The Recovered Word — Shem ha-Mephorash
• Square and Compass — the Working Tools of the Mason
• The Acacia Sprig
• The Triple Tau

The Orders

• The Knights Templar — Poor Fellows of the Temple of Solomon
• The Temple Mount — the Well of Souls
• Templar guardianship of the secret treasure
• The Mysteries of the Cathedrals — Scripture in Stone, alchemical architecture
• The Rose-Cross — Rosae Rubeae et Aureae Crucis
• The Invisible College, the Secret Brotherhood
• The Tomb of Frater R.C.
• The Vault of the Adepts
• The Masonic Lodge — degrees, initiatory drama
• Hiram Abiff — the Master Builder slain and raised
• The Royal Arch — the recovered Name
• The Royal Secret
• The Greater and Lesser Mysteries

Key Figures of Transmission

• Hermes / Thoth
• Enoch / Metatron
• Melchizedek
• Christian Rosencreutz
• Count Saint-Germain — the Immortal Alchemist
• John Dee — Monas Hieroglyphica, Enochian Tablets
• The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

XI. Magic & the Wizard

— The Operative Arts & Mastery — What Powers Does the Adept Wield?

The Apprentice becomes the Practitioner. The Wizard integrates all Hermetic arts and sciences.

• Astrotheurgy: High Magick and Royal Alchemy
• Ritual — the operative technology of transformation
• Mastery of consciousness — command of oneself and of spirits
• The Hermetic Arts: Alchemy, Astrology, Magic, Kabbalah
• The Wizard — master of Creation, transformation, Wisdom, and skill
• The Wizard's Tower — library, laboratory, oratory, observatory
• Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel
• The Book of Thoth as the Tarot
• Enochian Tablets/Watchtowers — the lost map of the cosmos
• The Philosopher-King, Priest-King, Magus-King

XII. The Passion of Yeshua — The Climax

The culmination of the Christ Path. The supreme Nigredo-to-Rubedo. Everything surrendered, everything given back.

• The Last Supper and the Eucharist
• Gethsemane — the surrender
• The Crucifixion on the Wood — the True Cross
• Seth's three seeds grown into the wood of the Cross at Golgotha
• The Holy Grail: Chalice of Atonement
• The Spear of Longinus — the Holy Lance
• The Descent into Hell
• The Resurrection
• The Empty Tomb
• The Shroud of Turin — relic and proof of miracle
• The Ascension / Translation
• Pentecost — descent of the Spirit and formation of the hidden Ecclesia

• Rebuilding the Third Temple within
• The Philosopher's Stone attained
• The Recovered Word
• The Coronation and Enthronement — Crown, Throne, Scepter, Ring

XV. The Passing of Arthur & the Transmission Forward

The mythic world turns. The old order yields. The Tradition passes into hidden streams.

• The Curse of the Lady of Shalott
• The Fall of Camelot
• The Passing of Arthur
• The Return of Excalibur
• The Return of Arthur: the Once and Future King

• Gnostic Disciples of Christ — the hidden Ecclesia
• The Lost Grail — the hidden Feminine
• Medieval Troubadours and the Mysteries of Courtly Love

• Templar, Rosicrucian, Masonic transmission into the modern world
• United States of America: New Atlantis
• The Modern World: materialism, atheism, false science, hollow culture
• The New Aeon

XVI. The Current World & Prophecy

— Where Are We Now?

The soul looks outward with awakened eyes. What time is it in the Great Story?

• History from 0 AD to now — the arc of Christendom, its rise and fragmentation
• The decentralization of the lineage — symbolic, latent, scattered
• The conditions for re-synthesis — meta-structures, systems thinking, comparative religion
• Why the Royal Art, why this Work, why now
• The Re-Membering of Osiris — the re-synthesis of the Ancient Wisdom
• The Royal Art and the Tale of the Exiled Prince — the modern inheritor takes up the Work
• Prophecy, guidance, keys, and insight for the present age

XVII. Royal Theocracy, Tradition & Sacred Order

— The Vision of the Kingdom

The societal expression of what has been realized inwardly. The Kingdom made manifest.

• Royal Theocracy — a vision of the proper society, order, harmony, and hierarchy
• Authority, Sovereignty, and Hierarchy
• True Tradition — a society oriented around the Sacred
• The Caste System and proper Royalty, Monarchy
• The Priest-King, Philosopher-King
• Royalty and Kingship as spiritual vocation
• The Kingdom and the King are One
• The Eternal Crown

XVIII. Eschatology — The Book of Revelation

— The End and the Return

The Apocalypse as the final unveiling. The Story completes.

• The Last Judgment
• The Apocalypse — Revelation as interior awakening
• The Book of Revelation as chiastic structure
• The Seven Dispensations
• The Second Coming of Christ
• The Real World — the healed perception
• New Jerusalem and Ecclesia Spiritualis
• The Temple of the Holy Spirit
• The Rapture
• The Final Step
• Translation: disappearing into the Heart of God
• The Kingdom of Heaven — restored, remembered, eternal