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Llewellyn's High Magick Series
TEMPLE MAGIC
Building the Personal Temple:Gateway to Inner Worlds
William G. Gray
1988
Llewellyn PublicationsSt. Paul, Minnesota, 55164-0383, U.S.A.
 
Contents
Preface xi
Chapter 1: Talking of Temples 1Chapter 2: Surrounding Symbology 33Chapter 3: The Tuning of Temples 85Chapter 4: Ceremonial Clothing IllChapter 5: Attitudes 153Chapter 6: Words of Will 185Chapter 7: Learning to Listen 223Chapter 8: Typing a Temple 243
 
Preface
Some years ago I wrote a book entitled
Magical Ritual Methods
that is still very much in use yet now needs updating. I wrote it because at the time no such thing existed;members of esoteric associations had to learn how to work rituals the hard way, since no senior member seemed eitherable or willing to explain things in detail or satisfactorily. Iwished with all my heart that there had been some kind of 
"ABC 
of Ritual Procedures" to guide my wandering way,but since there wasn't, I determined to remedy this deficiencyonce I had gained sufficient experience to do so. After all,every other art had its explanatory manuals and beginnersbooks so why shouldn't ritualism have its equivalent? As anex-soldier, I could appreciate the value of drill books andclassified basic exercises out of which the most complicatedmaneuvers could subsequently be constructed. Why shouldn'tthis apply to other fields of action than merely to military
behavior? It not only could but did, and so
Magical Ritual
 Methods
was the eventual result.Sooner or later it seemed obvious to me that althoughbooks for beginners were useful in themselves, they had astrictly limited value and there was a definite need for extensions of them to help those who might be fairly called "going-on-ers." That is to say, whoever had passed the preliminarystages of ritual practice and sought further developmentalong the psychodramatic path of ceremonial magic. Thispresent book is the outcome of the observations and theyears of experience that enabled it to be written.
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