A must-read for members of existing lodges, for students of magical traditions such as the Golden Dawn, for practitioners of other kinds of group magical work, and for all those who have wondered about the hidden world behind lodge doors.
For centuries, magical lodges have been one of the most important and least understood parts of the Western esoteric traditions. The traditional secrecy of lodge organisations has made it next to impossible for modern students of magic to learn what magical lodges do, and how their powerful and effective traditions of ritual, symbolism and organisation can be put to work.
This updated and expanded edition of Inside a Magical Lodge reveals the foundations of lodge work on all levels-from the framework of group structure that allows lodges to efficiently handle the practical needs of a working magical group, through the subtle approaches to symbolism and ritual developed within lodge circles, to the potent magical methods that lodges use in their initiations and other ceremonial workings.
Table of Content
FOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION
INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION
CHAPTER ONE – The lodge system
CHAPTER TWO – Lodge structure
CHAPTER THREE – Lodge symbolism
CHAPTER FOUR – Lodge magic
CHAPTER FIVE – Lodge secrecy
CHAPTER SIX – The Order of the Athanor
CHAPTER SEVEN – The rituals of opening and closing
CHAPTER EIGHT – The ritual of the Athanor
CHAPTER NINE – The Rituals of Institution and Installation
CHAPTER TEN – The inner work of the Order
CHAPTER ELEVEN – A meeting of Green Lion Lodge
CHAPTER TWELVE – Creating a magical lodge
APPENDIX – Joining a fraternal lodge
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
About the author
John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn and Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order, and three Druid traditions, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He is also the author of seventeen fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society. He lives in Rhode Island and blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.
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