"All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man, waiting to be awakened." — Paracelsus
The Structure: A Tree of Light
This Library is organized according to the Tree of Life, with each sphere (Sephira) representing a core Royal Art, an Initiatory Path. These are the great disciplines and archetypal domains of the soul’s journey.
Each one is a gateway into a realm of knowledge, mastery, and symbolic reality.
The main Arts & Paths are:
- ♔ The Crown — Kether: Synthesis of all paths; divine sovereignty; the Anointed King
- ♅ ♆ The Bardic Arts — Chokmah: Poetry, song, voice, storytelling, myth and inspired communication
- ♄ The Saturnian Arts — Binah: Philosophy, Ethics, Law, Liberty, Anarchy
- ♃ The Mythic Arts — Chesed: The Great Story, the Grail Quest, and the Hero’s Journey
- ♇ The Plutonic Arts — Da’at: Initiation, shadow, death, descent, rebirth
- ♂ The Martial Arts — Geburah: Martial Arts, Discipline, courage, strength, sacred action
- ☉ The Solar Path — Tiphereth: The Sun; the path of the Solar Gnostic Christ
- ♀ The Venusian Arts — Netzach: Love, Beauty, Romance, Seduction, Art, Aesthetics
- ☿ The Hermetic Arts — Hod: Magic, alchemy, astrology, esoteric knowledge and technology
- ☽ The Lunar Path— Yesod; the path of the inner feminine mystical union
- ⨁ The Kingdom / Earth — Malkuth: Embodiment, ritual, land, home, body, Nature,
"According to the Egyptians, the human being is born with seven souls which are in a way the potential powers of the seven planets in man. The souls are manifested through the seven senses, the seven vital organs, and the seven bodily systems. Each of the seven souls has its planetary name. Saturn is the contemplative or rational soul; Jupiter is the reasonable soul; Mars is the impulsive soul; the Sun is the vitative soul; Venus is the amative soul; Mercury is the intellectual soul; and the Moon is the vegetative or generative soul."
― Manly P. Hall
The Symbol of the Royal Art
The central emblem of this site is a visual key to the Threefold Core of the Work:
- The Grail — The Quest: The knight’s journey, mythic transformation, the path of adventure and trial
- The Stone— The Stone & Quintessence: The Philosopher’s Stone, the fruit of the Great Work, and the purified soul. The Quintessence: The distillation of
- The Crown — The Christ Path: Return to divine sonship, to Kingship, to God.
Culminating in The Halo of Light — Divine Sovereignty: The union of the Three Paths into One
