Roman Catholic Worried... Options

As you can tell from the topic title, all this stuff interests me and I'd like to be able to perform some of it, but everything about the Golden Dawn, Hermeticism, and Ceremonial Magick in general tends to freak me out. I'm a Roman Catholic and I'm obscenely worried about my spiritual self getting into some trouble by doing this stuff. Are there any 'Judeo-Christian' roots to these rituals? I mean it doesn't take a lot to notice the archangels and God's names in the rituals, but seeing videos of people using sinister voices and generally acting like they want to be Lucifer's best friend during said rituals is a little worrisome.

If anyone has any advice for me I'd really appreciate it. I want to be closer with my HGA and thereby God by doing a little magick everyday, I desperately want Him to work through me, but what if unwittingly I allow myself to be worked by an entity with less than amiable goals? Etc., etc.

Thanks in advance..

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Thelema is Christianity.

Wuuuuhhhh. That is an argument I often heard in the OTO between the xtian and pagan fractions.

The statement is not 100% true. We worship Nuit, Hadit and RaHoorKhuit, and a lot of other egyptian derived godforms and also godforms from Sumer, chaldaeic gods, yezidic gods etc etc. Sure there is a part that deals with christian, gnostic and rosicrucian elements. But calling Thelema Xtianity is not justified. Thelema is a metareligion, like Budhism, and most of the people work in a more or less pagan surrounding although they include some judaeochristian elements. So it is OK to call us pagan, but also OK if you call us gnostic judaeochristian mystics. Aslong we are not called satanists call us what you want (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

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