Literature
The Works of the School
The whole teaching is published. Read it before you enter, and judge the School by its books.
Nothing is secret
Every book is open to you before you apply
“Nothing in them is secret, and every rite of this book can be performed from the book alone.”Ritual Praxis and Instruction, How to Use This Book
Our School publishes all of its teaching. The doctrine, every rite and the full program of the six grades are in these books, and anyone may read them before applying, paying or promising anything.
The books are written to be performed. A student reads a section, practices it and writes the record in a journal. Each grade of the Mystery School reads in them. The School examines the record of that reading and practice. Each work below has its own page: who it is for, what it gives, where it leads, and a whole chapter to read.
“You may understand every chapter of this book and remain where you began, or understand only a little of it and, by faithful practice with an open heart and mind, come to know directly what the chapters describe.”Ritual Praxis and Instruction, How to Use This Book
The central works
The teaching itself
The doctrine, the rite, the astrology, the Tarot and the symbols. Every grade of the Mystery School reads in these five.
Central Doctrine
The founding statement of the School, in three volumes
Read it if you want to know what the School holds, and why, before you practice any of it.
The Central Doctrine says what our School holds and why. It runs from the seventeen Articles of the Canonical Statement through the psychology of Jung and Pauli, the physics of the observer and the Multiverse, the conscious Sun and the Divine Double, to the gods, the teaching of the East, the history of the daemon and the ethic of the theurgist.
Three volumes · 62 chapters in eleven Parts · 1,937 pages · Read in the first grade, the Aspirant
Why read it, and a chapter from it →Ritual Praxis and Instruction
The manual of the School's practice, in three volumes
Read it if you want to do the work itself, from the first week to the last rite.
Ritual Praxis and Instruction teaches the work itself, from the first week of practice to the last rite. It gives the Primer of the first grade, the craft of invocation, the Theurgic Ritual of the Pentagram with the Grand Invocation, the planetary gods, the Decan Year, the Natal Blueprint Invocation and the timing of rites, at no more than two hours a day.
Three volumes · 63 chapters in eight Parts, with ten appendices · 2,663 pages · The Primer in the first grade, the rest in the second
Why read it, and a chapter from it →WaveForm Astrology
A manual of operative tropical astrology for natal, synastric and transit work
Read it if you read charts and want to tell a client what to do as well as what is so.
WaveForm Astrology reads the chart as a solar microcosm, with the Sun at the center and the planets as operators, each with a function in the person. For each operator it names the cost in this chart, the occasion where the work lies and what attention does there, so that an astrologer can tell a client what to work as well as what is so.
One volume · 31 chapters in eight Parts, with five appendices · 1,042 pages · Read in the third grade, during the Decan Year
Why read it, and a chapter from it →The Divine Arcana Tarot
The School's deck of seventy-eight cards and the book that teaches it
Read it if you read cards, or want to, and want to know what stands behind each picture.
The Divine Arcana Tarot teaches the Tarot as the astrology given garments. Each Greater Arcanum is a planet or a sign, each small card is the daemon of one of the thirty-six decans, and every card is read from the astrology behind its picture. The book serves the Aspirant of the first grade and any reader of cards.
One volume and a deck of 78 cards · 40 chapters in seven Parts, with four appendices · 929 pages · Read in the first grade, the Aspirant
Why read it, and a chapter from it →The School Layman Explanation
The meaning of each symbol of the School's emblem
Read it if you want the whole teaching in one image before you go into the long books.
The School Layman Explanation teaches the twenty-nine symbols of our emblem one by one, from Om and the eight Names of the Grand Invocation to the gods, the two eggs of the psyche and the practices of the Moon. Each symbol has a short Definition to learn and a full teaching, and the last Part reads the symbols together as one teaching.
One volume · 29 symbol sections in seven Parts · about 120,000 words · 236 pages · Read in the second grade, beside Ritual Praxis and Instruction
Why read it, and a chapter from it →The supporting works
Beside the central works
The course of Associate Membership, the evidence for astrology, the history of the sky in the rites of the world, a comparison with the Western orders, the practice of the night, a course for children and the life of the Head Master. Any of them can be read at any time.
The Associate Member’s Manual
The course of Associate Membership of the Inner Order
Read it if you are meeting our School for the first time and want to know what we hold, practice a little of what we do and test it in your own journal.
The Associate Member’s Manual guides the Associate Member of our Inner Order through what we hold and the nineteen major predicates, the science of the work, Raja Kundalini in brief with a few meditations and five planetary meditations, the Threshold Ritual of the Pentagram, your own astrology with WaveForm and the Tarot in brief. A journal is kept throughout, and the course closes with an open-book examination and a certificate.
One volume · 19 chapters in seven Parts, with the rite on one page and record pages · 202 pages · The course of Associate Membership, about two to three weeks
Why read it, and a chapter from it →The Science of Astrology
The evidence for astrology, set out for a reader who wants to see it
Read it if you doubt astrology, or if you have to answer someone who does.
The Science of Astrology gathers the evidence for astrology from the Babylonian record to the registries of nations, the Gauquelin planetary findings and the tests of astrologers. It gives every result as a plain chance with its one-in-N figure, grades each study on a ladder of five rungs, and closes with a combined analysis planned in advance.
One volume · 33 chapters in nine Parts · 939 pages · A supporting work, read at any time
Why read it, and a chapter from it →The Sacred History of Astrology
The Sky in the Mysteries, from the Priests of Babylon to WaveForm
Read it if you want to know why astrology has stood first among the ways of reading the divine, and where the line from Babylon arrives.
The Sacred History of Astrology follows one line through recorded history. Wherever people sought direct contact with the gods, the sky gave the contact its form, in the day of the rite, the figures of the gods, the stations of the ascent and the order of the temple. The book argues that astrology has held primacy among the human ways of reading the divine, shows it from the documents and the scholars, and follows the line to WaveForm Astrology and our School.
One volume · a prologue, 27 chapters in seven Parts and an epilogue · about 250,000 words · 475 pages · A supporting work, read at any time
Why read it, and a chapter from it →One Architecture
Our School beside the Golden Dawn and Thelema, and an invitation
Read it if you are in the Golden Dawn, Thelema or an order that came from them, and want to see what our School would ask of you.
One Architecture sets out why our School offers a more complete path to the Great Work than the Golden Dawn and the orders of Crowley: one rite kept in time with the living sky, authority anyone can check, theurgy and Platonism at first hand joined to the East, and the physics of our century. It knows the orders from their own papers, credits what we received from them, and closes with an invitation to keep one's own tradition and leave behind what harms the work.
One volume · a prologue, 14 chapters in four Parts and an epilogue · about 75,000 words · 175 pages · A supporting work, read at any time
Why read it, and a chapter from it →Dream Theurgy
The Prophetic and Divinatory, the Forgotten Temple of Night
Read it if you dream, and want the night to become part of the work.
Dream Theurgy is our School's book of the night. It teaches how to prepare for sleep, receive and record the dream, sort it, test it against what follows and answer it, within the same theurgic life that the daily rite, our astrology and the Tarot already order, with the witness of the Greek, Jewish and Hindu traditions.
One volume · 8 chapters · about 47,000 words of prose · 128 pages · Belongs to no grade, begun at any time
Why read it, and a chapter from it →Little Suns
A teaching guide for children, written for the parent or teacher
Read it if you are a parent or teacher and want to give children the ground of this teaching.
Little Suns gives the ground of our School in a form a child can hold, in lessons of thirty minutes for a family table. Where a teaching is made smaller it is kept true, and the words for the children, the Teaching Scripts, meditations and prayers, are written out in full for the teacher to read aloud.
One volume · 13 units and 67 lessons of thirty minutes · 990 pages · For a parent or teacher, outside the grades
Why read it, and a chapter from it →Eddie Paredes: A Life in the Work
The biography of the Head Master, in his own words
Read it to learn the source of the method before you trust it.
The life of our Head Master in his own words, from his family in eastern Idaho and his grandmother's Mapuche line to the bodywork college and the field of light, the Kabbalah in Salem and the invisible college of his reading. It follows India and the Śākta and Śaiva schools, the country temple of 2014, the living sky of 2020, Timothy Desmond and 2022, and the writing of the works.
One volume · 20 chapters · about 81,000 words · 176 pages
Read the biography →The digital edition
All the books and materials of the School, as digital PDF files
Every book and material of the School as digital PDF files, The Divine Arcana Tarot among them with all seventy-eight cards pictured, for one payment of $297, for the buyer’s own use only. The deck itself is printed and ordered on its own.
Every chapter shown on these pages can be read here free. The digital edition gives you the complete books as files to keep, to print and to read with the journal open beside you. Printed manuals will follow. Students of the Mystery School receive the whole library with their entry.
What it holds: Central Doctrine, Ritual Praxis and Instruction, WaveForm Astrology, The Divine Arcana Tarot, The School Layman Explanation, The Associate Member’s Manual, The Science of Astrology, The Sacred History of Astrology, One Architecture, Dream Theurgy, Little Suns, Eddie Paredes: A Life in the Work, and the materials of the School. The Divine Arcana Tarot pictures all seventy-eight cards. The deck itself is printed and ordered on its own.
The printed deck: The book The Divine Arcana Tarot pictures all seventy-eight cards, and it comes as a PDF with the digital edition of the School’s works. The deck itself is printed and ordered on its own, for $49, plus $14 shipping per order. Ships from India, with delivery in up to 6 weeks. Import duties, if any, are the buyer’s. Buy the printed deck, $49 plus $14 shipping →
The first grade
From the books to the work
The Aspirant of the first grade reads the Central Doctrine, The Divine Arcana Tarot and the Primer of Ritual Praxis and Instruction, begins the yoga and keeps the journal from the first day. A newcomer who wants a short first course, with a rite of our School and an examination, begins with The Associate Member’s Manual.