Your body. Your medicine. Your right to know.
An analytical chemistry lab and a religious community.
One bench, two practices.
Temple Lab operates two distinct service streams. They share a bench, a methodology, and a community of practitioners — but the relationships they create are different.
Certified analysis with HPLC-anchored methodology, full COAs, and chain-of-custody documentation. For peptide vendors, supplement companies, research institutions, and traditional medicine practitioners.
Anonymous sample examination as a religious sacrament. No name required. Submit by mail or in person; receive a Sacramental Examination Report. Knowledge as harm reduction; harm reduction as practice.
Temple Lab's client services arm delivers GxP-grade analytical chemistry: HPLC-anchored methodology, complete chain-of-custody, and Certificates of Analysis you can show your customers, your investors, and your regulators.
Our instrument stack is sized for high-throughput service work. HPLC anchors most analytical workflows; GC-MS, LC-MS, and FTIR resolve identity, impurity, and structural questions where required.
Thermo UltiMate 3000 with DAD detection. Quantitative purity, identity confirmation against reference standards, and method validation.
Agilent GC-MS for volatile and semi-volatile compounds. NIST library match for unknowns. Adulterant detection across substance classes.
Agilent LC/MSD single-quad for trace-level detection. Fentanyl-analog screening, low-level impurity profiling, and peptide work.
Bruker Alpha II ATR-FTIR for rapid identity confirmation. Bulk material screening. Functional-group analysis for novel substances.
Every client engagement results in a signed Certificate of Analysis. Below: a representative COA for a peptide vendor lot.
| Identity (HPLC-DAD) | CONFIRMED |
| Purity (HPLC area %) | 98.4% |
| Related impurities | < 1.6% |
| Residual solvents (GC-MS) | BELOW LOQ |
| Endotoxin (LAL, outsourced) | PASS |
Single-sample identity and purity COA. HPLC primary; FTIR for identity confirmation. 7–10 business day turnaround. Best for small batch verification or one-time analysis.
Recurring institutional service for clients running 100+ samples per month. Discounted blended rates, dedicated account minister, quarterly intelligence reporting, and priority queue.
For research-oriented clients with novel analytes or non-standard methods. Includes method development, validation, and ongoing analytical support.
For individuals, Temple Lab operates as the religious community we are: a sanctuary where people who use substances can have those substances examined with rigor, anonymously, and without judgment.
"The human body is sacred. The choice of what enters one's body is a matter of conscience, not statute. To exercise that choice with knowledge is a religious act."
Drop off in person at the Temple, or mail to our PO box with the submission form. No name required. A case number is assigned at receipt; you keep the duplicate stub. Pay in cash, crypto, or anonymous payment.
The sample is examined per the Liturgy of Receipt — the religious SOP that governs all analytical work. Two Ministers verify on receipt; one Officiating Minister performs the examination and authors the report.
You receive a Sacramental Examination Report — sealed, signed, and delivered by your preferred method. The report is yours alone unless you consent to its inclusion in the Open Library archive.
Identity + adulterant screen. FTIR + HPLC retention-time confirmation. 5–7 days. 50–100 mg.
Identity + quantitative purity + standard adulterant panel. HPLC + GC-MS + FTIR. 7–10 days.
Multi-technique characterization with comprehensive interpretation. HPLC + GC-MS + LC-MS + FTIR. 10–14 days.
Consent to publish your fully-anonymized findings to the public archive. Members-only. Limit six per year.
Temple membership is a religious community membership, not a discount program. Members sign an Affirmation declaring their participation in the religious practice of bodily care. The practical benefits follow.
Members may consent to publish their anonymized examination findings to the Open Library. Every contribution strengthens the collective record available to all who would honor their bodies. Below: recent additions.
Plain reading: Reasonably pure MDMA·HCl. No fentanyl analogs detected. ~14% unidentified minor peaks, not unusual for street-supply.
Plain reading: Submitted as psilocybin truffles. No psilocin or psilocybin detected. Sample matches phenethylamine reference; identity not confirmed.
Plain reading: Cocaine confirmed but heavily cut. Levamisole present at ~8%. Levamisole has serious health implications; reduce dose accordingly.
Plain reading: Peptide identity and purity consistent with reference standard. No endotoxin (outsourced LAL). Submitter's vendor verified.
Plain reading: Dried mushroom material confirmed Psilocybe with 0.9% psilocybin and 0.3% psilocin. Dose calculation provided in full report.
Plain reading: Submitted as ketamine. Sample contains ~30% ketamine and ~60% 2-fluorodeschloroketamine (2F-DCK). Different pharmacology — see full report.
Temple Lab is a California nonprofit religious corporation organized under the Nonprofit Religious Corporation Law for religious purposes. We hold harm reduction — the provision of accurate information to those who will use substances — as the central sacrament of our faith. The analytical examination of a sample is the instrument of that sacrament.
We claim and assert all protections available to religious organizations under the First Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, and analogous state-level statutes. This is not legal posturing. It is who we are.
The Articles of Faith, the Statement of Religious Belief and Practice, and the Liturgy of Receipt are publicly available. The brand book and the religious operating documents are our open foundation.
Whether you represent an institution or you are an individual seeking knowledge for yourself, the way in is straightforward.
Volume partners, method-development clients, and businesses seeking COA services begin with a 30-minute consultation. We discuss your analytical needs, sample throughput, and method requirements, then propose a tailored engagement.
Individuals may submit samples by mail or in person, anonymously or as Temple Members. Mail submissions include a submission slip and case-number stub for your records; in-person submissions are scheduled by request.