A root page for the sacred geography of the Royal Art: the holy places, pilgrimage sites, temples, mountains, cities, ruins, and landscapes that embody the Tradition in space.
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage is the movement of the soul through sacred geography. The outer journey to holy places mirrors the inner journey toward the Center.
The Pilgrimage Route Medieval pilgrims walked to Canterbury, Compostela, Jerusalem. The journey itself was the practice. Each station along the way: a teaching, a relic, a chapel.
Core sites
- Glastonbury
- Chartres
- Mount Athos
- Sinai
- Jerusalem
- Egyptian temples
- Eleusis
- Delphi
- Rome
- Avalon
- The Holy Land
- The desert fathers’ Egypt
- Sacred mountains, wells, groves, and caves
Core themes
- Sacred geography as embodied memory
- Pilgrimage as initiation
- The temple, mountain, cave, city, and spring
- Ley lines, processional routes, and spiritual landscapes
- The axis mundi and the Center of the World
- The Holy Land as inner and outer geography
- The recovery of place in a disenchanted world
Topics to expand
- Glastonbury and Avalon
- Chartres and the cathedral mystery
- Athos and the living monastic mountain
- Sinai and revelation
- Jerusalem and the New Jerusalem
- Egyptian temples and initiatory architecture
- Eleusis and Delphi
- Sacred geography within the soul
Place in the Royal Art
This page belongs to the Crown Book as a cross-cutting atlas of the Tradition: the map of the sacred places where the Great Story touches the Earth.