~WOW. THE SECRET IS DISCOVERED: 30 years + 177 days + everything AFTER that~

If you are a Tarot or magic enthusiast, you do not need me to introduce you Marcus Katz. I am sure that many a times you, just like me, wondered, where does this man take all the energy and genius to create innumerable ideas and books, in what ponds does he fish for all the "wizardness" of the titles he gives to his many outlets (Tarot-Town, Hekademia, Tarosophy, Tarosophist International being just a sample...)

And here is his journal, an Account of the Abramelin Operation, to which Marcus Katz had been preparing himself, through study and practice of Magic and Occultism, for thirty (!) years. "The Abramelin Operation, a mysterious 14th century manuscript, promises nothing less than to give the successful practitioner of its instructions the knowledge and conversation of their personal Holy Guardian Angel. Following a six-month ordeal of intense practices, the ritual is also said to give the Operant magical powers, control of demonic forces and the use of the infamous magical squares and talismans whose abuse would otherwise cause insanity or dire spiritual consequences."

No, you cannot just read the 177 days account and apply it to your life: but I can tell you that just by READING this book you - no matter how weird it may sound - YOU take a part in Marcus' experience. Just like his wife and son's lives were transformed by Marcus' work so will be you, though on a much lesser scale, of course. I am telling from my personal experience and also from what other readers of After the Angel shared with me. It is a subtle change for the better...

By Our Work We Are Changed
The Worker is Hidden in the Workshop

Meditate on these phrases and whole Universes start opening to your Inner Eye... Yet it is impossible to imagine the joy of life where the Knowledge and Conversation of your own Guardian Angel is easily understood by you. Of course, knowing what you are and where your place is accounts for a whole lot of responsibility which you won't be able to just shrug off your shoulders. It is a lot of work: and Marcus Katz is showing us just how much by his very example.

Being a prepared journeyer, Marcus keenly sensed all the changes that started to happen in his surroundings and in his inner world. The journal accounts well for all of these, but you need to read it in between the lines, and may be a couple of times to more fully grasp the deepness of the message. In my view, it is a journey through pretty much insanity and depression to the realization, that we live in a dream with eyes and the whole body shut tight from the essence of the alive Love which is all around. And when we are able to feel this, the Holy Guardian Angel is able to connect to us, heart to heart...

"The work" is our task to do. And I sincerely wish to go through this experience: for many years I have been praying to be shown my Path and Mission. To know it "from the first hands"... aw, that would be Divine. But I am questioning myself, if I ever, ever be brave enough to repeat this journey, even knowing what amazing results it'll bring. This is an experience all humans need to go through, but few will ever be as prepared as Marcus was, despite all the challenges and distractions he faced by going through the Operation AND maintaining a "normal secular" life at the same time.

And after the operation, after the Angel... then the implementation of all the wonderful opportunities and gifts comes to life and even more work begins. The blessing indeed is to know that you are doing YOUR work and making the "right" input by your life.

I am very blessed to be in the first cohort of Marcus' Hekademia students and I am sure that the rest of Arcana Oracles and hundreds if not thousands of people follow the genius of Marcus Katz and his team's work with awe and constant bewilderment of what a person who knows who he is and knows what his passion - and work! - is, can do.

Victoria Evangelina