The Lecture Hall
Choose a subject, read a lecture, and take one idea into your day. Follow a study path or browse the sources below.
The house’s own painted lectures, from Hermes and the Emerald Tablet to the Tree of Life and the Gnostic gospels, each told in ideas anyone can read.
The house’s own lectures
Twelve painted lectures in the Oracle’s voice, each one subject in twelve ideas you can take in at a glance. Every idea is written out on its lecture’s page for anyone to read. The first three ideas of each film play for anyone, and members watch them whole.
Start with the subject that draws you in. Each short lecture follows one clear thread, with the ideas and sources alongside it.
The Hermetic Path
From the legend of Hermes to the book that named his seven laws.
Hermes the Thrice-GreatWho the Thrice-Great was said to be, and how his books came to rule the Renaissance.
The Emerald TabletThe shortest, strangest text in alchemy, and where "as above, so below" comes from.
The Great WorkLead into gold, black into red: the stages of alchemy, and what they meant to those who worked them.
The Seven Hermetic PrinciplesThe seven laws of the Kybalion, one by one, and the true story of the book that named them.
The Tree and the Letters
Jewish mysticism's map of the divine, the alphabet it was spelled in, and the cards that borrowed it.
The Tree of LifeHow Jewish mystics drew the hidden life of God as ten lights, and why their tree spread so far.
The Twenty-Two LettersAn ancient Hebrew book that built the world from letters and numbers, and gave them to the planets and the signs.
The Fool's JourneyHow a card game of fifteenth-century Italy became a book of mysteries, told as the Fool's walk through the twenty-two trumps.
The Hidden Gospels
The books buried in an Egyptian jar, and the knowing they spoke of.
The Measure of Heaven
The shapes and the numbers people have always found holy.
The Inner Sky
What Carl Jung found when he turned the old symbols inward.
Teachers and further reading
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
Dustin Nemos
Independent commentary on scripture, history and power, from outside both the academy and the churches.
Read first: Christianity and syncretism
About the Lecture Hall
Common questions
What are the house’s own lectures?
Painted lectures written by this house, each one subject in twelve ideas, spoken in the Oracle’s voice. Every idea is written out on the lecture’s own page for anyone to read, with its sources. The opening of each film plays for anyone, and members watch it whole.
Is the hall included in the plans?
Yes. Every plan opens it, beside every instrument and the Oracle without limit. Seven days are free, then $12 a month, and you can cancel before the eighth day and pay nothing more.
Does watching use up my free instrument?
No. All interactive tools require membership. A lecture is not one of those, and playing it claims nothing against the day.
Does this page load anything from YouTube?
No. The external YouTube players have been removed. Read the house lectures and follow their sources and study guides.
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.
