About the Authors
Francis I. Regardie was born in London, England, on November 17, 1907, and died in Sedona, Arizona, on March 10, 1985. He came to the United States in August 1921 and was educated in Washington, DC, also studying art in schools in Washington and Philadelphia. Returning to Europe in 1928 at the invitation of Aleister Crowley, he worked as Crowleys secretary and studied with him. Regardie returned to London as secretary to Thomas Burke (193234), and during that time he wrote A Garden of Pomegranates and The Tree of Life .
In 1934, he was invited to join the order of the Golden Dawn, Stella Matutina Temple, during which time he wrote The Middle Pillar and The Art of True Healing , and he did the basic work for The Philosophers Stone .
Returning to the United States in 1937, he entered Chiropractic College in New York, graduating in 1941, and published The Golden Dawn . He served in the US Army (194245) and then moved to Los Angeles, where he opened a chiropractic practice and taught psychiatry. Upon retirement in 1981, he moved to Sedona.
During his lifetime, he studied psychoanalysis with Dr. E. Clegg and Dr. J. L. Bendit, and later studied psychotherapy under Dr. Nandor Fodor. His training encompassed Freudian, Jungian, and Reichian methods.
As to who authored the various foundation rituals upon which the edifice of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was erected, debate will perhaps continue forever. One history is given in this book; the other histories have likewise been written and will continue to be written. Their authenticity does not rest upon their history, but history has proven their value. For one hundred years this has been the Mother Lode of Western Esotericism.
John Michael Greer (Western Maryland) has been a student of occult traditions and the unexplained for more than thirty years. A Freemason, a student of geomancy and sacred geometry, and a widely read blogger, he is also the author of numerous books, including Monsters , The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, and Secrets of the Lost Symbol , and he currently serves as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), a contemporary school of Druid nature spirituality
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Regardie, Israel.
The Golden Dawn : the original account of the teachings, rites, and ceremonies of the Hermetic Order / by Israel Regardie. 7th edition, revised and corrected / by John Michael Greer.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7387-4399-8
1. Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. I. Greer, John Michael. II. Title.
BF1623.R7R33 2015
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Dedicated
To all True Seekers of the Light
May what they find herein sustain them in their search for the Quintessence;
the Stone of the Philosophers, true Wisdom, and perfect Happiness,
the Summum Bonum .
The Golden Dawn
Howbeit we know after a time there will now be a general reformation, both of divine and human things, according to our desire and the expectation of others; for it is fitting that before the rising of the Sun there should appear and break forth Aurora , or some clearness, of divine light in the sky. And so, in the meantime, some few, which shall give their names, may join together, thereby to increase the number and respect of our Fraternity, and make a happy and wished for beginning 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 worlds labours, and not walk so blindly in the knowledge of the wonderful works of God.
FAMA FRATERNTATIS (1614)
Contents
by Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero
: Knowledge Lectures and Instructional Papers
: Rituals of the Outer Order
: Rituals of the Inner Order
CEREMONY OF THE PORTAL
OF THE VAULT OF THE ADEPTI
CEREMONY OF THE 5xox = 6xhx GRADE
OF ADEPTUS MINOR
THE CONSECRATION CEREMONY
OF THE VAULT OF THE ADEPTI
: Primary Techniques of Magical Practice
: Inner Order Teachings on the Neophyte Grade
THE SYMBOLISM OF THE OPENING
OF THE 0xox = 0xhx GRADE OF NEOPHYTE
THE EGYPTIAN GODFORMS
OF THE NEOPHYTE GRADE
Z.3: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE
ADMISSION OF THE CANDIDATE
: Ceremonial Magic
CONSECRATION CEREMONY
FOR JUPITER TALISMAN
THE BORNLESS RITUAL FOR THE INVOCATION
OF THE HIGHER GENIUS
: Clairvoyance, Talismans, Sigils, Etc.
OF SKRYING AND TRAVELLING IN
THE SPIRIT-VISION
ADDITIONAL LECTURE ON THE TATTWAS
OF THE EASTERN SCHOOL
: Divination
by G.H. Soror, Q.L.
THE TREE OF LIFE AS PROJECTED
IN A SOLID SPHERE
: The Angelic Tablets
by G.H. Frater D.D.C.F.