How Does It All Fit In Together...? Options

I've been hoping to work with the Geotia for a while now but I've recently been wondering how some of the magical branches are best approached. For example I have been doing a sort of Golden Dawn approach (I imagine this is pretty common) but I wanted to outline exactly what I've been working on for a while, in order, to get some comments and insight into it.

This is beginning to end:

1) religious stuff/psychology
2) meditations/astrology/occult history and various texts
3) dreamwork/Hebrew/Latin/Greek
4) astral work/Qabalah
5) Geotic evocations
6) Enochian work
7+) ???

So what I try and do is get a solid functioning ability to work with one level before I move on to a higher numbered level. But I don't stop working with the earlier numbers once I move on, so I've been focusing on 4 for a while but I still do numbers 1 through 3. My question is how does this look? I'm not confident about the placement of 5 and 6, mostly because I hardly can understand Goetic or Enochian magic without having the fundamentals covered. I don't want to be like Dee and have to get someone else to do my dirty work lol, because I don't have the proper ability with astral senses.

I've been spending seriously hours daily trying to get to the point where I feel I'm covered with astral stuff so I can move on to the Goetic spirits, which I'm excited about, but I enjoy the process and am not rushing it. I'm aiming for 6 months to a year before trying to move on to number five, but should I be doing Enochian work simultaneously or even before Goetic stuff?

I feel like the Goetia work in general is more straightforward about what I have to do than the troubles of dealing with than Enochian "angels". I've been reading "The Enochian Evocation of Dr. John Dee" by Geoffrey James (As Imperial Arts specifically recommended in an older post) and I get the impression that Enochian work may be trickier due to the spirits than Goetic demons. (no offense to anyone who does Goetic work I'm pretty ignorant on the subject).

Any comments are welcome, thanks.

This post has been edited by ☞Tomber☜: Dec 6 2011, 02:47 PM

Amazing answer. I had not even thought of this point "Talking straight to a 16th century academic was not going to go over well, so great care was taken to avoid violating his personal conscience about spiritual beings and magical powers. " But that makes sense. Also I like what you said about the sequencing, I'll have to try not to mistake "advancing in studies" as progress, something I probably have been doing. I'm glad I got to read this, thanks.

I'll have to think about the three grades of magicians also.

Very interesting, I will be printing this out so I have a copy it's so useful and spot on.