Aaron Leitch has just published a list of books which are useful for Golden Dawn and general magical studies here His list, which is for beginners includes : The Essential Golden Dawn : An Introduction to High Magic – Chic and Tabatha Cicero Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts – Donald Michael […]
The Order of the Golden Dawn makes a lot of use of the Egyptian God Thoth as one of the primal forces behind the Order. There are a number of good reasons for this, most of which are buried in secrecy. Not the secrecy in that they are protected by oaths but he secrecy that […]
An initiation is a ritual beginning into a particular tradition. Within the Golden Dawn it becomes particularly important because it requires you to experience the equivalent of psychic surgery. An initiator has to link the candidate to their Higher Self, to what is called “the tradition” and also the egregore of the group and the […]
I have just finished reading Alan Richardson and Marcus Claridge’s biography of Bill Gray “TheOld Sod” Gray has to be one of the most influential magicians in UK magic, but the biggest problem that Richardson and Claridge had is the fact that the subject was an erratic racist and the fact that he managed to anger […]