Rebirth of a VisionThe year 2006 marked the 1000th anniversary of the founding of a mystery school in Chartres, France, that for two centuries was the most important center of learning in Europe, giving birth to a flowering of mystical knowledge and artistic expression. It was the time of the Crusades, and yet the school established communication and exchange with the Sufis in Jerusalem and received from them the geometric designs required for Gothic architecture. These designs proved to be critically important in the magnificent creation of Chartres Cathedral, among the first of the Gothic cathedrals, and thereby helped to launch a new era in European history.

The mystery school was established in 1006 by Fulbert, a prominent mystic and builder of his time, who became Bishop of Chartres and founded the school out of a profound intention of enabling his students to express the highest reaches of the divine human through adoration of the Divine Feminine.

Fulbert was building on an ancient tradition at Chartres that had already existed there for millennia. A thousand years before the time of Christ, Druids throughout Europe recognized the mound at Chartres as a locus of powerful earth energies, and consecrated the site as a center for ritual healing. Each year the Druids would gather at this ancient site worshipping a Black Madonna giving birth to the Divine Child, engaging with the earth’s energies in an alchemy of awakening.

Fulbert’s mystery school at Chartres was based on an initiatory teaching of the Seven Liberal Arts, which had formed the cornerstone of learning since the ancient civilizations of Egypt and Greece. Expressed through the subtleties of alchemy, astrology and sacred art, known as the “erotic sciences,” the study of the Seven Liberal Arts helped to cultivate personal and social transformation. The Chartres School attracted philosophers and visionaries from all over Europe as well as the East, including Druidic, Jewish, Sufi and, according to some scholars, Hindu masters.

Each year the Druids

would gather at this ancient

site worshipping a Black

Madonna giving birth to

the Divine Child, engaging

with the earth’s energies in an

alchemy of awakening.

New Chartres SchoolWisdom University is honored to present the New Chartres School, a remembering and a reinterpretation of the original Chartres School and the visionaries who gathered there. New Chartres School is designed as an initiation into the wellspring of wisdom developed by the wise ones of civilizations long past, as well as a gateway to an encounter with the mysteries of Creation. Studying the deeper mysteries is of particular importance at a time such as ours when our world is clearly in crisis, and only a deep and creative reconnection with universal truths will suffice to catalyze the solutions we all seek.

New Chartres School will be comprised of seven seven-day intensives over the course of 7 years offering an initiatory exploration of the Seven Liberal Arts of Grammatica, Dialectica, Rhetorica, Musica, Arthmetica, Geometrica, and Astronomica, as refracted through the portals of alchemy, astrology and sacred art.

Following the original mystery school, each intensive will have one of the Liberal Arts as its focus, including a historical representative of that art, a guiding planet, and an immersion into one of the world’s wisdom traditions. New Chartres School will be supported and led by a team of core faculty, all of whom are keenly aware of the gravity of the current world situation and are immersed in the Chartres tradition, including:

Additional faculty will be invited who represent the best minds and visionary hearts of our times, dedicated to the development of more potent vehicles for personal and social transformation.

Angeles Arrien • Lauren Artress • Lynn Bell

Apela Colorado • Karuna Erickson • Alex Grey

Jean Houston • Andrew Harvey • Barbara Marx Hubbard

Caroline Myss • Colette van Praag • Gabrielle Roth

Rupert Sheldrake

Studying the deeper mysteries

is of particular importance at

a time such as ours when our

world is clearly in crisis

Intensive I—The Mystery of the Birth of the Divine Human, July 2-8, 2006

Intensive II—The State of the World: Wisdom and the Apocalypse, July 7-13, 2007

Intensive III—Reimagining the World: The Perennial Wisdom and the Poetry of Beauty, July 6-12, 2008

This intensive will be in partnership with Veriditas.

Intensive IV—Awakening Divine Creativity: The Arts of Healing and Ecstasy, July 5-11, 2009

Intensive V— Sacred Number - The Matrix of the Universe - July 4-10, 2010

Intensive VI—The Mysteries of the Divine Feminine, July 3-9, 2011

Intensive VII—Sacred Activism: Birthing the New World, July 1-7, 2012

All intensives will be held in Chartres, France, at the seminary adjacent to the Cathedral where the original Chartres School stood. Anyone with a deep commitment to the mysteries is invited. The cost for each intensive is $1000, or $1600 if taken for credit toward a Masters Degree in Wisdom Spirituality or a Doctor of Ministry Degree at Wisdom University.

Our challenge today is whether we can come together with such a dedication

to the sacred, that we, like the old Masters of Chartres, transform our

lives into building blocks for the betterment of humanity, filled with beauty,

holiness, wisdom and light. If we do, we can transform the world.—Jim Garrison

President, Wisdom University

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