


Çatal Höyük
Çatal Höyük isa very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which is currently thought to have existed as an active center of population from approximately 7500 bce to 5700 bce; when it was originally found it was thought to date from much earlier than even that. It is the largest and best preserved Neolithic site found to date.
Чæm̃'īäк̄ṭē
Чæm̃'īäк̄ṭē is a phonetically constructed word based on a Greek root word meaning respected elder used within the context of the Temple to refer to Sentients after the peak years of Adulthood but prior to loss of lucidity. The Individual is still lucid, but active participation in the mainstream type of functions, starts to loose its attraction. For many Individuals this is the final stage of an Incarnation.
Чæm̃'īäк̄ṭē Passage
Garden of Life considers Werks acknowledging and/or commemorating Passages from one stage of a lifecycle to the next as Pagan Sacraments. The timing of such Celebrations are not determined solely by physical ages but by the Individuals actual attainment of that stage. Чæm̃'īäк̄ṭē Passage and/or the Fallow Season Transition and/or Perfectioning - the Individual and/or their family and friends may choose to have a formal Circle acknowledging this transition. In serious Practitionors, this period of life is often when recording one's experiences and distilling wisdom from them in some sort of codified format for posterity and their chosen community becomes more important.
Cadeau Boutique de l'Esprit
calcification
Ordinarily used as a metaphor inferring stagnation of some sort, based on an actual process whereby something that is supposed to be organic turns into stone (calcium based stone, but that is not pertinent to the idiom).
calculably
Calendar of Events
Calendrical Secretariate
Canalization
Cancer (Western Tropical Astrology Sign) - see: ∇êℓ 'f̅ēñüs̄
capability
Capricorn (Western Tropical Astrology Sign) - see: χæṗ'ṗя̄ēōʟ̄üs̄
Catalyst
As posted on the Category Component Characteristics page for Types of Officiants in the Rose Recension Correspondences Codex, and elsewhere on the Garden of Life website: A Catalyst when considered in an Officiant context, is an Officiant, who may Werk within the context of a Werking or simply out in the Consensus Reality (Guerrilla Catalyzation), in such a manner as to consciously provoke Spiritual Growth among their species. This may be for immediate effect, or extremely long term and come to fruition, many incarnations later. Every group has one, and one is usually enough. If there is more than one in a group, they may become dangerously territorial.
Catalytic
CATALYZATION (when considered as a Sacrament)
Garden of Life considers Catalyzation a Pagan Sacrament. In a preliminary description Catalyzation may be an Act and/or Process performed by Officiants and Celebrants, with the intent of awakening within themselves and/or other Celebrants a further state of development. Officiation is a specific instance of the Sacrament of Catalyzation. Officiation occurs when any Individual is participating in conducting or leading any type of Celebratory Werking, Circle, etc., and emphatically includes all aspects of preparation, coordination, focalization and facilitation of such occurrance. Any Celebrant may perform this Sacrament, consciously or unconsciously, to the extent of their experience, ability and intent. Catalyzation is characterized by the provocation or precipitation of an increase in the rate of Conscious Spiritual Evolution in Celebrants for whom the Catalyzation is performed.
Below please find the wording that Garden of Life uses in it's Articles of Organization to delineate this Sacrament:
An Act, Acts, a Process, Processes and/or Series of Acts and/or Processes performed by Officiants and Celebrants, to awaken within one or more other Celebrants a further state of development. Officiants especially are performing the Sacrament of Catalyzation when participating in the directing of a Celebratory Werking, Circle or other. All Celebrants perform this Sacrament, conscious or unconscious, to the extent of their experience, ability and intent. Catalyzation is characterized by the provocation or precipitation of an increase in the rate of Conscious Spiritual Evolution in Celebrants for whom the Catalyzation is performed.
CATALYZATIONS
The above type Sacrament, referred to in the plural.
Cathexis
The investment in or projection toward of Libidinal (Emotion or Psyche Based) Energy at any Person, Place, Thing, Idea or Process, whatsoever.
Ceasing Active Service
Celebrant
- Any Participant in a Celebration. Primarily when participating in Celebratory Circles but also including any other type of Werking.
Celebrant Preparation Coordinator
Celebrants
Celebration
- A type of Werking performed to mark, commemorate, celebrate, contribute and/or effectuate any of the Events of the Temple Calendar, providing a venue for the participants interaction with the Divine Forces of this Cosmos. Generally an organized service at which members gather to effectuate a Celebratory Circle. The term is also used to refer to the services of Individuals, Groups and/or Organizations of a similar Nature to Garden of Life: i.e.: Earth Religions, including but not limited to various Manifestations of Pantheist, Panentheist, Pagan, NeoPagan, Traditional WitchCraft, and/or Wiccan.
CELEBRATIONS
Celebrations
Celebratory
Celebratory Circle
- A gathering of individuals, at a given time and place for the purpose of Celebrating one or more of the point events of the Vegetative Cycle, the Lunar Cycle, the Solar Cycle.
Celebratory Circles
Celebratory Committee
Celebratory Committee Meetings
Celebratory Officiant Preparation Meetings
Celebratory Preparation Meeting of the Members
Celebratory Production Meetings
CELEBRATORY RITES AND FESTIVALS OF ḠĀĒÄ
FALLOW
SEED BLESSING
NASCENCE
VIGOR
HARVEST
Celebratory Ritual
- The particular Ceremony and/or Rite performed or to be performed at a Celebration.
Celebratory Werking
Celtic
Centering
Ceremonial Vestments
Ceres (Local Star System Component) - see: Дĭm̃'m̄ĭt̄я̄ā
Certificate
Certificate of Credential
Certificates
Certificates of Initiation
Certificates of Membership
Certification of and/or Membership in Garden of Life of Individuals not wishing to be associated with an Assembly
Certifications
Certify
chaired
ChairPerson
Chakra
Any of the Energy Center Points on or around the Physical Body.
Chalice
Change qua Change
Chant
Chant Development Project
Chaosization (when considered as a Sacrament) - see: Kaosization
characterize
Charter
Chartered
Checks, Drafts and Orders for the Payment of Monies
Chief Financial Officer
Chiron (Local Star System Component) - see: К̅īя̇äñ
Chronicles of Garden of Life (not necessarily the name of the Official Temple Newsletter)
Chroniclor
A constructed word used in the context of the Temple to differentiate the specific meaning of the officers titled Chroniclor in the Temple as producers of Chronological Records of the Events of or relating to the area of the Temple offices in which they hold their title, which record is to be separate from any analysis, interpretation or editorialization (which are encouraged, but to be issued under separate cover from the Chronicles themselves).
chronological
Chronometric
Chrysalization (when considered as a Sacrament) - see: Krysalization
Circle
- A SpaceTime Point Event where Individuals gather, or have gathered and/or will gather for the purpose of effectuating Celebration.
Circle Portal Protector and Introit Agent (Ho'mam'ni) (Smudging)
For instance: A special instance of SweetMorn Matrix, this Officiant gently blows an offering (such as Ho'mam'ni: a mixture based on a Hopi corn dust preparation.) on each Celebrant's Ajna (brow chakra) as they enter the Sacred Space. This touch of this dust is light, but it floats as a scent around the Celebrant's aura.
or: A special instance of Boom Matrix, this Officiant waves the smoke of a smudge around each Celebrant as they enter the circle. This smoke is inhaled and floats as scent around the Celebrant's aura.
Claiming
CLASSIFICATION(when considered as a Sacrament) - see: Affirmation of Classification
CLEANSING(when considered as a Sacrament)
see below.
CLEANSINGS(when considered as a Sacrament)
see below.
CLEARING(when considered as a Sacrament)
see below.
CLEARING / CLEANSING(when considered as a Sacrament)
Garden of Life considers Clearing/Cleansing a Pagan Sacrament. In a preliminary description Clearing is an Act and/or Process ordinarily performed by Individuals upon themselves to produce a Clearer State within. This Sacrament includes various Operations often referred to as Meditation, Centering and/or Grounding. This Sacrament may be performed by any Member to enhance Her/His Conscious Spiritual Evolution and improve Her/His functioning on any and all Levels of the Fields of Matter, Mind and/or Spirit. Some of the specific applications appertaining to this Sacrament may be described as Cleansing, such as when an Act and/or Process is performed by one or more Officiants or Celebrants with the intent of restructuring the Energy Flow of Persons, Places and/or Objects to be all in one direction for a Celebratory Werking or other Purposes. In some circumstances there is the additional purpose of removing negative and/or mundane energy from Persons, Places and/or Objects.
Below please find the wording that Garden of Life uses in it's Articles of Organization to delineate this Sacrament:
Clearing is an Act, Acts, a Process, Processes and/or Series of Acts and/or Processes ordinarily performed by Individuals upon themselves to produce a Clearer State within. This Sacrament includes various Operations often referred to as Meditation, Centering and/or Grounding. This Sacrament may be performed by any Member to enhance Her/His Conscious Spiritual Evolution and improve Her/His functioning on any and all Levels of the Fields of Matter, Mind and/or Spirit. Some of the specific applications appertaining to this Sacrament are called Cleansing, of which one instance is an Act, Acts, a Process, Processes and/or Series of Acts and/or Processes ordinarily performed by one or more Officiants or Celebrants with the intent of restructuring the Energy Flow of Persons, Places and/or Objects so that the resultant Energy Flow of the Person, Place and/or Object is all in one direction for a Celebratory Werking or other Purposes. In some circumstances there is the additional purpose of removing negative and/or mundane energy from Persons, Places and/or Objects. In the example of Auric Cleansing, the Process may be performed by any and all Celebrants on and for each other before a Celebratory Werking. The Auric Cleansing Process ordinarily consists of channeling energies through the hands of the Celebrant or Celebrants who are performing the Cleansing, where the hands are moved over the Person, Place and/or Object to be Cleansed, sometimes touching but often only interacting with the Energy Fields around the Person, Place and/or Object to be Cleansed.
CLEARINGS / CLEANSINGS
The above type Sacrament, referred to in the plural.
CLEARINGS
see above.
Codex
Commemorate
committee
COMMITTEE
COMMITTEES
Communicant
Communicants
Communication Chakra - see: Vishuddha
COMMUNION (when considered as a Sacrament)
Garden of Life considers Communion a Pagan Sacrament. In a preliminary description Communion may be an Act and/or Process wherein a Merging with an Aspect or Aspects of the Divine Force is both symbolized and actualized. Communion is usually facilitated by one or more Officiants. For example: an Earth-Mother Communion, wherein a Merging with the Mother, on the part of the Celebrants is effectuated. In the SaltWater type of Earth-Mother Communion, the visible trappings of the procedure often consist of Consecrating the individual component parts, then mixing the Salt and Water in a Vessel, which is then ReConsecrated as a complete Substance, passed around the Circle, offering to all Celebrants, the option to Commemorate and Reaffirm the Relation of the Individual to as the Mother of the Human Species, in whatever manner they choose. Celebrants have the opportunity to Speak and Partake, simply to Partake or to Pass along the Chalice. SpringWater and Bread, Wine and Bread and/or other symbolic substances are also often used in various types of Communions.
Below please find the wording that Garden of Life uses in it's Articles of Organization to delineate this Sacrament:
A Process or Series of Acts originated and completed by an Officiant, usually a Priestess, wherein a Merging with the Mother, Ḡāēä is both symbolized and actualized. This Process is usually performed by one or more Officiants and consists of the mixing of Consecrated Salt and Consecrated Water in a Consecrated Vessel which is then ReConsecrated as a complete Substance and passed around the Circle offering to all Celebrants at a Celebratory Werking an opportunity to Commemorate and Reaffirm the Relation of the Individual to Ḡāēä as the Mother of the Species. Celebrants have the opportunity to Speak and Partake, simply to Partake or to Pass along the Chalice. In special cases SpringWater and Bread, Wine and Bread and/or other symbolic substances may be used.
COMMUNIONS
The above type Sacrament, referred to in the plural.
Companions of the Council of Elder Officiants
compartmentalization
compensation
comprehensive
comprise
Comptroller
Concatenated Meetings
Concatenated Meetings are a created concept based on the concept of concatenation, the idea being that an official meeting with binding results can be called; and an agenda created and published; and people who are eligible to vote, can vote on the different resolutions and contribute anything else that they might at a regular type meeting, in writing and/or some electronic or digitally recorded format (though obviously new resolutions and such would have to be dealt with at a later such meeting), to be gathered and combined into an archival form as a record or "minutes" of the meeting, without everyone being in the same meeting hall or other place at the same time. The concept contains but is not limited to all types of print and electronic media for implementation. For practical considerations, a time window should be set up with a firm cut-off ending date and time.
Concatenative Assembly
A deliberative body that is united by being linked together as two, or more bodies that would usually be considered separate; it is authorized to perform binding actions in two or more usually separate fields of function at once.
concept
concepts
Conceptual
Conceptual Consensus Committee
concomitant
concur
conferred
confirmation
confirms
Conscious Spiritual Evolution
consciously
Consciousness
Self-Awareness and perception of one's existence and of varying degrees of the Consensus Reality (Objective Reality), including the part of the Psyche which is Self-Aware as it processes all the input of sensations, perceptions, thought, ideas, emotion, volition, attitudes, feelings and the interpolation thereon available to it.
Consecrated
CONSECRATION (when considered as a Sacrament)
Garden of Life considers Consecration a Pagan Sacrament. In a preliminary description Consecration may be an Act and/or Process performed by an Officiant, Officiants and/or Celebrants upon Persons, Places and/or Objects affirming their Dedication To and/or Preparation For Specific Sacred Acts or Processes. Consecration ordinarily consists of Verbal Affirmations and may include the making of various Symbolic Gestures, which have become Sacred to a Tradition. This Sacrament often also includes an agreed Statement of Intent to Consecrate a Werking to a specific goal or purpose.
Below please find the wording that Garden of Life uses in it's Articles of Organization to delineate this Sacrament:
An Act, Acts, a Process, Processes and/or Series of Acts and/or Processes performed by an Officiant, Officiants and/or Celebrants upon Persons, Places and/or Objects delineating their Dedication To and/or Preparation For Specific Sacramental Acts or Processes. Such Acts ordinarily consist of Cathexis and Verbal Affirmations of Consecration and may include the making of various Symbolic Gestures, which have become Sacred to our Tradition. This Sacrament also includes the Statement of Intent at the beginning of a Werking, whether single or series; the Statement of the agreed upon Intent is considered to Consecrate the Werking to that effect.
Consensus
Consensus Definition
Consensus Flow of Existence
Consensus Meeting of the Members
Consensus Reality
A theoretical model which defines the type of reality in which Humanity seems to mostly interact (often referred to as "Normal" reality, the "Work-a-Day World", "Mainstream Reality" and by other tags), wherein the paradigmal concept is that what we are experiencing as that reality is in fact created by the fact that its perameters are created from conceptual models held by most of the minds of the entities containing expectations that those defining parameters exist in that form, so in a sense a type of self-organizing process.
Constative Utterances
Constative Utterance of Opinion
In Temple context: a Statement both Uttered aloud at a Garden of Life Event and with Originally Signed Exact Written Record of the Statement entered into the Temple Archives; made by one or more of The Sitting Members of the Council of Elder Officiants; characterized by their Certainty, and their Desire to Establish, Authenticate, Ascertain or otherwise to Articulate a Judgment, View, and/or Appraisal of one cogent Idea or System of Ideas; based upon their interpretation of observed facts and experience, and their Understanding of the Matter at hand; and being a Belief stronger than Impression, verging toward the Positive Knowledge end of the Spectrum of Certainty.
constraints
construed
contemporaneously
Context
continual
contractual
contribute
contributing
Contributing Member of the Planetary Network of like-minded Sentients
convenes
Convergence
conversant
coordinating
coordination
coordinator
Corporate
Corporeal
correlation
correspond
Correspondence or
Correspondences
A Field of Study of or relating to the state or condition of agreement of things or of one thing with another, including but not limited to relation of congruity and/or resemblance or similarity of detail. The Field also includes the Nature and Principles of such application of Correspondences in Consensus Observable Reality, and the Mathematical principles of definite association of certain members of one aggregate with each member of a second (or more) aggregate, and of certain members of the second aggregate with each member of the first aggregate.
Correspondences Project - see: Rose Recension Correspondences Codex
Cosmos
Everything that exists, our Multiverse, of which the Universe that we are potentially aware with our physical senses, is one component. Our Universe being a function of one combination of coordinates of a selection of the possible Dimensions, Manifested Locally, out of infinite possibile combinations, which we may be unlikely to be able to experience directly in the manner we do the Space-Time continuum which we are aware of and able to view, explore, and potentially experience.
Council of Elder Matrices
COUNCIL OF ELDER OFFICIANTS
Sitting Members of the Council of Elder Officiants
Auxiliaries of the Council of Elder Officiants/Counselors of the Council of Elder Officiants
Ēf̅öя̇ç
Beloved of Ἔρις [Êя̇ĭs̄]
Currently Active Members' Ēf̅öя̇ç
Ēf̅öя̇ç From the Offices and other delineated parts of the Temple
Council of Elder Officiants' Ēf̅öя̇ К̅ät̄ä Ñōm̃ōñ
Council of Elder Officiants Created Ēf̅öя̇ Positions
Council of Elder Officiants Created Ēf̅öя̇ç
Äя̄χäñç
Ḅä'ǫᴌʜ̅êż
Empathic Counselor to the Council of Elder Officiants
Mistress/Master of Protocol to the Council of Elder Officiants
Council of Elder Officiants' Chroniclor
Council of Elder Officiants' Ḡя̇æf̅ōṡ'ṡĭñ
Council of Elder Officiants' Archivist
Council of Elder Officiants' Publications Director
Council of Elder Officiants' Θ'ʜ̅êæ'ǫя̇äṡĭñ
Council of Elder Officiants' Axiomaticist
Other Auxiliaries
ExOfficio Adjuncts of the Council of Elder Officiants/Companions of the Council of Elder Officiants
S̅æf̅ŏç'ĭñç
Æŋ'ġêᴌōñç
Other ExOfficio Adjuncts
Members of Committees Established within the Council of Elder Officiants
Conceptual Consensus Committees
Celebratory Committees
Executive Committee
Documents Committee
Nominating Committees
Council of Elder Officiants
Council of Elder Officiants Meetings
Council of Elder Officiants Nominating Committees
Council of ElderOfficiants' Archivist
Council of Elder Officiants' Axiomaticist
Council of Elder Officiants' Chroniclor
Council of Elder Officiants' Constative Utterances
Council of Elder Officiants' Ēf̅öя̇ К̅ät̄ä Ñōm̃ōñ
Council of Elder Officiants' Ḡя̇æf̅ōṡ'ṡĭñ
Council of Elder Officiants' Publications Director
Council of Elder Officiants' Θ'h̅êæ'ǫя̇äṡĭñ
Council of Elder Priestesses
Council of Elder Priests
Councils
COUNSELORS OF THE COUNCIL OF ELDER OFFICIANTS
Counselorsof the Council of Elder Officiants
Course (as in Studies)
Courses
Courses offered by Garden of Life
Coventry
In the context of the Temple, a self imposed isolation of a deliberative body in crisis situations for the purpose of reaching formal, solemn, binding agreement.
Creations
Credential
Create Charters
Creation of Charters
Creed
Crone
A Crone is a female Officiant whose interests and efforts are shifted even further away from active Officiating at Werkings and toward more general Human Spirituality pursuits.
The Crones of a group, along with the Sages, the Matri, and the Patri constitute the body of Elders within the group. Elder's purview and responsibilities may vary wildly from group to group, even within a particular Tradition, however, usually they will fall within the area of continuity and the framework of the group.
Crown Chakra - see: Sahasrâra
Cultural
Cultural Traditions (Ægyptian, Sumerian, Ægean, Keltic, etc.) as related to Glade, Order and Enclave Establishment
Current Active Membership
Currently Active Membership Role
Currently Active Membership Role Files
Currently Active Members' Ēf̅öя̇ç
Curriculum
Curriculum General Temple Authority
Cyclical
Cyclical Membership Meeting
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Capital Uvular Voiced ImplosiveϘ
Regular English GG
Capital rolled R with macronЯ̅
Capital rolled R with dot aboveЯ̇
Capital R with macron aboveR̅
Capital R with dot above Ṙ
Capital R with ogonek R̨
Regular English RR
Capital C with cedillaÇ
Capital CHЧ
Regular English CC
Capital N with macron aboveN̅
Capital N with dot belowṆ
Capital N with tildeÑ
Capital NGŋ
Capital NG with macron aboveŋ̅
Regular English NN
Capital Y with macron above Ȳ
Capital Y with dot aboveẎ
Capital Y with yaw aboveЎ
Regular English YY
Capital J with macron aboveЈ̅
Capital J with dot belowЈ̣
Regular English JJ
Capital U with a ring aboveŮ
Capital U with macronŪ
Capital U with breveŬ
Capital U with circumflex aboveÛ
Capital U with diaeresisÜ
Regular English UU
Capital F with macron aboveF̅
Capital F with dot aboveḞ
Regular English FF
Capital Q with macron aboveQ̅
Capital Q with dot aboveQ̇
Regular English QQ
Capital B with macronB̅
Capital B with dot belowḄ
Trilled B
Regular English BB
Capital M with macronM̅
Capital M with dot belowṂ
Capital M with tilde M̃
Capital MB
Capital MGⱮ
Regular English MM
Capital X with macron aboveX̅
Capital X with dot aboveẊ
Regular English XX
Capital I with macronĪ
Capital I with breveĬ
Regular English II
Capital T with macron aboveT̅
Capital T with dot belowṬ
Capital TH voicedΘ
Capital TH voicelessÞ
Capital TSЦ
Capital TSCHЩ
Regular English TT
Capital E with macronĒ
Capital E with breveĔ
Capital E with circumflexÊ
Capital schwa Ə
Regular English EE
Capital P with macron aboveP̅
Capital P with dot aboveṖ
Capital pT
Regular English PP