About My Magical Path of Gnosis

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Spiritual training in deep core Western Mystery disciplines of meditation,
magic, and alchemy has been my primary focus for the last 25 years. Though
at times my training concentrated more in one area than another depending upon
the adepts I had the privilege to study under: Reaching a deeper level in one root
discipline generated further understanding in the others.
Although I have learned from many who have contributed to the body of
knowledge of the Western Mystery Tradition, additionally it has been my
journey to receive true adept instruction. It is rare enough for one to be
directly taught by just one true adept in any tradition of the Mysteries, but it
has been my distinct privilege to have studied under not one, but four of
them: Two Western Magical, one Eastern Enlightenment, and one Western
Alchemical.
For a long time these disciplines were neatly compartmentalized even as I
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experienced deep magic on my own, but a few years ago I became conscious of a
synthesis of my Understanding as a result of reaching deeper levels in each of them
in their own right. For a while my experiences intensified and at one point I became
hyper aware of barriers around the conscious mind. Awareness of the barriers
caused me anxiety and my conscious mind reached a point where I became aware
of them as boundaries placed on my Soul. Later I was to find that this is sometimes
called the Soul Cage. Once aware of these shackles I performed a practice that
began to dissolve a level of the barriers which affected my entire system on all
levels.
The dissolution I was experiencing brought me to philosophical deathfor
three days I felt death and could barely move my body, except with
tremendous effort. It is curious to be alive and yet know what death feels
like. I knew what was happening, not because I had any previous experience
to compare it to, but because while it lasted I was in a curious state of
gnosis where the experience and the knowing are One Thing.
Ive been fortunate in my Seeking. Early in my training I saw REAL magic at the
hands of a true adept, and it is those experiences that gave me the tenacity to
continue my journey to know beyond all doubt that it is real, and to spend my life
in pursuit of Understanding it not only for myself, but to help others as well.
Those early experiences gave me benchmarks that very few are afforded. Because
of that, I have unique perspectives on esoteric teachings, and on what is REAL
versus most of the information that is available to modern Seekers of the
Mysteries.
One of my teachers used to say Dont be so spiritual that you are of no
worldly use! It is in that Light that I have created Transcendence Works!
In keeping with tradition, at a certain level of magical (or alchemical) attainment, it
is customary for one to take a nomen mysticum, a magical or alchemical name. For
years I did not adopt the use of a magical name, instead choosing to simply use my
birth name, Michael. However, while in the state of gnosis during philosophical
death, I became aware that my nomen mysticum is Aethyrius.
If you wish to know more about my path and work, I was recently interviewed
on the Path 11 Podcast where I discuss the initiatory streams I teach, what

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they offer, and how each of them can be its own spiritual path yet also work
in complement to each other to accelerate personal evolution.
Aethyrius
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