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Level 4: Lay Clergy Specialty Program

CA400 – Ritual Garb
This two-part course explores various types of modern Pagan ritual clothing and the basics of sewing techniques. Students will learn to choose a pattern and appropriate material and make their own ritual robes.

HH400 - Path of the Healer
What does it mean to be a healer? How does one tread this path? What are the options and venues for learning? These questions and more are discussed in this course as students explore various methods of healing and are introduced to what it is like to BE a healer.

HH500 – Introduction to Religious Counseling
This introduction course reviews the points and issues raised in the Level 2 course on Counseling and then expands on them to address the specific concerns involved in being a religious counselor. Some issues that will be discussed are self-identity crises, spiritual confusion, spiritual support, being a priestess, serving for rites, and counseling.

Ma400 – Wards/Sigils/Magical Seals
Having learned about talismans and spirit beings in Level 3, students are ready to look further at the meanings and used of magical seals (like the Seals of Solomon), design and create their own seals, design personal and magical sigil and how to use them, and create ward including invoking the aid of spirit beings to support these wards. This is a preliminary course to the Path of the Warrior II class as here you learn more advanced techniques of protecting yourself.

MA500 – Trance & Channeling
Having learned energy work and techniques of meditation, students are ready to learn methods of trance work and channeling. These skills are necessary for the magical student who wants to connect with elements, spiritual energies and even the divine. They are crucial if one wishes to eventually Draw Down the Sun or Moon in ritual, a key aspect to many neo-Pagan rituals.

MA600 – Path of the Warrior II
What does it mean to be a warrior in a neo-Pagan tradition? What does it mean and what are the responsibilities of the one who stands outside the circle with sword or staff? Who are the Warders and what do they do? This is not a path for the light of heart. Your heart must sing with the sense of a warrior and the dance of battle, the need to protect and uphold the honour of others... the willingness to stand against all odds physical and spiritual... to BE the guardian of the gates. This course will discuss and explore this path and all it entails. (It is a requirement for students taking the Warriors Path Specialty.)

PH400 – Coven Dynamics
This course is full of discussions about how to find, create, and run a coven... including some of the blessings and challenges involved.

PH500 – Clergyhood
What does it mean to truly be clergy? What are the roles and responsibilities of Pagan clergy? Where does one learn and how does one become one? How recognized are Pagan clergy in a given community? To what degree are they recognized legally? These and many more questions are the topics of this course.

RI400 – Rites of Passage
This series of classes explores traditional forms of rites of passage and how neo-Pagans can and do mark them today. Pregnancy, Birth, First Menses, Rite of Manhood, Union (handfasting/ marriage), Separation (divorce), and death.

RI501 – Liturgy II
This course explores why a consistent liturgy is beneficial to your practice. Learn how to formulate a consistent ritual structure to provide continuity and comfort to your rituals, and why this is a good idea. It also examines the requirements of creating an entire year of seasonal rituals, rites of passage, and Esbats.

RI502 – Ritual Leadership
This course takes the student beyond the basics of designing a ritual to planning and leading a public ritual. Students will discuss and explore the ways of performance, public attention, the background management of planning and booking space and advertising for the rituals, as well as how to manage with children in ritual or deal with varying energies in a public ritual setting.

RI600 – Creating a Temple
This two-part course explores the physical temple space creation and the astral temple space creation. Students will discuss their actual temple spaces and create and consecrate their ideal astral temples.

RI700 – Drawing Down Deities
This series of classes explores more trance and channeling work as student learn to draw lunar and solar energies and aspect deities.

RW400 – Keeping Records
This course explores the concept of history, of tracing development (both of the individual and of a group), and the ethics involved in keeping records for others. Learn how to keep records for a coven, for students you teach, and for yourself.

SS400 – Laws: Craft & Societal
This is a reading/discussion course on the craft laws, known also as the Ordains. It also looks at how our modern social laws and our spiritual practices cross paths.

SS501 – Introduction to Leadership
This introduction course is designed to help the student lead small groups in ritual or discussion. It will discuss coordination and planning techniques and discuss pitfalls and how to deal with them. These are important issues for both the solitary seeking solid grounding and personal leadership and the student wishing to one day be clergy to serve the community. (This course is required for students taking the Pagan Leadership Specialty Program)

SS502 – Introduction to Teaching
This introduction course is designed to help the student understand what goes into the planning and teaching of Pagan classes, what it means to be a teacher, evaluating students, reflecting on teaching techniques. It is a bit of insight into what it is like to stand in our (the teacher's) shoes in case the student wish to become a teacher. (This course is required for students taking the Pagan Teacher Specialty Program.)


External Requirements:

Lead a public Sabbat and Esbat ritual

Reading Material

Opening to Channel by Sanaya Roman & Duane Packer
Coven Craft by Amber K
Inside a Witch's Coven (retitled Witch's Coven) by Edain McCoy
Wicca Covens by Judy Harrow
Spiritual Mentoring by Judy Harrow
Book of the Law by A. Crowley
Book of Shadows by Lady Sheba
Pagans and the Law by Dana Eiler

 

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