Requirements for Sword Circle Initiation

Candidates for Sword Initiation must fulfill the following

I.                   Initiation into the Sean Ciall line (see Sean Ciall line requirements)

II.                Honorable military service

III.             Martial arts training

IV.              Active participation in no less than 70% of regularly scheduled Sword Circle meetings for no fewer than 12 months.

V.                 Active and disciplined adherence to an approved daily magickal regimen for no less than one year

VI.              Create at least one functional material martial weapon (offensive or defensive)

VII.           Core competencies:

a.       Basic Understanding of Ritual Combat & Safety

b.      Basic Swordsmanship:

                                                               i.      Stance & movements

                                                             ii.      attacks & defense

                                                            iii.      Sword kata

                                                           iv.      Sparring

c.       Basic Martial Skills

                                                               i.      strikes, blocks & kicks

                                                             ii.      falls, rolls & tumbling

                                                            iii.      basic grappling

d.      Basic Weather Magick

e.       Basic Camouflage& Stealth techniques (mundane & magickal)

VIII.        Required readings:

a.       Psychic Self Defense by Dion Fortune

b.      The Art of War by Sun Tzu

c.       The Book of five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

d.      The Wiccan Warrior by Cuhulain, Kerr

e.       Full Contact Magick  by Cuhulain, Kerr

f.        Real Magick by Issac Bonewits

g.       The Spell of Making by Blacksum

h.       When, Why…If by Robin Wood

i.         Science of Breath: A Practical Guide 

j.        by Rudolph Ballentine, Alan Hymes, Rama

k.      Shambhala: Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa

l.         he Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

m.     Highland Swordsmanship: Techniques of the Scottish Sword Masters by William Hope, Mark Rector McBane

n.       Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat Greenhill Military Paperbacks (Greenhill Military Paperbacks). by Hans Talhoffer

o.      Fight Directing for the Theatre by J. Allen Suddeth

p.      Born in Blood : The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson

IX.              Once the candidate has completed the core competencies listed here, s/he will sit before a board of ideally not less than three Sword initiates. The initiates will each select at least one core competency from the above list to demonstrate; which core competencies will be tested will not be briefed with the candidate beforehand.

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