The Occult Philosophy Workbook: A One Year Course in the Secret Wisdom
Intended to train and stimulate the mind, this book aims to open readers up to unfamiliar ways of thinking through various new techniques and challenges, such as discursive meditation, awareness exercises and affirmation.

This thought-provoking book was not written simply to be read cover-to-cover in one sitting: it is instead a stimulating and well-crafted raw material for occult studies and readers are encouraged to read the 52 lessons across an entire year.

Throughout the book, students will be taught through four in-depth and engaging modules: ‘The Planes of Being’, ‘Spiritual Evolution’ ‘Cycles of Life and Death’ and ‘The Way of Occultism’ and will exit the year with a solid foundation in occultism, preparing them for more advanced future study.

The Occult Philosophy Workbook is a must-have introduction to the concepts and teachings of contemporary Western occultism and can be read as an accompaniment to Greer’s previous book, The Way of the Golden Section.

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The Occult Philosophy Workbook: A One Year Course in the Secret Wisdom
Intended to train and stimulate the mind, this book aims to open readers up to unfamiliar ways of thinking through various new techniques and challenges, such as discursive meditation, awareness exercises and affirmation.

This thought-provoking book was not written simply to be read cover-to-cover in one sitting: it is instead a stimulating and well-crafted raw material for occult studies and readers are encouraged to read the 52 lessons across an entire year.

Throughout the book, students will be taught through four in-depth and engaging modules: ‘The Planes of Being’, ‘Spiritual Evolution’ ‘Cycles of Life and Death’ and ‘The Way of Occultism’ and will exit the year with a solid foundation in occultism, preparing them for more advanced future study.

The Occult Philosophy Workbook is a must-have introduction to the concepts and teachings of contemporary Western occultism and can be read as an accompaniment to Greer’s previous book, The Way of the Golden Section.

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The Occult Philosophy Workbook: A One Year Course in the Secret Wisdom

The Occult Philosophy Workbook: A One Year Course in the Secret Wisdom

by John Michael Greer
The Occult Philosophy Workbook: A One Year Course in the Secret Wisdom

The Occult Philosophy Workbook: A One Year Course in the Secret Wisdom

by John Michael Greer

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Intended to train and stimulate the mind, this book aims to open readers up to unfamiliar ways of thinking through various new techniques and challenges, such as discursive meditation, awareness exercises and affirmation.

This thought-provoking book was not written simply to be read cover-to-cover in one sitting: it is instead a stimulating and well-crafted raw material for occult studies and readers are encouraged to read the 52 lessons across an entire year.

Throughout the book, students will be taught through four in-depth and engaging modules: ‘The Planes of Being’, ‘Spiritual Evolution’ ‘Cycles of Life and Death’ and ‘The Way of Occultism’ and will exit the year with a solid foundation in occultism, preparing them for more advanced future study.

The Occult Philosophy Workbook is a must-have introduction to the concepts and teachings of contemporary Western occultism and can be read as an accompaniment to Greer’s previous book, The Way of the Golden Section.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781801520119
Publisher: AEON BOOKS LTD
Publication date: 09/27/2022
Pages: 246
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

Introduction ix

Unit 1 The planes of being 1

Lesson 1 What is occultism? 3

Lesson 2 Spirit and matter 7

Lesson 3 The inner life 11

Lesson 4 The planes of being 15

Lesson 5 The etheric plane 19

Lesson 6 More about the etheric plane 23

Lesson 7 The astral plane 27

Lesson 8 More about the astral plane 31

Lesson 9 The mental plane 35

Lesson 10 The spiritual, causal, and divine planes 39

Lesson 11 The path of evolution 43

Lesson 12 The goals of occultism 47

Unit 2 Spiritual evolution 51

Lesson 13 The cosmic planes 53

Lesson 14 The solar logos 57

Lesson 15 The lords of flame, form, and mind 61

Lesson 16 The elementals 65

Lesson 17 The mineral kingdom 69

Lesson 18 The plant kingdom 73

Lesson 19 The animal kingdom 77

Lesson 20 The human kingdom 81

Lesson 21 The mental sheath 85

Lesson 22 The two paths 89

Lesson 23 Beyond humanity 93

Lesson 24 The lords of freedom 97

Unit 3 Cycles of life and death 101

Lesson 25 The cycle of reincarnation 103

Lesson 26 The soul and the personality 107

Lesson 27 The first death 111

Lesson 28 The second death 115

Lesson 29 Heaven and hell 119

Lesson 30 The vision of the ideal 123

Lesson 31 Fate, will, and destiny 127

Lesson 32 Toward a new incarnation 131

Lesson 33 Reincarnation and the nonhuman 135

Lesson 34 The life and death of nations 139

Lesson 35 Ages of the world 143

Lesson 36 The cycles of time 147

Unit 4 The way of occultism 151

Lesson 37 The sources of occultism 153

Lesson 38 Subjective and objective minds 157

Lesson 39 The process of occult training 161

Lesson 40 Seven spiritual laws 165

Lesson 41 The law of wholeness 169

Lesson 42 The law of flow 173

Lesson 43 The law of balance 177

Lesson 44 The law of limits 181

Lesson 45 The law of cause and effect 185

Lesson 46 The law of the planes 189

Lesson 47 The law of evolution 193

Lesson 48 The work of the occultist 197

Additional Lessons: The four gates of the year 201

Additional Lesson 1 The spring equinox 205

Additional Lesson 2 The summer solstice 209

Additional Lesson 3 The autumn equinox 213

Additional Lesson 4 The winter solstice 217

Appendix: Instructions for practice 221

Discursive meditation 221

Awareness exercises 226

Affirmations 227

Bibliography 229

Index 231

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