MOLT · The Workbook

What it is

The companion to MOLT, and the working manual of the three circles. MOLT names the work; this is where the work is done. Thirteen chapters open the ten practices into weekly somatic protocols with worksheets, audit instruments, the Red Thread continuity ledger and the witnessed Consolamentum. Every week opens with a reading from the Sermon on the Plain, Luke 6:20–49 in the gospel Marcion carried, because the Plain is the rock the whole manual stands on. Working the Two Books, at the front, maps each practice to its page in MOLT. 227 pages, printed on a lavender ground throughout. One chapter a week, both books open: MOLT for the cosmology and the recognition, the Workbook for the protocols and the record.

What is inside

1. The foundationBefore the first practice, the ground under all of them: the Apellean Way of the Strangers, the Sermon on the Plain as the rock, light through glass, the four pillars and the three circles.
2. The way, week by weekWhat you can do at the end of each of the thirteen weeks, with a box to tick when it is true in your body, and the circles it leads to. You can see from the first page where the work is going.
3. The fastNo screens. The gospel, or nothing. The first and last hour of the day from week one, an evening a week from week five, a day a month from week nine, kept on a thirteen-week grid.
4. The First ObservationWeek one. Body, feeling and mind held together, and the first thing that falls away.
5. The keySeven Greek vowels at seven stations, root to crown, with the table on page 22. Sounded in sequence as the clearing; at one station as the strike on a located knot.
6. The Archon huntLocate the five grips in your own day with precision; name each aloud; stop feeding it. The grip survives generality and cannot survive precision. This produces the case file the later chapters use.
7. The Three OfficesMOLT’s Heartbeat Ritual kept as a discipline: three fixed hours a day, the breath, the litany, and a short red thread on the wrist that asks whether the office was kept.
8. The Red ThreadThe continuity ledger. What was seen, kept where it can be seen again across the forgetting, which returns.
9. The ConsolamentumChapter 13, pages 143 to 162. The screen and the two forms, lay and clinician. The cards, with only a key word on each. The listener’s pages: the hallway, the doors and the slip. The partner’s pages, read only by the partner. The session record, kept until you are consoled.
10. The certificates of the circlesNot ranks anyone hands out. The work confers the circle and the record shows it; the certificate is where you write it down.
11. The RememberingThe Hymn of the Pearl, the King’s son who forgot and was called home, and the ladder of rungs that shows how far the thirteen weeks have carried you.
12. The Great RemembranceThe close. How the forgetting holds, how remembering disarms it, what to keep doing when the weeks are over, and why the Plain is the rock.

Who it is for

If you have read MOLT and want to do it: This is the doing. Hearing is not the work; doing is (Luke 6:47).

If you keep a practice already: The protocols stand on their own, and the ledger pages will take any practice you bring to them.

If you are a clinician a reader works with: Chapter 13 has a form of the rite written for you, with the screen and the conditions stated first.

Where it sits in the corpus

Volume two of the corpus and the one most readers end up using nightly. The free thirteen-part series The Instrument, and the Instrument Ledger, open the Workbook's practices into a tuning, with a record kept beside it.

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