Inside a Magical Lodge: Traditional Lodge Methods for Modern Mages

by John Michael Greer

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913504755
Publisher:	Aeon Books Ltd
Publication date:	03/24/2021
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara. Greer is also the author of eleven fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and also blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the New Edition vii

Introduction to the First Edition ix

Chapter 1 The lodge system 1

Chapter 2 Lodge structure 23

Chapter 3 Lodge symbolism 55

Chapter 4 Lodge magic 85

Chapter 5 Lodge secrecy 113

Chapter 6 The Order of the Athanor 131

Chapter 7 The rituals of opening and closing 157

Chapter 8 The ritual of the Athanor 179

Chapter 9 The Rituals of Institution and Installation 193

Chapter 10 The inner work of the Order 209

Chapter 11 A meeting of Green Lion Lodge 243

Chapter 12 Creating a magical lodge 257

Appendix Joining a fraternal lodge 291

Bibliography 299

Index 303

Editorial Reviews

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.

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