The Journal is where the keepers think aloud. Essays here are signed, personal, and sometimes in disagreement with one another. They are not House doctrine, because the House has none beyond its Charter. New essays appear every couple of months, usually at a dark moon.
All essays
She Was Not Cast Out: On the Difference Between Leaving and Being Sent
In the oldest telling Lilith is not expelled from Eden. She leaves. A keeper reflects on why that single detail is the center of the archetype.
The Fear Was Real: In Honor of the Amulet-Makers
Before Lilith was an icon she was a name for the death of infants. A keeper argues that modern practice owes respect to the people who warded against her.
Why We Keep the Empty Night
The Keeper of the Calendar explains why House Lilitu has one observance, why it falls on the dark moon, and why its link to Lilith is modern.
Against the Flattened Goddess
Lilith is often merged with Hecate, Kali, Ishtar, and others into a single dark goddess. The Keeper of the Library explains why House Lilitu refuses the merger.
Sovereignty Is Not Solitude
Many who take up the Lilith archetype conclude that independence means being alone. The Keeper of the Threshold disagrees, and explains why.
The Hair and the Mirror: Lilith in the Nineteenth Century
The seductive Lilith of modern imagination was largely painted by Victorian men. The Keeper of the Mirror asks what to keep from that picture and what to give back.
A House Without Initiation
Why House Lilitu has no grades, no degrees, no members, and no way to join. The Keeper of the Charter on what an institution owes to the figure it studies.