Ten Basic Principles of Temenos

As some readers will be aware, the Temenos Academy was founded by the poet Kathleen Raine, who had an extensive correspondence with the Prince of Wales, who is President of the Academy and who himself embodies these principles. They originally appeared as editorial pieces in the Temenos Review and are beautifully explained here in a way that can be adopted more generally as a spiritual outlook. These include an acknowledgement of divinity, love of wisdom as the essential basis of civilisation, spiritual vision, maintenance of sacred traditions in continual renewal, a high standard of teaching and the awareness that students will want to apply these principles in their own lives, and reminding themselves and those they teach to look up not down. This last principle relates to the vertical dimension that the Network also seeks to acknowledge.