The Outer Temple of Witchcraft

The Outer Temple of Witchcraft
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2004
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738705314

As you enter the heart of witchcraft, you find at its core the power of sacred space. In Christopher Penczaks first book, The Inner Temple of Witchcraft, you found the sacred space within yourself. Now The Outer Temple of Witchcraft helps you manifest the sacred in the outer world through ritual and spellwork. The books twelve lessons, with exercises, rituals, and homework, follow the traditional Wiccan one-year-and-a-day training period. It culminates in a self-test and self-initiation ritual to the second degree of witchcraftthe arena of the priestess and priest.

The Inner Temple of Witchcraft

The Inner Temple of Witchcraft
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2002
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738702765

This in-depth guide discusses the history, traditions, and principles of witchcraft, followed by thirteen lessons that start with basic meditation techniques and culminate in a self-initiation ceremony equivalent to the first-degree level of traditional coven-based witchcraft.

The Temple of Shamanic Witchcraft

The Temple of Shamanic Witchcraft
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2005
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738707678

Is shamanism all that different from modern witchcraft? According to Christopher Penczak, Wicca's roots go back 20,000 years to the Stone Age shamanic traditions of tribal cultures worldwide. A fascinating exploration of the Craft's shamanic origins, The Temple of Shamanic Witchcraft offers year-and-a-day training in shamanic witchcraft. Penczak's third volume of witchcraft teachings corresponds to the water element - guiding the reader into this realm of emotion, reflection, and healing. The twelve formal lessons cover shamanic cosmologies, journeying, dreamwork, animal/plant/stone medicine, totems, soul retrieval, and psychic surgery. Each lesson includes exercises (using modern techniques and materials), assignments, and helpful tips. The training ends with a ritual for self-initiation into the art of the shamanic witch--culminating in an act of healing, rebirth, and transformation. COVR Award Winner

Ascension Magick

Ascension Magick
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2007
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738710474

This practical how-to guide brings a new level of clarity and synthesis to the often misunderstood path of ascension, the spiritual practice of integrating higher consciousness into everyday life. This comprehensive reference work explores ascension theology and techniques from a magickal perspective, providing a solid foundation for beginners and greater depth and context for those already on the ascension path. Powerful meditations, rituals, and spells for personal and planetary healing are included along with more fascinating information.

The Temple of High Witchcraft

The Temple of High Witchcraft
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2007
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738711659

Penczak invites witches to continue their spiritual evolution by exploring the ceremonial arts. Learn how these two traditions intersect in history and modern magickal practice.

The Living Temple of Witchcraft Volume Two

The Living Temple of Witchcraft Volume Two
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 073871478X

In the sixth installment of the award-winning Temple of Witchcraft series, popular author Christopher Penczak explores the quest of the God. In this volume, the twelve signs of the zodiac represent the God's symbolic journey through the sky. Each archetypal astrological force offers readers unique insight into the mysteries and the role of a high priest or high priestess. This manual of practical exercise, witchcraft theology, and ministerial advice also explores witchcraft and the modern world, discussing how contemporary issues can be approached from the perspective of witchcraft spirituality. A magickal education through the zodiac signs Learning tools for pagan ministers Earth stewardship and working with ley lines Ancestor work Trance work through dance and plant substances Mediumship within witchcraft Communing with your own personal twelvefold pantheon The lessons in this advanced magickal book culminate in a powerful self-initiation ritual that combines the lessons of the Goddess's descent and the God's journey, to bring awareness, understanding, and personal power.

The Witch's Heart

The Witch's Heart
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2013-02-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738729019

Create a balanced, happy love life with the help of this book of practical love magick. Award-winning author Christopher Penczak offers a wealth of magickal workings and wisdom for everything from reclaiming sexual power and arousing passion to banishing ties to an unrequited love relationship. Written for Witches, Pagans, and other magickal people, this guide tells you how to first build self-love and self-esteem, then use that energy to find a partner or rekindle the passion in your current relationship. It offers instruction on making love spells, potions, and talismans, and features a materia magica of flowers, herbs, stones, and metals to empower them. The Witch's Heart also explores divine inner alchemy, love deities, sexual healing, fertility, the ethics of love magick, twin flames and soul mates, and how to heal a broken heart.

The Three Rays of Witchcraft

The Three Rays of Witchcraft
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2010
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780982774304

Inspired by a Vision of Awen depicting a spear, a flowering branch, and a horned serpent emanating from three drops of wisdom, surrounded by three worlds, Christopher Penczak received a teaching to reconcile many disparate parts of modern Witchcraft into a cohesive body of magickal lore for personal evolution and enlightenment. Experimented with and expanded upon, this lore is now shared through his book The Three Rays of Witchcra : Power, Love and Wisdom in the Garden of the Gods. Striving to weave the diverse threads of his personal practice together, the Three Rays provided Christopher with a powerful framework to bring together modern Wicca, Traditional Craft, Druidism, Theosophy, Qabalah, Shamanism, and alternative health into a greater whole. The text outlines a model of the universe based upon the forces of Power, Love, and Wisdom. Associated with each is a ray, a path we can travel spiritually and evoke energetically. Known as the Straight Line, the Bent Line and the Crooked Line, each offers different magick, knowledge and mysteries. Each ray is associated with a race of spiritual entities with whom we can partner, including the angels, faeries, animal powers and ancestors. ..". an offering full of angels and fairies, gods and humans, diverse yet connected and each with their own powers and wisdom." - Sorita Este, author of Hekate Liminal Rites, Practical Planetary Magick, and The Guises of the Morriga"

Instant Magick

Instant Magick
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2006
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738708593

Explains how to weave natural energies into every facet of life through one's own individual willpower, featuring personalized techniques used to weed out any unwanted, unhealthy, or unnecessary desires to find a true, balanced magickal being. Original.

Gay Witchcraft

Gay Witchcraft
Author: Christopher Penczak
Publisher: Weiser Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003-06-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1609257847

When Christopher Penczak was introduced to Witchcraft, he found a spiritual path that hononred and embraced his homosexuality. Now he has written a book of clearheaded theory and practice that is bound to become a classic. With Gay Witchcraft, Penczak joins the ranks of his forebearers in spirit, gay writers who have taken a tradition and made it home. This is a complete book of theory and spiritual practices of Witchcraft for the gay community. Penczak's writing will make it much easier for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people interested in practicing any form of Witchcraft. Exploring the history of Paganism and offering a compendium of spells, meditations, ceremonies, and affirmations that will enrich both the novice and the experienced practioner seeking out new views of myth, ritual, and healing.