The 7 Wonders: 4 - The Temple of Artemis and the Lunar Sanctuary
The Palace of the Silver Ray In the ancient city of Ephesus, the world's most magnificent temple was dedicated not to a solar king, but to the multi-breasted Artemis—the primordial Mother of the wild. This temple, four times the size of the Parthenon, was the supreme terrestrial anchor for the lunar current. While the Pyramid reflects the stillness of the Father, the Temple of Artemis reflects the teeming, fertile, and ever-shifting complexity of the Mother. It is the station of the "Great Receptacle," the womb that catches the divine fire and translates it into the myriad forms of biological life. Within the Lux Esoterica tradition, the Temple of Artemis represents the Sanctification of the Subconscious . It is the archetype of the protected interior space where the delicate seeds of intuition and magic are allowed to germinate away from the harsh light of the mundane sun. The hundreds of columns reflect the vast, interconnected web of the astral plane, all supporting ...