This chapter will explain how to start a temple from the bottom up.

Temple Planting is the same as Church Planting. It is basically just the idea of a new branch opening in a new community. This can start with a Cyberchurch or a Cafe Temple, or any small group. The goal is just to eventually get the word out about the Temple so that enough people want to actually build a Temple in the area. This can be done by passing out Literature or Flyers in crowded places, if you have a Cyberchurch or a Cafe Temple you could include specific meeting times, or a website.

A Seed Library is similar to a seed bank except that the goal of a seed bank is to spread the seeds to the local community and visitors, instead of storing seeds in the event of a civilization ending event.

In a seed bank you would try to get as many seeds from as many different species and store them under conditions that would keep them alive the longest, and you might allow the public to buy some seeds. In a Seed Library, you would actually grow as many of the plants as you could and make more seeds every year to give out, and you would do give-aways and contests and all kinds of stuff like that to keep it interesting.

Special Libraries are basically Archives for certain themes. In a traditional Library they would attempt to get as many books as they could on as many topics as possible, and then rent those out to the Public. A Special Library is more of a Reference Library, where the books would probably not be taken from the Library, but they could be scanned and shared.

A Special Library could be a Library of Sacred Texts, or a Library of 1st Person stories, or a Library of Law, or a Library of News, or a Library of Medicine, or a Library that contained the History of a certain place etc.

A Special Library could exist online, an example of this is the website http://www.sacred-texts.com/

Once it is possible every temple should get a printer. Even if it is a desktop printer they have gotten pretty advanced now and you can print out pretty much anything. You can also get scanners and Copy machines. These types of things will allow the temple to print flyers, pamphlets, literature and publish their own work as well as the work of anyone who comes to them asking to be Published.

Printers can be used to make Business cards, Flyers, Mailers, Booklets, Books, Stickers, Labels, Magazines, Personalized Stationary etc.

You can also use services like Vista Print or Kinkos to get these things done on a large scale and PDF converters (Software) can allow you to turn files on a computer in to files that can be sold on Amazon or given away freely.

A House Temple is when a private residence is being used as a Temple. This could either designate a place for personal worship or for others to gather.

A House Temple could start as a meeting group, or as a study group for either the Rig Veda or the Bible or other religious texts. Or it could start as a form of small club. For example, it could start as a buying club for a group of personal worshipers who want to buy incense together, or who want to start breeding plants together, create music together, or anything like that.

A House Temple could also start as a Homeless shelter, or as a place for people to stay when they are traveling.

A Sacred Herb Acclimatisation Society is a group that is established in order to bring sacred Herbs into a region. An example of this would be if a Polytheistic Temple wanted to practice Olmec tradition, you may be growing San Pedro Cactus. Once your San Pedro catcus has large branches you could make San Pedro cuttings and offer them to local businesses or nearby Temples, or in places where it seems like that would be ok.

You could also spread Acacia tress, which is the Egyptian Tree of Life. Or Marijuana, which is representative of Shiva on Earth. You could also plant things like Mucuna or Chacruna which have been used in Ayahuasca, and the Ayahuasca vine itself is another plant. Or you could spread White Sage, which is used in Native American ceremonies.

The basic goal of a Sacred Herb Acclimatisation Society is just to bring sacred herbs into an area.

Here is a website where you can get seeds for tons of Sacred Herbs.

http://www.worldseedsupply.com/

A Benefit Society is a group that is established in order to make sure certain problems always have solutions. Many Fraternities, Mutual Banking institutions, Soup Kitchens and Homeless Shelters started as Benefit Societies. Benefit Societies can also be used to help people fund new Temples in the area. Many Christian Churches do the old tradition of offering Coffee and Doughnuts in the front which is basically Benefit Society work.

Cafe churches and temples are churches and temples that focus on community and outreach instead of preaching. Usually there is a Cafe in the church or temple and can even be the central theme of the temple, sometimes they exist in Coffee Shops and other small businesses. Usually Cafe temples are associated with "Church Planting" which is what Churches or Temples do in their early stages

Coffee

Guarana

Kava

Mucuna

Mulungu

With the results of the Hobby Lobby Trial, a Cafe Church or Temple could legally practice any religion on their property and not have to worry about legal interference.

Sometimes Music is also a central theme for a Cafe Church.

Central Conferences are a way for a Decentralized Polytheistic system to be able to come together and make decisions. It is not actually Centralized in that all branches are coming together, but Central Conferences should be able to bring together local Temples, so as to bring people together to solve struggles inside and outside of the Temples.

A Chaplain is a Minister, Priest, Rabbi, Imam, Baba, etc. that has been stationed at a secular institution. For example, you have probably seen a Minister at a hospital or at least in a hospital TV show. There are also Ministers that work for the Military. They do not have any administrative power usually, but are just part of the organization for Moral support of people who are there permanently or visiting. Chaplains can be found in: Hospitals, the Military, Police Stations or Fire Departments, Musical Institutions, College Campuses, Prisons, Sports Teams, Private Clubs and Private Businesses

A Chapel is a Temple like structure that is attached to another building. It could be attached to a House, Hospital, Funeral Home, Prison, College, Private Business etc.

A Chapel offers a place similar to a Temple or Church where people can come to congregate, but it is usually less of a public building than a regular Church or Temple and more of an attachment to another building where people that work at or are visiting that building can go to congregate.

A Chapel can even just be an outdoor place for congregation

A Local Temple is a registered non-Profit Church. It may have a Constitution or By-Laws and it may be denominational. A Local church would be the place where people were Registered to be Ministers, and where Education or Congregation would happen.

A Temple Union is when 2 or more Temples come together to form a larger body.

A Federation is a Union in which the 2 former churches are not expected to dissolve.

A Translation Center is similar to a Museum but is usually thought of as more of a Visitors Center, with archives of different things and the willingness to translate languages.

A Translation Center could use a website like Google Translate in order to facilitate this in some cases. The goal of a Translation Center is to help connect cultures that would otherwise be disconnected by a language gap.

Translation Centers can also be places for people to learn computer coding languages.

The model for this would be the Poetry Translation Center, which is an Organization that translates poems from all over the world. A Translation Center could also translate music or movies.

A Matha is a place where Ministers or a Religious Family (not biologically related necessarily) come together to live in one place, this could be permanent or temporary and would serve as a place of training for new Ministers or starting a new Temple. Mathas (Convents and Monasteries) in Christians tradition have been divided by Gender but that would not be necessary unless it was decided that a certain Matha wanted to use that structure.

A Matha could also be called a Monastery or a Convent and can be occupied by a group or a single individual.

The Holy See is the name for the Catholic Judicial Structure as it exists around the planet. It is kind of hard to understand at first introduction, but the Vatican is the "Holy City" and operates as a city-state, similar to Athens or Sparta in Ancient Greece, and it is in the Middle of Italy. As a city-state it is considered an independent nation-state from Italy.

But even though the Vatican is Independent from Italy, it is still in charge of all the Catholic priests all over Italy, and then it expands even larger than that to encompass all Catholic priests around the world. For example there are Catholic Churches in America that fall under the Jurisdiction of the Holy See and the giant Church in Mexico City is also part of the Holy See.