Frequently asked questions

Ancient Masters is an online school for the Ancient Arts within the Magic Sefirotic Tradition. It teaches five core subjects: Meditation, Energy Work, Third Eye, Magic, and Other Worlds, which includes lucid dreaming and astral travel. Training is authorized and supervised by the Order of the Cosmic Storms.

The main program is the Foundation in Ancient Arts: a planned path with practice reports, access to teacher feedback, and examinations. The Lectorium holds separate courses for self-study.

Consciousness. The Ancient Arts start from one premise: consciousness can be trained. Attention, energy, and perception develop with practice, the way the body develops with exercise. The school teaches the disciplined cultivation of the self that this development requires, drawn from a living lineage of practice.

The program is open to everyone, but it is serious work. Students need the right motivation and the ability to practice regularly. The program is not recommended for people with serious mental illness or serious health conditions (see Health).

No prior experience is needed. Experience from other schools or traditions does not let you skip modules: every student follows the program from the start, including masters of other traditions.

There are three ways to start.

• The trial ($49.99). Buy it on the Apply page. After the one-time payment you receive an invite to the school's Discord server, where a role is assigned to you automatically. You get the basic exercises, so you can begin practicing and get a feel for the training, and you can read the guestbook and ask questions there.
• The Foundation Program. Join on the Apply page. Membership is $99.99 a month on the semester plan, billed every six months, or $119.99 on the monthly plan. You can cancel at any time.
• The Lectorium. Standalone self-study courses, each with audio lectures, non-verbal transmission, and a mandala made for the course. Each course is priced at $50 per lesson, and enrollment is announced as each course opens. You build a program around the courses you choose instead of following a set path. Lectorium courses do not include access to teacher feedback; that is part of the Foundation.

A teacher in a tradition is recognized through discernment and an AP (assemblage point) scan. An ordinary person, with the assemblage point at Manipura, cannot run that check. Start with what you can check: the curriculum, with about five years of written practice reports, feedback, and examinations, and our reviews of fraudulent teachers in the Discernment library. The school does not promise healing, it warns against shortcuts, and it publishes its structure openly.

Most of the schools you come across are probably not genuine. They belong to no tradition, and their teachers are self-taught or learned everything from public books. Magic cannot be taught that way.

Ancient Masters is part of the Order of the Cosmic Storms and belongs to the Magic Tradition. The masters of the Order are living mages who continue to walk the path, accumulate knowledge, and advance further into Magic. The school's knowledge is substantial and still grows, in part because our teachers have a living teacher, who also has a teacher. The hierarchy lets a student grow faster by working with, or under, someone more advanced.

Through the school's Discord server, which opens with any membership, the trial included.

About five years, depending on the student. The Foundation has nine semesters, which take at least four and a half years, followed by the examinations. The time needed to pass the exams varies: some students need longer, and some never pass.

This is real training. A two-day seminar sells an impression, and an impression is only a fleeting feeling: it fades, and you remain who you were. Internal transformation takes time and effort.

Each year builds on the previous one. The first year covers the basic practices: meditation, energy cultivation, sensing energy, and visualization. More advanced teachings follow as the student's experience grows.

Beginners are expected to train at least 30 minutes a day, six days a week. The time grows as you gain experience and control over your mental faculties, and so do the habit and the discipline. The school does not require more than two hours of training a day, so the program fits most work and family lives.

Cultivation is an investment. The skills and qualities it develops can change your life in ways that give back the hours you put in, and more.

The Cultivation Ladder records your practice hours, and your progress along the Foundation is tied to how much you practice.

The school does not promise results by any date. Progress depends on practice and varies from one student to the next.

Every student is free to leave at any point, and membership can be canceled at any time. If you have to stop training, you can take a break of up to two years: your progress stays recorded, and you return to where you left off.

• Trial: $49.99, one-time. Starting exercises and Discord access, with no time limit.
• Semester plan: $99.99 a month, billed $599.99 per semester. Six months of mentorship and two full curriculum modules. The best rate.
• Monthly plan: $119.99 a month. Cancel at any time.

The price is the same at every level of the Foundation.

No. The school does not process refunds. Access to the materials opens immediately after payment. Membership fees go to the teaching, to the upkeep and development of the school and its knowledge, and to the costs of running the school.

Through Stripe, using the payment links on the Apply page.

The school is led by two masters of the tradition, known to students as Aeordimm and Neirong. Both have spent decades in practice, first as students and then as researchers and teachers. They share their insights and knowledge with those who follow them on the path.

You submit written practice reports, and between reports you record your experiences in practice journals. The reports show the masters where you stand on the path. Questions go to the feedback channel, and the answers there serve every student. The training rewards hard work, and the masters' guidance comes when it is truly needed.

The training takes place on the school's Discord server. Students introduce themselves there, submit practice reports, and ask questions. It is also where the school's practitioners talk with one another. Discord is a messaging and community app that runs on any device; for communities like ours it has largely replaced forums.

The Foundation is taught through written instructions, the Cultivation Ladder where you log your practice hours, written reports, and feedback. Feedback is given in the feedback channel, where every answer serves all students. Lectures may be added later: for Foundation students they will open with progress (training hours), and for others they will be a separate purchase in the Lectorium.

English. Technology makes training in other languages possible, but the school formally supports English.

The program is not recommended for people with serious health conditions or mental illness.

The school does not treat diseases. Do not join in the hope of healing or treating an illness.

The program moves step by step, and each stage prepares the ground for the next under the teachers' supervision. A well-built foundation is what protects the student; quick schemes that skip it lead to deviations and pitfalls, which is why the school does not offer them.

The Foundation ends with three exams: written coursework and two practical tests.

• Coursework tests the ability to record and build up individual experience of working with Magic, and it assesses intellect. An Adept of the Ancient Arts produces original research based on practical experience.
• The second test examines ESP: the candidate locates a living object.
• The third test examines the ability to scan and identify the assemblage point, which represents a person's level of spiritual development. It is a key skill that keeps a practitioner from getting lost and confused on the path.

A student who passes all three exams is accepted into the Magus Order and receives a formal letter of initiation.

As an Adept, you continue with a more advanced and more demanding curriculum.

In-person seminars are reserved for Adepts who have completed the Foundation. Individual consultations or additional training sessions, online or in person, are possible when a teacher's time allows, at a separate rate.

The path of a Magus is a path of seeking truth about the universe and oneself. Through cultivation, the practitioner frees himself from inner darkness, mental afflictions, and suffering. His motivation shifts to spiritual growth: exploring the world, seeking truth, and experiencing reality beyond the five senses.

No. There are countless masters with countless siddhis, the abilities that develop through practice, inside the tradition. Showing abilities in public is unethical and forbidden in the tradition. Its masters and teachers do not seek fame or personal attention, and they do not build a personality cult around their ego. The school opens a valid path to becoming a Magus for those willing to walk it. Awakening happens in the right conditions and place.