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Inside a Magical Lodge Group Ritual in the Western Tradition by John Michael Greer For centuries, magical lodges have been one of the most important and least understood parts of the Western esoteric tradition. Lodge organizations like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Ordo Templi Orientis, the Servants of the Light, and many more have all played central roles in the history of Western magic, and their fictional counterparts still fill the pages of plenty of occult novels. The traditional secrecy of lodge organizations, though, has made it next to impossible for modern students of magic to learn what lodges really do, and how their powerful and effective traditions of ritual, symbolism and organization can be put to work. Except for those few people who are fortunate enough to belong to a working lodge, this major realm of Western magical tradition has remained locked away behind lodge doors. Until now. |
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Inside a Magical Lodge is the first book of its kind—a comprehensive guide to the design, organization and operation of a magical lodge written by a practicing magician with years of experience in lodge settings. Today, most currently active magical lodges have been formed by people with no experience of the traditional lodge system. At the same time, the modern magical revival has been plagued from its beginning by major problems with group process. The traditional lodge system offers a set of organizational and ritual skills that have been tested and polished over centuries of practice, providing a tool kit of proven approaches that can be put to work in almost any type of magical group. Inside a Magical Lodge by John Michael Greer, (St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1998) ISBN 1-56718-314-X |
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