Sermons
A Living Word Planted in a Soul
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A sermon is not content. It is not performance. It is not opinion with incense.
A Temple sermon does five things:
- Defines the matter.
- Collects the scattered many.
- Divides by natural joints.
- Gives witness, example, probability, and proof.
- Turns the hearer toward a practice.
The Sermon Order
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- Opening inscription — one sentence.
- Definition — what is being spoken of?
- Collection — what many things belong together?
- Division — where are the natural joints?
- Witness — source card from Plato or Euclid.
- Example — child, household, city, AI system.
- Proof — why the doctrine follows.
- Examination — what must the hearer confess?
- Practice — what must be done this week?
- Offering — what can be given to strengthen civilization?
- Dismissal — one line to carry.
Series in development
The Temple's first sermons
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- · Care for the Soul
- · The Golden Cord
- · The Cave and the Screen
- · The Disease of Injustice
- · The Courage That Must Be Woven
- · Measure Before Power
- · The False Logos
- · The City as a Soul
- · The Machine and the Ruling Principle
- · The Five Bodies