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t cometh from hhi (place rose, cup, paten of bread and salt, lamp, cross and triangle upon the altar (the candidate must be blindfolded and tied thrice around the waist (hierophant knocks once) kerux (goes to the east, and faces west "hekas! hekas! este be beloi (returns to the southeast and faces east) bell/ hierophant (holds up the sceptre, faces west, and knocks once "fraters and sorors of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, in the temple of isis mighty mother, assist me to open the hall of the neophyte. kerux, see that the temple is properly guarded, that doors and entrances have been checked and all are present" kerux (knocks on all the doors and checks the portal "very honored hierophant, the hall is properly guarded (salutes hierophant) hierophant "very honored hiereus, guard the

n checked and all are present" kerux (knocks on all the doors and checks the portal "very honored hierophant, the hall is properly guarded (salutes hierophant) hierophant "very honored hiereus, guard the other side of the portal (hiereus turns west. kerux is on his right with his lamp and wand, and assure yourself that all present have witnessed the golden dawn" hiereus "fraters and sorors of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, give the sign of the neophyte (all give the sign of the neophyte to the hierophant, then the hiereus gives both signs after the others have completed it. very honored hierophant, all present are initiated members" hierophant (gives the sign of the enterer, but not the sign of the silence to the west "let the number of officers of the grade and nature be proclaime

d oath i have taken, i hearby summit myself to a deadly and hostile current of will set in motion by the chiefs of the order, by which i should fall slain or paralysed without visable weapon as if slain by a lightning flash. so help me, the lord of the universe and my own higher soul. 31 rise, newly obligated neophyte of the golden dawn in the outer. i declare you neophyte of the 0=0 grade of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. honored hegemon, place the neophyte in the north part of the hall, the greatest symbol of darkness (hegemon places the initiate in the north facing east. the kerux goes with the lamp and wand to the northeast. the stolistes and dadouchos stand ready to follow in the procession, and the sentinel remains in his place) hierophant "the voice of my undying soul said u

able name. amen. all rise (hegemon, hiereus and hierophant all touch their tools above the neophyte) kerux (removes the hoodwink and yells "light" hegemon "inheritor of a dying world, we call thee to the living beauty" hiereus "wanderer in the wild darkness, we call thee to the gentle light" hierophant "long has thou dwelt in the darkness, quit the night and seek the day. we receive thee into the hermetic order of the golden dawn" hierophant (knocks "khabs" hiereus (knocks "am" hegemon (knocks "pekht" hiereus (knocks "konx" hegemon (knocks "om" hierophant (knocks "pax" hegemon (knocks "light" hierophant (knocks "in" hiereus (knocks "extension (kerux moves to the northeast, and holds his lamp up high) hierophant (points to the kerux "in all thy wandering in darkness, the lamp of the kerux w

erophant "frater kerux, i command you to declare that the neophyte has been initiated into the mysteries of the 0=0 grade of neophyte (kerux advances to the northeast) kerux "in the name of the lord of the universe and by command of the very honored hierophant, hear ye all that i proclaim that_ who will hereafter be known to by the motto_ has been admitted in due form to the neophyte grade of the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the outer in the temple of isis mighty mother" 37 hierophant "very honored hiereus, i delegate you to pronouncing a short address to our frater/soror(s) on his/her/their admission" hiereus "as you have now passed through the ceremony of your admission, allow me to congratulate you on being admitted as a member of this ancient and honorable order whose professed

d, action or inaction" hierophant "remember that your admission to this order gives you no right to initiate any other person or to form any temple or teaching sanctuary without dispensation from the greatly honored chiefs of the second order. closing kerux (goes to the northeast "hekas! hekas! este be beloi" bell\ hierophant (knocks "fraters and sorors of the temple of isis mighty mother and the hermetic order of the golden dawn, assist me to close the hall of the neophyte. frater kerux, see that the hall is properly guarded" kerux (having checked the hall "very honored hierophant, the hall is properly guarded" hierophant "honored hiereus, assure yourself that all are initiated members of the golden dawn" hiereus "fraters and sorors, give the grade sign of neophyte (done "very honored hie

at this time your task is to have a basic understanding of the initiation and the symbology of the temple. the whole purpose of the golden dawn system of magic and the neophyte initiation is to begin the process whereby the candidate can receive exposure to his or her higher self and the knowledge therein. in the hall of the neophyte of the temple of isis mighty mother, the flagship temple of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the walls are draped in black curtains. this is done to prevent any distractions and also to increase flashing colors that are fused on some of the implements. the floor itself is black and white checkered tile. the black and white tile could be symbolic of yin and yang or masculine and feminine energies. in early masonic initiations, the black and white tile ref

you. more will be given on these two signs in higher grade levels, as they are used extensively in both magical and astral operations. make sure you are doing these signs at least twice a day with your daily rituals, as it is necessary to affix the symbolism deep in the subconscious mind for it to be effective. the special handshake greeting that is used to greet fellow fraters and sorors of the hermetic order of the golden dawn has several symbolic reminders that help reaffirm the bond and secrets shared by fellow members. when you greet a fellow member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, stretch out your right hand as you would to shake someones hand. upon this joining turn the hands so that they are in a horizontal position. the frater/soror whose palm is face up, places their le

thus monotheistic in essence, but allows for the tenfold structure of the sephiroth upon the tree of life. the emanations as they proceed down from the godhead to the manifested world are: kether (crown) chokmah (wisdom) binah (understanding) chesed (mercy) geburah (power strength tiphareth (beauty/ harmony) netzach (victory) hod (splendor) yesod (foundation) malkuth (kingdom) occultists in the hermetic order of the golden dawn use the qabalistic tree of life as a matrix or grid for comparing the archetypal images of different mythologies that could be adapted to ceremonial magic. for example, the merciful father (chesed) has parallels in other pantheons, namely odin (scandinavia) zeus (greece) jupiter (rome) and ra (egypt) this system of comparison became known as mythological correspon

on to stick to such a repetitious plan. we can say that it also allows you to know thyself, as has been the famous saying throughout many ancient schools of thought. put as a whole, let it be understood that banishings are a basis for the preparations of invocation. competency in banishings is required inasmuch that without it one may be led into future problems or failure. 75 as magicians of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, let us understand that we don't do magic, we are magic. it is suggested that planning a daily routine for ritual work is very helpful to one's growth. we can now say that magic without the use of banishings would be like a football game without a football, or a dinner without the silverware. banishings and invocations work hand in hand. one can't do without the o

s weekly. one idea you might want to try is to do your l.b.r.p.,then take a warm bath and perform the meditation while you lay in the bath tub. it is extremely relaxing and has a tendency of inducing deep mind affects. the following is an exercise that will enable the aspiring occultist to be able to raise energy. prerequisites for this ritual are competency in the l.b.r.p. in accordance with the hermetic order of the golden dawn's system of magic. in this lesson we will only be discussing the process of how to raise magical energy, whereas in later lessons you will incorporate this knowledge to control and direct energy. step 1 facing west with feet together, standing straight, begin quieting the mind while performing the relaxation ritual. make sure your banishings have already been 94 p

mance of this ritual, the energies invoked are drawn from the kether sphere. this is in opposition to that of wiccan tradition where it is drawn from the groin, or yesod, which is considered lunar energy. the ritual of the middle pillar, simple as it may seem, is not easy. like all the rituals, it takes time to feel the full effects and benefits. all in all it takes hard work and practice. 96 the hermetic order of the morning star .n e o p h y t e 0 =0 this ritual for bringing someone comfort can be performed without a prior divination. it can also be performed at any time and place of convenience for you, as long as you know that you will not be disturbed during the ritual. the supplies you will need for this ritual are a purple candle and an incense of your choice. for example: water gol

l world. therefore, if we have negative cards surrounding us or the situation in the higher planes of existence, we will eventually find that these influences work their way into our physical lives and can either bring reward or havoc. remember that the idea of self mastery is that you are responsible for your own universe, you are responsible for your own world. so, a lot of practitioners in the hermetic order of the golden dawn like to use the circle spread on a fairly regular basis to get an idea of what kind of influences are around them and utilize the reading to adjust the ritual work accordingly. we will share with you the basic meanings (keep in mind that these do not have to be memorized although it would be to your benefit) both right side up and reverse. this is one of the few s

of the golden dawn like to use the circle spread on a fairly regular basis to get an idea of what kind of influences are around them and utilize the reading to adjust the ritual work accordingly. we will share with you the basic meanings (keep in mind that these do not have to be memorized although it would be to your benefit) both right side up and reverse. this is one of the few spreads in the hermetic order of the golden dawn that uses reverse keys. most of the other spreads do not rely on reverse cards because they rely more heavily on the cards and influences around them rather than on the reverse card process. however, this spread only uses a certain number of cards and therefore in order to be more specific we use reverse keys as well. tarot divinatory meanings of the major arcana

in other lessons, we will go deeper into the indepth meaning of the tarot cards. for now it is important that you learn this prayer and, as i mentioned earlier, it is not necessary to say it word for word. before describing the method of doing the circle spread divination, let's examine the motives for doing it. the circle spread divination was given to the outer order by the second order of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. it was given for a very important reason, that reason being that no person should begin magical practices without some prior divination as to the cause, the effect, the surrounding circumstances and the nature of the working at hand. many times we think our thoughts are noble, when in fact we are being influenced by negative energy. the circle spread divination m

ADEPTUS MINOR INITIATION

mit them in due form (carries his grade sash along with the recommendation from the chief of the order, the lamen of the hiereus, and a separate prepared speech) third (opens door "who bringest thou here with thee" 9 aspirant (loudly and firmly gives speech "hear ye all that i, the honored frater/soror, stand before you, being a member of the 4=7 grade of the first order, the highest grade of the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the outer, a philosophus; one qualified to fill the important post of hiereus in a temple of the first order, one who hath passed the five examinations prescribed between the first and second orders, and hath been declared lord of the 24th, 25th and 26th paths in the portal of the adepti. i bear a written recommendation from the chiefs of my temple guaranteeing

ALEISTER CROWLEY LIBER 777

e service of dogmatic interpretation, the lost symbolism of the vault in which christian rosenkreutz is said to have been buried, some of the work of dr. dee and sir edward kelly, some very imperfect tables in cornelius agrippa, the art of raymond lully, some of the very artificial effusions of the esoteric theosophists, and of late years the knowledge of the order ros rube et aure crucis and the hermetic order of the golden dawn. unluckily, the leading spirit in these latter societies1 found that his prayer, give us this day our daily whisky, and just a wee drappie mair for luck! was sternly answered, when you have given us this day our daily knowledge-lecture. under these circumstances daath got mixed with dewar, and beelzebub with buchanan. but even the best of these systems is excessiv

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE SWORD OF SONG

e swarthy red of hate in a man s cheek, and darkened utterly. foaming at the fouth the wretched jehjaour clutched at air and fell prone. iii. to what god should he appeal? his own, hanuman, was silent. sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. so jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out in a mighty current of hate towards his former friend. 1 allan macgragor bennett (whose motto in the hermetic order of the golden dawn, was iehi aour, i.e. let there be light, now ananda metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 taphtatharath [more usually taphthartharath t.s, the spirit of mercury. now hate hath power, though not the power of love. so it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance mara1 appeared to him. never before ha

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2 2

king for thee without, and yet thou hast thy habitation within me, if only i desire thee and pant after thee. i went round the streets and squares of the city of this world seeking thee; and i found thee not, because in vain i sought without for him who was within myself" 238 the neophyte it was on november 18, 1898, that through the introduction of fra. v.n, and under his guidance p. entered the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and became a neophyte in the grade of 0= 0 in the outer. it may be of some interest to the reader, and also it may in some ways help to elucidate the present chapter, if a short account of the origin of this order is first entered upon. but it will be understood that the following historical sketch, as well as the accounts we are about to give of the rituals them

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

d luck to, its owner. in this sense a rosary, crucifix, st. christopher medal, etc, is a talisman. but, as you know, the most powerful magick is that done by the person affected. in the same way, the most powerful talisman is one actually made by the person who needs it. a talisman made by one person for another can never be as strong as a personally made one. according to the magickal order, the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a talisman is "a magickal figure charged with the force which it is intended to represent. it is so charged by (i) inscription, and (ii) consecration. it can be of any shape, but let's first look at the material of the talisman. a talisman can be of virtually any material paper, silver, copper, lead, stone but traditionally some substances are more appropriate th

CHRONOLOGIA RORISPERGIUS

of the rosicrucian society of england. 3rd edition samuel wesier, inc. translated from the hebrew. follows golden dawn. translates hebrew into english, and collated with latin versions of pistorius, postellus and rittangelius, following the latter, rather than former commentaries. 1887-1961 ren schwaller 1888 anna kingsford (annie bonus) dies papus' trait el mentaire de science occulte published; hermetic order of the golden dawn established in london 1889 mathers' edition of kabbalah unveiled published. mathers' edition of key of solomon published. eleazar b. judah of worms, one of the several hasidei ashkenaz who wrote on the "sefer yetzirah" in its entirety in przemysl. papus (gerard encausse) publishes "le tarot des bohemiens. oswald wirth, a swiss occultist writing in french, publishe

DAVID ICKE CHILDREN OF THE MATRIX

o-christian themes and they, too, trace their ancestry back to abraham in the old testament, the alleged origin of the hebrew belief system. muslims believe that abraham built the kaaba, the sacred shrine of mecca, and the focus of pilgrimage for muslims all over the world. but it was originally a pagan temple to goddess worship featuring the famous black stone. w. wynn westcott, a founder of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, wrote in his work, the magical mason, that the black stone was first used for pagan rituals. a stone is ancient symbolism for the penis and for this reason many religions were founded on a stone or a "rock, as with peter the rock and christianity. in the old testament tale of jacob, he anointed his stone with oil, which sounds like great fun. must try that one. t

DAVID ICKE THE BIGGEST SECRET

trace their ancestry back to our old mate,abraham, who is said to have emerged from the sumerian city of ur and headed foregypt. they believe that abraham built the kaaba, the sacred shrine at mecca, and thefocus of pilgrimage for muslims all over the world. but it was in fact originally a pagantemple of goddess (semiramis) worship featuring the famous black stone. w. wynnwestcott, founder of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, wrote in his work, themagical mason, that the black stone supposed to have been brought to mecca byabraham, was used originally for ancient pagan ritual.29 again you see brotherhoodsymbolism in this new religion. the symbols of the crescent and the curved sword, thescimitar, are identified with the moon and venus, the morning star, the term used forlucifer. v enu

ity of shamballa, the legendary home of the secret occult adepts or masters who aresaid to have secretly influenced world affairs throughout history. they are variouslyknown as the secret chiefs, the hidden masters, or the great white brotherhood andsome researchers believe they are the force behind the creation of the freemasons,sufis, knights templar, rosicrucians, theosophical society, and the hermetic order ofthe golden dawn.17 i think these people are reptilians, some of them anyway. roerichwas involved in the formation of the league of nations, the first attempt at worldgovernment, and supported the work of dr andrija puharich, a scientist who helped todevelop the psychic powers of a young israeli called un geller.18in britain, the round table-royal institute of international affairs

DICTIONARY GLOSSARY OF OCCULT TERMINOLOGY

ter sex to indicate roughly "sibling" in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, an adelphon is the title of the first degree of membership, and correlates to the fire of earth in the sephiroth of malkuth (i.e. the russet colored quarter of malkuth. the primary principle of this grade is based on christian knighthood. adeptus minor: a term used to describe a learned and skilled magician. in the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) the student of the order was first taught ritual magick once they entered into this degree, which was the first degree of the inner order, the roseae rubeae et aureae crucis [r.r. et a.c (q.v. aeon of horus: the age of oneness between human beings and god that follows after the aeon of osiris where human-god was a duality. according to aleister crowley

guardian (h.g.a: an expression meaning your higher self. to some practitioners, a more knowledgeable non-physical entity. contacting your holy guardian angel [h.g.a] is known as "the knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel" establishing this relationship is considered to be the same as achieving enlightenment or cosmic consciousness. the principle work of an "adeptus minor" in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. apport: from the french meaning "to bring. in spiritism (q.v, any object brought to a seance by a spirit (q.v) or entity from the spirit world or the astral plane (q.v. aquarius "the water-bearer" in astrology (q.v, the eleventh sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of fixed (q.v) and air (q.v) and is ruled by the planet uranus (q.v. on the rainbow wand (

ked woman serves as the altar, and other noxious substances is used including excrement, urine, and blood. black magick (q.v) is said to be practiced at these services. it had it's origins in decadent france but was so rare as to be virtually mythical. blavatsky, helena petrovna: a ukrainian woman who was the principle founder and guiding force behind the theosophical society. many members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) were also members of this society. her importance is also due to two large books she wrote, isis unveiled and the secret doctrine. many mystical and occult writings or so-called "channeling" are directly or indirectly based on these two books. blood of the red lion: in sex magick (q.v) the semen. body, etheric: an emanation of all created things. halfwa

er magickal information compiled by a witch (q.v) or group of witches. it varies from coven (q.v) to coven. the books of shadows of gerald b. gardner (q.v.)and alex sanders (q.v) serve as the guides for their followers. b.o.t.a; builders of the adytum: an american mystical/magickal order/organization still in existence to this day, founded by paul foster case. paul foster case was a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v. the b.o.t.a. was the first organization to present a deck of tarot (q.v) cards with the g.d. correspondences of hebrew letters to each major arcana (q.v) card. breaks: refers to interruptions in concentration. aleister crowley (q.v) gave techniques to develop concentration and overcome these breaks. many occultists feel that his techniques are too sever

dha is a title of accomplishment and of respect, and means "enlightened one" buddhism teaches freedom from attachment to worldly things by getting rid of suffering caused by one's desires- c- calls (keys, enochian: invocations (q.v) to the enochian (q.v) angels (q.v) dictated to john dee through his seer, the alchemist and rouge, edward kelley. the calls were used extensively in the magick of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v, aleister crowley (q.v, and anton lavey. cancer "the crab" in astrology (q.v, the fourth sign of the zodiac (q.v) having the qualities of cardinal (q.v) and water (q.v) and is ruled by the planet luna (the moon (q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color orange-yellow. keywords include: home, indistinct, protec

in true meditation (q.v. counterpart: the astral (q.v) level of an animate or inanimate material object. the counterpart can persist for some time after the material object, as such, has ceased to exist in the material world. also called the astral double. crowley, aleister [nee edward alexander crowley: many claim he was the most important magician of the 20th century. after training within the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d, he developed his own system of magick based upon ordo templi orientis [o.t.o] sex magickal secrets, g.d. techniques, his own channeled writings, and his own practical experiences. the order he founded was the argentium astrum [a.a. he is famous for his many writings, including the encyclopedia called the equinox, and magick: parts 1-4. cup: see chalice. curc

was a devout christian, who is best known for developing with his assistant (edward kelley) the enochian (q.v) system of ceremonial magick (q.v. the system might have died out with him, but was revived in part due to the work of an adversary (meric casaubon, d.d) who used dee's personal and magickal diaries as a basis for attacking those who practiced occult arts in his own treatise of 1659. the hermetic order of the golden dawn (q.v) found references to the enochian system, and greatly expanded it, making it the basis of their magical system. demon: from the greek meaning "spirit" in christian folklore, an evil spirit under the authority of satan (q.v. modern practice tends to distinguish "demon" from "daemon (q.v, the guardian angles (q.v) of the greeks. deosil: clockwise. the usual dir

sing into" the act of casting a magickal spell, especially through the use of muttered, recited, or chanted words of power. enochian: a system of magick channeled by dr. john dee (q.v) advisor to queen elizabeth i of england, and his assistant, edward kelley. it was attributed to the jewish patriarch, enoch by them. sometimes this system is called "angelic" the system was further developed by the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d. enthusiasm: a word of greek origin, which initially meant "inspiration or possession by a god" in our context, an emotional interest which can lead to total absorption of attention in a subject and hence to some degree of "altered states of consciousness (q.v. esbat: a lesser gathering of witches for the purposes of celebration and works of magick. an esbat

bad. the completed karma (q.v. few, ogham: one of the characters of the celtic tree alphabet called ogham. fire: one of the five magickal elements (q.v. it has the qualities of being warm and dry. it is the element of the south. first matter: a mixture of the serpent (q.v) and the menstruum (q.v. used in alchemy (q.v) and sex magick (q.v. fortune, dion (nee violet mary firth: a past member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (q.v) who was a lay psychologist as well as a natural psychic (q.v) and ceremonial magician. dion fortune founded her own order based upon that order's teachings and gnostical christian mysticism known as the society of the inner light. she wrote works including sane occultism and the mystical qabalah. futhark: a word made up of the first six rune (q.v) characters

d humanity. the goal of members of gnostic sects that flourished in the early centuries of the christian era. goblins: evil spirits noted for their ugly appearance and malicious habits. god-form: the outer expression or posture and mindset of a god or entity. the magician takes on the characteristics and powers of a god/entity by invoking (q.v) the god/entity through ritual. this was known in the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v, as assuming a god-form. gods: powerful, immortal, spiritual beings who command the lesser spirits and living creatures of the earth and the universe and are worshipped by humanity with prayers, offerings, sacrifices, and the erection of temples and images. g.d; golden dawn, the (hermetic order of: see hermetic order of the golden dawn, the. govi: a clay

pillar in regular working, or at the middle of the hall during initiations to symbolize a balance and reconciliation of forces. heh-cha-loht: hebrew for "accent" see merkabah. heptagram: a star of seven (7) points drawn with a straight, single, unbroken, reflecting line. it's points are related to the seven traditional planets of astrology. the principle symbol of the argentium astrum [a.a,(q.v. hermetic order of the golden dawn, the [g.d: a secret society organized in the late 1880's. it was able to unite several forms of magick and occult philosophy. most books on magick written in this century have been written by people who were members of that order, or who were directly or indirectly influenced by that organization. hexagram: a star of six (6) points formed by two overlapping equila

thmic sound or gesture. more properly, the techniques for inducing various states of trance in oneself or in other persons during which time the conscious mind is temporarily and partially placed in abeyance and become subordinate to the subconscious mind of the one hypnotized- i- iao: pronounced "eee-ahh-ohh" the name of the supreme godhead in gnosticism. images, telesmatic: a system used by the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) to develop images for visualization based on the letters of the name of the entity to be given an image. incubus: a spiritual entity classified as a minor demon (q.v) that comes in masculine shape/form to have sexual union with a mortal woman, often against her will and usually while she is asleep. the plural is incubi. initiate: a person who has underg

spirits into an object, such as a crystal, or into a human being. mediums and channelers invoke spirits. see channeling. it is done by a magician to obtain intimate communication with a spirit or to assume a portion of the spirit's knowledge, skill, ability, or powers. i.o.b: a ritual developed by donald michael kraig, as a powerful method of getting rid of negative things in your life, based on hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) techniques mixed with methods of exorcism. the letters stand for 1) identify; 2) objectify; and 3) banish- j- jesus: 1) born in circa 6 a.d. to humble parents, this prophet and teacher was said to be the son of god incarnate sent on earth to re-unite the created order with divinity. the founder and messiah of the christian religious faith. 2) a title kn

it has come to mean the symbol of occult authority worn by the magician about the neck during rituals. inscribed on it are the most potent words and signs of the magical current followed by the magician. larvae: non-physical psychic vampires said to "feed" on the energies of the sick and the injured. lbrh: the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. a powerful ritual technique popularized by the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v) to rid your area of unwanted positive influences. used in conjunction with the lbrp (q.v) to create a neutral space, where magickal operations can begin in a kind of "psychic vacuum. this ritual is celestial in nature. lbrp: the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. a general method of abjuration (q.v. a powerful technique popularized by the hermiti

(q.v. on the rainbow wand (q.v) and on the lotus wand aries is represented by the color yellow. keywords include: loudly, proudly, powerfully, creatively, dramatically, heartily, need for recognition, pleasure seeking, dramatically. levi-zaed, eliphas [nee alphonse louis constant: famous 19th century occultist whose writings helped begin the "french occult revival" that led to the founding of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d. wrote several influential works including, transcendental magic, and interpreted, the book of splendor. levitation: the occult suspension of a physical body without apparent support. usually applied to the suspension of a human being. christian saints, hindu yogis, and victorian spirit mediums were sometimes credited with this ability. libra "the scales" in

idents, injury, hyperactive, force, conquest, dynamic, initiative, assert, pioneer, boldly, courage, to be first, irritation, frustration, anger, violence, destruction, fabrication, constructing, war, military, soldier, fight, danger, cuts, heat, burglary, hate, rage. mathers, samuel lidden [macgregor: born 1854 in hackney of east london england, and died in 1918 of influenza. a co-founder of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d](q.v, who became the leader and guiding light of the group until schisms developed circa 1900 and the group divided into numerous factions. most noted for writing the initiatory rituals of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (q.v) from a cipher manuscript. he was responsible for the interpretation and eventual publication of many classic grimoires (q.v) of

nce was used to explain many magickal effects. mote: an old english word meaning "must" frequently used at the end of rituals or spells in the expression "so mote it be" moto: a magickal name or expression, usually in latin, greek, or hebrew. magicians choose one for themselves as a representation of what they magickally represent. this has been the practice of many magickal orders, including the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v; the argentium astrum [a.a (q.v; the ordo templi orientis [o.t.o (q.v; the order of the aurum solis [o.s.v (q.v; and the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v. mudra: a tantrik positioning on the hands with mystical import. murry, margaret: anthropologist whose controversial book, the witch cult in western europe, in 1921 sparked a revival of interest in

ciousness something you have been concentrating on. the third step in meditation. negative existence, three veils of: description of the ultimate unknowable deity, beginning with ain, or no-thing understandable, then the ain soph (q.v, or the quality of limitlessness. the third veil is the ain soph aur, or limitless light. nemyss: a simple ritual headgear of egyptian origin used by members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d (q.v, consisting of little more than a piece of folded cloth. neo-paganism: modern day pagans (q.v "those of the earth" who are attempting to reconstruct an ancient non-christian religion from the original source material of a particular mythos. neophyte: a beginner. literally a new plant. in most magickal orders, students in the first or earliest degree are

or deliberately misidentified this pagan god for satan for political reasons. old religion: a modern day reference for wicca (q.v) or witchcraft (q.v, which many occultists believe to be the descendant of an ancient pagan goddess religion. order of the argentium astrum, the [a.a: the great white brotherhood. the order of the silver star. founded by aleister crowley (q.v) as a replacement for the hermetic order of the golden dawn [g.d. crowley was the first member to re-produce the golden dawn's rituals in a public publication called the equinox. today, the a.a. is co-sponsored by the o.t.o. order of the astral star, the [o.a.s: the order of the astral star, inc. founded in 1980 in the commonwealth of kentucky, usa, by a group of ten teenagers including ghfr. pneuma asteros, ghsr. alethia

it of god to the formula of the ultimate divinity. peristyle: the sacred enclosure of voudoun (q.v) rituals. philosophus: in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, a philosophus is the title of the sixth degree of membership, and correlates to the sephiroth of netzach (q.v. the primary principle of this grade is based on mastering the element of fire (q.v. this grade was originally used by the hermetic order of the golden dawn (q.v, and was related to that order as being related to the element of fire (q.v) in their initiatory pattern. pillar: a column used to support a structure. pillar, middle: the central column on the tree of life (q.v. also a ritual designed to help move the body's energy throughout the "middle pillar" of the spine. similar to laya yoga (q.v. pillar, of mildness: t

the only true method of developing psychic and magickal skills, powers, and abilities. that which one actually does. practicus: in the order of the astral star [o.a.s (q.v, a practicus is the title of the fifth degree of membership, and correlates to the sephiroth of hode (q.v. the primary principle of this grade is based on mastering the element of air (q.v. this grade was originally used by the hermetic order of the golden dawn (q.v, and was related to that order as being related to the element of water (q.v) in their initiatory pattern. prana: pronounced "prahn-yah" it is a sanskrit word referring to psychic energy that is in the air we breathe. priest/ priestess: from the anglo saxon "preost" from the late latin "presbyter" meaning "an elder. in the christian faith, a member of the cle

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icon phenomenon. here you will find a link to the complete text of lovecraft's brief bogus history of the necronomicon. concerning the curious connnecting thread that links gnostic theology, the book of enoch, the new testament book of revelation, the elizabethan magician dr. john dee and his communications with the enochian angels, the victorian era secret society of practical magic known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the magician and great beast aleister crowley, the dreamer and writer h. p. lovecraft, and the writer and magician kenneth grant (and perhaps i should not exclude myself from this list) read the essay "dr. john dee, the necronomicon, and the cleansing of the world- a gnostic trail" by colin low, to be found at a miscellany of essays. return h ahome resources demo

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omon in its earliest form was a pentagram. given its ancient history, the modern use and understanding of the symbol are surprisingly recent. it was not until the 19th century that the pentagram assumed the prominent place it now occupies in western practical magic. it was popularized by french occultists such as eliphas levi, and from this venue found its way into the system of magic used by the hermetic order of the golden dawn. the technique for using the pentagram in golden dawn magic has become almost a universal feature of all systems of magic in english-speaking nations over the past century. in the golden dawn, the quintessence or fifth element of light or spirit is associated with the single upper point of the pentagram. the remaining four elements are assigned the lower points in

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rectly, it links the magic name of the magician with the supreme name of divine authority recognized by the magician, allowing the magician in his higher persona to channel the power of the divine name. often it bears the sigil of the magician's magic name along with the sigil or signature of the divine name. its shape depends upon the principles and practices of the magician who bears it- in the hermetic order of the golden dawn, each officer had his or her own lamen that way symbolically related to the tree of the sephiroth- but customarily it is worn as a medallion or pendent around the neck, over the heart-center. through the lamen the magician invokes the authority of god during ritual work. the lamen is both an expression of the magician's higher identity and a power object through w

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founded by aleister crowley (1875.1947) comprised of three orders: the silver star, the rosy cross, and the golden dawn. this society is also described as the great white brotherhood, although that is a term more properly applied by theosophists. the initials a a indicate argenteum astrum, and the triangle of dots signify a secret society connected with ancient mysteries. during his period in the hermetic order of the golden dawn (gd, crowley believed that he had reached the exalted stage of the silver star and was thus a secret chief of the golden dawn. after 1906 crowley launched his own order of the silver star, or a a, using rituals and teachings taken from the golden dawn. in march 1909 he began publishing the magazine the equinox, as the official organ of the a a, including rituals o

of the oriental monasteries of sinai, carmel, and st. sabas. aurum solis has had a special interest in alchemical, gnostic, medieval, and celtic traditions within a basic framework of kabalistic philosophy, affirmed through special rituals relating to spiritual consciousness. after world war i, the society s membership became influenced by newer occult trends from such other organizations as the hermetic order of the golden dawn, but authentic kabalistic traditions were strengthened by the work of rabbi morris greenburg, a noted talmudic scholar. world war ii largely suspended the society activities until 1949. some years later conflicting trends arose, largely around the issue of magical rituals designed to enhance consciousness and the actual use of occult powers. a schism occurred in 1

hentic kabalistic traditions were strengthened by the work of rabbi morris greenburg, a noted talmudic scholar. world war ii largely suspended the society activities until 1949. some years later conflicting trends arose, largely around the issue of magical rituals designed to enhance consciousness and the actual use of occult powers. a schism occurred in 1957, and one group broke away to form the hermetic order of the sacred word (osw. the main body of the aurum solis reaffirmed the original intent of its rituals so that the rites and the philosophy of the order should reflect the joy and freedom of the spirit which has been so much a part of true magick in all ages; and that, as in the early days of the order, the essential standard of judgment on any practice should not simply be that of

drug enforcement agency. sources: ayahuasca home page. http//www.ayahuasca.com. june 12, 2000. luna, eduardo. ayahuasca visions. north atlantic books, 1999, and steven f. white, eds. ayahuasca reader: encounters with the amazon s sacred vine. synergistic press, 2000. ayperor (or ipes) a count of the infernal empire. ayton, w(illiam) a(lexander (1816.1909) modern alchemist and member of the famous hermetic order of the golden dawn occult society. he was born april 28, 1816, in london, england, and was educated at charterhouse school (then in london) and trinity hall, cambridge (matriculating 1837; latin prize essay, 1838.39; b.a, 1841. he was ordained as a deacon in the church of england in 1841 and became a clergyman two years later. after serving in vari- encyclopedia of occultism& paraps

ght lessons. 22 vols. los angeles: church of light, 1922.32. the benjees said to be a former indian cult that engaged in devil worship. it seems likely that this belief was based on a misunderstanding of the symbolism of images of indian temples. bennett (charles henry) allan (1872.1923) british occultist, at one time the teacher of aleister crowley, whom he met when they were both members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. however, bennett s inclination was primarily toward mysticism rather than the occult. he lived in london in great poverty, racked by illness, but made a profound impression on a small circle of perceptive friends for his dedication to buddhist principles and ideals. aleister crowley claimed that he had once witnessed bennett levitate while in a state of meditatio

d recording time. sources: brau, jean-louis, helen weaver, and allan edmands. larousse encyclopedia of astrology. new york: new american library, 1977. burstein, stanley mayer. the babyloniaca of berosus. malibu, calif: undena publications, 1978. berridge, edward (ca. 1843.1923) british homeopathic physician who played an important role in the isis-urania temple of the occult society known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn. berridge is believed to have qualified as a medical doctor in london and as a homoeopathist in the united states. he was influenced by the writings of thomas lake harris and andrew jackson davis, whom he probably encountered during a period in the united states. he returned to england in the 1850s and founded an adventist organization called the brotherhood of th

agic for evil purposes; the invocation of diabolic and infernal powers to blind them as slaves and emissaries to man s will; in short, a perversion of legitimate mystical science. while black magicians certainly existed, there is every reason to believe that the majority of the reports of the spread of black magic were simply polemics against idealogical and personal enemies. thus, members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn accused aleister crowley of practicing black magic while crowley complained that black magicians had perverted his system. the existence of the black art and its attendant practices can be traced from the time of the ancient egyptians and persians, from the greeks and hebrews, to the period when reports of black magic were most numerous, during the middle ages, th

farmer, a hotel proprietor, and an actor among other occupations, suffering intense poverty until for a time he became secretary to james speyer, a millionaire banker. he returned to britain in 1899, where he wrote most of his well-known occult stories. the willows (1907) is considered by many as the finest supernatural tale in english. in 1900 he became a member of the famous occult society, the hermetic order of the golden dawn. blackwood was something of a mystic, particularly responsive to wild natural scenery, and believed that humons possessed latent occult faculties. he died in december 1951 at the age of 82. sources: ashley, mike. algernon blackwood: a bio-bibliography. westport, conn: greenwood, 1987. blackwood, algernon. best ghost stories of algernon blackwood. edited by e. f. b

der culture. through the theosophical society, she stimulated translation of important hindu scriptures and philosophical works. she encouraged national pride in indian culture, literature, religion, and aspirations for home rule, and she founded an important archive of sanskrit manuscripts at adyar, madras. the theosophical society she co-founded was a forerunner of the famous secret society the hermetic order of the golden dawn and numeorus other occult groups. the irish literary renaissance owes much to the hindu mysticism of william butler yeats and george w. russell, who were both influenced by the teachings of the theosophical society. sources: barker, a. t. collected writings. 14 vols. wheaton, ill: theosophical publishing house, 1950.87. besant, annie. h. p. blavatsky and the maste

returned to berkeley. he finished the compilation of the druid holy writings, which he published as the druid chronicles (evolved, and in 1978 he established the periodical druid chronicles (later pentalpha journal. in the early 1980s bonewits separated from the druids and was initiated as a priest in a gardnerian pagan group, the new reformed orthodox order of the golden dawn (no relation to the hermetic order of the golden dawn. in 1983 he moved to new york, where he and shenain bell founded ar ndraiocht fein (gaelic for our own druid faith. bonewits was named archdruid. in 1988 he married deborah lipp, a gardnerian priestess. together they run a pagan way group, and bonewits remains as head of ar ndraiocht fein. a national leader in the pagan/wicca community, bonewits is a major advocat

932. reprint, new york: causeway books, 1974. book of thoth an interpretation of the symbolism of the tarot cards written by aleister crowley toward the end of his life (1875.1974. in 1912 crowley published a description of the cards of the book of the dead encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 204 tarot in his biannual journal, equinox (vol. 1, nos. 7.8, about the tarot cards of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. each member had to make a copy from the original deck, but it was not until israel regardie published a set of the golden dawn tarot cards in the 1980s that the pictures that crowley was describing became available to the public. in the 1940s crowley wrote a commentary on the tarot, which carried the egyptian symbolism that had come to dominate the thelemic magic

city for paranormal investigation, and magic and psychic phenomena became a talking point in the stifled atmosphere of the 1930s. sources: price, harry. confessions of a ghost hunter. new york: g. p. putnam s sons, 1936. reprint, new york: causeway books, 1974. brodie-innes, j(ohn) w(illiam (1848.1923) an edinburgh lawyer, born in morayshire, scotland, who became one of the leading members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn s amen-ra temple in scotland. brodie- innes was also a member of a bibliophile society, the sette of odde volumes, london, and was its president in 1911. he wrote several novels on witchcraft and magic and is said to have taught dion fortune (violet mary firth) the secret of developing and directing occult force. he was the model for the souldoctor in fortune s bo

ent with him, let me conduct my researches for five weeks before i detected his fraudulent methods and mechanism. while i was pushing my investigation a little farther i saw with my own eyes buguet s prepared negatives. buguet was but one prominent example of fraudulent psychic photography. builders of the adytum the builders of the adytum (bota) is a western magical group in the tradition of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. it was founded by paul foster case, an authority on tarot and the qabalah, who had been among the small group of american members of the golden dawn. basic to the bota is the qabalah, which is viewed as the ancient mystical wisdom of the hebrews that has been adapted to modern life. case believed that the ancient hebrew prophets and even jesus were versed in the

pirit of the age. he integrated divinatory work with the tarot into the new system, thus suppling enough information that readers who chose could begin to practice ceremonial magic once again. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. ceremonial magic 265 toward the end of the century, organizations based upon the practice of ceremonial magic began to appear, the most important being the hermetic order of the golden dawn in england. cofounder s. l. mathers rediscovered many of the older grimoires, which he mined for material to include in the golden dawn teachings, and published several of them. his effort was followed by that of aleister crowley, who developed a more psychologically oriented magical system based upon the exercise of the will (thelema. through the twentieth centur

s, its last issue coming out in 1996. the temple of thelema, an initiatory magical order, was established upon the teaching delivered through the college. the temple offers a more systematic course of training for students who wish to begin the practice of magic and learn the disciplines and mystical realities that are integral to thelemic magic. seckler adapted to the older grading system of the hermetic order of the golden dawn to conform to thelemic principles. also, contemporary findings from psychology, especially transpersonal psychology, has been integrated into the curriculum, and an attempt to remove the sexist bias, a basic assumption of most western magical teachings, has been made. the student follows a program of intellectual accomplishment, meditation, and magical ritual. stu

knowledge. the doctrine of signatures has been a persistent one in folk medicine, where the shapes of plants have been considered symbolic of their medicinal virtues. sources: levi, eliphas. the history of magic. 1860. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1969. pettigrew, t. j. superstitions connected with medicine or surgery. n.p, 1844. cromlech temple a british occult society contemporary with the hermetic order of the golden dawn, with rituals and initiations based on a mixture of kabala and christian mysticism. sources: howe, ellic. the magicians of the golden dawn. london: routledge& kegan paul, 1972. king, francis. ritual magic in england, 1887 to the present day. london: neville spearman, 1970. cromniomancy form of divination by means of onions. it was usually practiced on christmas ev

cambridge, the next year. during his college years he emerged as a poet of some merit. he also spent his leisure time exploring the joys of sexuality, a theme that strongly influenced his poetry and led to some trouble with college authorities. he also discovered and made his first ventures into magic and the occult. he left college before completing his degree. in 1898 he was initiated into the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the pioneering ceremonial magic group, into which he was introduced by george cecil jones. he was an avid pupil and quickly progressed until he became involved in the split that had developed between the bulk of the members, who resided in england, and the head of the order, s. l. macgregor mathers, who lived in paris. he sided with mathers, which cut him off fro

l, is a construction of great intricacy, far beyond the capacity or the requirements of simple fraud. it combines magic, mathematics, astrology, and cryptography. an intriguing suggestion is that the angelic conversations were a system of codes to convey secrets, and that dee and kelley s visits in europe were for purposes of espionage. in later times, enochian rituals were revived by the magical hermetic order of the golden dawn and became a common element in ceremonial magic. some enochian rituals were adapted by anton lavey and the church of satan, which he founded. dee s reputation suffered much from the scorn of meric casaubon, who published some of the angelic conversations and represented them as delusive. the scholar theodore besterman, however, in his book crystal-gazing (1929, ad

ng medical school, doyle had actively investigated new religions in an effort to fill the void created when he left the roman catholic church. he attended his first seance in 1880, and many of his short stories published in the 1880s reflect his interest in spiritualism and his growing acceptance of it. before the turn of the century doyle had become interested in theosophy, the rosicrucians, the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and mormonism. in 1887 doyle published a study in scarlet, which was the first of 60 sherlock holmes stories he eventually wrote. holmes proved to be his most popular fictional character. that same year he wrote two letters to the weekly spiritualist periodical light, in which he recounted his conversion to spiritualism. in these letters doyle wrote that he becam

sabelle de steiger s translated the cloud upon the sanctuary, which was first published in 1895 in the unknown world was edited by arthur edward waite. it was later issued in book form. the english version was soon adopted not only by spiritual seekers but also by many occultists. it had some influence on the development of the modern occult revival, finding some favor among the leadership of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. the book also impressed magician aleister crowley, who was attracted to its idea of the mystical interior church. crowley was eventually consecrated into an independent gnostic tradition, and he wrote a gnostic mass for the church he founded as an auxiliary organization to the magical order he led. sources: eckartshausen, karl von. the cloud upon the sanctuary. t

t witches do. new york: coward, mc- cann& geoghegan, 1971. the equinox official organ of the a a, subtitled the review of scientific illuminism, originally published by magician aleister crowley beginning in march 1909. each issue amounted to a book-length journal. it contained the official materials of the a a, articles and stories by crowley, and book reviews. crowley, who had recently left the hermetic order of the golden dawn, published many of the secrets of his former colleagues. the ten issues of the first volume appeared biannually at the equinoxes, beginning in march 1909. it appears that crowley projected alternating five-year periods of publication and silence. the second volume was thus designated a volume of silence and was never published. the issues of the third volume appea

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rosicrucian. he resigned from the society in 1875 while preparing his royal masonic cyclopaedia. in subsequent years, he seems to have lived precariously on a modest income from journalism. he developed a system of astrological prediction of horse race winners and also became involved with the promotion of fringe masonic orders, such as sat b hai. he died july 3, 1886, before the formation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, but was claimed posthumously as an adept of the order (together with levi and hockley) by w. w. westcott, one of the founding chiefs, presuming a continuity of occult tradition through rosicrucianism. sources: mackenzie, kenneth. royal masonic cyclopaedia. 1877. reprint, new york: sterling publishing, 1987. mackenzie, william (1877) british biologist and writer

modern revivals of magic during the 1890s there was a revival of interest in ritual magic in europe among both intellectuals and traditional occultists. this occult underground permeated much of the intellectual life and progressive movements in europe, in contrast to the more popular preoccupation with spiritualism and table turning. symbolic of this magic revival was the founding of the famous hermetic order of the golden dawn, which numbered among its members such individuals as annie horniman (sponsor of the abbey theatre, dublin, florence farr (mistress of george bernard shaw, s. l. macgregor mathers, william butler yeats, arthur machen, and arthur edward waite. another famous member was the magician aleister crowley, who left the order to found his own organization, a a, and then be

memorable provinces, relating to witchcraft and possessions. boston, 1689. the wonders of the invisible world. observations as well historical as theological, upon the nature, the number, and the operations of the devil. boston: benjamin harris, 1693. mather, increase. essay for the recording of illustrious provinces. boston, 1684. mathers, moina (1865.1928) moina mathers, a leading member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd, was largely responsible for the rituals of this ground-breaking magical organization. born on feburary 28, 1865, as mina bergson, she was the daughter of jewish parents and the sister of noted philosopher henri bergson. her brother was a professor at the university of paris, the winner of a nobel prize (1927, and president of the society of psychical resear

dawn: rebels and priestesses. rochester, vt: park street press, 1995. howe, ellic. the magicians of the golden dawn: a documentary history of a magical order, 1887.1923. york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1972, 1985. king, francis. ritual magic in england. london: neville spearman, 1970. mathers, s(amuel) l(iddell) macgregor (1854.1918) leading british occultist who was one of the founders of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. born in hackney, london, january 8, 1854, he lived with his mother at bournemouth after the early death of his father. as a boy he was intensely interested in symbolism and mysticism. he claimed a romantic descent from ian macgregor of glenstrae, an ardent jacobite who was given the title of comte de glenstrae by louis xiv. mathers became a freemason on october 4

n as the sourcebook. sources: the new consciousness sourcebook #5. berkeley, calif: spiritual community publications, 1982. rev. ed. pomona, calif: arcline, 1985. a pilgrim s guide to planet earth. san rafael, calif: spiritual community publications, 1981. new dimensions (england) briefly published british quarterly publication dealing with the kabala and magical teachings in the tradition of the hermetic order of the golden dawn and dion fortune. new dimensions (florida) occasional newsletter of the florida society for psychical research, inc, dealing with society activities and psychic topics. last known address: 2837 1st ave. n, st. petersburg, fl 33713. new dimensions broadcasting network new dimensions broadcasting network is the producer and distributor of post-new age radio and shor

es as the basis of the nroogd practice. after repeat performances, the group created an identity for themselves and trained others in its performance. the name they chose, new reformed orthodox order of the golden dawn, is a play on the attitudes they had toward what they were doing and upon their spiritual antecedents. nroogd is a wholly new tradition stemming from the magical order known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn; they consider themselves their spiritual and magical successors. the mother circle of nroogd hived off (branched off into) daughter and granddaughter covens. in 1976, the governing body of the order, called the red cord council, was dissolved and the nroogd became known as a tradition. those groups tracing their lines of initiation back to a member of the origina

er of the cross 1149 sources: ferrier, j. todd. the logia, or sayings of the master. london: percy, lund, bradford and co, 1916, 1926. the master: his life and teachings. london: order of the cross, 1913. kemmis, e. mary gordon. shepherd of souls: some impressions of the life and ministry of john todd ferrier. santa barbara, calif: j. f. rowney press, 1947. order of the cubic stone a group in the hermetic order of the golden dawn tradition, founded in britain in the 1930s by theodore howard and two technicians, david edwards and robert turner. the order believes in a system of enochian magic and trains students in ceremonial magic. in the early 1990s, robert turner was severely injured in a criminal assault, which has resulted in disruption of the order and its magazine, the monolith. the

of success. there is no record of the order surviving grumbine. sources: grumbine, j. c. f. clairaudience. boston: order of the white rose, 1911. clairvoyance. boston: order of the white rose, 1911. melchizedek; or, the secret doctrine of the bible. boston: order of the white rose, 1919. ordo rosae rubeae et aureae crucis (order of rose of ruby and cross of gold) the second order or level of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, usually known by the initials r. r. et a. c. it included the grades of zelator adeptus minor, theoricus adeptus minor, adeptus major, and adeptus exemtis. the group was formed in 1892 by s. l. m. macgregor mathers, with william w. westcott as chief adept. it was kept secret from some members of the golden dawn and accessible only to those who had passed through t

erican people from the flying saucer intelligences. new brunswick, n.j: interplanetary news service [1966. how to contact space people. clarksburg, w.va: saucerian books, 1969. oxford golden dawn occult society the oxford golden dawn occult society is a magical order that, as its name implies, is based in oxford, england. it takes its name (without any claim of organizational continuity) from the hermetic order of the golden dawn and teaches a form of magic that it describes as a modern equivalent of the golden dawn system, the pioneering system of modern ceremonial magic. the society has a more public program aimed at disseminating authentic information about occultism and magic that includes lectures, workshops, and conferences, and a discussion seminar on the last friday of each month

occult researches of yeats. radcliffe had been introduced to yeats in the summer of 1913, possibly through eva fowler, friend of olivia and dorothy shakespear and of ezra pound. the mediumship continued for some four years until yeats married georgie hyde-lees in 1917, after which his wife acted as his medium. before his marriage, yeats had initiated georgie into the stella matutina temple of the hermetic order of the golden dawn occult society. radcliffe s mediumistic activities remained through her lifetime. in 1922, she married ronald gorell barnes, 3rd baron gorell (1884.1963; they had two sons and a daughter. baron gorell, c.b.e, o.b.e, had a distinguished military career, was deputy director of staff duties (education) at the war office (1918.20, and later served as under-secretary o

eratures of the middle ages. as an archangel, raphael was identified with hod, one of the ten sephiroth iminated by the ein soph (god) who implements god s creative purposes, in this case healing. he then reappears in a variety of magical operations of ceremonial magic and is one of the four angels called upon in, for example, the basic ritual of the pentagram which was taught to neophytes in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. the name raphael was also adopted by pioneer british astrologer robert cross smith (1795.1832) whose career really marks the beginning of the modern astrological revival from the low point of astrological interest in the eighteenth century. smith founded a successful astrological publishing house and compiled raphael s astronomical ephemeris, the book of sun, moo

well aware of crowley s more controversial exploits, but was willing to overlook much that might be objectionable because of what he recognized as crowley s true magical genius. regardie began to write in the early 1930s, his first books being the tree of life (1932) and the garden of pomegranates (1932. in 1934, after parting with crowley, he joined the stella matutina, an offshoot of the former hermetic order of the golden dawn. he despaired of the corrupt nature of the order s leadership and saw no hope of reform. enthused with the rituals, he broke his oath of secrecy and revealed all he had learned in a book, my rosicrucian adventure (1935. several years later he published the complete rituals in a four-volume set, the golden dawn: an encyclopedia of practical occultism (1937.40 (whil

llege was founded in london in 1866, and the soc. ros. in scotia about the same time. other colleges were later formed in the provinces. w. r. woodman succeeded little as grand magus in 1878. mackenzie was named honorary magus and gave many lectures to the society. in 1891 william wynn westcott succeeded woodman as supreme magus. three years earlier, westcott had become one of the founders of the hermetic order of the golden dawn occult society, whose grade system and rituals drew heavily on rosicrucian concepts. s. l. macgregor mathers, another of the golden dawn chiefs, formed a second order known as r.r. et a.c (rose of ruby and cross of gold, supposed to be a british branch of a german occult order known as ordo roseae rubeae et aureae crucis. the golden dawn was regarded as the probat

be seen in both the writings of eliphas levi and the teachings of the gnostic churches that began to appear toward the end of the century. gerard encausse, who authored numerous occult texts, emerged as the primary martinist interpreter to the next generation. in england, arthur e. waite developed a great appreciation for saint-martin and tried to make his work known to his contemporaries in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. waite wrote three separate titles about saint-martin, and for the first he received an honorary doctorate from the ecole hermetique, an indication of esteem from encausse and saint-jacques, r. p. de encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1340 the french martinists. saint-martin s ideas spread to haiti and from there entered the united states, where a

n: rider, 1951. sutherland, elizabeth. ravens and black rain: the story of highland second sight. london: constable, 1986. thompson, francis. the supernatural highlands. london: robert hale, 1976. secret chiefs a term which emerged in the nineteenth century to designate the superhuman adepts who were attributed with the founding of several secret magical orders. they were the real founders of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, for example, analogous to the mahatmas or masters who supposedly led the theosophical society (founded in 1875. together they formed the great white brotherhood who from their lofty perspective secretly guided and influenced human history. they also had a model in the superiores incogniti, or hidden superiors, introduced by baron hund (1722.76) for his strikt obs

s the best means of raising such energy. the order developed a degree system that taught basic magic practice and then introduced sexual techniques at the eighth (autoerotic) and ninth (heterosexual intercourse) degree levels. through the early decades of the twentieth century, sex magic was the great secret of the oto. independently of the oto, aleister crowley (1875.1947, a former member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn who had formed his own small group, pursued his development of magic through attempts to repeat some of the operations described in older texts. in 1909 he was in egypt attempting to understand works of magic originally described by elizabethan magicians john dee and edward kelly. assisting crowley was victor neuburg. in the midst of these studies crowley was insp

l as wife. they worked jointly on the anthology lyra celtica (1896. sharp abandoned banking for a journalistic career, becoming editor of the pagan review in 1892. he traveled throughout europe and even visited the united states, where he met walt whitman. sharp s enthusiasm for the celtic literary revival brought him into contact with william butler yeats and the isis urania temple of the famous hermetic order of the golden dawn magical society. here he was initiated into the neophyte grade. this occult connection may have been a stimulus to the development of his anima personality of fiona macleod. sharp and fiona remained distinctly different identities in literary style and outlook, even corresponding with friends as separate personalities for many years. sharp himself kept up a corres

y individuals to the society. during his association with the society, sinnett received a number of mahatma letters, supposedly from the mysterious masters who had directed the formation of the society. sinnett s book esoteric buddhism was said to have derived from communications from the master k. h. on human evolution and cosmogony. by 1887, sinnett and his wife had formed associations with the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the pioneering ceremonial magic society. in 1896 the poet william butler yeats, a prominent member of the golden dawn, wrote that sinnett was in charge of the order s neophytes. sinnett was also friendly with the important occult and mystical writer arthur edward waite, and with mary a. atwood, who sent sinnett her library of alchemical texts. sinnett died june 2

ated by the original fratres rosae crucis, of germany; and to investigate the meaning and symbolism of all that now remains of the wisdom, art and literature of the ancient world. in spite of these resounding aims, the society confined itself mainly to lectures and freemasonry rituals. in 1887, westcott, mackenzie, and w. r. woodman were concerned in the formation of the isis-urania temple of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, in which the esoteric freemasonry of the societas rosicruciana in anglia was expanded into a more complex occult system. the societas rosicruciana in america was modeled on the societas rosicruciana in anglia. sources: king, francia. the rites of modern occult magic. new york: macmillan, 1970. societas rosicruciana in civitatibus foederatis the societas rosicruci

ietas rosicruciana in anglia society of the inner light the society of the inner light was founded by the british occultist dion fortune (violet mary firth) in 1924. originally known as the community then fraternity of the inner light, it became the society of the inner light when incorporated as a registered charity in 1946. firth was a member of the stella matutina, an outer order of the famous hermetic order of the golden dawn, and the community of the inner light was originally intended by golden dawn members as a recruitment body for suitable prospects. firth came into conflict with golden dawn leaders, however, and she split away from the parent body. firth remained warden of the fraternity until her death in 1946. the fraternity was headquartered in london and maintained a library o

s published from 1418 hall se, grand rapids, mi 49506-3960. website: http/ www.nsac.org. sources: nsac lyceum spotlight. http//www.nsac.org. march 8, 2000. spr see society for psychical research sprengel, anna (ca. 1888) the mythical rosicrucian adept and member of the german occult society die goldene dammerung who is supposed to have given permission to rosicrucian william westcott to found the hermetic order of the golden dawn. westcott claimed to have found sprengel s name and address on a sheet of paper inserted in the pages of a mysterious cipher manuscript bought from a bookstall on farringdon road, london, in 1887. correspondence exists between westcott and sprengel relating to the golden dawn, but its authenticity has been questioned, and the cipher manuscript is believed to be a

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illars, namely on will and on imagination. connected with these are analogous thinking and symbolic images. for example, agrippa uses a special sigil for each of the planetary intelligences. these are not, as has been assumed for quite some time, arbitrarily constructed, nor were they received by grevelation, h but rather they are based on cabbalistic considerations.5 4/ practical sigil magic the hermetic order of the golden dawn also employed sigils as gimages of the souls' of magical entities, which enabled the magician to establish contact with them; nonetheless, the technique of their construction was not explained. the same may be said for o.t.o. under crowley's leadership and for the fraternitas saturni under gregorius. the name agrippa already hints at the fact that magical sigils h

magic serves the individual fs spiritual development as well. it can open completely new universes to us.an unlimited number of universes of experience.and eventually it will lead us back to the sources of magical power itself. salve atque vale! ubique daemon. ubique deus. 123 glossary a. a..astrum argentum or silver star. a magical group founded by aleister crowley based on the teachings of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. abramelin system.a potent cabbalistic system of magic. it involves six months in prayer, following which you achieve gthe knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel h this angel provides information on how to control demons so that they will bring you whatever you desire. agrippa.henry cornelius theophrastus bombastus agrippa von nettesheim (1486-1535

he book of the law, a revelation from an entity referring to itself as aiwass, the three short chapters in the book describe the end of the current aeon and the beginning and methods of the new aeon. aleister crowley.born edward alexander crowley (1875-1947, he is one of the most important and 125 126/ practical sigil magic controversial magical writers nd practitioners. he became a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn but later left the order roup, the a..a. later he joined the ts head. a prolific writer chaos magic.of recent origin, this system of magic ocuse ian fs reality. order of the golden dawn.this group egan operation in 1888 and fell victim to schism and strife in 190 e and umerous others. teros).the pact is a loose conglomeration of groups and individuals practicing c

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rt1983this bookissoldsubjectto theconditionthat it shallnot,frywayojtradeorotherwise,be lent,re-sold,hiredout, orotherwisecirculatedwithoutthepublisher'spriorconsentin any form ofbinding orcaoerother than that inwhichit is published and without a similarconditionincludingthisconditionbeingimposedonthesubsequentpurchaser.british library cataloguing in publication data gilbert, r.a.thegolden dawn.1.hermetic order of the goldendawn-history135 -43bfi623267r7isbn0-852603260-357-5isbn0-852603260-278-1pbktheaquarianpressispart ofthethorsonspublishinggroupprinted and bound in great britaincontentspageforewordfryisraelregardie7introductioniichapter1.foundation132.creation253267 action 35 4. wisdom 4 6 5. power 58 6. emanation 69 7. kingdom81appendixatheanna sprengel letters 95appendixb'historical l

r 5 of this book, but the texts quoted there and in the32thegoldendawnappendices do not exhaust the activities of the order; the reader seeking full enlightenment, or more complete confusion, is advised to seekitout in the pages of israel regardie's compre255 hensive study. by march 1890, after countless aeons on the astral planes and two years in the real world, all opposition was routed and the hermetic order of the golden dawn ruled supreme over a bandofsome seventy-eight rosicrucians scattered about the country and gathered into its three temples.thesiting of these temples indicates the order's dependence upon the s.rj.a. for a con255 tinuing supply of members. isis-urania in london was, of course, the hub of the rosicrucian universe and held fifty-five members in its orbit, while osir

supplied by blackden himself. he saw this ceremony as 'the final gateway into that degree of initiation, where the traditional esoteric wisdom of egyptwas taught and its methods practised by the initiate. many years later waite met blackden while walking on the sussex downs; he did not record their conversation,butit is safe to assume that whatever else they talked about, they said nothing of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. references:i. w.b.yeats,the tmnblingoftheveil(1922),p. 69.2.w.b.yeats,essays(1924),pp.35-36.this essay,'magic',was first published in1901.3.thetextofthepamphlet, and ofits supplement, is publishedin full in george mills harper,yeats'sgoldendawn(1974).4.[w.b.yeats]is theorderof r.r. et a.c. toremainamagicalorder?(1901),pp.ii-!2.wisdom575' w. b. yeats,earlypoemsand

losophy that the order propagated does have a value; but it is not to be found by adoring the framework of the golden dawn. rather should one seek to understand the motivations of the members and to examine the kernel of rational thought that lay, and still lies, within their system.therewas sense as well as nonsense in the golden dawn, and only by preserving and building upon that sense will the hermetic order of the golden dawn be seen as something more than a monument to humanfolly.vale,fratresetsorores!references:i.algernon, blackwood,johnsilence,physicianextraordinary(1908),pp2673-42672. ibid, p.64.3.ibid.,p.282.4. ibid.,p.289.5.evelynunderhill,thecolumnofdust(1909),p. 12.6.ibid.,p.15.7. ibid.,p.16. 8. ibid.,p.19. 9. dion fortune,thesecretsof dr.taverner,3rd edition(1979),p. 223267 10

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ous papers25.an essay on the ancient mysteries269 26.a recent spiritual development287 27.an essay upon the constitution of man: spirit, soul, body296 28.man's blood and generation310introductionof all the actors in the bizarre pageant of the occult revival, william wynn westcott was the most unlikely: cautious, fearful and altogether too respectable, he yet created its most exotic structure, the hermetic order of the golden dawn.thetask of controlling the order proved, however,tobe far beyond the abilities of this timorous scholar, and it slipped from his grasp to fall into the hands of s.l. macgregor mathers, the magical genius who raised it to its greatest glory. but theorderneeded westcott, for he was its true rosicrucian: the physician and mystic who sought all his life for hermetic w

on and was appointed a deputy coroner, becoming intimecoroner for north-east london, a post that he held until 1918. perhaps his professional preoccupation with death encouraged him to create lifeexnihilo,and this he did with startling success. realizing from his rosicrucian studies that a magical order would need a history, he set about creating a first-class pedigree for his own brainchild, the hermetic order of the golden dawn. his first creation, or contact on the inner planes if one prefers to suspend disbelief, was a rosicrucian adept named anna sprengel, whose address appeared on a collection of manuscript rituals allegedly discov255 ered in freemasons' hall- the famous cypher manuscript that was the foundation of the golden dawn system. westcott promptly wrote to his own creation a

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ghland ancestry, and was, no doubt, highly amused by mathers' use of the motto of the clan macgregor 's rioghail mo dhream (royal is my tribe, on his election to the zelator grade" but for all the accompanying pretension, this was the most significant move of mathers' life, for within the s.r.i.a. he met both wynn westcott anddrwoodman, and slowly and carefully began to lay the foundations of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. from 1888 the story of macgregor mathers is the story of the golden dawn,butbefore then, in 1885, he had moved to london, joined anna kingsford's hermetic society, in which he delivered his first major lecture" and publishedthe kabbalah unveiled,his most successful and influential work.5and before 1888 he had met mina bergson, the sister of the philosopher henri

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87: and sholto henry hare in 1895. westcott s candidates, whom he admitted to hermes lodge, were rather less mundane: samuel liddell macgregor mathers appears as j.w. in 1887; by 1901 he had admitted gerard encausse( papus, the french occultist) and established inri lodge no. 14, at paris; and on 1 september 1902 he admitted a. e. waite. all three had one thing in common: they were members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. westcott was also keen on further foreign expansion with the aid of continental occultists. the presence of such characters was not new col. h. s. olcott and charles sotheran, founding members of the theosophical society, had been representatives of the rite in bombay and new york respectively, since 1880; what is curious about them, and about george fort, the re

hing to do with the rite but were mackenzie s outline draft of a series of esoteric intitiation ceremonies. they were written in a cipher derived from trithemius s polycraphiae, and westcott soon translated them, making use of the blank versos of swedenborgian rite summonses. they are better known as the cipher manuscripts that led to the fiction of german adepts and to the undisputed fact of the hermetic order of the golden dawn that westcott unleashed upon the world in 1888. in their fully developed form the ceremonies of the order make full and effective use of a temple filled with symbolic representations. it is an ironic twist of fate that westcott s enthusiasm for an obscure, utterly forgotten, yet wholly respectable masonic rite led by chance to his creation of a magical order more

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e p. 5 of the minutes 16[16] the british mail, vol. 20, no. 172, new series, march 1890, pp. 20-1 17[17] ibid, p. 21 18[18] the occult sciences, a compendium of transcendental doctrine and experiment (kegan paul, 1891) entire subject exposed, with the necessary proofs, documents and available sources of knowledge'(p. 214)19[19. shortly before the occult sciences was published waite had joined the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a society of would-be magicians founded in 1887 by westcott, dr. w. r. woodman and s. l. macgregor mathers, on the basis of manuscript rituals written in cipher and produced under highly suspicious circumstances20[20. these were supplemented by a series of letters- of even more questionable authenticity- allegedly emanating from a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremb

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astral vessels so that the incoming energy could be utilized for the benefit of egypt. as time progressed the egyptian star-gnosis, the divine rite of rebirth and the secret of planetary and zodiacal mediation was passed from the pharaoh to a separate priesthood. with time and changes in both state and religion, the teachings were held under oath by secret orders and brotherhoods. even within the hermetic order of the golden dawn we can find elements of the mediation rite within its equinox rituals, however, the emphasis has changed to emanating the forces only for those linked to the order and hence joined to its group mind. as we head further into the kali yuga it is the individuals task to use and transform the heavenly energies within him or herself. it is important to realize that ene

o the initiate (jesus) in the essene sect, after his death his followers passed on the secret teachings. this new order centred around ormus (46 a.d) and continued through the knights templars, the eleutherians, the church of carmel, the rosicrucians and onwards. in modern times the lineage continued in a variety of forms, the more ritually oriented line was continued in such organisations as the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the early theosophical movements, the astrum argentinum, the ordeo templi orientis and the fraternity of saturn (germany. however, these organisations got bogged down in the technology of the spiritual processes and lost the vision and art of the gnosis. hence modern reresentatives of such organisations and others found in the "ritual magic(k" community have litt

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smic yes. one perceives the fire of passion as the way to renew the fallen world, the other warns of its danger. both are correct and have something to say about the human condition. another application given to these letters is to attribute them to the four elements (fig 27) this elemental attribution leads to the more esoteric interpretation of this formulae as found within the teachings of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, in this interpretation the letters are related to hebrew letters, astrological signs and the trumps of the tarot (fig 28) since this is a cyclic formulae, starting at i and ending at i, the final i is inferred and hence dropped from the formulae. we are accordingly left with inr. when this is found in the ancient egyptian and gnostic systems, it is in the secret

and was one of great potency. since it was only of esoteric value, the correct pronunciations of the various letters and words triggered, and can still trigger, altered states of consciousness. from these communications dee developed a system of elemental squares, calls and aires associated with terrifying visions and prophecies. these were refined and adapted by such later esoteric orders as the hermetic order of the golden dawn and the aurum solis (order of the sacred word. probably one of the most vivid accounts of the visions and experiences that can be triggered by its use are found in the vision and the voice by aleister crowley. he will see the beautiful colours within these enochian names, feel the forces that emanates from them and be transported to a strange world long since pass

nd pass their energy into the physical system, while at the same time the x and y factors are absorbed into the astral and etheric bodies and circulated through the meridians, chakras and marmas. a simple solar meditation solar meditations do not have to be complex. there are many beautiful prayers to the sun in many traditions. the prayer to aten written by akhenaton is one prime example. in the hermetic order of the golden dawn, supplications were offered to the sun at four times daily; sunrise, midday, sunset and midnight. the important thing however, is to create a personal system of meditation, not to learn some technique by rote. some schools like to use solar meditations four times a day, some only at sunrise or sunset, it is really up to you to find what suits. there are two gnosti

e meso-american tradition is similar to the above except that you start to jog on the spot as you are preparing for the sun to rise. as the sun ascends you jog faster and faster until a sense of catharsis is experienced, and you experience an awakening by the solar force. if you prefer a more formal approach, you can find the more traditional four daily sun meditations in the various books on the hermetic order of the golden dawn, or alternatively, you may like to use some of the sun prayers found in works of akhenaton and the essenes. hail unto thee who art ra in thy rising, even unto thee who art ra in thy strength, who travellest over the heavens in thy bark at the uprising of the sun. liber resh vel helios solar practises there are other solar practises which are important in the life

ing true to what they perceive, each would report only their own perception of the event, not the facts of the actual event itself. in the case of the changeover, the equinox of the gods, the observers varied greatly and saw it in many differing terms. some saw it in terms of christianity, others in terms of sufism and still others in terms of the western magical tradition then represented in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. this is made all the more awkward by the fact that many of these observers formed religions and organisations based on their perceptions, many of which still exist today. accordingly, we have a bizarre situation where an observer of a historical and spiritual event is transformed into the prophet or herald of a religious movement. for the gnostic, while each of t

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zelator adeptus minor at all meetings of the second order in which he has the right to be present. the lotus wand must be consecrated by himself alone. he can not have the help or assistance of any other individual. we use a temporary or simplified consecration in the zelator grade. remember, at one time, the lotus wand was strictly for the inner order, for zelator adeptus minor on up. but in the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the outer, we do teach the building of the lotus wand and give the student a simplified method of consecrating the wand. many times, this is done by the help or assistance of an adept in the order. again, however, all inner order members must consecrate the wand by him or herself alone. it must remain untouched by any other person once it is consecrated, be wra

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s five red lanterns elemental tools, plus salt third adept "hekas, hekas, este bebeloi" bell/ chief adept "fraters and sorors of the r.r. et a.c, we are assembled together for the purpose of evoking tangible and penetrating forces of an unlimited magnitude for the specific purpose of protecting and defending this temple, this order, and all loyal and dedicated members of the r.r. et a. c. and the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the outer. in addition, it is to aid us in (state any other purpose. before we dare proceed into such an operation, it is necessary that we should invoke the divine aid and assistance without which our work would be totally in vain. let us kneel down and pray (all kneel) chief adept "from thine hand, oh lord, cometh all good. from thine hands flow down all grac

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b is represented by the triangle inside the circle. the triangle is the only lineal figure in which all the surfaces can be reduced. what we are saying here is that every polygon can be divided into triangles by simply drawing lines from its angles to its center. the triangle is the simplest of all lineal figures, therefore, it is the first of all lineal figures. in the neophyte initiation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, we state that in all things there are two opposing forces and a third force uniting them. this would refer to the triad which operates in all things, especially the supernals. it would also refer to hnyb, the third sephira. we see clearly that hnyb is an amalgamation of the top three supernals. this is emphasized in the lesson "understanding of the human personal

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g h i j k l a b c d e f g h i j k l 18 rtk a b c 5 f k l 5 hmkj hnyb dsj hrwbg jxn trapt dwh dwsy twh recommendation of the adeptus minor r. r. e t a. c. z e l a t o r a d e p t u s m i n o r 2 official letter of recommendation for admission to the sacred brotherhood of the rose and cross r. r. et a. c. official letter of recommendation and dispensation for advancement to the second order of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. in the name of the lord of the universe, and by special dispensation from the chiefs of the second order of the temple of isis and the supreme chief of the second order of the hermetic order of the golden dawn international, do hearby this date_ recommend_ known as_ to membership in full standing to the second order, and to undergo the adeptus minor inititation o

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re discontinued when they are cracked. seventh, although in use for some time, an english language cipher, using the 26 letters of the standard alphabet and laid out on a grid or plotted out on a 26- pointed star, was unveiled to a select public by aleister crowley in 1904. he said he received it from the pr terhuman intelligence aiwass1 crowley was a high and highly controversial initiate of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, but he never decoded the cipher, which was built on the number 11. publisher ray palmer told ufologists for years that he had a fact which allowed him to decode cases. palmer s fact is actually the cipher itself; fact= 56 in cipher, or 5+ 6= 11, the 1. aiwass was not crowley s only contact. there is considerable discussion in ufology of lam, the being crowley ske

ain years of her career. she appears to be the first major historical personality to actively conceal the true names and origins of initiates using the cipher of the ufonauts. 10 allen h. greenfield crowley, aleister, the scribe of the book of the law as dictated to him by the intelligence aiwass. crowley is the most significant figure of the occult revival of the 20th century. an initiate of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and later leader of its successor order, the a. a, crowley was a magus, prophet, poet, mountaineer, author, lecturer and contactee. he wrestled all his adult life with the nature of the higher beings he contacted, such as lam, aiwass and abuldiz. reviled by many as a black magician, he was a late victorian english gentleman to the end of his life. a man intoxicat

ecret cipher of the ufonauts 13 layne, meade, founder of the venerable borderland sciences research foundation. layne was for many years the editor of bsrf s round robin and other journals, and he worked closely with trance channeler mark probert. layne was also a student of the work of frater achad. at one time, layne had been a member of the society of the inner light, a direct offspring of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. at the end of the 19th century, this society developed its rituals from certain rosicrucian cipher manuscripts based in the teachings of the third order, or secret chiefs, or ascended masters which are identical with the space people in contact lore. that so much cipher material shows up in and around layne, who was said to be in frequent communication with the g

xplaining the rudiments of cipher analysis, a feature of many fictional works of the period. the 1890s marked the beginning period, or revival, of many trends, organizations and tendencies that profoundly affected the new age movement of the next 100 years. in germany, dr. kellner and dr. reuss began organizing the ordo templi orientis (oto. in england, victorian occultism reached its peak in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. in the southeastern united states, the hermetic brotherhood of light established its new headquarters. shortly thereafter, strange airships began appearing across america. their even stranger pilots would often tell witnesses that they were headed for the southeastern u.s. it should come as no surprise that various occult luminaries of the era were rumored to be

esses that they were headed for the southeastern u.s. it should come as no surprise that various occult luminaries of the era were rumored to be secret agents (and perhaps revolutionary conspirators; madame blavatsky, theodor reuss and aleister crowley all were so suspected, and blavatsky and reuss certainly interacted with revolutionary conspirators on a regular basis. the basic documents of the hermetic order of the golden dawn were written in a strange cipher that may have originated with such continental adepts. as noted earlier, all royal arch masons were taught a special cipher on the occasion of their initiation. thus, that a cipher was included in the book of the law dictated to aleister crowley by the shadowy, mysterious aiwass on april 8, 9, and 10, 1904 at cairo should come as n

olitical revolutions of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. madame blavatsky may indeed have been the first to change the names to protect the adept, but the fact that they can be decoded via the ciphers of al revealed by aiwass years after blavatsky s death indicates perhaps a secret code known to blavatsky and later to crowley and his heirs. as i have pointed out, the basic documents of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, for example, were written in a cipher, the originals still being readily available. i have also pointed out that all royal arch masons were (and are) taught a cipher, since frequently reprinted. if there was a common occult cipher, it seems to have emerged in the world of mediumship. the cipher continues in the similar world of ufo contacteeism and trance channel

ister templi or master of the temple the 2=8 degree. according to kenneth mackenzie, historian and initiate of that secret order, this circle held assemblies at camra in poland every nine years. bimstein was originally a polish jew. in his native warsaw, the adepts of the philosophus degree (6= 4) assembled every five years. these degrees are closely paralleled in the a.a. system, and that of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. note that crowley regarded blavatsky as a high intitiate of the great white brotherhood, or a.a. he ranked her an 8= 3 (master of the temple) in his class b commentary on the voice of the silence, in which he pointedly credits himself the lesser grade of 7= 4. secret cipher of the ufonauts 37 crowley and liber al, came in 1944, with mark probert and the inner cir

hment. maharaja natcha of the inner circle meade layne, to review our premise, was best known among ufologists as the founder of borderland sciences research founda-tion (bsrf. he had an impressive metaphysical library and was a member of the society of the inner light, one of several organizations that arose from the fragments of the seminal turnof- the-20th-century ritual occult body called the hermetic order of the golden dawn. layne s successor, riley crabb, recently passed away, but borderland sciences continues as a foundation, publishing the journal of borderland research (p. o. box 6250, eureka, ca 95502, with some emphasis on the link between the occult and ufology. the golden dawn attracted a diverse membership: gothic writers including bram stoker, arthur machen and algernon bla

tended to coincide with and mirror that of the great white brotherhood. this development may, in fact, be attributed to a cosmic principle of equal generation of forces. thus, the birth of the modern form, as the fraternity of the knights militant of the new aeon in the cultural and political turbulence of germany in the 1890s, may fairly (along with the coincident peak in the development of the hermetic order of the golden dawn and the universal gnostic church) be characterized as the resurgence of the great white brotherhood and its rejuvenation out of the degeneration of classical speculative freemasonry. this coincides closely with the great airship scare of 1897. at almost the same moment, and in the same unhappy land, the black lodge reasserted itself in the form of such fraternitie

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

he saw. dee scrupulously recorded all that kelly told him. often angels from the watchtowers or aethyrs would assist them in their work. for example, one of their "guides" was a young elfin girl named madimi who appeared over a period of seven years. 2 little came of dee's psychic investigations until late in the nineteenth century when a group of occultists and magicians took up the magick. the hermetic order of the golden dawn used words and phrases from dee's enochian magick in their magical rituals and writings. however, t was not until a magician rose to the grade of adeptus minor that he was given the keys to this magical system. here enochian invocations for skrying in the spirit-vision (a magical process sometimes called astral traveling) formed a part of their magical work. the g

irty aethyrs. 32 the watchtowers regardless of their origin, these tablets and the whole enochian system do represent realities of the inner planes. their value is undoubted, as only a little study and application prove. israel regardie, introduction to the enochian system a knowledge of these tables could then, if complete, afford an understanding of the laws which govern the whole creation. the hermetic order of the golden dawn. the book of the concourse of the forces figure 1, appendix a, shows the four great watchtowers connected by the black cross as constructed by john dee and given to the public by aleister crowley. each watchtower is constructed of 12 squares by 13 squares. this gives a total of 156 squares per watchtower and 675 total squares, although only 644 are importara (624

yourself as you discover them. 34 the tablet of union the enochian tablets are four in number, each referred to one of the elements of earth, air, fire and water. in addition to these four there is another smaller tablet, which is called the tablet of union, referred to the element of ether or spirit. its function, as its name implies, is a unite and b nd together the four elemental tablets. the hermetic order of the golden dawn the book of the concourse of the forces the black cross is shown in figure 1, appendix a, as the central horizontal row and vertical column of darkened squares. the two horizontal arms have 12 squares each and the top and bottom vertical arras have 13 squares each. the central square at the midpoint of the tablet malees the total number of squares 51. this is the

f the magick square of olap as explained later in enochian healing techniques. essentially, this means that these 16 squares all contain strong forces of healing and well-being. 41 general watchtower forces and characteristics thine is the air with its movement! thine is the fire with its flashing flame! thine is the water with its ebb and flow! thine is the earth with its enduring stabiiity! the hermetic order of the golden dawn figure 13, appendix a, shows the major forces that cycle through the subquadrants of the four watchtowers. figure 14, appendix a, shows the major characteristics and astrological signs associated with the sixteen subquadrants of the watchtowers. the forces of earth begin with chaotic violence. these lead gradually into formative forces, which result in establishin

is: the robe: the enochian word for robe is mabza (mah-behzodah. the gematric value is 116 with an alternate value of 110. the enochian is: 60 your magick circle the first task of the magician in every ceremony is therefore to tender his circle absolutely impregnable. aleister crowley, magick in theory and practice at all times complete the circle of the placebefore cammencing ara invokation. the hermetic order of the golden dawn the ritual of the pentagram a typical magick circle is shown in figure 4. the four triangles outside the circle represent the four watchtowers. when conducting magical operations on the watchtowers, sit or stand in a green circle (in general, green is appropraite for most operations. however, the color to use should correspond with the magical operation in which i

.a. or canada by dialing 1- 800-the-moon. customer service calls dial 1-612-291-1970. mail orders to: llewellyn publications p.o.box 64383-dept 711/ st.paul, mn 55164-0383,u.s.a. 433 enochian magic--a practical manual by gerald j.schueler the powerful system of magic introduced in the 16th century by dr. john dee, astrologer royal to queen elizabeth i, and as practiced by aleister crowley and the hermetic order of the golden dawn, is here presented for the first time in a complete, step-by-step form. there has never before been a hook that has made enochian magic this easy! in this book you are led carefully along the path from "a brief history of the enochian magical system" through "how to speak enochian "how to invoke "the calls "egyptian deities" and "chief hazards" to "how to visit th

GRIFFIN DAVID MAGICAL EVOCATION OF THE AVERSE FORCES

6 17 18 19oudavid griffin d lamdq laygh t/ab;x] hwhy laynah yhiloa e hgno c thee riittuall magiicc manuall a complete course in practical magic ee--lleessssoonn eeddiittiioonn eexxcclluussiivveellyy ffoorr ssttuuddeennttss ooff tthhee golden dawn school of magic and alchemy magical evocation of the averse forces by david griffin archon basileus, a.+o, chief adept, r.r. et a.c, imperator, h.o.g.d. hermetic order of the golden dawn outer order of the rosicrucian order of alpha et omegar www.golden-dawn.com copyright c 1999 &2008. all rights reserved. david griffin 1 magical evocation of the averse forces copyright 1999, david griffin reprinted by permission of the author from the ritual magic manual introduction magical evocation magical evocation of the averse forces is the most feared, mal

itions. for example, baal and astarte, the great god and goddess of the caananites, appear diabolized in the infernal hierarchy of the goetia, in the lemegeton, as the demons beelzebub and asteroth. other grimoires even include isis, the sublime mother goddess of egypt, as one of the denizens of hell. fortunately, however, the hierarchies of forces attributed to the qabalistic tree of life by the hermetic order of the golden dawn provide a perfect vehicle for magical evocation. these hierarchies descend through all four of the qabalistic worlds and onward into the realm of the averse forces. unto aziluth, the highest of the four qabalistic worlds corresponds a divine name attributed unto each sephirothic, zodiacal, planetary, and elemental force. likewise, unto briah, the next descending w

hell' and to comprehend in part this strength, and thus to understand the necessity of evil in material creation. wherefore, also, revile not overmuch the evil forces, for they have a place and a duty, and in this consisteth their right to be. but check their usurpation, and cast them down unto their plane."10 10 the golden dawn (the original account of the teachings, rites, and ceremonies of the hermetic order of the golden dawn [1937, revealed by israel regardie, 6th ed (st. paul: llewellyn, 1989, p. 1 e i'axloitoit' v* fv v* cection..grj5>fe7 teutonic mythology. jacob geimm. teutonic mythology by jacob grimm. translated from the fourth edition. with notes and appendix james steven stallybrass, vol. iii \c london: george bell& sons, york street, covent garden. 1883. butler& tanner, the s

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eofthe golden dawn cipher manuscripts.p in his original text, as it appears in the galley proofsofthe book, he is more precise, naming irwin specifically as the author of the texts he describes and suggesting that 'he had a hand in manufacturing the warrants of another secret order or association of occult students to which there are occasional allusions in the transactions of thesoc.ros'-i.e.the hermetic order of the golden dawn. westcott's copyofthe cipher manuscript is not in an identifiable hand, but if the cipher rituals, or their prototype, were the workofirwin,itis highly probable that hockley not only transcribed them but helped to inspire them.itis further possible that such a transcript could have come into westcott's hands between 1878 and 188o when he was working on martinist a

s volume are printed from a quarto manuscript (itself a transcript from an olderbutnow untraceable work) belonging to the late mr. frederick hockley'(p.7. he might have added that he omitted some two-thirdsofthe treatises in hockley's manuscript, printing only the six that were best known to studentsofalchemy and including only one that was not to be found in the printed editionof1684. within the hermetic order of the golden dawn, waite's compatriots doubtless approvedofhis caution in withholding alchemical texts from the public, for they were anxious to ensure that the hermetic sciences remained secret to all save them255 selves. two, at least, of the order's alchemicalenthusiasts255florencefarrand the revd w. a. ayton-certainly had access to some of hockley's manuscripts and made transcr

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an cohen& laurie taylor chaos- james gleick ssotbme- ramsay dukes azoetia- andrew d. chumbley stealing the fire from heaven- stephen mace by the same author: prime chaos available from chaos international publications bm sorcery, london wc1n 3xx, uk. price $20 including post& why and waste hundreds of dollars on on bogus 'astral' initiations and ridiculously overpriced correspondence courses? the hermetic order of the morning star presently doing business as the esoteric order of the golden dawn, originally known as the eternal golden dawn (then the hermetic order of the golden dawn international, has for years been milking vast sums of money from innocent individuals from remote areas who were seeking traditional initiation in the golden dawn. what many of these individuals actually recei

gdi materials. the overwhelming bulk of the materials, i.e, initiations, knowledge lectures, golden dawn papers and rituals circulated among members of specific grades, flying rolls, diagrams such as the garden of eden before and after the fall, and other similar documents, consist of materials prepared by s.l.m. macgregor mathers, w. wynn westcott, florence farr and other members of the original hermetic order of the golden dawn founded by mssrs. westcott, woodman, and mathers in london in 1888. these materials passed into the public domain, if they ever were protected, approximately 100 years ago. in support thereof, i mention that a lawsuit brought by s.l.m. mathers in the second decade of the 20th-century against aleister crowley for publishing substantially these same materials in var

HOWE THE ALCHEMIST OF THE GOLDEN DAWN

by r. a. gilbert ibe 1llebemist of tbe golden 'dawn (lhe tetters of the1ivd (1.11. l1jton to 1.t.gardner and tithers 1886-19 6 edited with an introduction by ellie howe the aquarian press wellingborough, northamptonshire contents introduction the letters index ofpersons page 9 19 iii facsimile of letter 7 (see page 28 ff) introduction the revd william alexander ayton and his wife both joined the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hereafter, the g.d) in july 1888, about four months after dr william wynn westcott, a london coroner, founded the order. ayton was, in fact, westcott's twentieth recruit. w. b. yeats, who first encountered him not long after he himself became a member of the order in march 1890, described him (although without identifying him by name) in his autobiographical the

ndia, published his occult world. sixty years later a. e. waite recalled its 'remarkable account of strange phenomena and yet stranger claims 'i remember very well the strange crew that filled sinnett's drawing room at theosophical gatherings' he continued 'the astrologers, the mesmerists, the readers of hands, and a few, very few only, of the motley spiritualist groups" when westcott founded the hermetic order of the golden dawn in 1888 he intended it to be a secret and highly-exclusive alternative to the theosophical society; in fact a school of occultism based on the western hermetic-qabalistic tradition, and hence without any hindu or buddhist elements. the theosophical society was open to all who wished to join it, but the door that led to the g.d. was closely guarded. the majority of

began in 1960 when i commenced the research for urania's children: the strange world of theastrologers; which was eventually published in 1967. in the course of investigating the extraordinary expansion of interest in astrology that began in great britain during the 1890s i discovered a. e. waite's shadows of life and thought (1938, and read his tantalizingly obscure account of the origins of the hermetic order of the golden dawn and his own experiences in the order. bewildered by waite's obfuscations i decided to try to solve 'the mystery of the g.d' and the magicians of the golden dawn: a documentary history of a magical order, 1887-1923 appeared in 1972 (to be reissued by the aquarian press. when i began to work on the g.d. problem in 1970 there was only one possible point of departure

ISRAEL REGARDIE A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO GEOMANTIC DIVINATION

be exercised on this matter just as it has with regard to the formulation of the question itself. the presiding genius 43 chapter six the presiding genius all previous exoteric works dealing with geomancy are defective in this one particular area at least, the omission of that procedure which is an initiated technique. geomancy is divination through the element earth. in one of the rituals of the hermetic order of the golden dawn the initiate is sworn to invoke, in his workings, the highest name of god that he knows. in this way, whatever he does will come under the guidance and benediction of the highest spiritual force that he knows. thus the ruler of the element of earth has to be magically invoked so that it may truly govern this work of prognostication. it comprises three separate ges

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tion adds notes from mme blavatsky s works. fourth revised edition, with hebrew text: volume 3 of darcy kuntz golden dawn studies series (edmonds: holmes publishing group, 1996. westcott s sy is also included in the most recent reprint of collectana hermetica, a series which westcott edited 1893-1911 (weiser, 1998. westcott was an occultist who, with s. l. m. mathers, was a founding member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. both westcott and mathers put several magical and mystical texts into english in the late 1800s and early 1900s. most pertinent to kabbalah are mathers kabbalah unveiled (sections of the zohar after the latin of knorr von rosenroth) and westcott s sy, which, in spite of the claim on the title page that the work was translated from the hebrew, appears to have been

text introduced. from other sources (waite s introduction to stenring for one, we learn that the thirty-two paths is a late addition to sy, appended in some latin versions. in a series of short paragraphs, it tells of the intelligences, powers and virtues of the thirty-two paths, which are the ten sefirot plus the twenty-two letters of the hebrew alphabet. 20073 5 westcott s connections with the hermetic order of the golden dawn afford his treatment of sy a certain pedigree at least in the eyes of those who involve themselves with golden dawn teachings and literature thus, it has been reprinted far more often than any other version (and appears at a large number of sites on the internet; see part 4 below. papus [gerard encausse. the qabalah: secret tradition of the west. french original

LEWIS JAMES SATANISM TODAY AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION FOLKLORE AND POPULAR CULTURE

ed. the tibetan book of the dead. 3rd ed. london: oxford university press, 1960. rahula,walpola. what the buddha taught. 1959. 2nd expanded edition, new york: evergreen, 1974. zimmer, heinrich. philosophies of india. new york: bollingen, 1951; new york:macmillan, 1987. builders of the adytum the builders of the adytum (bota) was established in 1922 by paul foster case (1884 1954, a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. he was known as an expert in the study of the tarot and cabala, and was said to have been asked by the inner school to reinterpret the ageless wisdom for the western audience. bota s name originated from the greek term meaning holy of holies, and referring to the metaphysical building of one s inner temple.members of bota regard jesus as a carpenter, a builder, a

t of the book of revelation english author, magician, and occultist, aleister crowley with a selection of occult instruments (archive photos) 56 curse of the demon and is the principal source for modern satanism s magical practices. one measure of this influence is that the enochian keys in anton lavey s satanic bible were taken from crowley s periodical equinox. in 1898 he was initiated into the hermetic order of the golden dawn (ogd, an occult group focused on ritual magic or magick, as crowley liked to spell it. in 1903 he married rose edith kelly. he seemed destined for leadership in the ogd, but was denied higher grades of initiation because of his homosexual activities. samuel (macgregor) mathers, one of the founders of the ogd, gave crowley the higher grades anyway, thus causing a s

s or aires. kelly allegedly spoke enochian when the angels appeared in his crystal. one of the procedures used during the communication consisted of setting up charts filled with letters to which the angels would point with a rod in order to spell out messages. after the deaths of dee and kelly, interest in enochian magic vanished. however, a revival occurred in the nineteenth century through the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and later through aleister crowley s commentaries, the most extensive of which was published in the vision and the voice (1911. crowley claimed to be able to invoke all the aethyrs in the nineteenth key, and recorded his communications with spirits and astral beings.modern enochian magic is characterized by two main operations: invoking spirits, and traveling to

lso magic and magical groups for further reading: clymer, r. swinburne. the rosicrucian fraternity in america. quakertown, pa: rosicrucian foundation, 1935. randolph, paschal beverly. eulis, affectional alchemy. quakertown, pa: confederation of initiates, 1930. fraternity of light the fraternity of light, formed in philadelphia by a group of cabalistic magicians, derives from the tradition of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, although it has no organizational connection. according to the fraternity, individuals are basically a spark of divine consciousness, which is eternal and periodically shows itself in a series of different forms, including the most dense one, the physical body. at the moment of death, the spark leaves the physical, whereas after three days the less dense bodies l

reading: melton, j. gordon. the encyclopedia of american religion. detroit, mi: gale research, 5th ed, 1996. the path of light. philadelphia: fraternity of light, 1974. fraternity of the hidden light fraternity of the hidden light is the english name of the fraternity known as fraternitas l. v. x. occulta. very similar to the builders of the adytum, it originated from the american section of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (ogd. it is claimed that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the head and three officers of the ogd reorganized the order as a mystery school dedicated to the return of the new age or age of aquarius. this tradition has been inherited by the present heads of the fraternity, assuming a more public profile in the mid- 1980s. the main purposes of the fraterni

ry was that luminous vapors escaped from the hole, forming a glowing, batlike creature (a bat out of hell, so to speak. the words i have conquered appeared in russian in the heavens. the trinity broadcasting network broadcast the tale at least three times, and sent out a story about the hellhole to their internet mailing list. a charon, hell s ferryman in greek mythology (dover pictorial archive) hermetic order of the golden dawn 111 tongue-in-cheek well to hell story also appeared in the biblical archeology review. to the chagrin of the editors, many of their readers took the article seriously. upon investigation, it was found that the original finnish article was actually a letter to the editor, in which a reader had repeated an item he had picked up from a christian newsletter. and the

the angels murdered a young black fan while the stones were performing sympathy for the devil. this event subsequently defined the hell s angels in the minds of many outsiders. see also crime; heavy metal music for further reading: baddeley, gavin. lucifer rising: sin, devil worship and rock n roll. london: plexus, 1999. scott,miriam van. encyclopedia of hell. new york: thomas dunne books, 1998. hermetic order of the golden dawn the hermetic order of the golden dawn was formed in england in 1888 when a group trying to make use of magic formulas using francis barrett s 1801 textbook on magic and alchemy, the magus, were introduced to the materials of psychic fred hockley. s. l. macgregor mathers was the founding member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn and became its most important

er of the golden dawn the hermetic order of the golden dawn was formed in england in 1888 when a group trying to make use of magic formulas using francis barrett s 1801 textbook on magic and alchemy, the magus, were introduced to the materials of psychic fred hockley. s. l. macgregor mathers was the founding member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn and became its most important leader. the hermetic order of the golden dawn taught a disciplined approach to self-transformation through a system of high magic and became the group most credited with initiating the revival of magic in the twentieth century. through the order s most (in)famous member, aleister crowley, the order would exercise a profound influence on the ritual practices of modern satanism and of the left-hand path traditi

nce on the ritual practices of modern satanism and of the left-hand path tradition more generally. in the late eighteenth century, the persecution of magical groups ceased. these groups came into the public eye concurrently with the rise of a dilettante interest in occultism in western europe. in 1801 francis barrett published the magus. in the early 1800s, alphonse-louis constant studied the 112 hermetic order of the golden dawn whole magical tradition and became familiar with barrett s the magus. under the pen name eliphas levi, constant published dogma and ritual of high magic, history of magic, and key of the great mysteries in the 1850s. levi over the next decades became the teacher of members of such diverse groups as rosicrucians, ritual magicians, and witches. in mid-nineteenth cen

manuscripts and s. l. macgregor mathers (1854 1917, also an sria member, systematized them into a useful form. the material also contained the nuremberg address of anna sprengel, a rosicrucian of high degree. mathers wrote to her and received voluminous materials and the charter for the isis-urania temple. in 1888, the isis-urania temple of the golden dawn, the first temple representative of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, was opened. other temples were soon founded in edinburgh, weston-super-mare, bradford, and paris. in 1887, westcott left the order of the golden dawn and s. l. macgregor mathers took complete control. mathers had already gained a wide reputation for his occult scholarship. he had reworked francis barrett s texts and translated and edited the works of abramelin th

lude invocation and evocation. invocation is the calling down into the self of a cosmic force with a purely psychological result. evocation is the calling up of that same force from the depths of the self, and it may result in objective physical phenomena. a second belief is in the power of the will, which can be trained to do anything. central to magic is the will, its training and activity. the hermetic order of the golden dawn also looked to other planes of existence, usually referred to as astral planes. these planes are inhabited by entities other than human beings who were called secret chiefs. mathers himself claimed to have contacted the secret chiefs in 1892. the hermetic order of the golden dawn adopted a cabalistic initiation system wherein each grade was given a numerical symbo

ogd with the degree of adeptus exemptus, the highest degree that human beings could attain. the most famous member of the ogd was aleister crowley, whose magical thought has come to dominate modern magical practice. reared in hinduism 113 an exclusive plymouth brethren home, crowley had been introduced to magic in a book by occult historian a. e.waite.his cabalistic studies led him in 1898 to the hermetic order of the golden dawn. crowley rose quickly through the first order, but was refused initiation to adeptus minor, the lowest degree in the second order, because of his homosexuality.however,crowley went to paris and was initiated to adeptus minor by macgregor mathers, which led to a split in the order in london. in 1904, crowley received a communication from the astral plane with instr

second order, because of his homosexuality.however,crowley went to paris and was initiated to adeptus minor by macgregor mathers, which led to a split in the order in london. in 1904, crowley received a communication from the astral plane with instruction for the establishment of a new order.he left the hogd in 1907 to set up this new order, which he called the astrum argentinum (silver star. the hermetic order of the golden dawn came to an end after the first world war, but it shaped the thinking of a number of persons who have since been very influential in occult and magical circles. a short-lived attempt to revive the hermetic order of the golden dawn emerged in the early 1970s, led by john phillips palmer. the bennu phoenix temple continued the tradition of the hermetic order of the g

eincarnation of louis xvii, and began serious study of the occult, which had always interested him. in 1861 his most important book, the dogma and ritual of high magic appeared. based on the work of francis barrett in the magus, it attempted to create a unified magical system of all occult knowledge, and this effort was continued in his later books. his system was then adopted and improved by the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and so became the source of all modern systems of magic, including the magic of modern satanist groups. his work also influenced the english occult writer sir edward bulwer-lytton; they both joined an occult organization (which bulwer- lytton may have founded, and studied together. this organization may also have influenced the formation of the hermetic order of

er sir edward bulwer-lytton; they both joined an occult organization (which bulwer- lytton may have founded, and studied together. this organization may also have influenced the formation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd. levi s works were translated into english by a. e.waite, a very prominent member of the hogd, and have been kept in print by occult publishers ever since. see also hermetic order of the golden dawn; magic and magical groups for further reading: cavendish, richard. the black arts. new york: capricorn books, 1967. guiley, rosemary ellen. the encyclopedia ofwitches and witchcraft. new york: facts on file, 1989. levi, eliphas [alphonse-louis constant. history of magic. york beach, me:weiser, 1969. leviathan the word leviathan is originally hebrew, and means the

ed fred hockley, and began trying to get barrett s and levi s magic formulas to actually work. hockley owned a set of mysterious magical manuscripts, on which he based his magical authority. the late nineteenth century saw the rise of spiritual occultism, which, as represented by theosophy, rudolf steiner, gurdjieff, and ouspensky, and a ritual-magical wing (various rosicrucian organizations, the hermetic order of the golden dawn, and its offshoots, denies that it is a religion. it is the mindset of spiritual occultism that leads most modern occult organizations to deny that they are religions. however, they exhibit the same ambiguous relation between their foundational myths and their ordinary history that religions in general do. rosicrucianism has the myths set forth in its major docume

le who have been or still are members of most of the other extant occult organizations. upon the leader s demise, the organization usually fractures into two or many factions, as the other members struggle to decide who will assume the mantle of the founder, and these factions generally then become independent organizations, which repeat the cycle. most contemporary magic goes back to that of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd, which was an offshoot of a masonic- rosicrucian organization, the societas rosicruciana in anglia (sria, founded by robert wentworth little in 1865, and supposedly based on old manuscripts found in freemasons hall, apparently the ones owned by hockley. the london lodge of the theosophical society was opened in 1883, and members of both these lodges were amo

inner light as an outer court for the aeo. she and mrs. mathers clashed more and more as violet matured as a leader.when mrs. mathers expelled her in 1927, firth, now using the name dion fortune, took the fraternity of the inner light with her, and it became the parent or ancestor of many other important magical organizations now functioning in england. see also crowley, aleister; levi, eliphas; hermetic order of the golden dawn; ordo templi orientis for further reading: flowers, stephen e, lords of the left hand path. smithville, tx: runa-raven press, 1997. green,marian. the elements of ritual magic. longmead, shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1990. knight, gareth.magic and the western mind. st. paul: llewellyn, 1991. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new york: avon, 1969. malik m

he ecclesiastical history of new-england. vol. 2. 1698. hartford, ct: silas andrus, 1820. memorable providences, relating to witchcrafts and possessions. 1689. in g. l. burr, ed. narratives of the witchcraft cases. new york: barnes and noble, 1968. silverman, kenneth. the life and times of cotton mather. new york: columbia, 1985. mathers, samuel liddell samuel mathers (1854 1918, a founder of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, had a significant but indirect influence on modern religious satanism through aleister crowley, a one-time member of the order. born into a scottish family in london, england, and he later gave himself the first name of macgregor to reflect his scottish heritage. his father died when he was young and his mother then supported the family as a clerk in the town of

ual abuse case and participating in the masonic society and the rosicrucian society in anglia, until 1885. at that time he moved to london and joined the theosophical society. in 1887 he published the kabbalah unveiled, establishing himself as an occult scholar.during this time he met with wynn westcott and others to decode and rework a number of magical manuscripts. these became the basis of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (hogd, founded in 1888. westcott soon left the group and mathers gained complete control. in 1890 he married mina (later changed to moira) bergson, the daughter of famous philosopher henri bergson. in 1891 or 1892 he moved to paris and established a temple of the ogd, adding it to the temples in london, edinburgh, weston-super-mare, and bradford. the organizing id

d used what he had learned in the ogd, a significant factor in crowley s stimulation of what became the twentieth century revival of magic. after mathers s death, his widow moved to london and led a temple herself, but the ogd eventually became defunct. the ceremonial magic tradition tapped by later satanists such as anton lavey has its roots in the ogd. see also crowley, aleister; levi, eliphas; hermetic order of the golden dawn;magic and magical groups; ordo templi orientis for further reading: flowers, stephen e. lords of the left hand path. smithville, tx: runa-raven press, 1997. green,marian. the elements of ritual magic. longmead, shaftesbury, dorset, uk: element, 1990. knight, gareth.magic and the western mind. st. paul: llewellyn, 1991. lavey, anton szandor. the satanic bible. new

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ced either hard or soft; i may be pronounced as a vowel .i, or a consonantal .y. c is generally pronounced hard, although in some of the calls it is transliterated as in which case it is pronounced soft. an alternative discussion of enochian pronunciation issues may be found in laycock (1978. 3: this ritual fragment is abbreviated from the opening of the portal grade (attributed to spirit) in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. similarly the rituals preceding the third through sixth keys are abbreviated versions of the appropriate elemental grade openings. 4: the following text of the keys or calls is a phonetic rendition, inserting vowels where necessary according to the g.d. pronunciation rules. note that final .e.s are pronounced separately. the english translations have been slightl

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self for the proper adaptation of this ritual to the purpose of self-initiation. 1 [the ritual published as .liber 671. is not the ritual which crowley is here describing, but the adaptation for self-initiation that he prepared during this magical retirement. one revision of the earlier form, a scripted initiation ritual with two officers and a candidate, adapted from the neophyte ceremony of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, survives in typescript as .liber dclxxi vel aort. but is unpublished. t.s] john st. john 31 oh, how soft is the air, and how serene the sky, to one who has passed through the black rule of apophis! how infinitely musical are the voices of nature, those that are heard and those that are not heard! what understanding of the universe, what love is the prize of him t

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religion there is no sect, therefore take heed that thou blaspheme not the name by which another knoweth his god; for if thou do this thing in jupiter thou wilt blaspheme hwhy and in osiris hwchy. ask and ye shall have! seek, and ye shall find! knock, and it shall be opened unto you [this text is a slight adaptation by crowley of an instruction originally circulated in the practicus grade of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, titled gon the general guidance and purification of the soul. h the g.d. version may be studied in regardie (ed, the golden dawn and the complete golden dawn system of magick. gliber libra h was first published in equinox i (1) and reprinted in gems from the equinox and equinox iii (10, in the latter case with a questionable author credit to gthe master therion

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swarthy red of hate in a man.s cheek, and darkened utterly .foaming at the fouth the wretched jehjaour clutched at air and fell prone. iii .to what god should he appeal? his own, hanuman, was silent. sacrifice, prayer, all were in vain. so jehjaour gnashed his teeth, and his whole force went out in a mighty current of hate towards his former friend. 1 allan macgregor bennett (whose motto in the .hermetic order of the golden dawn. was iehi aour, i.e .let there be light, now ananda metteya, to whom the volume in which this story was issued is inscribed. 2 taphtatharath [sic, s.b. taphthartharath. t.s, the spirit of mercury .now hate hath power, though not the power of love. so it came about that in his despair he fell into a trance; and in the trance mara1 appeared to him. never before had

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th additional editorial material, york beach, maine: samuel weiser, 1995 (ed. by william breeze. preisendanz, karl (ed: papyri graca magica: die griechischen zauberpapyri (2 vols. leipzig: teubner, 1928-31; second edition stuttgart: teubner, 1973. regardie, francis israel: ceremonial magic. wellingborough: aquarian, 1980 (ed) the golden dawn (full title: the teachings, rites and ceremonies of the hermetic order of the golden dawn (4 vols) chicago: aries press, 1937-1940; 6th edition in one volume, st. paul, minnesota: llewellyn, 1989. waite, arthur edward: the book of black magic and of pacts, including the rites and mysteries of goetic theurgy, sorcery and infernal necromancy. london: 1898. second edition as the book of ceremonial magic, london: rider, 1911; reprinted new hyde park, ny: u

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he earth in such a manner as best suited to time and geographical circumstance, and which was said to have been in existence from time immemorial; the old wisdom of the watchers, in fact. in madame blavatsky's society it was the oriental branch of this wisdom, comprising the teachings of vedanta and esoteric buddhism, which was the main inspiration. closely paralleling this movement, however, the hermetic order of the golden dawn was formed in england a few years later, similar in ideal but pursuing a western, rosicrucian path bound up with a system of ceremonial magic comprising invocation of ancient egyptian gods, cabalistic formulae, and dr. john dee's sixteenth-century enochian research. this erudite institution attracted many fertile minds including the poet w. b. yeats, arthur machen

anized regents of the four elements of the wise: michael and mark of fire; raphael and john, air; gabriel and matthew, water; and last, uriel and luke, earth. however, you as a witch will bypass these later accretions and return to the old-style symbolism, namely, that of the four watchtowers of the world. some occultists trace their use solely back to the nineteenth-century rosicrucianism of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, others to the experiments of the elizabethan magnus dr. john dee. to a witch, however, they are a direct representation of the four "castles" of pre-celtic lore, which are said to stand at the four corners of the world. each castle or watchtower is referred to one of the elements, that of the east to air and childhood; south to fire and youth; west to water and m

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stimulated until her passions are aroused. only then is she brought before the coven master who copulates with her, until he is exhausted. the mark of the beast aleister crowley, an infamous black magician of the 1920s, was< dubbed by the daily express the wickedest man who ever lived and came to believe that he was the biblical beast of the revelations. he was, for a short time, a member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, but his true interest lie in the oto (ordo templis orientis, a german order involved in sexual magic. he took this and adapted it into a new religion, thelema. a magical system dedicated to the enlightenment of one s soul via sex rituals held in honor of pan, the god of earthly existence and often portrayed as the carnal side of man s nature. in 1920 crowley esta

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ning of our philosophical canons, prescribed to us by our brother r.c, and be partakers with us of our treasures (which can never fail or be wasted) in all humility and love, to be eased of this world's labours, and not walk so blindly in the knowledge of the wonderful works of god" fama fraternitatis (1614) foreword and appreciation just about 100 years ago (in 1887) we had the beginnings of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. it was then that (according to history and "myth) dr. william westcott discovered a cipher manuscript that led to the founding of an english branch of die goldene dammerung in 1888. it was this golden dawn that attractedsome of the most talented personalities of the time- including w. 8. yeats, algernon blackwood, arthur machen, florence farr, annie horniman, a

971. i &ote in my journal simpli sweet the rose" i had virtually no idea their meaning, and the images they 15 years! on the evening of october perhaps last mystical experience of trump "the hermit" i was aware which i sensed clearly communicating join me at the summit, and we shall even know the hour of awakening with me and rejoice in the morning his office in studio city, california. about the hermetic order of the i knew that regardie had been my initial meeting with him was for reichian technique, and exploring importance along with a magical regimen. about the nature of magic, and midway through my time with him, mabel ollins.'klthbu ah le ngthy passage, the student the first inkling of the personal angel. stand aside in the coming baffle,a nd the warrior and let him fight in thee. t

matter virtue" is an essential attitude to be i know of two women who intuitively imagining the roles of the officers they had no duly installed hierophant the magical formulae underlying their in terms of their individual magical with an active temple. upon approaching this book, i the first several weeks, read edition contained herein. i would this gives the student an overview of not only the hermetic order of the allow this material to settle deeply or associating any variety of images the first knowledge lecture and then the hebrew alphabet and its correspondences, knowledge lecture. within this system, of religion or sect. its letters are considered doorways into the inner world-teric religious organization. a convenient place them on "flash" cards, not unlike 51, zealand, and power

erapy later in +i +zt for jung's theoretical con- t :re effective than free association, the "rose" in this work, by interpreting order, one's associations and insights not an abstruse alchemical reference, practical purpose. additionally, edinger's and archetype as the "blood of christ" when understood with the respective hebrew letter "shin" or the significance neophyte hall. the current of the hermetic order blaze reignited by regardie's patient when many a storm threatened to extinguish and the student willfind that current external organizations, initiations for paul foster case wrote in the trzie and rosicrucian order. if you are duly and make contact. in due season. i do themselves" llewellyn publications and carl special presentation of the first paperback the original pagination h

und in fire" the jesuits in their day interpreted it as "justum necare regis impiusu-'lt is just to kill an impious king" j.s.m. ward in his book freemasonry and the ancient gods gives yet another example: the golden dawn i. yam= water n. nour =fie r. ruach= air i. yebeshas= earth thus the four letters may be used as hebrew initials of the four ancient elements. in the nineteenth century when the hermetic order of the golden dawn came to be formed, these letters were picked up and integrated into the complex structure of the order symbolism. to understand the interpretation used by the order, we need only the most superficial knowledge of the basic attributions given in the sepher yetzirah, the tarot pack of cards, a smattering of gnosticism and astrology. the first gesture is to convert t

rfas evangelii. dei gloria intacta. below the altar was found the body of rosenkreuk, intact, and without any signs of putrefaction in his hand was a book of parchment, with golden letters marked on the cover with a t, and at the end was written, ex deo nascimur. in jesus morimur. per spiritum sanctum reviviscimus" it was upon this schema and from this original body, to state it briefly, that the hermetic order of the golden dawn claimed direct descent. its history lecture, however, volunteered very few verifiable details as to the historical facts which, from the scholarly point of view, we should be acquainted with-the details for <15> example of the line of descent from, say, 1614 to 1865. current within the present day order was the belief that at various dates within the period named

tal rosicrucian adept, the isis-urania temple of hermetic students of the g.d. was formed to give instruction in the mediaeval occult sciences. fraters m.e.v. with s.a. and s.rm.d. became the chiefs, and the latter wrote the rituals in modern english from old rosicrucian mss (the property of s.a) supplemented by his own literary researches" in these two statements is narrated the beginning of the hermetic order of the golden dawn- an organisation which has exerted a greater influence on the development of occultism since its revival in the last quarter of the 19th century than most people can realise. there can be little or no doubt that the golden dawn is, or rather was until very recently, the sole depository of magical knowledge, the only occult order of any real worth that the west in

tur astris chosen by a fraulein anna sprengel of nuremburg, germany. such were the actors on this occult stage, this thedramatis personae in the background of the commencement of the order. more than any other figures who may later have prominently figured in its government and work, these are the four outstanding figures publicly involved in the english foundation of what came to be known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn. how the actual instigation of the order came to pass is not really known. or rather, because of so many conflicting stories and legends the truth is impossible to discover. at any rate, so far as england is concerned, without a doubt we must seek for its origin in thh ocieta s osicrucianain anglia. this was an organisation formulated in 1865 bv eminent freemasons

to formulate in enaland a semi-public occult organisation which was to employ an elaborate magical ceremonial, abalisticte akg and a comprehensive scheme of s irituatlr aining. its foundation was desiened to include both men and women on a'basis of perfezequality in contradistinction to the policy of the societas rosicruciana in anglia which was comprised wholly of freemasons. thus, in 1887, the hermetic order of the golden dawn was established. its first english temple, isis-urania, was opened in the following year. there is a somewhat different version as to its origin, having behind it the 18 the golden dawn authority of frater f. r, the late dr. felkin, who was the chief of the stella matutina as well as a member of the societas rosicruciana. according to his account, and the followin

ork might be inaugurated. and dr. felkin here adds, though without the least word of explanation as to what machinery was set in motion towards the attainment of that end "and so it was. it came about then that temples arose in london, bradford, weston-super- mare, and edinburgh. the ceremonies we have were elaborated from cipher manuscripts, and all went well for a time" since the history of the hermetic order of the golden dawn subsequent to this period has already been narrated elsewhere there is little need to repeat it. those who may be interested in a detailed meticulous history of the rosicrucian claim as it has existed in europe during the past three hundred years are advised to consult arthur edward waite's the brotherhood of the rosy cross. while in my small work my rosicrucian a

better for it. but if you should happen to be out of harmonywith your sur. roundings or at variance with your neighbours, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled. when more than one person enters the vault they must all make the l v x signs together. the three chiefs by frater a. m. a. g. the first temple founded in england in 1887-88 under the governance of the hermetic order of the golden dawn was named very appropriately isis-urania. isis-urania is venus, and she is the occult planet which represents the genius of this order- venus, the evening and the morning star, presaging the rising of the sun of ineffable light. venus is also, as isis, a symbol of the qabalistic shekinah, the glory of the presence divine, the holy spirit. after the revolt in the o

orces are absorbed and balanced in the matter, then do the ponderous forces of assiah, the princess, engage in powerful combat. end of volume four completing the work epilogue in 1903 the golden dawn was disbanded in a flurry of scandal and its sundry adepts left to form their own tribes leaving the order to die. but did it? like an oak, shattered by the storm, which scatters wide its acorns, the hermetic order of the golden dawn bequeathed a body of knowledge, teachings and information to the ensuing generations. this became the root of the modem neo- pagan movement, which is the fastest growing religion in this country, according to the institute for the study of american religion in the last twenty years we have seen a vast and varied resurgence in the study of the occult and magicmarts

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such who, with evil intent, would abuse those secrets which he hath given and revealed unto me the traditional magical squares and sigils and hierarchical names have come down to us through the abbot trithemius, pietro d abano, and henry cornelius agrippa, derived from much earlier but unknown sources. for the most part, these have been reprinted in the magus by barrett, were appropriated by the hermetic order of the golden dawn in the last century, and were once more reprinted by me when compiling the material for the fourth volume of the golden dawn. i would like to suggest that the interested student study this system at the very least, so that he will come to understand the classical basis of the method. the magic squares of the planets found in the appendix of this book are an import

cally, mentally, and spiritually. the planetary talismans the appropriate one worn on the person daily are calculated to induce the same results, with far less effort and bother in their preparation. the principles already described will cover their construction. these personally designed talismans are much preferred to those copied from this or any other text. chapter three words of power in the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a most interesting anachronism was employed to serve as the basis for the construction of sigils. it related to the old symbol of a rose upon a cross not necessarily a new symbol in itself. however, it is not any antecedently known type of rose-cross symbol. it has no parallels in occult or symbolic history. the novelty consisted of drawing the twenty-two hebrew

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e concepts already highly developed in setian philosophy. while the prologue to the white people stands pretty well on its own for the most part, it does fall short in significant respects which will be self-evident to iii+ setian readers. viewed in historical context, the scope of machen's vision and its ultimate failure can both be seen as almost inevitable. arthur machen was an initiate of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the british magical society in which aleister crowley received his preliminary training. the g:.d. was a white magical order in the precise sense understood by the temple of set, involved in the quest for initiatory harmony with the existing state of the natural universe. as such, its operative magical methodology and the state of being of its membership can be r

ing of a new kingdom is predicted- not in an afterlife, but here on earth. the destruction of the existing earth and heaven is foretold, followed by the institution of a "new heaven" the relevance of this book of enoch material to the deciphered "enochian keys" will become apparent. in the late nineteenth century the casaubon text of the enochian keys was adopted into the magical inventory of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a london-based rosicrucian society. the golden dawn altered and augmented the keys in order to align them with its own emphasis on the hebrew cabala, and its publications assert a mastery of the enochian language by the leaders of the order.4 aleister crowley later incorporated the golden dawn edition of the keys into his aa, again claiming fluency in enochian an

n, also communicated by the angels to kelley. the dee diaries were eventually deposited in the british museum. in 1659 ce a printed version of the dee diaries including the keys was published by meric. casaubon as a true and faithful relation of what passed for many years between dr. john dee and some spirits. in the late nineteenth century, the keys were adopted into the magical inventory of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the london-based rosicrucian society. the golden dawn altered and augmented the casaubon version in order to align the keys with its own emphasis on egyptology and the hebrew cabala. its publications asserted a mastery of the enochian language by the leaders of the order. aleister crowley later incorporated the golden dawn edition of the keys into his a:.a (argen

et and the 30 aethyrs the enochian magical system of dr. john dee and edward kelly seems to be enjoying a surge of popularity at present. collectors of occult textbooks are presented with a multitude of titles to whet their appetites, each presenting some new facet of enochiana to the eager public. there can be no doubt that this system has a unique appeal. resurrected from dusty antiquity by the hermetic order of the golden dawn at the turn of the century, it was embellished and expanded. aleister crowley then undertook his celebrated skrying into the thirty aethyrs. later, magus lavey included the enochian keys in the satanic bible and demonstrated the malleability of their applications. the temple of set has in no wise neglected the keys. with us, they reach a new standard of purity (as

as a catalyst to remanifestation as a result of my work to date, a conscious assimilation of my progress in this field. it is to be hoped that other setians may find it inspir-ing/intriguing/challenging and that resultant feedback and discussion may benefit all concerned. a rational overview of the enochian system the enochian system did not really excite any interest amongst occultists until the hermetic order of the golden dawn decided to pay it some attention, and it was adapted to suit the qabalistic outlook of that order through the genius of s.l. macgregor mathers. indeed, the golden dawn viewed the enochian system as "the jewel in its crown" since much of contemporary occultism is ultimately derived from the golden dawn, the enochian system has maintained its popularity. however, it

dee's papers on the planetary-based heptarchia mystica, along with convincing evidence that casaubon's (and most people since casaubon) plate of the holy table was reversed by a printer's error. his little book also contains an interesting biography of dee and a history of mortlake to the present day. this is very much a book for scholars and the dedicated only, but interesting in its way. k) the hermetic order of the golden dawn- their claim to fame in enochiana lies in being the first to transform the dee papers into some form of coherent, workable system. in so doing, many details were added to force it into alliance with their brand of qabalism, and the resultant was a bit of a complicated mess, overly prejudiced to suit their own preconceptions. but this was nonetheless the essential

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drawing-room gentleman. this was the era of "experts" on the black arts, such as eliphas levi and countless trance-mediums who, with their carefully bound spirits and demons, have also succeeded in binding the minds of many who call themselves parapsychologists to this day! as far as satanism is concerned, the closest outward signs of this were the neo-pagan rites conducted by macgregor mathers' hermetic order of the golden dawn, and aleister crowley's later order of the silver star (a. a- argentinum astrum) and order of oriental templars (o.t.o, which paranoiacally denied any association with satanism, despite crowley's self-imposed image of the beast of revelation. aside from some rather charming poetry and a smattering of magical bric-a-brac, when not climbing mountains crowley spent m

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s done. when alexandra, the empress of russia, was executed in the cellar of the ipatiev house in 1918, two years after the cruel murder of her batiuska grigori, the guards made a unique discovery. while searching for jewels among her possessions, they found sewn into her bodice a pair of small emerald green dragons given to her by rasputin many years before. could he have trafficked with the odd hermetic order which fringed the russias, the green dragon? there are also many speculations about the true motivations of the fin de si cle khlysty movement. oral communication and fraternal legacy have made the following rite available. requirements for performance participants consist of a priest (celebrant, the woman who serves as altar, two acolytes, an illuminator, a gong-striker, and the co

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brotherhood and mutual service between men. alchemically speaking, the cross is the hieroglyph of the crucible, which used to be called in french cruzol, crucible and croiset. indeed it is in the crucible that the first matter suffers the passion, like christ himself. it is in the crucible that it dies to be revived, purified, spiritualized and transformed. through the grades of initiation in the hermetic order of the golden dawn international, we notice variable usage of the calvary cross with various number of squares. these crosses have varied meanings than those on the banners, but their meaning allows a deeper understanding. thus, here is a list: a f b j d h l i e a g k c a c b k d h e f g i j l 6 rtk hnyb hrwbg trapt dsj hmkj jxn dwh dwsy twklm 10 9 8 7 3 5 6 4 2 1 7 triangle and the

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75 zia rose performing a wicca ceremony (archives of brad steiger) today fs practitioners of wicca come from a complete spectrum of men and women. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d 76 magic and sorcery at the time of his death on march 10, 1985, dr. francis israel regardie was considered by many occultists to be the last living adept of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, a magical tradition that had numbered among its members william butler yeats (1865.1939, aleister crowley (1875.1947, and dion fortune. regardie had demystified many esoteric mysteries surrounding the occult and presented understandable texts on practical magic. by age 19, he began to correspond with aleister crowley. in 1928, he accepted the position of crowley

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t the techniques of western ceremonial magic due to the veil of secrecy which had shrouded these practices. unless a person happened to be a member of a magical organization, there was little chance of leaning the procedures and initiatory practices of high magic. this changed in 1937 when israel regardie published four volumes titled the glh d m, a collection of ceremonies and teachings from the hermetic order of the golden dawn. earlier, regardie had published two books d-g i3-w magical prinapjes of the golden dawn system. i'le middle pik, published in 1938, gave step-by-step details on how to perform practical exercises of ceremonial magic, something which was quite revolutionary for its time. perhaps even more radical was regardie's daring attempt to correiate these magical techniques

nly able to pardon crowley in his later years (in 1970, when he wrote the eye in the triangle: an interpretation of aleister crowley, regardie's charitable nature and his ability to be forgiving toward his old friend was evident) the publication of the tree of lz$e caused quite a stir in magical circles of the time. in the book regardie outlined a few of the magical practices and teachings of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. although the original order had ceased to exist in 1903, it continued to live on in its successors, the stella matutina and the alpha et omega. many members of both orders remembered crowley as a disruptive insurgent from years before, therefore regardie's previous connection to crowley caused some members to lash out at him. other members, most notably dion fort

o god or the one life that courses through all of us. in short, the student acheves a perfect and harmonious identification with divine power, life, and love. and then he will know that "existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass and are done."9 the middle pillar was originally dedicated to s. l. macgregor mathers and dr. william wynn westcott who were chiefs of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, to which i owe so very much. the book is merely the simplest possible representation of some of the elementary practices of that order. in actuality, it is an attempt to simplify and combine the practices both of the golden dawn with the insights and later developments of aleister crowley.10 the real virtue of the book lies in its correlation of the practice of m

perfection and total balance. while the pentagram is the symbol of man, the hexagram is the symbol of perfected or purified man, balanced withn the greater universe. trus is followed once again by the qabalistic cross, whch further strengthens and seals the cross of light within the magician's aura. origins of the pentagram ritual the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram was a creation of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. however, various portions of the ritual are found to have far more ancient sources. in the new testament, the lord's prayer (matthew 6:9-13) is obviously based upon qabalistic principles, showing that jesus of nazareth, who was called rabbi by his followers, knew his qabalah. this is because the lord's prayer is itself based on the hebrew "prayer of david" from t

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pon the little table above the pastos of our father christian rosencreutz. it must be frankly recognized that almost the whole of this manifesto was intended to deceive. the majority of its readers would have assumed for example, that the mysterious master thirion was either some discarnate entity, similar to those who supposedly manifested themselves to macgregor mathers and other members of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, or a himalayan superman, like madame blavatsky s mahatmas.2 again, the statement that the o.t.o. in no way conflicts with or infringes the just privileges of the united grand lodge of england 3 displayed on reuss s part either what lenin, in another connection, called a naivete which in a child would be touching, but is repugnant in a person of mature years, or a

2 pm] sroto_notes 3. the united grand lodge the governing body of english masonry was, and is, of more than insular importance. to fall out with it would have been to conflict with the majority of masonic groups throughout the world. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my.%20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note3.html [12/28/2001 2:08:55 pm] sroto_notes 4. the other was, of course, the hermetic order of the golden dawn for details of which see regardie, golden dawn (llewellyn, 1970, mathers, astral projection magic and alchemy (spearman, 1972, e. howe, magicians of the golden dawn (routledge, 1972) and my own ritual magic in england (spearman, 1970. file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael/my.%20secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/note4.html [12/28/2001 2:08:59 pm] sroto_note

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..which changed least between texts a, b and c were naturally the three initiation rituals; because these, above all, would be the traditional elements which would have been carefully preserved, probably for centuries (emphasis added) but what does one mean by "traditional materials" the three initiation rites, now much-described in print, all smack heavily of the crypto-freemasonic ritual of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the oto, and the various esoteric neorosicrucian groups that abounded in britain from about 1885 on, and which were, it is widely known, the fountainhead of much that is associated with gardner's friend crowley. the third degree ritual, perhaps wicca's ultimate rite, is, essentially, a nonsymbolic gnostic mass, that beautiful, evocative, erotic and esoteric ritua

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r her point of aware- ness into that object while making the cross. therefore, the cross is inscribed over the object as it would be if the object resided within the heart of the magus. remember, always draw the beam from the left side to the right side from the per- spective of the thing to which the cross is applied. it is necessary to point out here that in the system of magic developed by the hermetic order of the golden dawn, which forms the foundation for ninety per- cent of the magic being worked in the modern west, the magus is taught to inscribe the arm of the cross on his or her own body from the right shoulder to the left shoulder. this is due to the way golden dawn magicians applied the kabbalis- tic tree of the sephiroth to the human body. in the golden dawn, the left side of

re to this order. a single line is made from point to point and returned to its origin, forming a kind of involuted circle (see illustration at the top of page 80. in the conventions of modern magic, the first line segment drawn toward a point of the pentagram invokes the elemental force of that point. a line drawn away from a point banishes its force. this follows the practice established by the hermetic order of the golden dawn over a century ago. a pentagram drawn in the manner given above would be assumed by most ritualists to invoke the powers of elemental fire, since the first segment is drawn toward the point of fire. this results in a clumsy system, as anyone who has studied it will admit. not all elements can be invoked from the point of spirit. for example, water must be invoked

net with which it shares signs, plus the missing third symbol added at the bottom to act as its base. no new base can be added to mercury because it already has three symbols, so the upper two symbols are inverted in the variant that shares gemini and virgo with mercury. it is common practice in magic to assign the seven traditional planets to the hexa- gram in this way, after the teaching of the hermetic order of the golden dawn: the most questionable aspect of this arrangement is the placing of the sun in the center. in magic the sun is not the center of the solar system-the self is the center around which all else revolves. the ancients had little problem with this idea. they automatically assumed that the sun went around them and the earth upon which they stood. modern men and women, t

more familiar sequence of the banners employed in golden dawn occultism is: ih* ih, iv; hv, hvia hm; vi%1, vih, v&h; hv, vh, vi. as can be readily seen by comparing the two lists of banners, the golden dawn arrangement has misplaced the three banners of elemental air (those that begin with the hebrew letter vau. this error entered the magical system of the golden dawn through the founder of that hermetic order, s. l. macgregor mathers. in the introduction to his influential 1887 translation of the kabbalah unveiled (kabbala denudata) by christian knorr von rosenroth, a work first published in latin at sulzbach between the years 1677-84, mathers presents this flawed sequence. it is not certain where he came by it, but the most likely source would seem to be the magus by francis barrett, a

reation of telesmatic images was a part of the training of magicians. it was said to be not uncommon to encounter these manufactured spir- its while walking along the empty mountain trails at t ilight' indeed, the yeti is very likely a telesmatic spirit that has been unconsciously created by the tibetan people over many generations. the traditional method of forming a telesmatic image used by the hermetic order of the golden dawn involves the manipulation of a spirit name. the name is translated into hebrew letters. each letter has a certain set of symbolic associa- tions. the first letter of the name is used to form the head of the image, the second letter, the shoulders, and so on. bit by bit the spirit is built up, like frankenstein's monster, until an integrated figure is obtained. thr

e magus constructs the model, the signs for the motions, planets, and zodiac should be painted on the triangles in the opposite, or flashing, colors. 266 new millennium magic opposite colors are called "flashing" because when brought together they appear to flicker and pulse due to retinal fatigue. as with so much of modern magic, the flashing colors were developed and extensively employed in the hermetic order of the golden dawn. this new system of color provides colors for the inner light, the three motions, the five (counting spirit) elements, the seven traditional planets, the twelve signs, and the outer darkness. it is an easy matter to apply it to the thirty-two paths on the tree of the sephiroth. the colors of the astrological powers (motions, planets, and signs) assigned to the pat

x cer mals 0 6 (unm =gh (r (0 (x (n (q (p) texts of magic. for example, cornelius agrippa, who treated every aspect of magic known during the renaissance, says not a single word explicitly about runes in his three books of occult philosophy. runes were not used by the french occultists of the nineteenth century, and most important of all, were not employed in the ritu- als and magical work of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. it is only in recent decades, with the growing availability of popular treatments of the runes, that they have firmly established themselves as a magical alphabet. runes are the magical symbols used by the germanic tribes before the coming of christianity. their beginnings are lost in time. petroglyphs have been found with rune-like inscriptions that date back to

the magus perfectly bal- anced in all aspects. he or she is selectively blinded by cherished prejudices and desires. progress is made more rapidly in some branches of wisdom than others. it is possible to achieve great enlightenment in some areas of life, yet remain imma- ture and unbalanced in many other areas. examples of the folly of great magi abound. s. l. macgregor mathers, the head of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, was a social snob who gave him- self the name "macgregor" took to wearing a kilt, and pretended to the world that he had descended from celtic royalty. aleister crowley, the head of the ordo tem- pli orientis, was a lifelong drug addict. g. i. gurdjieff, founder of the institute for the harmonious development of man, sometimes smeared the walls of his room with e

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led "shying" although it has nothing whatsoever to do with crystal gazing. it was a vertical ascent into the air at a high rate of speed, accomplished by an act of will, which fox found to be difficult, and believed to be dangerous, although exactly why he felt it posed a danger, he did not write. it terrified him and he did not experiment with it further. as we will later see when we examine the hermetic order of the golden dawn, fox had independently discovered the astral technique known as rising on the planes. the single time that fox saw his silver cord was when he detached his astral body while under the influence of ether. this was also an experience of the type of travel he called skrying "after a few sniffs, it seemed to me that i shot up to the stars, and that a shining silver th

hy, who stepped in for his own best interests? perhaps a spirit of power and authority simply decided that his experiments had gone as far as they could be permitted to progress, and placed a block on his mind to prevent them in the future. although he was still able to use the instantaneous method of projection, he could no longer use the pineal doorway method. chapter seven the golden dawn t he hermetic order of the golden dawn was founded in an official way in 1888 with the establishment of the isis-urania temple in london, although members of the order such as the poet william butler yeats (1865-1939) had begun to receive initiation the previous year' the theosophical society of blavatsky and olcott was only thirteen years old. at that time, madame blavatsky was living in london. just

wenty-two trumps. however, the standard tarot adopted by french occultists in the nineteenth century does indeed have trumps equal in number to the hebrew letters, and this was enough to cause a connection to be formed between the two. teachings of the golden dawn the esoteric analysis and magical use of the tarot was not elevated to the level of high art until it became part of the system of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. samuel liddell mathers, in the process of conveying the teachings of the secret chiefs that he and his wife received psychically by scrying, astral travel, and other means, delivered a complete set of occult correspondences for the tarot of greater complexity and precision than any that had previously been created. it used the work of the french occultists as its

heir lights shine brightly in the gathering twilight, but the fairground is strangely deserted. the ruling intelligence of this trump is urania, the greek muse who presides over the harmony of the heavenly spheres. she speaks only through her music and the graceful movements of her dancer. chapter th i rtecn pathworking p athworking was a specialized form of astral projection developed within the hermetic order of the golden dawn for investigating astral reflections of the higher spiritual realities represented by the various parts of the symbolic diagram generally known as the tree of life. it is important to bear in mind that all this work was confined to astral levels, and that the environments experienced by those who ascended the tree using this technique were not the actual higher sp

the most effective method is to place a small, flat object on the forehead, so that its constant pressure stimulates the chakra and draws the awareness to it. a small silver coin such as a dime works very well. an older dime is better, because older coins contained silver, the metal of the moon, and astral projection falls under the general lunar influence. s. l. macgregor mathers, leader of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, explicitly advised against using this technique. describing the use of the tattwa symbols for astral doorways, regardie, quoting from original golden dawn documents, wrote that "the process of working by placing the symbol upon the forehead, instead of imaginatively passing through it, is not a good practice. s.r.m.d [mathers] claims that it is liable to derange

e american spiritualist movement, when the old west was still being lived, it chapter sixteen: astral guides 281 became popular to adopt guides who identified themselves as the spirits of dead indians. in later decades, it grew more common for guides to identify themselves as egyptian or babylonian priests or sages. there was a huge rise of interest in anything egyptian around the period that the hermetic order of the golden dawn flourished, so we find that the astral guide of the sphere group of florence farr was identified as the "egyptian astral' and was believed by her group to be the spirit of a long-dead egyptian adept. spirits who profess to once have lived as human beings are more inclined to sympathize with human problems, and are better adapted to interaction with humans on a reg

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to develop skills and teach techniques rather than achieve results, they are general rather than specific, and may be adapted to a wide variety of purposes. xiv introduction essential role of the golden dawn some are training exercises and ritual methods developed independently in my own practice. others are standard techniques and rituals of western occultism that were first used by the original hermetic order of the golden dawn, a secret lodge of english magicians that flourished at the end of the nineteenth century. still others are original rituals, but based on golden dawn components. the single thread connecting the exercises is their utility. i have used them all at various times and have found them effective in advancing my skills and awakening sleeping perceptions and abilities. t

thing as teaching, there is only learning. i can describe the basics of practical magic, but only you have the power to make magic a reality in your own life. preface yoga of the west in the first chapter of her book the mystical qabalah, dion fortune referred to the european esoteric tradition as the "yoga of the west" she had in mind specifically the magical kabbalah, as taught by the original hermetic order of the golden dawn and its offshoot members and occult lodges, but also intended this description to embrace the discipline of ceremonial magic as a whole. in order to understand her intention, it is necessary to know that yoga is far more than merely a form of physical exercise. there are numerous types of yoga, some predominantly physical and others mainly mental in their approach

attwa symbol from your forehead with your left hand and set it on the floor, then press the heels of your palms gently into the hollows of your closed eyes and draw your hands down your face as though sliding off a skin-tight mask. open your eyes, stretch gently, and when you feel ready, rise and go about your day. 26 reclining exercises commentary the five eastern tattwa symbols were used in the hermetic order of the golden dawn to graphically represent the five elements: fire, water, air, earth, and the quintessence or fifth element, known in the golden dawn system variously as akasa (akasha, aether (ether, spirit, or light. the elemental colors of the tattwa symbols do not agree with the common golden dawn colors for the elements. no attempt was made to reconcile this conflict, and it o

on with your day. commentary the correct technique for vibrating words of power is essential in ritual magic because it is the most effective way to employ the immense esoteric potential of the human voice. it has an application in mantras, prayers, blessings, curses, invocations, evocations, exhortations, and exorcisms. the method of vibration i have described in the exercise is that used by the hermetic order of the golden dawn, with slight modifications. the exercise itself is original, and will not be found elsewhere in exactly this form. a word of power may be vibrated either by voicing the letters of the word individually, or by voicing its syllables. generally, i find it is more effective to voice individvibrating names of power 95 ual letters when working with hebrew divine names o

merely the external physical gestures. the golden dawn. sixth edition. edited and indexed by david godwin. st. paul, minnesota: llewellyn publications, 1990. first published in four volumes 1938-1940 by aries press of chicago. this is regardie's greatest work. it consists of an edited collection of the original golden dawn teaching documents and grade rituals that circulated among members of that hermetic order. regardie obtained this material in 1934 when he was admitted to the hermes lodge of the stella matutina. it was the first time these instructional papers had been presented in an honest form, although much of the golden dawn teachings had previously appeared in print as part of aleister crowley's periodical, the equinox. crowley tended to present the golden dawn teachings as his ow

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alypse (which will not happen unless we make it happen) that the angels gave the patterns of the watchtowers and the keys to dee, who never grasped their true purpose during his lifetime. many of the occult correspondences found in this book differ from those in the widely used golden dawn system of magic. although i have a high respect for the magical ability and knowledge of the founders of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, it is time modern occultists recognized that they were not infallible. they worked from a limited number of flawed sources, and sometimes they made mistakes. rather than slavishly follow the rules laid down by them nearly a century ago, i have preferred to analyze my sources independently, and where i disagree with the golden dawn, i have not hesitated to make ch

intained a knowledge of the name that has been handed down from master to disciple through the centuries. the higher degrees of freemasonry purport to possess it. there are many occultists of the present day who are convinced that they, and they alone, preserve the true way of speaking it, which is the only way to release the awesome power of the word. samuel l. macgregor mathers, the head of the hermetic order of the golden dawn, boasted "i myself know some score of different mystical pronunciations of it (the kabbalah unveiled [london: routledge and kegan paul, 19621, p. 30. it is the custom in modern magic to pronounce the name by sounding out each of its hebrew letters fully: yod-he-vau-he (pronounced "yod-hayvav- hay) in order to more accurately express its compound esoteric meaning a

s, along with the system for deriving the names of angels from its lettered squares, was given by the spirit ave during a session that began at seven o'clock on the morning of monday, june 25, also in cracow (ibid, p. 166. together, the keys and the watchtowers form the heart of enochian magic. it is from the keys that the enochian language is largely derived. the enochian system practiced by the hermetic order of the golden dawn entirely depends on the keys and the elemental associations of angelic names extracted from various sections of the great table of the watchtowers. each watchtower is a magic square of enochian letters consisting of thirteen rows and twelve columns. the watchtowers are bound together into one great table by the letters of the so-called tablet of union arranged in

187 extremely pious man, and might well have regarded the apocalypse as a necessary cleansing of the world. in recent decades, many occultists have taken up enochian magic. it may not be long before it is perfected, and the world as we know it ends. one magician who worked the keys with single-minded ardor during the early part of the twentieth century was aleister crowley, a former member of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. it is perhaps no coincidence that from childhood crowley had called himself the "great beast" and saw his role in life as the herald of the coming aeon of horus, an age of warfare and destruction soon to sweep the face of the world. in 1909 crowley conducted a series of rituals to invoke the angels of the enochian keys in the desert of north africa (see the confe

awn through the work of its founding member, s. l. macgregor mathers. mathers reproduces this ordering of the banners in his influential translation of part of knorr von rosenroth's kabbalah denudata (see the kabbalah unveiled [london: routledge& kegan paul, 19621, p. 31. mathers' book was first published in 1887, a year before the establishment of the 270 tetragrammaton isis-urania temple of the hermetic order of the golden dawn. in fact, it had circulated in manuscript a year before its publication-mathers had shown it with obvious pride to madame blavatsky, the founder of the theosophical society, in 1886. as is so often the case in magic, five centuries of magicians adhered to this order without ever questioning it. when i came to write the new magus around 1984, i decided to analyze t

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ent much of his time pursuing his passions of writing and mountain climbing. during his cambridge years, he would also adopt the name "aleister" a gaelic form of his middle name, alexander, and an homage to the hero of shelley's poem "alastor, the spirit of solitude" his first real initiation into the world of esotericism and magic occurred until 1898, when he was introduced to group known as the hermetic order of the golden dawn. founded by william westcott and macgregor mathers in 1887, the golden dawn was an eclectic blending of a number of older western esoteric traditions, including hermeticism, freemasonry, rosicrucianism and theurgic arts derived from jewish kabbalah. an affluent and elite group, the golden dawn attracted a number of prominent artists, poets and intellectuals, inclu

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tablets. these comprise the four watchtowers, or watch towers, of fire, air, water and earth (see figures 3-6. the names of the governors of the 30 aethyrs are found in the tables, as shown in figures 7-10. 7. clams angelicae. the 48 enochian calls, or keys. it would be fair to say that these are merely the visible heads of a very intricate system that has not yet been fully explored. within the hermetic order of the golden dawn, the dee papers were heavily modified into a very complete system of magic. this system involved ceremonial ritual as well as skrying (astral projection. it also included a four-handed chess game with divination as a subsystem. the basis for the golden dawn's enochian system were the four great watchtowers which were subdivided into the four elemental tablets and

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e only other i know of who exercises this faculty is my wife chris. when she and regardie discussed game play and aspects of the boards, the level was so high that the other two players felt somewhat left out as to what was happening. before he came to new zealand, we at thoth hermes heard a lot of negative rumors about regardie and his ability (mainly these came from members of an american based hermetic order whose founder was once an american golden dawn head: they were completely unfounded. as anyone who had met regardie would tell you, they may not agree with his opinions, but his ability was never in question. he had, in the last decade of his life, given out the 5=6 to a select few in the u.s, in the hope that they would carry on the g.d. banner after his death. the ritual of the op

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