- A serious training manual for beginning practitioners of the magical arts. - An in-depth immersion course in solitary ritual magic. - John Michael Greer, one of the preeminent authorities on Hermetics and the Golden Dawn, is the author of several acclaimed books including The New Encyclopedia of the Occult and Circles of Power.

There has been a monumental transformation taking place in the heart and soul of Western Civilization over the past four centuries. This book provides an easy to understand bird's eye view of this transformation and a sobering look at its implications for the future. As a culture, are we moving in the right direction or have we lost our way? Is secularism really the natural evolution of intelligence, or does it lack the transformative power of religious tradition? How does modern morality compare to spiritual standards of the past? Have our newly acquired abilities to understand our universe...

A few years ago I made a discovery that amazed me. I discovered that God produced and directed a Christmas pageant that tells the amazing story of the birth of Jesus. There are several notable differences between God's Christmas pageant and any other Christmas pageant that you or I have ever seen or known. God didn't use actors or actresses to tell the story; He used stars and planets and constellations Nor did God set aside a few weeks before Christmas to begin preparations for His pageant; He set his pageant in motion thousands of years before the events actually took place