Venue: the Usual Venue; please email Soror Kim (kimhuggens@yahoo.co.uk) for details.

Date and time: Sunday 13th June, 1pm-4pm.

The day after our Man of Earth Initiations (see below) we will be holding the fifth Hermetic Magic study group session. The techniques of inovcation, channelling and theurgy are useful – if not essential – for the practicing Western Mystery Tradition magician; invocation in particular can be applied to a great number of religious and magickal paths, including Christianity, Hinduism, Sufism, Vodou, Wicca, and Thelema. It is the process of summoning or calling upon a divine force, e.g. a God or spirit, and identifying with it, petitioning it, or even becoming possessed by it or channelling its essence. Theurgy especially focuses on the identification process between magician and God, with the eventual goal being the complete identification with the divine force and thus the raising of the self to a higher state of awareness.

In this workshop we’ll look at the techniques and practice of theurgy, channelling and invocation. We’ll examine some examples of invocation from classical texts, Thelemic rituals, and Golden Dawn practices; we’ll also create our own invocations and finish the session with a theurgical ritual.