First, thank you for allowing me into your home-away-from-home again, and thank you for taking the time to answer me last week. Thanks also to those who answered my questions and offered their "unsolicited" advice: randomactsofkarmasc, not_gandalf, jprussel, and robertmathiesen. It was helpful, I assure you all.
My questions:
1) You remarked last week (to another commenter) that you had come to be somewhat embarrassed by your Golden Dawn path of books; could you recommend some remedial study for us newbies following that path, to help shore up what you have come to perceive as the weaknesses of that curriculum?
2) You gave two examples in last week's discussion of the canon(s) of books; I feel like the potential value of Hall's Self-Unfoldment Through Disciplines of Realization is self-evident. Do you care to offer a few words as to why The Key of Solomon is "essential" to the mage? Do you have a particular translation you prefer?
3) In Learning Ritual Magic, you comment repeatedly on the wealth of Will and Memory training exercises in the traditional magical literature. I assume that the cited Art of Memory by Francis Yates is an essential compilation of examples for the latter; assuming question 2 doesn't already answer this, can you recommend a good resource for the former? Not that it's hard to come up with Will Training exercises, but it'd be interesting to see what the professionals expected from their students, back in the day.
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Date: 2025-01-20 06:14 pm (UTC)Mr. Greer,
First, thank you for allowing me into your home-away-from-home again, and thank you for taking the time to answer me last week. Thanks also to those who answered my questions and offered their "unsolicited" advice: randomactsofkarmasc, not_gandalf, jprussel, and robertmathiesen. It was helpful, I assure you all.
My questions:
1) You remarked last week (to another commenter) that you had come to be somewhat embarrassed by your Golden Dawn path of books; could you recommend some remedial study for us newbies following that path, to help shore up what you have come to perceive as the weaknesses of that curriculum?
2) You gave two examples in last week's discussion of the canon(s) of books; I feel like the potential value of Hall's Self-Unfoldment Through Disciplines of Realization is self-evident. Do you care to offer a few words as to why The Key of Solomon is "essential" to the mage? Do you have a particular translation you prefer?
3) In Learning Ritual Magic, you comment repeatedly on the wealth of Will and Memory training exercises in the traditional magical literature. I assume that the cited Art of Memory by Francis Yates is an essential compilation of examples for the latter; assuming question 2 doesn't already answer this, can you recommend a good resource for the former? Not that it's hard to come up with Will Training exercises, but it'd be interesting to see what the professionals expected from their students, back in the day.
Thank you much!
-TMS