Joseph C. Lisiewski - Israel Regardie & The Philosophers Stone: The Alchemical Arts Brought Down To Earth

ISRAEL REGARDIE
&
THE PHILOSOPHERS STONE

The Alchemical Arts Brought Down to Earth

by

Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph.D.

Introduced by Mark Stavish

The Original Falcon Press

Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

Copyright 2008 by Joseph C. Lisiewski, Ph.D.

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International Standard Book Number: 978-1-935150-89-3

International Standard Book Number: 978-1-61869-890-2 (Amazon Kindle)

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2007938082

First Edition 2008

First eBook Edition 2012

Cover design and illustration by Linda Joyce Franks

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With fond recollection and deep gratitude I dedicate this book to the memories of Dr. Francis Israel Regardie and Frater Albertus, my Teachers and friends to whom I owe so very much. Regardies joy of life and dedication to the Great Work through both the Golden Dawn and the Old System of Magic inspired me, while the private tutoring he gave me over the last fourteen years of his life opened the vistas of my mind and spirit to Magic and Kabbalah in a way I could never have achieved alone.

Fraters balance of mercy and severity, his demanding attitude toward the Alchemy he taught, and the fact that he put me to task in this Art and Science on more than one occasion, kept me focused on the work at hand, the Work to be accomplished within, and that which had to be fulfilled in the laboratory without.

Between the two of them, they provided me with the magical, kabbalistic, and alchemical knowledge and outlook I have today. To you, my dearest of friends, I dedicate this effort.

Table of Contents

by Mark Stavish

When Dr. Lisiewski first asked me to write the introduction to Israel Regardie and the Philosophers Stone my first thoughts were about how strange the world of magic and alchemy is. Strange not only in the people we meet and the relationships that are formed, but strange in the way things work out. It is said that a straight line rarely forms in nature, and it is rare that magical acts, and relationships for that matter, follow a straight course. Curves, dips, peaks, and side-shots right out of left field are more often the case than not. My first meeting with Lisiewski was over 10 years ago and is a perfect example of this kind of phenomena. I received an email from Lisiewski and was impressed with his stated relationship with Regardie and Albertus. I turned off my computer with the intention of replying the next day only to have my hard drive crash. By the time everything was up and running again the email was no longer saved by my internet provider and I moved on to other things to make up for lost time. Now fast forward to 2005. I was doing some research when I came across Lisiewskis book, Ceremonial Magic & the Power of Evocation (The Original Falcon Press). Given his biography and being a resident of central Pennsylvania I emailed Lisiewski through his publisher on the off-chance that he was the same fellow who emailed me years earlier. For some reason however, it took another year before the original email a decade earlier from Lisiewski to me ever came up in conversation. Conversations between us that were held once or twice weekly, often for several hours, over the same period of time.

Lisiewskis experience with Regardie was not much different. On one occasion he mentioned to me that Regardie told him that he rarely answered the mail he received, and those that he chose to reply to were selected by holding the envelope to his forehead. If there was some kind of positive response, the letter was acknowledged, if not, it was thrown out unopened. Considering the content of Lisiewskis lettera complete description of his first evocation to physical manifestationit would not be surprising if Regardie got a migraine headache lasting several days from using this method!

Again, magic, like the energies of life of which it is a part, does not work in a straight line in most instances.

Over the last two and a half years a firm friendship between myself and Lisiewski has developed. It is rare to find operative magicians and alchemists in the former coal regions of Pennsylvania, but we do have them, and unlike their hip, urban, West Coast cousins, they are serious, quiet, and potent in their work: many even becoming local legends in their own lifetimes. Dr. Frederick Santee of Wapwallopen, Pennsylvania is one that comes to mind. A child genius, he was a cross between Doogie Houser and Harry Potter. He could read English and German when he was three years of age, translated Caesars Gaulic Wars at the age of six or seven, and graduated from Harvard magna cum laude when he was seventeen. He would later go on to earn two Ph.D.s and an M.D. An internet search will reveal a thing or two about him, including his esoteric activities. He traveled Europe in the 1920s and 1930s and in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sybil Leakastrologer, witch, and assistant to super sleuth Ian Fleming during World War Twowas a regular visitor to his out-of-the-way residence.