The Golden Dawn has a reputation for doing long-winded rituals and forcing practitioners to do lots of daily ritual work. The web groups generally insist on a mix of lesser banishing rituals of the pentagram, lesser banishing rituals of the pentagram, watch towers (or Supreme Invoking pentagram), Ritual of the Hexagram and Middle Pillar. However, […]
While people bang on endlessly about the elemental tools, and the god-awful lotus wand, one very important Golden Dawn adept tool is never mentioned or made – the Ankh. The Ankh is part of the 5-6 and is carried in the left hand. There is little paperwork about it, and modern Golden Dawners do not […]
Belonging to an old group is not always a good thing. Occultism is supposed evolve and develop, but occult groups can only really reflect the values of the generation which formed them. If they can adapt they continue but what is more likely is they lose their edge and start to die. The end of […]
For a ritual to work on the material, there needs to be an alignment of the astral between the divine and the matter. Bizarrely this is one of the most overlooked rules of magic, and yet it has been repeated in every system throughout history across many different traditions. Matter is stable order and subject […]