Branwen moved smoothly through the courtyard, not yet aware of her death. Her bare feet brushed the wet stone; her dress was translucent,...

“ To fi sa lo, kiyakiya, to fi sa lo, kiyakiya ” is sung repeatedly as the drums pound in the small, tiled room. The sound ricochets off...

— “Sit up straight.” Alys obeyed at once, her hands smoothing the creases of her skirt over her legs as she did so. — “Listen, accepting...

Introduction The sensual loses its meaning without asceticism; there can be no excess without absence, no jouissance without discipline....

Mist gathered low over the gardens of Gregynog Hall, curling like smoke through the box hedges as the carriage came to a halt. Gwendoline...

Gregynog Hall, Tregynon, Cymru Dear Miss Jones, I, Lady Henbury, write to you from Gregynog Hall to introduce myself and to further...

In contemporary Sweden, in these recent decades of thought-empty and weak-willed conformist Sweden, in a quasi-independent...

In the present work we shall use the expression “hermetic tradition” in a special sense that the Middle Ages and the Renaissance gave it....

Uwchben llen cynnen daearol, Mae'r planedau'n troelli â bywyd hynafol, Pob sffêr yn gât, pob giât yn allwedd, Yn nirgelwch Hermès. Felly...

On the Numinous Pymander The Ποιμάνδρης  or The Numinous Pymander —the first tractate of the Corpus Hermeticum—serves as an introductory...

“Write an essay concerning your understanding of Hellenic Hermeticism.” The Temple of the Stars wishes to offer a brief introduction to...

But come, you Goddesses, who have charge of the dêmos of Eleusis, fragrant with incense. And of Paros the island and rocky Antron. Come,...

We live in a world that is at war with the Feminine; at war with women; with girls—with the very idea of Womanhood itself. Outside...

Over the years, members of The Temple have received requests from curious minds for practical advice on how to get out into the wild and...

One should consider, then, that "paganism" is a fundamentally tendentious and artificial concept that scarcely corresponds to the...

Venus as a celestial body has influenced the mythos of many peoples. Every culture that has looked to the stars have found Her influence...

The Temple of the Stars begins a series of texts on the practice of ritual murder in the British Isles, with a focus on the Gouk Stone,...

Aerfen is the Welsh Goddess of Fate and Warfare, She is also the personification of the River Dee. The name “Aerfen” is the modern Welsh...