Teachings

Teachings

The Order’s principal teachings.

• The Sacred Faculty On creation and meaning · Foundational teaching
• The Poetic Genius The faculty through which the divine is received · Teaching of the Order
• On Inspiration Whether a work is received or made · Teaching of the Order
• The Muses Daughters of Memory · Teaching of the Order
• Coleridge on the Imagination The finite repetition of the eternal act · England · 1817
• The First and Second Breath The reciprocal gift · Teaching of the Order
• On the Making of Gods The Order’s reading of the Asclepius · Asclepius, chs. 23–24 and 37–38 · The Order
• Works That Come Alive Pygmalion, the golem and the creature · Teaching of the Order
• The Gods of Craft The divine makers of many peoples · Teaching of the Order
• On Divine Play Lila, maya and the dance of Shiva · Teaching of the Order
• Nothing Perishes The second god and the third · Teaching of the Order
• On Meaning and Historical Truth Two questions, kept apart · Teaching of the Order
• To Create, To Preserve, To Uphold The motto of the Order · The Order
• The Precepts Short sayings for the keeping of the charge · Teaching of the Order
• Those Who Preserve The keepers of the inheritance · Teaching of the Order
• The Art of Memory Palaces and theatres of the mind · Antiquity to the Renaissance · The Order
• Begotten, Not Made A distinction from the Creed of Nicaea · Nicaea, AD 325 · The Order
• On the Nature of Temples Places set apart · Teaching of the Order
• The Supreme Divine On the ultimate source · Teaching of the Order
• Temples of Knowledge Libraries, archives, museums and theatres · Antiquity to the present · The Order
• The Cathedral Builders Abbot Suger and the nameless masons · France · 12th and 13th centuries
• In the Sanctuaries of Others On reverence and respect · Teaching of the Order