Full Description
"This is foremost an engaging textbook designed for home schooling the advancing witch, and it is encyclopedic in its rituals, charts, and even homework assignments."—Publishers Weekly
Take your spiritual evolution to the next level by mastering the essentials of ceremonial magick. In this much-anticipated fourth volume in Christopher Penczak's award-winning series on witchcraft, he introduces the concepts of the Qabalah and the rituals of high magick, and explores the deeply interwoven relationship between these traditions and the Craft.
The teachings in this book correspond to the element of Air, guiding you into the realm of creative and critical thinking, communication, knowledge, and truth. Four preliminary chapters introduce the basic concepts, history, and skills you will need for your journey. Next, twelve formal lessons, in the witches' traditional year-and-a-day format, provide instruction in the fundamentals of ceremonial magic:
The Qabalah
The Tree of Life
Symbol and sigil magick
Elemental constructs
Qabalistic Cross
The four worlds and their correspondences
Middle Pillar
Pathworking
The Ritual of the Rosy Cross
Invoking and banishing rituals
Fluid condensers
Barbarous words of power, magickal constructs, and the Goetia
The book's thirteenth lesson culminates in a ritual initiation fusing the traditions of witchcraft and high magick—the creation of your own Reality Map. The cosmology you create will be based on your own spiritual experiences as well as the philosophies and practices of ceremonial magick.
Contents
Contents
List of Exercises . . . xvii
List of Tables & Figures . . . xix
Foreword to the New Edition by Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki . . . xxv
Introduction to the New Edition: The Occult Tradition . . . 1
Introduction: What Is the Temple of High Witchcraft? . . . 11
Chapter One: The Magician and the Witch . . . 19
Chapter Two: The Entwined Roots . . . 35
Chapter Three: Reality Maps . . . 75
Chapter Four: The Ceremonies of High Magick . . . 103
Chapter Five: Lesson 1: Qabalah Basics . . . 149
Chapter Six: Lesson 2: Malkuth . . . 193
Chapter Seven: Lesson 3: Yesod . . . 227
Chapter Eight: Lesson 4: Hod . . . 255
Chapter Nine: Lesson 5: Netzach . . . 279
Chapter Ten: Lesson 6: Tiphereth . . . 319
Chapter Eleven: Lesson 7: Geburah . . . 351
Chapter Twelve: Lesson 8: Chesed . . . 379
Chapter Thirteen: Lesson 9: Da'ath . . . 409
Chapter Fourteen: Lesson 10: Binah . . . 441
Chapter Fifteen: Lesson 11: Chokmah . . . 465
Chapter Sixteen: Lesson 12: Kether . . . 487
Chapter Seventeen: Lesson 13: Initiation of High Witchcraft . . . 499
Appendix I: Examples of Reality Maps . . . 519
Appendix II: Variations of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram . . . 535
Appendix III: Variations of the Middle Pillar . . . 545
Appendix IV: Variations of the Four Adorations . . . 551
Appendix V: Variations of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Hexagram . . . 555
Appendix VI: Variations of the Greater Ritual of the Hexagram . . . 559
Appendix VII: Variation of the Bornless Ritual . . . 563
Bibliography . . . 571
Index . . . 579
Credits . . . 587
