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A new edition of an award-winning entry in the bestselling Temple of Witchcraft series. As you enter the heart of witchcraft, you find at its core the power of sacred space. In Christopher Penczak s first book, The Inner Temple of Witchcraft (9780738702766), you found the sacred space within yourself. Now The Outer Temple of Witchcraft helps you manifest the sacred in the outer world through ritual and spellwork. The book s twelve lessons, with exercises, rituals, and homework, follow the traditional Wiccan one-year and- a-day training period. It culminates in a self-test and self-initiation ritual to the second degree of witchcraft the arena of the priestess and priest.
Contents
Contents
List of Exercises . . . ix
List of Figures . . . xi
Introduction: What Is the Outer Temple? . . . 1
Chapter One: Sacred Space and the Circle . . . 7
Chapter Two: Foundations of Magick . . . 23
Chapter Three: The Ethical Witch . . . 33
Chapter Four: The Role of a Priestess and Priest . . . 43
Chapter Five: Lesson One: Who Are the Gods? . . . 51
Chapter Six: Lesson Two: The Elements . . . 91
Chapter Seven: Lesson Three: Fire and Water . . . 121
Chapter Eight: Lesson Four: Air and Earth . . .143
Chapter Nine: Lesson Five: Tools of the Craft . . . 163
Chapter Ten: Lesson Six: Divination of True Will . . . 191
Chapter Eleven: Lesson Seven: The Witch's Circle . . . 219
Chapter Twelve: Lesson Eight: The Science of Spellcraft . . . 249
Chapter Thirteen: Lesson Nine: The Art of Spellcraft . . . 293
Chapter Fourteen: Lesson Ten: Turning the Wheel . . . 353
Chapter Fifteen: Lesson Eleven: Weaving the Web . . . 383
Chapter Sixteen: Lesson Twelve: Coven Working . . . 393
Chapter Seventeen: Lesson Thirteen: Second Initiation . . . 403
Appendix I: Self-Test . . . 413
Appendix II: Chants . . . 419
Bibliography . . . 423
Index . . . 427



