i recently also got her magickal trilogy and bombed through it in about 2 weeks.
it seems that the majority of her magick is accessed through inner vision, she seems to have almost nothing on rituals to manifest change in 'normal' reality, however, i am a fan.
I'm also reading
The Magical Knowledge Trilogy in addition to starting the Quareia course. Indeed, all I have done so far are the initial meditations in Quareia for the past couple of weeks (aside from keeping a dream diary, learning tarot card meanings & the tarot contemplation ritual per recommendation of
Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig). One cannot build a mansion on a foundation of sand. Thus one does not breeze through something so basic, so "simple" as meditation. I have been reading, and at times skimming, through many other books and sources of information since January of this year. I've been struck by the divisions between different paths, sorting out my feelings when contemplating one way or another.
It has been about 13 or 14 years since I bought
Modern Magick and rushed through reading it in search of some easy-to-use secret of magick. I got stuck on the equipment part. At the time I lived in a tiny apartment in Puerto Rico without a lot of extra spending cash. The meditations in
Modern Magick seemed so mundane and ... boring. What I needed, and lacked, was STUFF! Yeah, I wasn't ready, but I digress...
On page 48 of
The Magical Knowledge Trilogy, McCarthy wrote: "When we first tread a magical path, we are often swept up in a tide of rituals, beings, magical objects, visionary inner worlds, and inner contacts. Our conscious mind is kept busy with the ‘inner’ reality show and that allows our minds to interface with Universal Power. But the clutter of human magic, all its accoutrements, is just a dressing that presents itself until our consciousness becomes malleable enough to work without it."
There is much wisdom in those words for any aspiring magician.
