Temple Magic: Building the Personal Temple: Gateway to Inner Worlds

by William G. Gray

Deals with the problems and details one is likely to encounter in temple practice. Learn how a temple should look, how it should function, what a ceremonialist should wear, what physical postures best promote the ideal spiritual/mental attitude, and how magic is worked in a temple. Very practical for the beginner.

Genres: Occult, Magick, Magic

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1995

About the author

English ceremonial magician (1913-1992)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_...

William G. Gray, better known to many as Bill Gray, was an English ceremonial magician, Hermetic Qabalist and writer, who published widely on the subject of western esotericism and the occult. Gray founded a magical order known as the Sangreal Sodality.

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Reviews

[Taylor Ellwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is another excellent book by William G. Gray. In it he discusses at length the fundamentals of creating a temple as well as a community around the temple. What I like is that regardless of what your approach to magic is, you can apply this information to your practice. This book is also helpful for getting you to look at your magic from a systems perspective, which is helpful if you are designing a system of your own or working in an existing one but wanting to refine it. This book will help you understand some of the deeper mysteries of magic and is well worth the investment of your time and effort.

[Chuck Hainsworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gray is one of those writers that I enjoy, in spite of his flaws. This book is no exception to this. Some of the discussion of history is questionable, but overall the book is not harmed by it.

For me, the important part of the book is the philosophy and metaphysics that the author presents. I enjoy the way that he reasons based on the information that he presents, and even if I may have a dispute with his starting point, I enjoy the journey and some aspect of his conclusions ring true.