THE WESTERN ESOTERIC INITIATORY SYSTEM ®
Marcus Katz is the author and co-author of over 35 books on Western Esotericism, Divination and Magick. He was the first student in the world to be conferred with an M.A. in Western Esotericism from the University of Exeter. Marcus was initiated into Witchcraft when he was 18 by a coven working from Patricia Crowther, a High Priestess who worked with Gerald Gardner.
His account of working the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage to gain the Knowledge & Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel is published as After The Angel. He has worked with rituals and magic for a lifetime and developed the Western Esoteric Initiatory System (WEIS) as an authentic form of spiritual practice for contemporary individuals.
Marcus has taught tarot and magick to groups across Europe, Australia, USA and South America for decades and now offers teaching through the Crucible Club and the Order of Everlasting Day.
THE TAROT OF EVERLASTING DAY
BOOKS BY MARCUS KATZ & TALI GOODWIN
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THE MAGISTER
VOLUME 0
The most comprehensive account of Western Esotericism, featuring a full history of magical orders, magicians and rituals. The first volume of an 11-volume series charting the entire Great Work. The next volume (2018) covers Astral Travel, Dream Work and the Psychology of Magick.
TAROSOPHY
THE BOOK THAT CHANGED TAROT
With 50 unique exercises, in excess of 50 illustrations, extensive footnotes, and detailed reading lists, there are more new tarot ideas on any given page of Tarosophy than in some entire texts on the subject.
SECRETS OF THE WAITE-SMITH TAROT
NEW DISCOVERIES & ORIGINAL PHOTOS
It is not often that book comes along that really changes the way we understand tarot. Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin are incredibly thorough and dedicated researchers who have written a book that will change almost everything we think we know about the Waite-Smith Tarot. – Barbara Moore.
AFTER THE ANGEL
THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL
"A magic carpet ride through 177 Groundhog Days, composed of an eternity of a Desolation Row-like hard rock symphony of spiritual practice performed by an intelligent, inspiring, erudite English Mystic" - Georg Dehn.
TAROT TIME TRAVELLER
A Tour through Time & Tarot
Join authors Marcus Katz and Tali Goodwin as they share reading methods, card meanings, and spread ideas based on the most important developments in the history of tarot and playing card reading.
TAROT FACE TO FACE
Real Skills and Methods for Reading
Based on over thirty years of tarot reading experience and an extensive survey of readers, Tarot Face to Face is your key to un-locking the essential skills and methods of tarot. Inside you’ll discover numerous spreads, exercises, and interpretation strategies
LEARNING LENORMAND
The First Mass Market Book in English
Read the Lenormand cards to answer practical questions about romance, career, money, travel, and important life choices. With simple instructions for beginning readers, Learning Lenormand teaches easily accessible methods for using this simple thirty-six card deck.
THE MAGICIANS KABBALAH
The Tree of Life for Magicians
In this book for the first time is clearly laid out the entire map of spiritual progress in the western esoteric initiatory system illustrated by tarot on the Tree of Life.
TAROT FLIP
Tarot Card Meanings from Real Tarot Readers.
In this exclusive and innovative Tarosophy® KickStart Guidebook, you will discover the actual meanings of the Tarot cards as they have come to be seen by a range of experienced Tarot Readers.
AROUND THE TAROT IN 78 DAYS
A Complete Workbook for Tarot.
Journey into the exciting world of tarot with this comprehensive 78-day course. Uniquely presented in a one-card-per-day format, this workbook provides a solid foundation in tarot―and offers new ways to enrich your life using the wisdom of the cards.
TAROT TWIST
Twist your Tarot with 78 innovative spreads and methods from award-winning tarot authors Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin! Learn how to create your own unique spreads from any question to provide truly profound readings for yourself, friends, family or paying clients!
TAROT LIFE
A New Way of Using Tarot to Change Your Life!
Tarot Life is a revolutionary way to change your life though the power of Tarot. In a series of 12 magical exercises, with nothing more than a Tarot deck, you will be taken on a life-changing journey to discover your destiny. Along the way you will learn unique methods of reading tarot for yourself and those around you.
TAROT INSPIRE
Discover the Spiritual Aspects of Tarot.
PACKED WITH NEW METHODS •Use the Tarot deck as an Ariadne’s Thread through Life’s Labyrinth in an innovative technique. •Discover the Circle of Oracles as forty-five tarot readers shake the pillars of the temple. •Use the Apostasis Spread to illustrate your own heroic journey. And much more ...
ALCHEMY WORKBOOK
Discover the Secrets of Alchemy in your Kitchen!
Using little more than kitchen salt and a few basic ingredients, discover how to apply alchemy in your life, turning the lead of everyday life into the gold of spiritual transformation! This workbook contains everything you need to experience the magic of alchemy; simple practical exercises, dream-work , visualisation, and rituals.
TAROT SHAMAN
A unique way of experiencing the Tarot.
The Tarot Shaman is a totally new way of using Tarot cards suitable for all levels! In this book you will learn to Go on a unique tarot walk Find a power spot and Connect to your personal animal spirit. You will also build a tarot dreamcatcher and mandala to use to honor your animal spirit - all just using a tarot deck!
THE ENGLISH LENORMAND
The original meanings of Lenormand cards!
The original English language instructions from 1796 for reading what is now called the Lenormand Deck. In this piece of ground-breaking research, discovered by Mary K. Greer, you will learn the simple roots of this fortune-telling tradition, in English, by an anonymous author.
SECRETS OF THE CELTIC CROSS
A full guide to this powerful & popular spread.
The Celtic Cross is the world's most popular Tarot spread and has been used since its publication in 1909. However, the true author of the spread and its first use in the secret Order of the Golden Dawn has never been revealed until now.
ABIDING IN THE SANCTUARY
A.E. Waite's Second Tarot - Revealed!
A. E. Waite returned to Tarot ten years after his first deck and created another set of 23 Tarot images, to be kept for use in his private Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. A century later, these images can be revealed for the first time, in over 80 colour and b&w plates, extensive commentary and biographies, researched, revealed and discussed by Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin, with a preface by Mary K. Greer.
A NEW DAWN FOR TAROT
The original tarot of the Golden Dawn.
In this ground-breaking book, you will see for the first time in a century almost one hundred of the original documents and drawings of the Order of the Golden Dawn (founded 1888).
THE GATES OF VALENTINE
Develop insights into your relationships.
The Gates of Valentine is a totally new way of using Tarot cards to understand the relationships in your life, leading to a deep and surprising conclusion. It is the second of a unique 6-book Tarot series brought to you by award-winning and #1 top-selling tarot authors Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin.
THE PALACE OF THE PHOENIX
Activate the Alchemy in your Life.
In this 1-week method you can experience - with nothing more than any 78-card tarot deck - new ways of understanding alchemy, and in the process deepen your skills at reading tarot!
THE RESURRECTION ENGINE
Reclaim That Which You Have Lost.
In this 1-week method you can experience - with nothing more than any 78-card tarot deck - new ways of understanding tarot, kabbalah and recover what has been lost in your life. In the process, at any level, you will deepen your skills at reading tarot!
THE GHOST TRAIN
Connect with your ancestors using your tarot deck.
In this 1-week method you can experience - with nothing more than any 78-card tarot deck - strange coincidences and real magick in your life. You will use the simple series of "gated spreads" to carry out tarot card readings and make changes in your life based on these spreads. If you are an absolute beginner, the book also contains a link to our unique FREE 22-page guide to tarot card meanings and 9 basic spreads for further practice.
THE GARDEN OF CREATION
Create Fiction & Poetry with Your Cards!
The Garden of Creation is a totally new way of using Tarot cards to get creative, brought to you by award-winning and #1 top-selling tarot authors Marcus Katz & Tali Goodwin. In this 1-week method you can experience - with nothing more than any 78-card tarot deck - new ways of creating fiction and poetry, and in the process deepen your skills at reading tarot!
TAROT FUNDAMENTALS
A NEW BENCHMARK FOR TAROT PUBLISHING.
A labor of love ten years in the making, Tarot Fundamentals is Lo Scarabeo's authoritative compilation of tarot knowledge. With thorough perspectives on tarot history, reading, spiritual work, card meanings, and more, this full-color volume is an indispensible reference for beginners and adepts alike. Includes more than 400 color illustrations and contributions from a wide range of tarot experts, including Sasha Graham, Barbara Moore, Mark McElroy, Marcus Katz, Tali Goodwin, Giordano Berti, and Riccardo Minetti.
TAROT EXPERIENCE
The Second Massive Volume!
A labor of love ten years in the making, Tarot Experience is the second volume in Lo Scarabeo's authoritative compilation of tarot knowledge. While the first volume, Tarot Fundamentals, focused more on general principles and basic knowledge, this book is more hands-on and personal, full of practical suggestions, spread guides, and specific reading techniques.
TAROT COMPENDIUM
The Third Epic Volume of This Series!
A comprehensive full-color tarot book from Lo Scarabeo. This third volume completes the set, along with Tarot Fundamentals and Tarot Experience . This hardcover book focuses on advanced tarot ideas and practices, exploring esoteric disciplines as they intersect with tarot.
I CHING COUNTERS
Read the I-Ching in a Simple Way!
Inspired by a previously overlooked and forgotten method used by the notorious magician Aleister Crowley, these 18 counters are a simple and sublime method of divination using the worlds most ancient oracle. The counters also come with an eight-sided dice to quickly denote the presence of moving lines in any hexagram, giving exactly the same results as would be given from the traditional three coins method. Each set comes with a red draw bag and 20-page booklet providing the history of the oracle, Crowley's use of it, brief interpretations of the Hexagrams and further reading.
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THE CRUCIBLE CLUB
Take Your First Step in the Great Work
The Western Esoteric Initiatory System is a valid and authentic path of magical and spiritual development attuned to contemporary life.
The Aim of this initiatory journey is simply to experience existence as it actually is, prior to all interpretation, as an ongoing state of awareness. It is the culmination of all forms of enquiry, and is the end of all seeking.
Now you can discover the Western Esoteric Initiatory System (WEIS) as taught by Marcus Katz, award-winning & best-selling author, and creator of THE MAGISTER.
In the early 1900’s, a club - the "Crucible Club" - was formed for the private study of the western mysteries. It was described as:
… an important and attractive combination of forces to meet the demand of thinking people for genuine culture in spiritual science under the best auspices and on easy terms.
We have now restored this club to the modern age, and invite all who seek to discover the magick of their life and reveal their true self to join us in a comprehensive one-year self-study course in Western Esotericism.
The Crucible Club teaches the Western Esoteric Initiatory System® as developed by Marcus Katz for radical spiritual, psychological, magical and mystical transformation in your life.
The Crucible Club is $19.99/month for twelve months and includes all materials and membership of a private Facebook group.
Students who complete the work of the Crucible are invited to apply for membership of the ORDER OF EVERLASTING DAY, a network of individuals working within the Western Esoteric Initiatory System to the Knowledge & Conversation of their Holy Guardian Angel.
Please use the link below to create your subscription to the Crucible Club.
You will receive your first materials within 24 hours of subscription and commence a year-long journey into the mysteries.
We teach from the original papers of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Thelema, Alchemy, Kabbalah, Tarot and Western Ritual Magick, covering experiences as diverse as astral travel, divination, inner guide meditation work, the Tree of Life, lucid dreaming, mystical experience and spiritual development.