King. Arthur - Arthurian magic: a practical guide to the wisdom of camelot

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Arthurian Magic: A Practical Guide to the Wisdom of Camelot 2017 by John and Caitln Matthews, with Virginia Chandler.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-In-Publication Data

Names: Matthews, John, author.

Title: Arthurian magic : a practical guide to the wisdom

of Camelot / John and Caitln Matthews, with Virginia Chandler;

foreword by Gareth Knight.

Description: first edition. | Woodbury : Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd., 2017. |

Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017041131 (print) | LCCN 2017035479 (ebook) | ISBN

9780738753409 (ebook) | ISBN 9780738750569 (paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Magic. | Arthur, King.

Classification: LCC BF1591 (print) | LCC BF1591 .M45 2017 (ebook) | DDC

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To Geraldine and Bali for making this happen,
and to all those who answered the call
at Hawkwood College over the last 31 years,
and to all who will answer in times to come.

CONTENTS

List of

by Gareth Knight

: Journeying with Arthur

. .

VISIONS: THE KNOWLEDGE PAPERS

: The King and the Mage

: The Table of the Stars

: Arthur and the Grail

: Temples of the Grail

: The Mysteries of Avalon

: The Rose, the Vault, and the Wisdom of the Grail

: The Wounded Kings

: Arthurian Chivalry

. .

A YEAR IN CAMELOT

: Opening the Ways

: A Seat at the Table

: The Challengers

: Entering the Starry Realms

: The Magic of the Lake

: Companions of the Quest

: The Grail, the Tarot, and the Tree

: The Hallows

: The Road to Sarras

. Part 3 .

THE LIBRARY

: Archetypal Characters

: Sites

: Sacred Oils and Incense

: Heraldry

: Songs

: Blessings

: Invocations and Farewells

: Readings

: Seasons and Festivals

: Arthur Machen and the Secret School of the Grail

Figures

: The Pentagram of the Grail

: The Houses on the Pentagram

: The Vesica Piscis

: The Urbs Quadrata

: The Divine Vessel

: The Open Vesica

: The Three Tables

: Two Altars

: Plan of the Ritual of the Green Knight

: Merlins Tower of the Stars

: The Five Changes of the Grail in the Deep Earth

: Plan of the Ritual of Merlins Enclosure

: The Symbol of the Awen

: Plan of the Ritual of the Sleepers

: Plan of the Grail Family Ritual

: The Tarot of Arthur on the Tree of Life

: Three Cards from The Grail Tarot

: The Grail on the Tree of Life

: Three Cards from The Complete Arthurian Tarot

: The Tarot on the Tree of Life

: Three Cards from The Camelot Oracle

: Plan of the Ritual Quest for the Treasures of Ireland

: Plan of the Setting of the Hallows in the Crown of Stars

: The Constellation of Botes

: Plan of the Ritual of the Changes of the Grail

: Plan of the Ritual of the Ship of Solomon

: Plan of the Ritual Restoring the Courts of Joy

: Arms of Some of the Knights and Kings from the Arthuriad

: Plan of the Equinox Ritual

Acknowledgments

T his book has been forty years in the making, and the number of people to whom I owe thanks would fill pages. Those not named here know who you are and have my thanks forever. My deepest debt is, as always, to my wife, Caitln, whose partnership has accompanied me through years of studying and working with the Arthuriad. Her kindness in allowing me to include so much of the writing and rituals we have shared over the years has made this an infinitely better book. Profound thanks also to Virginia Chandler, a friend of more recent times, for so generously allowing me to pillage her work, which fits so seamlessly into our own.

Others to whom I owe a great debt are our teachers: Gareth Knight, with whom we observed so many of the mysteries and who generously wrote the foreword to the book, and Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, whose star shines as undimmed today as it did when we first met almost forty years ago. I would also like to thank R. J. Stewart, with whom we shared many powerful encounters with the infinite and whose written work has brought a vast inner landscape into all our lives. Also to our students, who over the past thirty years have journeyed with us in our regular mystery school teachings at Hawkwood College of Stroud, Gloucestershire, England,