Goodreads asked Angel Millar:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Angel Millar Ultimately, I probably got the idea for The Three Stages of Initiatic Spirituality: Craftsman, Warrior, Magician from my own practice of art/writing, the martial arts and physical training, meditation, Chi Gong, Kundalini, etc., which is itself a reflection of the classical education of most ancient cultures (the development of the peaceful arts, the arts of rhetoric, etc., and the arts of war (the martial arts, archery, wrestling, and so on)).

But I was also aware that the Craftsman, Warrior, Magician constituted the structure of ancient societies, and that, nevertheless, they are also embodied in more modern, even contemporary societies, such as Freemasonry (with its Craft or Blue Lodge degrees (Craftsman), Order of the Temple or "Knights Templar degree" (Warrior), and Rose Croix and Knight of the Sun (Magician). This intrigued me.

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