Description
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on magic and occultism.
The essays and articles collected in this volume sum up the first not-quite-decade of John Michael Greer's career.
While they cover a range of subjects, all of them share a common theme, and were shaped by certain experiences that remade his spiritual life just before the first of them was written.
They record a remarkable period in the life of a scholar, and will provide inspiration and entertainment to students of the occult as well as anyone interested in magic or writing.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
The fifty gates of understanding
Meditation in magical practice
The magical lodge
Ars Memorativa: an introduction to the Hermetic Art of Memory
The Hall of Thmaa: sources of the Golden Dawn lodge system
The method of judging questions according to Peter de Abano of Padua: a Medieval handbook of geomancy
Geometries of the sword 83 Hermeticism and the utopian imagination
Pythagoras and Western magic
The forgotten oracle
Osiris and Christ: powers of transformation in Golden Dawn ritual
Magic, politics, and the origins of the “mind-body problem”
The G.D. elemental grades: a new version
Swordsmanship and esoteric spirituality: an introduction to Gerard Thibault’s Academie de l’Espee
