Welcome to the Quareia Course
Advancing magical training with integrity and authenticity in a way that is accessible regardless of income, race, or gender.
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What it is
Quareia is a practical western esoteric magical training course that is complete from total beginner to adept. It is aligned to no particular school or specific religious/mystical school of thought. However, the coursework looks at and works with some of the historically magical, religious, and mystical practices that have influenced magical thinking in the Near Eastern and Western World since the early Bronze Age to present day. It does use some Egyptian magical patterns, but only where it serves as an example to teach a student certain ritual and visionary methods. It is the mechanics that are important, not the dressing.
What Quareia is not, is witchcraft, nor is it ceremonial magic. Many different skill sets are explored within the course, and once the basics are learned from working through the Apprentice section, the student Initiate and adept magician is encouraged to explore, experiment and ponder within safe boundaries. The approach is often shamanic in its nature, with a strong emphasis on personal responsibility and self-honesty.
For a full length in depth explanation of the course, what it is, how it is structured, and why, can be found here.
how it works and what to do
Quareia is a lone self-study course. For clarification on what lone study means, please click here. Quareia does not have any study groups and we do not endorse, agree with or recommend joining any study groups. We do not give permission for anyone to teach Quareia material or host study groups at all.
The Latin term quareia refers to the place where stones are squared. That is what this course aims for: to equip you with the magical tools to work on the rough stone that you are. The course is organised in three sections (Apprentice, Initiate and Adept); each of the three sections contain ten modules; these are broken down again into eight lessons for each module.
Quareia training is open to anyone, everywhere. Its content is entirely free of cost - there is no sign up process, or registration, and no fees to pay at all. Please do not contact us to ask permission to begin the course. We do not gate-keep the course in anyway.
The Course contents
click on the images below to read the contents list for each section of the course. These content listings are taken from the print version of the course - the page numbers are only relevant for the books, not the web files. The course in Ebook and print formats can be found on Amazon and most online web retailers on all worldwide platforms.
Click the image to read the contents list of the Apprentice section.
Click the image to read the contents list of the Initiate section.
Click the image to read the contents list of the Adept section.
Who we are
Quareia was founded by Esoteric adept Josephine McCarthy who is Quareia’s director. She is a world wide known teacher and author of nearly 30 books on magic. Frater Acher is Quareia’s patron and also the original Quareia web designer.
Getting started
To get started, please explore our Frequently Asked Questions page on Quareia, how it works, who is advised not to do the course, and what you need to do to succeed. We would also suggest reading The Apprentice Study Guide which can be found on our free books page as a PDF file, to get additional insights on how to best set out on the course. Also, you can find further resources on our free books page.
Finally, personal Mentoring with Josephine McCarthy is freely available to students who have fully completed the Apprentice section and have the notes, work and evidence to prove it. For further information on how to apply for Mentoring, and how your notes should be organised please refer to our Frequently Asked Questions page. How we use your donations is outlined here
Please note: all texts and files on this website are fully copyrighted. You may download and print them for your personal use only. Uploading any content from this website onto any other site on the internet is a breach of International copyright law.
How to support
Please consider supporting the work of Quareia with a monthly subscription. All Quareia donations are used for running costs and for keeping Quareia’s free works available to anyone, as well as continuously expanding its free material/texts/videos, along with organising events where possible - they do not go to Josephine McCarthy. No one at Quareia is paid - all workers at Quareia are volunteers, including Josephine McCarthy. Further information on our ethos and what oversight we have in place, can be viewed at the bottom of our faqs page. Information on how we use your donations can be read here
Please know you are deeply appreciated, and without you, Quareia would not exist: thank you, all of you.
Monthly donation.
A-Friend £5 | B-Supporter £15 | C-Sponsor £25
One time donation
The Magical Training of Quareia Volumes
In 2024, a group of Quareia students volunteered to go through the course to find old dead links, typos, edit errors, colloquialisms, and so forth. Josephine Joined them to look at where things could be explained a bit better, or where something needed adapting or updating to ensure it lasts for generations to come. We also looked at the size of the three gigantic course books of Apprentice, Initiate and Adept. Their current size and weight make them all but impossible to carry around so while those huge tomes will still be available, the new edition volumes feature between 3 and 4 modules plus accompanying texts and chapters necessary for study. Pertinent chapters from Josephine's books have also been added to the Appendix.
The Magical Training of Quareia Volume I, Volume 2 and Volume 3 are now available at most internet retailers and Amazon.
They can also be found here at slightly cheaper prices for customers in the US and UK
PLUS!!
The uploads of the 10th anniversary new editions of the lessons has begun! Quareia student volunteers have been going through the course and highlighting dead internet links, errors, and editing mistakes, and Liza has been doing an overhaul on the presentation and design. They will be uploaded module by module as they are finished. It is a slow process so thank you for your patience.
For people looking for the Quareia Magicians Deck - available from the print on demand company thegamecrafter USA which ships world wide.
