Temenos Academy Newsletter October 2025

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NEWSLETTER October 2025 EVENING LECTURES We Are All Born Alchemists! DANIEL DOCHERTY In the chair Tom Bree Monday 13 October 2025 Nine months in utero is akin to three turns of mercury around the sun. Perhaps this thrice-great gestation, a blessing from our most fleet-footed planetary neighbour, is an invitation, in time, for us all to become alchemists. Can a deepening understanding of the wily and wisdom-filled ways of mercury shed light upon the shadows of our ignorance, help us to rarefy subtle from gross, and uncover the mysteries of 'this being human'? Guises of Hermes/Mercurius will accompany our explorations, together with insights gleaned from the objective, universal 'ever-true' arts of the quadrivium. Daniel Docherty is co-founder and senior tutor at SAOG Studios, a practice-based arts studio focussing on research and short courses exploring the practice and philosophy of sacred geometry and the quadrivial arts. He is a visiting tutor on the MA programme of the King's Foundation School of Traditional Arts. He lives in the heart of the Ashdown Forest with his family. Venue & Admission 18 Lincoln’s Inn Fields London, WC2A 3ED Doors Open 6.10pm. Lecture Begins 6.30pm £10 General Admission FREE for Temenos Academy Members/Full-time students with student ID card Book HERE E- temenos...@myfastmail.com T - 07513 883 335   Pattern and Contemplation: Journey into Islamic Geometric Art RICHARD HENRY Monday 27 October 2025 In the chair Emma Clark In this illustrated talk, artist and geometer Richard Henry will reveal his very personal relationship to the art of Islamic geometric patterns, from his early travels in the Islamic world and his fascination with the contemplative dimension of the art, to its impact upon his own artistic practice. He will examine the symbolic role of geometry, the visual hierarchy within Islamic art and the underlying language of symmetry hidden beneath surface forms. He will also discuss his educational work and research, which has spanned several countries, and the revival of Islamic geometric art as a contemporary practice. Richard Henry is an artist and teacher with a specialism in Islamic geometric pattern. He has worked in painting, print and tile-mosaic and is interested in traditional methods (using compass and straight edge) of pattern construction for artists and craftspeople. He has carried out research in Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Turkey and Iran and regularly leads international study tours to many of these locations. He previously developed courses for British Museum's World Arts and Artefacts programme and is currently Director of Studies on the MA programme at the Kings Foundation School of Traditional Arts. Venue & Admission 18 Lincoln’s Inn Fields London, WC2A 3ED Doors Open 6.10pm. Lecture Begins 6.30pm £10 General Admission FREE for Temenos Academy Members/Full-time students with student ID card Book HERE E- temenos...@myfastmail.com T - 07513 883 335 Poussin’s Meditations on Time, Providence and Eternity JULIA CLEAVE Monday 17 November 2025 For more information to book click HERE EVENTS ELSEWHERE Between Mystical Thinking and Practical Experience: How Poetry Opens the Door with Hilary Davies Saturday 11 October 2026, 10.30am -4pm The Meditatio Centre, London Our friends at The Meditatio Centre will be hosting this event which will examine how a variety of poets have approached mystical experience, and how they try to convey what is ineffable in poetic language. For more information and to book click HERE   BECOME A MEMBER You can support the Temenos Academy by becoming a member for £60/year. Members benefits include free admission to our lecture programme, concessionary rates to seminars, study days and online courses, a free copy of Temenos Academy Review 27 and Ten Basic Principles that Inspire the Work of Temenos on joining, and complimentary copies of forthcoming Temenos Academy publications as they are issued. To become a member click HERE THE ARCHIVE Our website Archive hosts many audio and video recordings of lectures and the texts of many articles from Temenos Academy Review. New material is added regularly. https://www.temenosacademy.org/videoarchive https://www.temenosacademy.org/audioarchive https://www.temenosacademy.org/essay-archive Many of our audio recordings are available as PODCASTS. FURTHER INFORMATION EMAIL temenos...@myfastmail.com TELEPHONE 07513 883 335 PRIVACY POLICY https://temenosacademy.org/privacy-policy