The Revised / expanded Fourth Edition of the Therian Bible is now available as a hardcover book with a Dustjacket.

Click Below For more information & to purchase your own copy:

http://theriantemple.org/bible.html

The Official Website of the Therian Temple has moved!

During certain advanced Therian shifts, we in the Therian Temple believe that there is a real physiological/physical change, making these shifts beyond “Mental Shifts” (which only really affect the mind), and truly into the realm of the “Physical Shift”.

By this we do not mean growing claws, fur etc., nor do we mean changing species, but there is indeed a change that transcends mere psychological affects.

This has caused much controversy for us by using this description / definition, but Science may have just backed up this theory and found an answer to this perplexing occurrence, as seen below.

Emotion makes Noses Sharper Smellers:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080327/ap_on_sc/sniffing_danger

Naturally, an intense shift is charged with strong emotion. ….

For various reasons, including link-blocking, the Therian Temple page that was previously at Myspace.com has been terminated.

However Magus Fenrir Therion has created an exciting alternative social network to myspace, which is focused specifically on Therians, called WereSpace.

At WereSpace, Therian Temple membership is neither required nor assumed.

All systems of belief and viewpoints on Therianthropy are welcomed there:

Visit WereSpace:
http://therian.ning.com/

 BILLINGS, Mont. - Gray wolves in the Northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list, following a 13-year restoration effort that helped the animal’s population soar, federal officials said Thursday.

Read more here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080221/ap_on_re_us/wolf_delisting 

 Tonight!

See:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL2028499420080220

A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth’s shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, the Moon is always full the night of a lunar eclipse. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon’s location relative to its orbital nodes.

Members of the The Therian Temple’s Ordo vir Bestia have just published a book version of the 19th-century were-wolf text, “The Book of Were-Wolves”, in both paperback and hardcover editions.

Written in 1865 by a British Theologian and Hymn-composer (he composed the well-known hymn “Onward Christian Soldiers”), this text delves into the history of beliefs and traditions surrounding human-animal transformations and related ideas.

Far from being a “factual document”, “The Book of Were-wolves” is a look into the mystical and magical esoteric ideas and lore about man’s “Inner Beast” that were prevalent in the world of the late 1800s.

One can clearly see the basis for the myriad Hollywood Film-versions of the “Wolf-Man” in the details of folkloric poems and traditions.

The research compiled in Rev. Baring-Gould’s text paint a unique picture of a mystical 19th-century world where monsters are very real and believed-in.

Luckily, the helpful hymn-composer turned literary Good Samaritan is there to guide you through this archaic and frightening world of wolf-men, vampires, cannibals and murderers.

“The Book of Were-Wolves” is a must-read for anyone interested in human-animal transformations, folklore, or even just monster movies.

Past Editions of this text have also been published under the title “The Book of the Were-Wolf”.

Buy your Copy Today at:

http://www.theriantemple.com/intro.html#bookoww

http://www.myspace.com/the_book_of_werewolves

After tiring of having to contact Myspace to delete several fake profiles posing as “The Therian Temple”, We in the Ordo Vir Bestia have seen it fit to approve a member-made page as our “semi-official” presence on the myspace server.

Individual members often have myspace and other social network profiles, but the page below will be the only page on that server representing the Therian Temple in any official capacity:

Jan. 22, 8:35 a.m. EST — Full Wolf Moon. Amid the zero cold and deep snows of midwinter, the wolf packs howled hungrily outside Indian villages. It was also known as the Old Moon or the moon after Yule. In some tribes this was the Full Snow Moon; most applied that name to the next moon.

 MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A chihuahua in sunglasses, a tiny albino mouse and a turtle were among the animals lined up at Catholic churches across Mexico City on Thursday for an annual blessing to mark Saint Anthony the Abbott’s feast day.

In a tradition carried out each year in a handful of Catholic countries, Mexicans dressed up pets in vibrant frocks and tied ribbons on their ears so they could be sprinkled with holy water by a priest reading a special animal prayer.

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Franciscan monks brought the animal blessing to Mexico during Spanish colonial rule.

The tradition marks the anniversary of the death of Saint Anthony the Abbott, a 4th century Egyptian Christian who gave his inheritance to the poor and lived a spiritual monastic life in the desert with only animals for company.

He was later made a patron saint of animals, like the better known Saint Francis of Assisi.

“Living together with animals is the most beautiful thing,” said Father Miguel Monroy, who said he avoids letting the animals inside San Fernando, a pretty 18th century Baroque church, because they tend to fight and leave puddles.

“The blessing is to protect them and keep them in good health,” he said, adding that he once blessed a couple of iguanas and a three foot (1 meter) crocodile.

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Full Article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080117/ts_nm/mexico_pets_dc