The Sorcerer Guild is an independent fellowship of men and women who study and practice ritual magic as a craft: something learned at the bench, by daily work, under the eye of those who have done it longer. It was founded in 1971 by a bookbinder, a classicist and an astronomer who wished to work the old ceremonial methods plainly, without mystification, and to keep an honest record of what followed.
The Guild is not a church and asks for no creed. It is not a lodge of ranks and titles, though it keeps seven grades to mark work done. It is a guild in the old sense of the word: a company of working practitioners who train apprentices, examine one another's work and hand on what they have learned. Our members hold many faiths and none. What they share is a discipline.
Today the Guild numbers some nine hundred members in fourteen Chapterhouses and thirty-one Workrooms across eleven countries, together with members who work alone at their own hearths under the guidance of a mentor. This website sets out who we are, what we teach, and how those who are drawn to this work may ask to share in it.
Topics We Study
- Ritual and ceremonial method
- The four elements
- The seven planets and their hours
- Symbolism and correspondences
- Meditation and trained attention
- The magical Record
- Invocation and evocation
- Talismans and sigils
- Divination by cards, lots and figures
- Dream work and scrying
- The making of the instruments
- The history and ethic of the Art