[3] Introduction This ebook first appeared as a handout given away at my talk during the Colours of Chaos event, held at Conway Hall on 6th September, 2008. The talk I delivered focussed on how over the last few decades the Great Work has all but been forgotten by contemporary magical culture; and although it was important to demonstrate how we had gone wrong, it was also very necessary to provide simple, practical instruction in achieving the Great Work the magical way. This meant presenting a contemporary model of the A.’.A.’. magical system first devised by Aleister Crowley and George Cecil Jones way back in 1907, but within a few pages of A4. The system can be broken down into three steps: the development of magical competency, the gaining of the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel, and the following process of initiation, beginning with a magical event known as crossing the abyss. Luckily, I already had all three bases covered www.thebaptistshead.co.uk
Alan Chapman