The Lecture Hall
Recorded lectures from teachers outside this house: astrotheology, the esoteric reading of scripture, the numbers, and the older wisdom. Named, attributed, and set beside the guides that weigh them. Every plan opens the hall, with the instruments and the Oracle.
These are other people’s lectures. Each is named and attributed, and carrying one here is not agreeing with it. What a teacher claims is that teacher’s claim, and the guide linked beside each one sets out where the ground is firm and where it is not.
Nothing reaches anyone until you press play. Each lecture stands as a still of this house’s own painting; the video is fetched only when you ask for it. Opening this page and reading it reports you to nobody.
Recorded lectures · a member’s room
The Lecture Hall
Named teachers, weighed by the guides beside them. Each player is built only when you press play.
Recorded lectures · members
The Lecture HallChecking your Almanac session…
Opened by every plan. A lecture spends none of a free account’s daily instrument.
Who lectures here
Santos Bonacci
Astrotheology: the reading of scripture as encoded astronomy, the twelves as the zodiac and the sevens as the classical planets.
Read first: Astrotheology explained
- The Ancient Theology: Astrology, part 1 of 2102 min
The first half of Bonacci’s case that the theology of the ancient world was astrology: the sky as the first scripture, and the signs and planets as its alphabet.
- The Ancient Theology: Astrology, part 2 of 296 min
The second half, carrying the argument through the twelve signs and the seven classical planets and what he holds each one to have stood for.
- The Ancient Theology: Astrotheology, part 1 of 2104 min
The companion series on astrotheology proper: scripture read as encoded astronomy, the twelves as the zodiac and the sevens as the planets, argued from the texts.
- The Ancient Theology: Astrotheology, part 2 of 299 min
The close of the series, taking the reading from the sanctuary and its furnishings into the gospels themselves, which is where his claim is strongest and most disputed.
Dustin Nemos
Independent commentary on scripture, history and power, from outside both the academy and the churches.
Read first: Christianity and syncretism
- The first of these lectures is being gathered. It will be listed here, by title, before it opens.
Common questions
Is the hall included in the plans?
Yes. Every plan opens it, beside every instrument and the Oracle without limit. Seven days for $0.99, then $10 a month, opens it too, and you can cancel before the eighth day and pay nothing more.
Does watching use up my free instrument?
No. A free account’s one instrument a day is for readings cast against your chart. A lecture is not one of those, and playing it claims nothing against the day.
Does this page load anything from YouTube?
Not until you press play. Each lecture is a still of this house’s own painting; the video frame is built at the moment you ask for it, from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain, and not before. Opening the page and reading it reports you to nobody.
Does the Almanac endorse these teachers?
It carries them, named and attributed, because readers ask about them and deserve to hear the teaching in the teacher’s own words beside a guide that weighs it. Carrying a lecture is not agreeing with it, and the guides say plainly where each claim stands.
