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

Magic is more circular than linear: you say that you still do 1 thru 3 while progressing on 4, but what if 4 is really just 2 + 1? This is one of the great pitfalls of reaching to the divine, the path grows ever tangled, tangled by our own wants, needs and weaves. Some wish for personal interest and advancement, others seek this, or some that, still others know only one, strangely accidentally but probably pertinent piece of fact that could help lift an entire place. I know it's easy to look for a 'schooled' pace in magic, but unless your a student of a certain particular faction then you should make sure, as IA stated to know the difference between advance of the work, and advance of the study.

This post has been edited by Bb3: Dec 19 2011, 05:47 AM