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The Quareia Apprentice Study Guide
The Apprentice section of the Quareia course has no mentoring, which makes it themost difficult part of the magical training to complete. The Quareia Apprentice StudyGuide is aimed at people studying the Quareia Magical Course.It provides answers to basic questions, details the structure and approach of thecourse, examines some of the common training issues, and explains the coreconcepts presented in the course.The Quareia Apprentice Study Guide is aimed at apprentices who are studying it shines lights into the less obvious corners of magical training to help guideyou along your magical path.
189 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 12, 2018
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About the author
Josephine McCarthy
47 books102 followersJosephine McCarthy is an internationally renowned author, practitioner and teacher of western magic with forty years' experience as a practitioner and adept, and over twenty-five years of experience as a teacher in Europe and the USA. She has authored twenty-eight books on magic and is the creator and director of the Quareia magical school.
She has produced many original articles and essays on technical, historical and practical aspects of magical subject matter, and is known for her ground-breaking innovation in magical training and thought.
Today she spends her time assisting the students of Quareia, and producing articles and books for the Quareia school website, where they are made available to the public, free of charge.
www.quareia.com
She has produced many original articles and essays on technical, historical and practical aspects of magical subject matter, and is known for her ground-breaking innovation in magical training and thought.
Today she spends her time assisting the students of Quareia, and producing articles and books for the Quareia school website, where they are made available to the public, free of charge.
www.quareia.com
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June 6, 2025
"Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you—indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another." — Shayhk Myhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi
Bear in mind that I'm not the target audience for this book, as I'm neither a student of Quareia nor a practitioner of any other form of occultism. However, that doesn't mean there's nothing to be learned from the text.
Some of the societal commentary—and how it relates to magic specifically—is quite superficial, feeling like nothing more than self-help, while other passages feel quite insightful. This contrast persists throughout the entire book. One such passage—of the insightful variety—discusses our warped perception of education, and how transactional it has become. No longer do we focus on the actual learning process. It is has become more about the destination, the commercial aspect, which is, in some cases, a college degree. Devote X amount of years and money into school, and you get this magical degree. Never mind what you actually learned along the way.
This is an incredibly niche book, so I wouldn't recommend it to, well, anyone—unless they plan to take up Quareia. The book accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do, so for the target audience this is likely a 4- or 5-star read. But for me, an outsider, I'm not as impressed.
Bear in mind that I'm not the target audience for this book, as I'm neither a student of Quareia nor a practitioner of any other form of occultism. However, that doesn't mean there's nothing to be learned from the text.
Some of the societal commentary—and how it relates to magic specifically—is quite superficial, feeling like nothing more than self-help, while other passages feel quite insightful. This contrast persists throughout the entire book. One such passage—of the insightful variety—discusses our warped perception of education, and how transactional it has become. No longer do we focus on the actual learning process. It is has become more about the destination, the commercial aspect, which is, in some cases, a college degree. Devote X amount of years and money into school, and you get this magical degree. Never mind what you actually learned along the way.
This is an incredibly niche book, so I wouldn't recommend it to, well, anyone—unless they plan to take up Quareia. The book accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do, so for the target audience this is likely a 4- or 5-star read. But for me, an outsider, I'm not as impressed.
April 21, 2018
Mandatory guidebook for all Quareia-students, accompanying the original first part of the course. Josephine details here in her usual straight-forward manner some of the obstacles, confusions and traps you might encounter in your solitary magical training through the apprentice-section. As usually it is quite recommended for any other magician as well, adressing some key issues of modern magic and modernity in general.
April 29, 2021
A quick read and worth it if you intend to plough through the 3 main volumes! But feels more like an errata or book of excuses than an actual study guide or helping hand!
January 5, 2020
This is one of the most detailed "what to expect when you're expecting to undergo occult training" I've come across. Of significant value regardless of tradition or system, and I highly recommend it.
I especially appreciated McCarthy's points discussing discipline, meditation, vision work, circular progression, doing this as instructed, and loneliness. I appreciate the section on gender identity, especially the personal touches.
McCarthy is not discreet in her criticisms of other systems of magic, without ever calling them by name. In some ways I find this accurate, in others I find it poor taste, limited in its perspective, and takes away from the quality of her work. People have different needs and will seek them out in different systems of magic, all of which have their biases - including Quareia.
I especially appreciated McCarthy's points discussing discipline, meditation, vision work, circular progression, doing this as instructed, and loneliness. I appreciate the section on gender identity, especially the personal touches.
McCarthy is not discreet in her criticisms of other systems of magic, without ever calling them by name. In some ways I find this accurate, in others I find it poor taste, limited in its perspective, and takes away from the quality of her work. People have different needs and will seek them out in different systems of magic, all of which have their biases - including Quareia.
July 29, 2020
Have yet to start the course but the study guide was well written and informative.
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