Inside a Magical Lodge: Traditional Lodge Methods for Modern Mages
John Michael Greer
Synopsis "Inside a Magical Lodge: Traditional Lodge Methods for Modern Mages "
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.
Nacido en el austero pueblo naval de Bremerton, Washington, y criado en los suburbios del sur de Seattle, comencé a escribir casi en cuanto aprendí a sostener un lápiz. La máxima del editor de ciencia ficción George Scithers, que decía que todos los aspirantes a escritores tienen un millón de palabras de mala prosa y que tienen que escribirla, resume bastante bien las dos décadas transcurridas entre mi primer intento serio de escribir un libro y mi primer libro publicado, "Senderos de Sabiduría", publicado en 1996. Actualmente vivo en Cumberland, Maryland, con mi esposa Sara; soy presidente —Gran Archidruida es el título oficial— de la Antigua Orden de Druidas de América (AODA), una orden druida fundada en 1912; y escribo en media docena de campos de no ficción, casi todos centrados en el resurgimiento de ideas, perspectivas y tradiciones prácticas olvidadas del basurero de la historia.