{"id":229,"date":"2024-10-25T21:13:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T03:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/?page_id=229"},"modified":"2026-05-02T01:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:01:38","slug":"chapter-i-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/liber-0004\/liber-0004b-magick\/chapter-i-the-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter I &#8211; The Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">CHAPTER I<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">THE TEMPLE<\/h3>\n<p><strong>THE Temple represents the external Universe. The Magician must take it as he finds it,<\/strong> so that it is of no particular shape; yet we find written, <a href=\"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/liber-0007\/\">Liber VII<\/a>, vi, 2: \u201cWe made us a Temple of stones in the shape of the Universe, even as thou didst wear openly and I concealed.\u201d This shape is the Vesica Piscis; but it is only the greatest of the Magicians who can thus fashion the Temple. There may, however, be some choice of rooms; this refers to the power of the Magician to reincarnate in a suitable body.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPTER I THE TEMPLE THE Temple represents the external Universe. The Magician must take it as he finds it, so that it is of no particular shape; yet we find written, Liber VII, vi, 2: \u201cWe made us a Temple of stones in the shape of the Universe, even as thou didst wear openly and &#8230; <a title=\"Chapter I &#8211; The Temple\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/liber-0004\/liber-0004b-magick\/chapter-i-the-temple\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chapter I &#8211; The Temple\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":185,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_templately_pack_id":"","_templately_imported_at":"","_templately_source":"","_templately_import_session_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/1368"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcane.church\/thelema\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}