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Quareia The Apprentice: Book Two by Josephine McCarthy
Quareia the Apprentice is the first of three sections of the Quareia magical training. The course is spread over three Apprentice, Initiate, and Adept. The Apprentice section has ten modules, and each module has eight lessons. The Apprentice section is approximately five hundred thousand it is the most extensive, in-depth, and intelligent up to date magical course that is currently available worldwide.Subject matter covered in the Apprentice section includes Core Skills, Patterns and Maps in Magic, The Power Dynamics of Creation, Death, Birth and the Underworld, Magical Tools, Different Types of Beings, Elements as Tools, The Inner Temples, Working with Planetary Powers, and Understanding Destruction.The methods, information and techniques in the course enable the magician to engage any form of magic and work with it appropriately with the full knowledge of how that magic works, why it works and what is behind it. The course work, which is both theory and practice, is not reference material or 'recipe magic' that can be dipped in and out the understanding of the foundations comes from the dovetailing, study, and layering of magic that forms within and around the apprentice. It is designed to be self-taught, with every detail and step assigned carefully and practically. By the end of this section, the apprentice will have all of the skills, knowledge and strength to take on the challenge of the next stage of training. Visit the Quareia website for more information at www.quareia.comAuthorThe Quareia course is written in its entirety by magical adept and the Director of Quareia, Josephine McCarthy. Josephine has been involved in magic for forty years and has been teaching and writing about magic for over twenty five years. She is considered a revolutionizing force in the teaching of western magic and is one of the most prominent adepts of western magic alive today.
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Josephine McCarthy
47 books102 followersJosephine McCarthy is an internationally renowned author, practitioner and teacher of western magic with forty years' experience as a practitioner and adept, and over twenty-five years of experience as a teacher in Europe and the USA. She has authored twenty-eight books on magic and is the creator and director of the Quareia magical school.
She has produced many original articles and essays on technical, historical and practical aspects of magical subject matter, and is known for her ground-breaking innovation in magical training and thought.
Today she spends her time assisting the students of Quareia, and producing articles and books for the Quareia school website, where they are made available to the public, free of charge.
www.quareia.com
She has produced many original articles and essays on technical, historical and practical aspects of magical subject matter, and is known for her ground-breaking innovation in magical training and thought.
Today she spends her time assisting the students of Quareia, and producing articles and books for the Quareia school website, where they are made available to the public, free of charge.
www.quareia.com
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June 29, 2017
Beginning in 2014, Josephine McCarthy has built with QUAREIA a true School for Magic in our time which takes you step by step through a curriculum spanning three levels, 30 Modules and 240 lessons. This is thorough. If you delve on this path, you have years of study ahead, years of exploring the wonders of creation. This book contains the first two modules of the first level “Apprentice”. As great as a printed version is, however, the course is is still free as originally intended and to be accessed under http://www.quareia.com.
The Magic Josephine teaches is beyond the usual terminology of black and white or result and anti-result. It is a holistic approach, very organic and healthy hands-on which gives it probably partly its shamanistic feeling. Essentially, she places man again in a relationship to cosmos and his “job” in it. Once the current yet not-so-new tendency towards anticosmism in the western hermetic and esoteric tradition is transcended, theurgy and thaumaturgy become one in gnosis. As such, this magic is very different from the ways the Victorian magicians and Crowley teached us “Magick”. The definition of magic at the core of the 20th century was the crowlyean “will-paradigm”. Slowly we are developing a better, healthier one for this our 21st century: magic as spirit-contact. Magic as getting in a relationship with the world(s) and thus developing as spiritual beings. An additional bonus is her take on the relationship of magic to science and the academic world, were she doesn’t go astray in speculizing about possible connections to whatever quantum-blurb but instead emphazises the need of the magician for thorough cultural research, digging into the fields of history, anthropology, ethnology, sociology &c. although the course isn’t heavily footnoted due to didactic reasons. In this case, proof and evidence is to be found and/or experienced by yourself. Nothing here is a dogma, although always told with care, good reason and a whole life of magical experience in the back.
In this course, magic isn’t explained (away). That means, you won’t find any stupid musings about quantum-mechanics &c. and the metaphysical systemization uses only the needed amount of terms instead of hitting you hard with the tree of live right in the beginning. That doesn’t mean, you won’t have to learn: If you dedicate yourself to the practice of magic, in this case through QUAREIA, you’ll find it most likely a demanding ride. This is partially due to the course having no “lampshade” as Josephine once put it, no particular dressing of a certain current or cult. This means that their specific shortcuts and ways of aid are not available, too. Instead of establishing spirit-contact via halluzigenic plants, you need to develop it out of yourself, by your own will. There are no crutches, no additional colour, mighty names, epic spells and an abundance of signs which are astheatically pleasing but not really understood. Instead, the course works with building slowly your set of tools, of symbols, rituals, gestures &c. making sure to develop strong magical muscles.
Hers is a very teleological way of thinking and she doesn’t psychologize it – that doesn’t mean, she dismisses psychology – but it demands believe from you and good imagination: this is a view on “real” magic, real in the sense of ontological realness. On the other hand you won’t find a simple spellbook here either. Magic is a way of persistent study, discipline and dedication. To everyone aspiring on this yourney I wish good luck. Per aspera ad astra.
The Magic Josephine teaches is beyond the usual terminology of black and white or result and anti-result. It is a holistic approach, very organic and healthy hands-on which gives it probably partly its shamanistic feeling. Essentially, she places man again in a relationship to cosmos and his “job” in it. Once the current yet not-so-new tendency towards anticosmism in the western hermetic and esoteric tradition is transcended, theurgy and thaumaturgy become one in gnosis. As such, this magic is very different from the ways the Victorian magicians and Crowley teached us “Magick”. The definition of magic at the core of the 20th century was the crowlyean “will-paradigm”. Slowly we are developing a better, healthier one for this our 21st century: magic as spirit-contact. Magic as getting in a relationship with the world(s) and thus developing as spiritual beings. An additional bonus is her take on the relationship of magic to science and the academic world, were she doesn’t go astray in speculizing about possible connections to whatever quantum-blurb but instead emphazises the need of the magician for thorough cultural research, digging into the fields of history, anthropology, ethnology, sociology &c. although the course isn’t heavily footnoted due to didactic reasons. In this case, proof and evidence is to be found and/or experienced by yourself. Nothing here is a dogma, although always told with care, good reason and a whole life of magical experience in the back.
In this course, magic isn’t explained (away). That means, you won’t find any stupid musings about quantum-mechanics &c. and the metaphysical systemization uses only the needed amount of terms instead of hitting you hard with the tree of live right in the beginning. That doesn’t mean, you won’t have to learn: If you dedicate yourself to the practice of magic, in this case through QUAREIA, you’ll find it most likely a demanding ride. This is partially due to the course having no “lampshade” as Josephine once put it, no particular dressing of a certain current or cult. This means that their specific shortcuts and ways of aid are not available, too. Instead of establishing spirit-contact via halluzigenic plants, you need to develop it out of yourself, by your own will. There are no crutches, no additional colour, mighty names, epic spells and an abundance of signs which are astheatically pleasing but not really understood. Instead, the course works with building slowly your set of tools, of symbols, rituals, gestures &c. making sure to develop strong magical muscles.
Hers is a very teleological way of thinking and she doesn’t psychologize it – that doesn’t mean, she dismisses psychology – but it demands believe from you and good imagination: this is a view on “real” magic, real in the sense of ontological realness. On the other hand you won’t find a simple spellbook here either. Magic is a way of persistent study, discipline and dedication. To everyone aspiring on this yourney I wish good luck. Per aspera ad astra.
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