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Blessed New Year to all of our members, friends and
supporters. I hope that at least some of you were able to join me for our New Year's Rite the other night. Most of all, I hope that 2026 is a splendid year for you, especially if 2025 was unkind, as it was to me. The good news is that, through my own divination, Apollon told me that the worst of my life was now behind, and a better beginning is now going to start to unfold. My greatest trials are over. It's certainly been the hardest year of my life, not only with my extensive oral surgery, but my severe anxiety that led to a mental and physical breakdown over the Summer of 2025. I feared I was going to die, but the Gods told me my journey was not over yet, and I needed to get back up. In your most desperate times, grab the tunics of the Gods and pull yourself up as hard as you can.
But let us no longer dwell on the hard times, because it stops us from living in the present and building the future. After another year, our temple still remains strong and positive, even getting a new member at the end of last year. I enjoy serving the Gods and this Demos more than anything else I do in this world. And one thing I learned from my experiences throughout my life is that we need to do the things we want and enjoy while we can, because not only are we not promised tomorrow, we're not promised a second chance to go after what we want either. Sometimes you might only have one opportunity for it. Your life is meant for you to live on your own terms, and to make it the best life you can. No other human has the right to dictate that for you, and the more you let other people do that, the more unhappy and anxious you will become.
I am also pleased to announce that the republication of my old books, which will take place before I begin work on the planned official Temple Book, will be released through the temple's own private publishing service through the online company LuLu, based in the State where our temple started, North Carolina. If needed, I can approve the works for global distribution to sites like Amazon, but since most of my books sold through traffic to my personal websites, I don't as of yet see the need. Not to mention that having our private publishing service gives me complete control over everything seen on the selling pages.
For example, if someone decides to go on Amazon and leave a bad review on a book simply because they don't like me or misunderstand the work, there is nothing I can do about a false review, and in my past experience, no matter how much it is reported, Amazon will not take it down. However, with our own private server, I can erase fraud or misinformation. It gives our temple complete freedom and security with our publications. There is, at present, no scheduled release date for the rest of my books or the Temple Book, as the latter is going to take a lot of careful study and assembly. But I am optimistic about our temple's future literature. Light Of Olympos, however, is now available and can be accessed by clicking on the icon on the left side of this page.
But there is one address I want to make to everyone out there reading this, whether you're a Hellenist or not, or whether you are part of our temple or not. Let this be addressed to all of humankind. Somewhere inside of us, we know that the Gods gave us life to enjoy and be happy, but somewhere along the way, some of us lost sight of that in adult life because of the stresses of the modern day. Find that spirit again, the one that loves life and the people around you. For I have discovered that this is the only life worth living. Good luck to you this year, and may the goodness of all the Gods be with you.
Priest Christopher.
