Three Steps to Heaven

This ebook first appeared as a handout given away at my talk during the Colours of Chaos event, held at Conway Hall on 6 th 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 in the Basics series and two essays that I had written for the Baptist’s Head website, and so all that was required was an evening of frantic printing, collating and stapling. However, despite its rather humble beginnings, this is still the most accessible and straight forward guide I’ve ever written on magick, and so one worthy of transforming into a free ebook for everyone to enjoy. I hope you find it useful! Alan Chapman November 2009