The Golden Dawn is not Israel Regardie golden dawn by Nick Farrell - March 29, 2021March 31, 20210 One of the issues facing Golden Dawn researchers is that there is a lot of retrospective projection which goes on, and things that you expect to be there turn out to be untrue, or are based on stuff which is assumed. This week, Facebook has been getting its collective knickers in a twist about Israel Regardie's Middle Pillar, a staple of the modern Golden Dawn system. Regardie himself considered the middle pillar a vital part of the magical work and insisted his students do it daily. It is not a bad exercise, and in no way I am decrying its usefulness. However, many people think it is a Golden Dawn exercise, which it isn't. Pointing this out on Facebook gets people rather
The Golden Dawn’s LVX formula golden dawn by Nick Farrell - July 4, 20202 The LVX formula (or analysis of the Keyword) is a key part of the Golden Dawn system of magic. It “calls down the light” into a working and animates thought-forms, symbols and geometric shapes.  Over the years it has been proven to work, but there are some intellectual holes in the process which make somethings redundant and others clumsy or wrong. So let’s look at the formula (I am ignoring the signs and gestures shown left) because they are not relevant to my argument: INRI Yod, Nun, Resh, Yod The sign of Osiris Slain L – the Sign of Mourning Isis V – the sign of Typhon and Apophis X- the sign of Osiris risen L.V.X Lux, the light of the cross! Virgo, Isis, Mighty Mother Scorpio, Apophis Destroyer Sol
Emptying the cup of the lower self GD golden dawn magic by Nick Farrell - December 29, 2018February 1, 20191 The lower self or the indwelling personally is a part of the higher genius which has become lost in the plot of living. It surrounds itself with thinking which is useful for its existence but is useless for getting itself out of messes. 1384
Have you really been initiated into the Golden Dawn? alpha et Omega AO GD golden dawn by Nick Farrell - November 15, 2018November 15, 20183 It seems a silly question, but there are lots of GD organisations out there which are carrying out initiations which cannot have had more than a psychological effect on candidates. 1. Were you present for the initiation? For a long time there was a scam where a group made you a distance member by conducting “an astral initiation.” It meant that a team of officers initiated your name on a list. There is absolutely no tradition of this in the GD and those who have been “astrally initiated” show no signs that such a ritual has taken place. 2. Did the initiation take place roped together with a group of other candidates? While the AO did this, it is not possible to
Godforms of the Golden Dawn review book golden dawn magic by Nick Farrell - June 24, 2018June 26, 20180 Pat Zalewski’s books on the Golden Dawn are always worth getting and reading. Lately, he has not written that many, preferring to focus on this correspondence course, so his new one is a rarity. I was going to write a review of it, and Pat asked me to “let him have it” so here goes. Godforms of the Golden Dawn tradition is very much a Pat Zalewski book with similarities to his classic Golden Dawn Rituals and Commentaries. When I read Golden Dawn Rituals and Commentaries (in the 90s)  his descriptions of the use of Godforms provided me with a link between the inner work which I was doing and the Golden Dawn. This book looks at Zalewski’s approach to Godforms which
The new Golden Dawn fundamentalist trend goes no where golden dawn Nick Farrell by Nick Farrell - April 16, 2018April 17, 20182 In the last few years, a clique of fundamentalist occultists has emerged who claim that they are following the Original Golden Dawn system. They cut off all developments after Mathers was expelled. For those who don’t know, the central focus for this change means that the god-awful portal ritual in which the student is subjected to a boring lecture on diagrams and the Masonic style of giving the passwords and a funny handshake is superior to the longer more magical ritual which most people know about. The original ritual can be seen in my Mathers Last Secret Book because the AO could not be bothered changing it themselves. So is there anything in the original Golden Dawn teachings that is better
Beyond the Sun is out golden dawn Nick Farrell by Nick Farrell - March 7, 2018March 7, 20180 The rewrite of the history of Dr Felkin and Whare Ra, along with the 7=4 and 6=5 rituals is now out through Skylight Press, who also did my Magical Imagination book. For those who saw the now improbably rare first edition, the book is much larger. It goes much more into the Whare Ra history from its beginning to closure. it looks at its involvement with Anne Davies and Paul Case and looks the the reason for its demise. It also looks at the rituals and recounts some of the experiences of those who went through it and provides some of the teachings that they receieved.  It also deals with some of my own experiences meeting and working with Whare Ra people. Felkin
THE LESSER BANISHING RITUAL OF THE HEXAGRAM GD goetia golden dawn magic by Nick Farrell - February 23, 2018February 24, 20184 Within the Golden Dawn corpus, there is a slightly odd ritual called the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram. It is performed after a lesser ritual of the pentagram by adepts and various reasons have been provided for its existence mostly centred on an apparent need to neutralise any planetary energy before beginning a working. Based on the drawing of two different triangles in different positions in the quarters it is the most used of a collection hexagrams. However, the root of the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram might provide us with some clues as to its use and why it is an important daily practice for the modern magician. One of the founders of the Golden Dawn took the triangle
The Whare Ra warrior legend – Andrew Hamilton Russell golden dawn by Nick Farrell - October 16, 2017October 16, 20170 One of the most interesting Whare Ra members was Andrew Hamilton Russell (23 February 1868 – 29 November 1960) who is one of New Zealand’s great military heroes. Having served with the British army in India in August 1892, he got bored and returned to farming in Hawkes Bay. He helped form the Farmer’s Union and became involved conservative politics in NZ. In 1899 he raised a militia for the Boer War (the Wellington (East Coast) Mounted Rifles Regiment), although he did not go with them to South Africa. He was a lot more hands on in 1913 when he was the leader of a Massey's Cossacks which was a cavalry unit formed from famers who aggressively put down striking workers. His troops
Why whitewashing Crowley is a bad idea golden dawn occult by Nick Farrell - October 13, 20172 Crowlyite followers are celebrating some anniversary of Aleister Crowley at the moment and there seems to be an effort to whitewash some of the Great Beast’s darker aspects. It is well known that Crowley was anti-Semitic, misogynistic, bully who tortured and exploited his students. However, there is now an attempt to paint him as a “man of his time” who was nevertheless attempting to push back the boundaries. This is the pop-culture Sergeant Pepper’s view of Crowley which has nothing to do with the real person, who would look with much contempt at those who see him as a counter-culture icon. One of the more obvious things that people have been doing is scouring what Crowley has written for “proof” that he was none
