He became like a little boy, and his face lit up like a lovesick teenager when he spoke about his Order. Yet the one area in which he showed an almost bashful innocence and bewildering stupidity was when he talked about his Order. No-one could fail to admire him for that. If he ever did a Banishing, then ye gods that place got Banished! No-one ever doubted his sincerity, or his commitment, and his sheer bloody-minded determination to walk every inch of what he saw as his true Magickal Path. He was dogmatic, somewhat pompous, inflexible, yet very very good at working on psychic levels. Frater A however, had a tendency to alienate anyone who tried to get close to him by his unfailing ability to grab the wrong end of the magickal stick, no matter how it was handed to him. Physically he looked like the French magus Sar Peladan, and had all of that cranky individual’s concerns with sex, power, secrecy and control. I knew a magician once-now long since dead-whose naiveté pulled him into the more Disney-like aspects of Magical Orders. This is all Hobby Magic, which is even more draining than Hobby Politics and just as self-serving. You can count on the fingers of two hands the number of magicians around today who completely understand that real Orders are not judged by badges, certificates, glam robes, solemn rituals and impressive grades. You can count on the fingers of one hand the number of books that describe real Magical Orders with insight and clarity-and two of those were written nearly 80 years ago. ContentsĬhapter 1: Initiation and Consecration: MethodsĬhapter 2: Receiving Consecrated Lines from DeitiesĬhapter 3: The Consecrated Line of Divinity Before the AbyssĬhapter 4: The Creation of the Inner TempleĬhapter 5: The Building and Maintenance of the EgregoreĬhapter 6: The Use and Development of Polarity in the LodgeĬhapter 7: The Calling and Development of InitiatesĬhapter 8: The Dynamics of Work in a Magical LodgeĬhapter 9: The Structure Behind the Inner RealmsĬhapter 10: The Structure Behind Ritual and Magical/Ritual ObjectsĬhapter 11: Longer Term Implications of Being the Hierophant FOREWORD Thanks to all the adepts who have worked with me and helped me in various ways over the years, particularly John Plummer, Margie McArthur, Toni Paris, Peggy Brewster, Joann Keesey and Anthony Thompson. "The Eternal One has made a covenant oath with us,Īnd the great council of all the Holy Ones.ĪMULET OF THE 7TH CENTURY BCE FROM ARSLAN TASHĭedicated to Philip Dunbar: a true Adept ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The moral right of the author has been asserted. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission in accordance with the provision of the copyright act 1956 (as amended).
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