Introduction to Magic, Volume II: The Path of Initiatic Wisdom

The "Gruppo di UR" was a group of Italian esotericists who collaborated from 1927 to 1929 to study and practice ancient rituals to attain superhuman consciousness and power. They produced a monthly journal containing techniques for spiritual realization, personal experiences, translations of ancient texts, and original essays. Volume II of their series offers authentic initiatic wisdom and exercises, including instructions for creating the diaphanous body of the Opus magicum, establishing initiatic consciousness after death, and the construction of magical chains. The "Magic" of the UR Group was an active and affirmative attitude toward individual development, handed down from a "primordial tradition" and discernable in alchemy, Hermetism, esoteric religious doctrines, indigenous practices, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and pagan mysteries of the West.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 448 pages
\n Publication date: 18 April 2019
\n Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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The Gruppo di UR, a group of Italian esotericists, collaborated from 1927 to 1929 with the aim of studying and practicing ancient rituals from both East and West to attain superhuman consciousness and magical powers. They published a monthly journal that included spiritual realization techniques, personal experiences, translations of ancient texts, and original essays on esoteric topics. The group consisted of occultists, neo-pagans, freemasons, Anthroposophists, orientalists, poets, and members of high society.

This volume, the second in the series, complements the first one but can be read in any order. Volume II offers authentic initiatic wisdom and a rigorous selection of initiatory exercises, including instructions for creating the diaphanous body of the Opus magicum, establishing initiatic consciousness after death, and the construction of magical chains. It provides studies of mystery traditions throughout history, presenting the principles themselves, witnesses to them, and their continued validity today.

The "Magic" of the UR Group encompassed an active and affirmative attitude toward individual development, inherited from a "primordial tradition" and evident in alchemy, Hermetism, esoteric religious doctrines, indigenous practices, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and pagan mysteries of the West.

\n Weight: 604g\n
Dimension: 155 x 229 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781620557174\n \n