Announcements

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.

Who we are

Quareia is a new school of magic for the 21st century. It 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. 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.

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.

Please note: Quareia does not have any study groups and we do not endorse, agree with or recommend joining any study groups. For clarifications on the reasoning of this rule, please read the clarification of lone study in the next section: how this works.

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, and yet it looks at and works with some of the many different 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 a purpose to teach a student ritual and visionary methods. It is the mechanics that are important, not the dressing.

 What Quareia is not, is witchcraft, nor is it strictly ceremonial magic. Many different skill sets are explored within the course, and once the basics are learned in the Apprentice section, the student magician is encouraged to explore, experiment and ponder. 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 This works

Quareia is a lone self-study course. For clarification on what lone study means, please click here. We would also like to point out that we do not recommend study groups and we certainly do not give permission for anyone to teach Quareia material or host study groups.

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. To access all of this content there is no cost, nothing to sign up for, and no registration - all lessons are freely available for study on this website.

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.

Quareia’s goal is to advance magical training with integrity and authenticity, and in a way that is accessible regardless of income, race, or gender.

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.

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 on our faqs page.

Please know you are deeply appreciated, and without you, Quareia would not exist: thank you, all of you.