[Help] The Magical Knowledge Trilogy vs Quareia

[Gurublue]

As an introductory foundation to magick, should i start with Josephine Kellys Quareia or The Magical Knowledge Trilogy? I am a novice magick practitioner with a background in Tibetan Buddhism if that means anything. Thank you guys!

 

[Aldebaran]

Quareia is a lengthy, structured training course. It’s designed for beginners , it progresses slowly and initially emphasizes fundamentals like attention, grounding, and discipline. The early material may seem dry, but that’s intentional. It aims to build stability and filter out those more interested in excitement or identity than real practice.
A key part of Quareia is learning restraint. You’re not pressured into spirit work or dramatic rituals early on, and you’re encouraged not to rush or skip ahead. The system focuses on boundaries—knowing when to stop, how to ground, and how to avoid projecting meaning onto experiences that don’t require it. A strong “don’t lie to yourself” ethic runs throughout the course. It’s not flashy, and it doesn’t promise quick results, but it does prioritize safety, clarity, and long-term growth.

The Magical Knowledge Trilogy assumes you are already a practitioner and need context, correction, or deeper understanding. Reading it first can actually confuse because it explains why things work before you’ve built the internal reference points to understand them.

I hope that helps. I look forward to what people add.

 

[Beyond Everything]

As an introductory foundation to magick, should i start with Josephine Kellys Quareia or The Magical Knowledge Trilogy? I am a novice magick practitioner with a background in Tibetan Buddhism if that means anything. Thank you guys!

Well...someone quoted what McCarthy (that's her name) said about Tibetan sand paintings in this thread from Reddit. She sounds like a superstitious moron

I had no illusions about the power of this culture and its ancient magic: I was fully aware of the depth of shamanic knowledge under the veneer of gentle monkishness and the ‘harm no being’ did not stretch to inner world beings at all (nor, it would seem, to dissenters, but that’s a different matter).

I observed over the days many beings, good and bad, natural and demonic getting trapped in a beautiful, complex pattern that had them changing and shifting in an unfamiliar world of colour and form. I was expecting at the end, a ritual that would separate out the natural faery and land beings from the unhealthy beings, and free them back into the land, before putting the more demonic unhealthy beings, who had been raised by blasting, back to where they came from.

I was horrified when I watched the ritual breaking of the sand pattern and saw all of those beings, good and bad, have their inner patterns trashed and magically torn apart. They were cast into the river and I was furious: so much for Buddhist compassion. Their methods were grafted onto a foreign land that had already suffered much at the hands of men: they just added to it in their own way. In retrospect, I do not think for one minute that the monks were aware of what their actions were doing, nor do I think any of the destruction as a result of the ritual action was intentional: they were working on impermanence in a dogmatic ritualized way.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/occult/comments/1dja35c

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