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, the Martinist Order, and three Druid traditions, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He is also the author of seventeen fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society. He lives in Rhode Island and blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at [...]

INTRODUCTION

UNIT ONE: The planes of being

Lesson 1: What is occultism?

Lesson 2: Spirit and matter

Lesson 3: The inner life

Lesson 4: The planes of being

Lesson 5: The etheric plane

Lesson 6: More about the etheric plane

Lesson 7: The astral plane

Lesson 8: More about the astral plane

Lesson 9: The mental plane

Lesson 10: The spiritual, causal, and divine planes

Lesson 11: The path of evolution

Lesson 12: The goals of occultism

UNIT TWO: Spiritual evolution

Lesson 13: The cosmic planes

Lesson14: The solar logos

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

Lesson 16: The elementals

Lesson 17: The mineral kingdom

Lesson 18: The plant kingdom

Lesson 19: The animal kingdom

Lesson 20: The human kingdom

Lesson 21: The mental sheath

Lesson 22: The two paths

Lesson 23: Beyond humanity

Lesson 24: The lords of freedom

UNIT THREE: Cycles of life and death

Lesson 25: The cycle of reincarnation

Lesson 26: The soul and the personality

Lesson 27: The first death

Lesson 28: The second death

Lesson 29: Heaven and hell

Lesson 30: The vision of the ideal

Lesson 31: Fate, will, and destiny

Lesson 32: Toward a new incarnation

Lesson 33: Reincarnation and the nonhuman

Lesson 34: The life and death of nations

Lesson 35: Ages of the world

Lesson 36: The cycles of time

UNIT FOUR: The way of occultism

Lesson 37: The sources of occultism

Lesson 38: Subjective and objective minds

Lesson 39: The process of occult training

Lesson 40: Seven spiritual laws

Lesson 41: The law of wholeness

Lesson 42: The law of flow

Lesson 43: The law of balance

Lesson 44: The law of limits

Lesson 45: The law of cause and effect

ADDITIONAL LESSONS: The four gates of the year

Additional Lesson 1: The spring equinox

Additional Lesson 2: The summer solstice

Additional Lesson 3: The autumn equinox

Additional Lesson 4: The winter solstice

APPENDIX: Instructions for practice

Discursive meditation

Awareness exercises

Affirmations

BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX