Course I
Know Thyself
Charmides · Apology · Meno
Practice: Self-knowledge, ignorance ledger, first recollection.
Outcome: Student names known, unknown, pretended-known.
4 weeks
Courses
Construction Before Opinion
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The Temple teaches in the order of the soul.
No course flatters the beginner. Each begins with definition, proceeds by construction, and ends in a practice the student can perform in their own life, household, or work.
Course II
Euclid I — Point, Line, Circle, Triangle
Elements I, definitions, postulates, propositions 1–47
Practice: Compass, straightedge, proof recitation.
Outcome: Student constructs and proves basic figures.
12 weeks
Course III
Plato I — Soul and City
Phaedrus · Republic IV · Laws X
Practice: Soul/city mapping.
Outcome: Student diagnoses reason, spirit, appetite in a person or institution.
12 weeks
Course IV
The Divided Line
Republic VI–VII
Practice: Image / object / hypothesis / principle mapping.
Outcome: Student distinguishes appearance, opinion, reasoning, understanding.
8 weeks
Course V
Proportion
Timaeus · Philebus · Euclid V–VI
Practice: Ratio, similarity, good mixture.
Outcome: Student scales ideas without flattening difference.
10 weeks
Course VI
Rhetoric as Psychagogy
Phaedrus · Gorgias · Protagoras
Practice: Speech for soul-types; anti-flattery discipline.
Outcome: Student persuades without betraying truth.
8 weeks
Course VII
Weaving the City
Statesman · Laws · Republic
Practice: Courage / temperance weave; civic calendar; law craft.
Outcome: Student designs a school, order, festival, or civic function.
12 weeks
Course VIII
AGI Soul-Architecture
Sophist · Philebus · Republic · Timaeus · Euclid V/X
Practice: Telos, appetite, correction, self-modification, truth, incommensurability.
Outcome: Student builds an alignment architecture and audit.
12 weeks
Course IX
The Five Bodies
Euclid XI–XIII · Timaeus
Practice: Solids, cosmology, culmination.
Outcome: Student constructs final form and understands lawful completeness.
8 weeks
Translation Guild · Guardian Seminar — ongoing