WELCOME TO QUAREIA

A NEW SCHOOL OF MAGIC FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

The quarry is where one finds precious materials that can be fashioned into beautiful things.
Extracting something from a quarry is a slow and arduous process, but what emerges is something of
exquisite form and beauty. Just as the raw turquoise is carefully searched for, extracted, shaped and
polished, so too the magical apprentice is brought from the depths of darkness, is shaped, polished
and transformed in to the rare jewel of a real adept.

The curriculum of Quareia takes a magical apprentice from the beginning of magic to the level of
adeptship and beyond. The course has no superfluous text; there is no dressing, no padding
everything is in its place and everything within the course has a good reason to be there.

Quareia teaches the skills that underpin many different forms of magic, rather than teaching specific
magical styles or methods: through learning the structural underlying techniques, forms and skills,
the magician will be able to access any form of magic and understand it. The methods, information
and techniques in the course enable the magician to engage any form of magic and work with it
appropriately with the full knowledge of how that magic works, why it works and what is behind it.

Although some of the subject matter in the Quareia course is touched upon in the books of Josephine
McCarthy, the books do not go into any great depth, nor are the actual techniques, underlying
structures, or methods of action laid out in the books. The curriculum of Quareria goes into great
practical and technical depth of all magical technique, and for the most part is magical education that
does not appear in any books, anywhere.

The construction and presentation of the course, and the fact that it is free and will remain free,
ensures that anyone who wishes to commit the time, focus and energy to the work will be able to do
it. It will not be hijacked, will not become commercial, and will not become something exclusive. It
self filters, self protects and has no alignment to any school, any lodge or any magical organisation
in the world: it is itself and will remain so. No one will be able to buy their way to adept- ship and
there are no shortcuts. But any adept that is officially recognised by this school will have a world
wide reputation as a properly fully trained and fully capable magical adept.

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 HOW TO APPROACH THE QUAREIA
COURSE
In order for the course to work properly for you, there are some things you need to keep in mind
before you start.

SEQUENCE

The course is specifically designed so that each lesson builds upon the next. If you cherry pick the
lessons, they will make no sense to you and they will not work as each lesson dovetails into the next.
In the early modules, you will find that some lessons can be done side by side, but as the course
progresses, each one lays a foundation for the next lesson.

Within the lessons are many subtle pointers, details and pertinent information. Do not skim through
the lessons as you will miss the fine details woven into them: even if you feel you have already
covered the subject matter, many of the lessons, even the most basic ones, have seeds within them
for the later work. These seeds are not in any of my books or anyone elses books: work carefully if
you wish to be successful.

JOURNALS AND EXERCISES

Each lesson has exercises, journal keeping and most have experiments. Even if you do not wish to
mentored in the future, keeping the journals as directed, and doing the exercises, experiments and
essays will give you a reference book to refer back to. They are designed to instil the techniques,
give you a reference point for your future work and also help you to track your own progress.

PACING

Do not rush through the lessons. Some of the lessons have exercises within them that are
energetically tough and are designed to push you, strengthen you and focus you in subtle ways. Find
your own pace that works for you and treat the course like long term marathon training.

And most important of all, enjoy yourself. There is a lot of fun and curiosity written into the course,
and if you are enjoying what you do, you will learn better and the lessons will stick in your mind.

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 SECTION ONE: THE APPRENTICE
During the apprentice phase, the only companion on this journey for the student will be themselves.
This is for a number of reasons, the biggest one being that before a magician can step into magical
power, they have to first step into themselves. This can only happen by taking responsibility for
oneself; learning how to self motivate, and to be able to work alone, unaided, and without a
cheerleader, mummy, or daddy to hold ones hand.
Once the apprentice has reached module six of the Apprentice section, and can demonstrate that
they have indeed done the work, then email advice will be freely given, but only if it is really needed
and only on rare occasions. It truly is very important that this first section is completed with the
minimum of help. If the apprentice does not give up or give in, but forges ahead despite any
difficulties, they will become material that can then be formed, guided and strengthened into a true
Initiate.

SECTION ONE THE APPRENTICE

During the apprentice phase, the only companion on this journey for the student will be themselves.
This is for a number of reasons, the biggest one being that before a magician can step into magical
power, they have to first step into themselves. This can only happen by taking responsibility for
oneself; learning how to self motivate, and to be able to work alone, unaided, and without a
cheerleader, mummy, or daddy to hold ones hand.

Once the apprentice has reached module six of the Apprentice section, and can demonstrate that they
have indeed done the work, then email advice will be freely given, but only if it is really needed and
only on rare occasions. It truly is very important that this first section is completed with the
minimum of help. If the apprentice does not give up or give in, but forges ahead despite any difficul-
ties, they will become material that can then be formed, guided and strengthened into a true Initiate.

The first section of the training is about foundational magical skills that the rest of the training can
sit upon. The apprentice learns how to use their mind, their imagination, the skill of ritual, the skill
of visionary magic, along side learning how to develop their own innate inner senses.
The Apprentice also learns the foundational patterns of magic, how to work them, how to use the
ritual tools in practical application, how to work effectively with divination, and the appren- tice is
introduced to the core essential understandings of powers, how they work, why they work and what
to do with them.

It is a very practical training, with lots of hands on work and each skill is dovetailed into the next so
that the apprentice slowly begins to learn and under- stand how all of the magical skills and powers
flow together. The lessons are detailed: each lesson has a very practical application which in turn
develops the magical muscle within the magician, thus preparing them for the power they will be
exposed to in subsequent study sections.

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It is designed to be self taught, with every detail and step assigned carefully and practically. By the
end of this section, the apprentice will have all of the skills, knowledge and strength to take on the
next stage of training. The ten modules in this section are as follows:

LEARN MORE ABOUT 'THE APPRENTICE'

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 SECTION TWO: THE INITIATE
This section builds upon the Apprentice section and begins to weave in more skills, practice,
knowledge and information for the magician in training. Instead of plunging the Initiate into the hot
burning fires of magic, which used to be a bad habit of mine, this section carefully leads the aspiring
magician through the next layer of magic through more practical tasks, lessons and experiments.
Through this section the magician looks in more depth into specific types of beings and learns how
to work safely with them; lessons are learned that teach the magician how to keep strong, healthy
and sane while exploring in magic, and the next level of technique is studied in depth which will sit
firmly on the foundations laid down in the work done throughout the first section.

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 THE INITIATE
The Initiate is the second of the three stages in the Quareia curriculum. You can find a full outline of
its planned content, teachings and methods in the course overview here. A few snapshots are shared
below.

At this stage we have launched a campaign to fund the creation of Quareia. Please visit and support
our campaign by clicking on the button below. Any help is hugely appreciated.
The goal is to raise sufficient funds to bring all of the 243 lessons of the Quareia curriculum to life -
and make them available online and for free for your own use and practice.

Great things are never achieved alone, but they are possible through the support of a community.

Thanks a lot for your support.

LEARN MORE ABOUT 'THE INITIATE'

SECTION THREE: THE ADEPT

This final section leads the magician into the advanced stages of training and equips the magician
with the knowledge, skills and tools to step into the life of a true magical Adept. If it is a highly
practical section, with less study and a great deal of magical action, experimentation and magically
triggered experiences.

Although there are many aspects of magic in these modules that are not normally written about in
magical books, there are also things intentionally left out: it is the role of the teacher to lead the
magician to the door, but the magician must recognise that door for themselves, and be able to step
through it alone, without prior knowledge.

Every lesson is this section points to a specific door, an aspect of magic that potentially can take
the magician to the very heights and depths of magical power. But it is up to the magician
themselves to actually recognise these doors, to be able to step through them, recognise the room
they are in and learn for themselves how to operate magically.
This is a very traditional way of teaching and potentially exposes the magician to vast, deep and
powerful magical Mysteries.

The foundations laid in the Apprentice and Initiate section now become vitally important in order for
the magician not only to understand the Adept level of training, but to also be able to fully engage

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with magic at this level safely. It becomes apparent to the student when they reach this level as to
why the previous sections were so carefully constructed, and why each step was very defined,
studious and contained. That foundation allows for the student, when they reach this section, to
engage fully in the massive leap in the level of training: the Adept level of training is of a much
higher power level in comparison to the Initiate level.

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 THE ADEPT
The Adept is the last of the three stages in the Quareia curriculum. You can find a full outline of its
planned content, teachings and methods in the course overview here. A few snapshots are shared
below.

At this stage we have launched a campaign to fund the creation of Quareia. Please visit and support
our campaign by clicking on the button below. Any help is hugely appreciated.
The goal is to raise sufficient funds to bring all of the 243 lessons of the Quareia curriculum to life -
and make them available online and for free for your own use and practice.

Great things are never achieved alone, but they are possible through the support of a community.

Thanks a lot for your support.

QUAREIA FUNDING CAMPAIGN -

NOW LIVE!

Occultist author and teacher Josephine McCarthy has undertaken to write a full no holds barred in
depth magical training course from beginner all the way through to adept and beyond that will be
available free online as downloadable lessons: that course is Quareia.

A comment from Josephine:

'Recently I set up a small online site called choosing your magical path. Through the creation of
that site it became very obvious that there is no accessible high quality training that is freely
available, free of dogmatic styles, agendas or commercial interest. Magical training that is heavily
tied to profits, fashions, and group politics cannot flourish properly, nor can an individual fully
grow in such an environment. True magical development is dying under the weight of heavy
commercialisation and group factions: it is time to look at a different way of ensuring that the
integrity of magic continues for future generations.'

Quareia is currently in its inception. Josephine McCarthy has designed a full curriculum for self
study that will take the individual from beginner level all the way through to adept. It is a practical
course, with lots of exercises, tasks, experiments, knowledge and experiences that guide a lone
practitioner through the journey to becoming an adept. She has also already written the first lessons
as you can see in the Apprentice section.

However, in order to bring to life all 81 lessons for each of the three sections, (243 lessons in total,
approximately 750,000 words) a huge amount of work lies ahead of us. In its total volume it will be

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similar to between eight to ten published books. All of these will be made available online for free
download.

The funding necessary for this project is beyond the capabilities of a single person. No publishing
house anywhere will become involved as it is a 'not for profit' venture. What is needed is the funding
to be able to give Josephine McCarthy the necessary time to write the full course. This will involve
thirty six hours of writing a week, over an eighteen month period.

The goal is to maintain Quareia as a long term free resource online, fully accessible to all who wish
to study the course regardless of income. Web- designers and proof-readers working in the
background all give of their time freely in support of the project. In the future, once the course is
fully written, Quareia will have a subscribe only section, which for a small fee will give people
access to video and audio lectures. This will help to sustain the project and keep it on line.

If you wish to look at more in depth details of the course, you can download the PDF here, which
gives a complete overview of the course, how it operates and how it will develop. This course is big
enough, and detailed enough to change the face of magical training worldwide. By being always
freely available, it will ensure that no matter what the financial situation of the student, if they have
access to the internet, they can study. All it will need is their time and application.

This is a part of a world wide shift in how education in general is approached: top ranking
universities around the world are putting their course lectures on line for free in a move to ensure
access to education is equal for all. The Fellows of the Quarry, the adepts involved in the creation
and maintenance of Quareia, feel that this shift in attitude is something that should also flow through
the magical community.

Great things are never achieved alone, but they are possible through the support of a community. If
you can help in anyway, please join us to bring positive and lasting change to magical training
worldwide.

Thank you all.

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