Bøger af William G. Gray

This is not just another book about the tarot. It can be used with any deck of cards, for it looks at the symbols of the tarot from the Sangreal viewpoint to teach you a new way of meditation that will enhance your pursuit of the Western Mystery Tradition. Gray combines the symbolism of the Quabbalistic Tree of Life with the symbolism inherent in the traot so you can learn the secret language of the tarot while looking at it through the lens of the mystical path. The ten fundamental types of consciousness will be explored using the four worlds of the qabbalah that also appear in the four suits in the tarot, and Mr. Gray will explain how he workds with the meanings of the major and minor arcana. Also included is the Journey of the Fool, that mystical journey of the soul that each person who quests for the Holy Grail must take. Mr. Gray does recommend that you use the cards for fortunetelling, but rather that you use them to help your spiritual growth. By working with the cards, they will begin to talk to you, and as you better understand the symbolism, you will learn the true value of what you hold within yourself.

These ceremonies and rituals are new to the modern world even though many are based on worship in the ancient mysteries, with occasional similarity to rites in the JudaeoChristian tradition. The author presents over a dozen rituals, including the joyous rituals for celebrating a marriage and welcoming the season of the year, thoughtful reflections on the advent of the New Year, and the more serious and solemn rites of release and funerals, excommunication, and exorcism of evil. Healing as an important ritual is explained, and the moving progression through the stations is outlined in full. The scripts for the ceremonies are interspersed with the author's directions and explanations, making this a comprehensive and much needed maunal for spiritual development.

The Tree of Life is growing, flexible and adaptable life pattern capable of indefinite extensions throughout all states of existence. The Qabalah, or "received teachings," is the outcome of experiences of those who have climbed the ladder of the Tree by arranging their lives according to its pattern of perfection. The Tree provides the means of receiving inner world contacts with types of consciuosness normally inaccessible to the ordinary human mindit is from and through these sources that the "teaching" comes. Here William Gray has presented a step by step guide to the Tree of Life and the Four Worlds of the Qabalahsthe worlds of contemplation, meditation, magic and daily action. The Tree of Life is a means and not an end. It is a map for helping you attain the single objective common to all systems, mysteries and religionsnamely, the mystical union of humanity and divinity. This revised edition includes an index.

Throughout the ages, the workings of magical ritual have been shrouded in more secrecy than probably any other subject. The peculiar secrecy surrounding magical practices is not altogether intentionalhow can mere description of the purely physical aspects of ritualism possibly convey its deep significance? Knowing this conciously or instinctively, practitioners of magical rites have maintained silence or given such vague descriptions of their activities that little practical use can be made of them. Now there is a guidebook, intended for the Western student on the path of spiritual consciousness. William Gray pulls all the "hows's" and "why's" of ceremonial magic together in one volume and provides the student with practical means for its proper operation and study. People are drawn toward ritual practice because it fulfills a need on a deep spiritual level that nothing else will fill. Gray shows us how to arrange and direct our own studies, and gives us the basics to make magical ritual work for us, to extend our human consciousness toward Truth and Light.

As an "omniscient and obnoxious" teenager in 1969, Alan Richardson wrote to the occult author William G. Gray in pursuit of instant magical enlightenment. It was the beginning of a correspondence lasting many years in which Gray generously shared his magical knowledge and experience.

A previously unpublished work by the late W.G. Gray, comprising a course in modern Hermetic ritual magic and practical Qabalah.

The Rollright Ritual is a powerful initiatory rite for attuning oneself to a personal path of spiritual growth, presented here with an explanatory text and a discussion of the spiritual lives and practices of the stone circle builders of Great Britain.

This unitary resource sets out the derivation of conservation, thermodynamic, and evolution equations used in modeling multiphase porous media systems. It includes detailed, multiscale applications and a forward-looking discussion of open research issues.

Gray emphasizes how the Qabalah actively influences the Western Mystery Tradition. Gray discusses the value of "nothing," the purpose of the cross, the tree of life, and path working. His work makes Qabalah accessible to the Westerner, presenting it as a way of working with the inner principles of life to reveal one's ultimate identity and activate it in one's everyday awareness.

William Gray is one of the most prolificand controversialoccultists writing today. Blending keen insight, modern psychological models and an overall sense of practicality, his books have torn away at the moldy veils of socalled occult secrets, laying out a nononsense foundation by which modern Western humanity may once again regain its precious magical soul. In this book, Mr. Gray shows, simply and lucidly, how to live the Western Inner Tradition. Tracing the cosmology of Western magic, he substantiates its vitality and urgency for our future. Not since Magick in Theory and Practice and the works of Dion Fortune has there been such a mammoth attempt at presenting magic as the relevant, living tradition it is.