For many years I have kept SECRET this most excellent ELIXIR which ALCHEMICALY TRANSMUTES even the most base of the animal kingdom into something tasty. It was past to me by my on SECRET CHIEFS and I transmitted it to those of the most SENIOR BRETHREN in ITALY where they had heard of it not. […]
The top table of chiefs in the Golden Dawn ritual are composed of the Imperator, the Cancellarius and Praemonstrator. The Hierophant is also supposed to sit between them and behind him sits the Past-Heirophant. Throughout the history of the Golden Dawn little work has been done about the magical function of these officers. Instead the […]
I was reviewing some of the unpublished AO documents I have to see if there were any noticeable differences from either the later Stella Matutina versions. These two diagrams come from the early AO and the Nisi collection, which formed the basis of my Mathers’ Last Secret and King Over the Water book. Since it was different from […]