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Quareia The Apprentice: Book One
Quareia the Apprentice Book One is the first of fifteen workbooks containing two modules each. Book One contains the first two modules of the Quareia Apprentice training and covers 'core skills', and 'patterns and maps in magic'. The full section of the Quareia Apprentice which includes all ten modules is also available in paperback and hardback forms. The course is spread over three Apprentice, Initiate, and Adept. Each section has ten modules, and each module has eight lessons. Each of the three sections is approximately five hundred thousand it is the most extensive, in-depth, and intelligent up to date magical course that is currently available worldwide. 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. It also starts to guide the magician along the mystical path, a path that reaches beyond religions and faith, and one where the adept moves into mystical union with the universe around them. The lessons are each lesson has a very practical application which in turn develops the ‘magical muscle’ within the magician, thus preparing them for the power they will be exposed to in subsequent study sections. It 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. Author The 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 one of the most prominent adepts of western magic alive today. Quareia is a school that is open to anyone, and is free and accessible online at any time. It is a school that is entirely focused on teaching the most essential skills in magic, with unknown precision and depth in its materials. Yet it is free from any specific one style or specific religious various styles and religious patterns are studied and at times worked with in depth, but there is no one creed, culture or system that forms the foundation basis of the it is itself.
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174 pages, Paperback
First published July 9, 2015
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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.
October 18, 2020
5 stars, a highly-recommended tool for developing a personal magical skills outside of an initiatory order.
"Quareia" isn't so much a book as it is a training system, but its modules have been published in print and also online, available at no cost. It trains a system of occultism and magic based on personal experiences and relationships with ones's own associations. There is some symbolic representation, very broad and archetypical in it's nature - these are forces and patterns that the author has worked with for many years. Ultimately, in this system, you learn your own "patterns", and you develop a structure of learning and practice for yourself, and a relationship with the forces/patterns of the world. It is experience-based and emphasizes diligence and self-discipline.
Chapters are well organised and formatted in terms of background and exercises. The author gives her advice and expresses her opinion, and also give the reader space to have their own process. Mentoring is available at the price of doing the work.
I loved this "book", these first two modules surprised me and provoked a lot of reactions. I definitely didn't agree with all of it, which made me love it more. It covers areas of vision and land work that aren't well discussed in Ceremonial Magic. I recommend it highly to independent practitioners, especially those with overlapping interests in ritual magic and witchcraft and/or land work, and vision work.
This book does not teach rituals Pentagram and Hexagram rituals, nor does it rely of the study or understanding of the foundation "language" of those ritual systems. McCarthy has criticism for the reliance upon those rituals, expressed reasonably in her work. I can't say I always agree with her - I find she contradicts herself because some of the practices taught are definitely informed by the Qabalah, as it has been so absorbed into western occult language. I do agree with her that one doesn't have to be a an expert in the study of Qabalah to be a skilled practitioner.
I do think the study of the Qabalah is valuable, especially when working with groups with general North American/European upbringing. If you're working alone, of course a personal symbolic system will be effective. I think that Pentagram and Hexagram rituals are very profound and important on multiple levels that aren't well discussed in the public sphere. McCarthy created new rituals based on these symbols, she obviously believes with me that their *meaning* is what's essential.
The method as it is taught also seems to be secular, for a lack of a better word. The techniques discussed are for learning with the purpose of use in mind, and aren't devotional. I have mixed feelings about this for myself and my own practice, but I think it makes this learning system a possibly even greater tool.
I didn't mean to read Josephine McCarthy, but it was interesting accident. I stumbled upon the Quariea system because I enjoy reading Frater Acher's work, and they have collaborated in a few projects, including this one. I started reading the manuals and was thrilled by McCarthy's approach, only to realize that two other people in my close group of confidantes were reading "The Exorcist's Handbook." There's just something in the air, and I'm going to roll with it.
"Quareia" isn't so much a book as it is a training system, but its modules have been published in print and also online, available at no cost. It trains a system of occultism and magic based on personal experiences and relationships with ones's own associations. There is some symbolic representation, very broad and archetypical in it's nature - these are forces and patterns that the author has worked with for many years. Ultimately, in this system, you learn your own "patterns", and you develop a structure of learning and practice for yourself, and a relationship with the forces/patterns of the world. It is experience-based and emphasizes diligence and self-discipline.
Chapters are well organised and formatted in terms of background and exercises. The author gives her advice and expresses her opinion, and also give the reader space to have their own process. Mentoring is available at the price of doing the work.
I loved this "book", these first two modules surprised me and provoked a lot of reactions. I definitely didn't agree with all of it, which made me love it more. It covers areas of vision and land work that aren't well discussed in Ceremonial Magic. I recommend it highly to independent practitioners, especially those with overlapping interests in ritual magic and witchcraft and/or land work, and vision work.
This book does not teach rituals Pentagram and Hexagram rituals, nor does it rely of the study or understanding of the foundation "language" of those ritual systems. McCarthy has criticism for the reliance upon those rituals, expressed reasonably in her work. I can't say I always agree with her - I find she contradicts herself because some of the practices taught are definitely informed by the Qabalah, as it has been so absorbed into western occult language. I do agree with her that one doesn't have to be a an expert in the study of Qabalah to be a skilled practitioner.
I do think the study of the Qabalah is valuable, especially when working with groups with general North American/European upbringing. If you're working alone, of course a personal symbolic system will be effective. I think that Pentagram and Hexagram rituals are very profound and important on multiple levels that aren't well discussed in the public sphere. McCarthy created new rituals based on these symbols, she obviously believes with me that their *meaning* is what's essential.
The method as it is taught also seems to be secular, for a lack of a better word. The techniques discussed are for learning with the purpose of use in mind, and aren't devotional. I have mixed feelings about this for myself and my own practice, but I think it makes this learning system a possibly even greater tool.
I didn't mean to read Josephine McCarthy, but it was interesting accident. I stumbled upon the Quariea system because I enjoy reading Frater Acher's work, and they have collaborated in a few projects, including this one. I started reading the manuals and was thrilled by McCarthy's approach, only to realize that two other people in my close group of confidantes were reading "The Exorcist's Handbook." There's just something in the air, and I'm going to roll with it.
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