Learning Ritual Magic: Fundamental Theory and Practice for the Solitary Apprentice

By John Michael Greer

Learning Ritual Magic is a coaching guide for somebody fascinated about enhancing their magic in keeping with the western secret traditions, together with tarot, ritual magic, Qabalah, and astrology. "What you get out of [magic] may be measured accurately via what you're keen to place into it- and time is the fundamental element in winning magical training," the authors write. And simply as not anyone expects to run a marathon or play a Bach violin concerto with no enough education, so practitioners of the mystical arts is not going to anticipate to paintings complicated, strong magical rituals and not using a strong grounding within the options of airtight excessive magic. via spending at the very least a part hour an afternoon working towards the teachings present in Learning Ritual Magic, the solitary apprentice attains the right kind basis and event for operating ritual magic.

Learning Ritual Magic offers classes on meditation and a suite of routines designed to enhance uncomplicated abilities in mind's eye, will, reminiscence, and self-knowledge, all of that are absolute basics to magical attainment. whereas the authors speak about the necessities of magical idea, they concentrate on day-by-day, simple views instead of launching into information of complex practice.

Designed for the solitary practitioner, Learning Ritual Magic concludes with a rite of self-initiation.

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The Lost Civilization of Lemuria: The Rise and Fall of the World's Oldest Culture

By Frank Joseph

A compelling new portrait of the misplaced realm of Lemuria, the unique motherland of humanity

• includes the main large and up to date archaeological examine on Lemuria

• unearths a misplaced, historic expertise in a few respects extra complicated than glossy science

• presents facts that the perennial philosophies have their starting place in Lemurian culture

Before the Indonesian tsunami or typhoon Katrina’s destruction of latest Orleans, there has been the destruction of Lemuria. Oral culture in Polynesia recounts the tale of a well suited state that was once carried to the ground of the ocean via a powerful “warrior wave”--a tsunami. This misplaced realm has been brought up in different different indigenous traditions, spanning the globe from Australia to Asia to the coasts of either South and North the United States. It used to be referred to as Lemuria or Mu, an enormous realm of islands and archipelagoes that when sprawled around the Pacific Ocean. counting on 10 years of analysis and wide trip, Frank Joseph deals a compelling photo of this mother­land of humanity, which he indicates was once the unique backyard of Eden.

Using contemporary deep-sea archaeological reveals, enigmatic glyphs and logos, and historic documents shared through cultures divided through nice distances that rfile the tale of this sunken global, Joseph painstakingly re-creates an image of this civilization during which humans lived in infrequent concord and possessed a cosmopolitan know-how that allowed them to harness the elements, defy gravity, and behavior genetic investigations a long way past what's attainable at the present time. whilst catastrophe struck Lemuria, the survivors made their strategy to different components of the realm, incorporating their medical and mystical talents into the present cultures of Asia, Polynesia, and the Americas. Totem poles of the Pacific Northwest, structure in China, the substantial stone statues on Easter Island, or even the perennial philosophies all demonstrate their kinship to this now-vanished civilization.

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The Secret Rituals of the O.T.O

By Francis King

In recent times there was a impressive resurgence of curiosity in what's quite often known as the 'Occult'. well known Sun-sign astrology has turn into an issue for cocktail occasion chatter; the 'Underground Press' diplays a radical, even though usually ill-informed, curiosity in such topics as Glastonbury, Ley searching, and alien craft; and books - a lot of them owing what little benefit they own to the skillful employment of scissors and paste - on all features of occultism pour from all of the presses...

...Now, finally, this quantity makes on hand to the occult scholar not just the symblic-masonic riches of the begin on rituals of the O.T.O. however the mystery magical directions of the Order's sevent, 8, and 9th levels, the whole information of the ideas from which such occultists as Theodor Reuss and Aleister Crowley derived their mystic powers.

Here is a resource booklet that has a spot within the library of each critical scholar of the Occult.

-By Francis King (from the book's airborne dirt and dust jacket)

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Magical Images and the Magical Imagination

The data and use of magical pictures used to be a heavily guarded mystery of initiates and adepts within the secret colleges. Gareth Knight provides easy-to-follow classifications of some of the varieties of magical photograph, besides directions for his or her use as brokers of self realisation and religious provider. Indispensible for rookies and complicated practitioners alike, this e-book offers the idea and strategies of inventive visualisation and meditation. those functional teachings variety from the stream of strength in the charisma for the aim of balancing the character to the advance of a whole magical approach of pathworking, allowing deep touch with internal resources of knowledge. Now in its 3rd version, a brand new part is integrated at the magical photos of the Tarot, plus an in depth bankruptcy on Qabalistic pathworking within the Western secret culture.

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Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection

By Harold Bloom

During this impassioned, erudite, and provocative paintings, Harold Bloom, bestselling writer and America's most suitable literary and cultural critic, examines society's "New Age" obsessions: angels, prophetic goals, and near-death reviews. Omens of Millennium lines those cultural phenomena from their historical and conventional origins to their present-day, millennial manifestations. additionally, it's a own account of Bloom's Gnosticism. bound to teach, problem, and entertain, Omens of Millennium is as interesting because it is well timed.

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Complete Enochian Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Angelic Language as Revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley

By John Dee, Edward Kelly, Donald C. Laycock

In 1581, Dr. John Dee, an consultant within the court docket of Queen Elizabeth I, begun a sequence of experiments meant to discover the facility to touch the spirit global. With Edward Kelley appearing because the medium in those experiments, Dee was once in a position to checklist those communications as they have been transmitted in Enochian - the language of the angels.

Donald Laycock has completely analyzed the paintings of Dee and Kelley. during this quantity, he recounts the historical past in their experiments. the remainder of the paintings involves a pronunciation advisor for the twenty-one letters, major to untangling either the which means and the derivation of the messages passed down from Dee and Kelley, and a uncomplicated Enochian-English/English-Enochian dictionary. the result's a desirable linguistic and magical secret tale, crucial to any learn of the Enochian tradition.

Stephen Skinner's lucid preface units the tone and ancient context for today's readers.

Important: it is a lovely crude test of the booklet, on no account it's fresh and neat yet it's additionally completely readable so I'm importing it in case an individual is drawn to the topic due to the fact that as at the present time I couldn't discover a greater replica round the internet. soak up attention this earlier than downloading!

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A Druid's Handbook to the Spiritual Power of Plants: Spagyrics in Magical and Sexual Rituals

By Jon G. Hughes

A realistic advisor to making plant extracts, essences, and complexes to be used in Druidic intercourse magic rituals

• Explores the identity, harvesting, and magical houses of greater than 70 plants and timber

• information the cautious and meticulous spagyric guidance of plant extracts and complexes

• Demonstrates how plant compounds are utilized in Druidic intercourse magic rituals via either and teams

In this useful consultant to Druidic plant magic, Jon G. Hughes finds the light alchemy of changing plant essences into powerful compounds for operating intercourse magic rituals. reading the identity, harvesting, and magical homes of greater than 70 plants and bushes, he information the cautious and meticulous spagyric instruction of plant extracts and complexes in addition to the method of acquiring or developing compatible alcoholic spirits for the bottom of those arrangements. He comprises directions to make all useful instruments and explores tips on how to arrange your self to paintings with plant essences and correctly use the mystical compounds you create.

Hughes explains tips to unencumber the energies, therapeutic attributes, and magical capacities of vegetation and bushes in the course of the respectful seduction of a plant’s advantage and the 3-step spagyric strategy of separation, purification, and reunification. He indicates how the spagyric strategy maximizes the ability of the obtained essence in guidance for its use in magical ritual. Detailing Druidic intercourse rituals for either a pair and a gaggle, Hughes demonstrates how plant compounds are utilized in particular magical rituals and practices in addition to the function of the plant complicated in sexual efficiency. Exploring the underlying accord among alchemy and Druidic practices, Hughes presents a worthy guide for an individual wishing to harness the mystical power of plant strength.

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Dæmonomania (Ægypt, Book 3)

By John Crowley

In the realm of Dæmonomania—volume 3 of John Crowley's wonderful Ægypt cycle—the issues of way of life are starting to transmute into the intense and to bare the forces, darkish and lightweight, that really govern their lives.

So it truly is for Pierce Moffett, would-be historian and writer, who has moved from manhattan to the remote Hills, the place he turns out to discover—or rediscover—a direction into magic, prior and current. And so it truly is for Rosie Rasmussen, a unmarried mom grappling along with her mysterious uncle's legacy and her younger daughter Samantha's inexplicable seizures. For Pierce's lover Rose Ryder, one other course unfolds: she's drawn right into a cult that delivers to exorcise her demons. it's the darkish of the yr, among Halloween and the wintry weather solstice, and the gateway is open among the worlds of the residing and the useless. an outstanding cycle of time is finishing, and Pierce and Rosie, Samantha and Rose Ryder needs to take facets in an age-old battle that's coming near near the ultimate battle... Or is it?

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