Few of the diagrams of the Golden Dawn are used in the Modern Golden Dawn initiation rituals. This is because many modern Golden Dawn orders were based on the rituals printed by Israel Regardie just before the Second World War in his Golden Dawn book. The Bristol temple was going through a phase of removing parts of the ritual it did not understand or felt were cumbersome and the versions of the rituals that Regardie experienced were these cut down rite. The candidate still saw the diagrams, they were given to him or her during their course work and that was felt to be enough.When deciding on the rituals of the Magical
magical order of the Aurora Aurea
A rough guide for avoiding bad magical groups.
Joining a magical group is remarkably easy in the 21st century. It seems strange that you can read all about magical groups on the internet and think they are as common as muck. But real good quality ones are as rare as they ever have been. Finding one good one can still be a life's work. There are many people who go from Order to order looking for something and never really finding it. Sometimes that is the universe trying to tell you that you are not ready for a real magical order. You might be looking for the wrong things, or cannot really handle the sort of training that a real magical group puts you through. However you can
Angel Magic of the Bonorum
What follows is a paper I wrote in 2002 and ended up in Hermetic Virtues quite a while ago. I updated it in 2009 to include references to what we were doing in MOAA (we included part of this in our course work when we opened our 1=10 that year). Sorry for submitting something so ancient but I am a bit busy writing about the Shem Angels for a new book at the moment) When Samuel Mathers included Enochian within the Golden Dawn system, he used a manuscript called Sloane 307 which he found in the British Museum. The document post date's Dee by some years and is a practical way into the later Dee work. There was a belief
Azoth Art is a key part of modern occultism
What follows might be seen by some as an advert for Azoth Art. But I am a little concerned that an important online craft company might go under thanks to the wonders of Google and the search engine industry.For some reason Azoth Art has disappeared from the search engines and its owner Cathy is fast finding that her work is drying up. It is taking some time to sort the mess out too.Azoth Art's bannersTo those who do not know Azoth is responsible for most of the sewing within the Golden Dawn community. To my knowledge all the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Magical Order of the Aurora Aurea all use robes, nemsis, sashes, banners and other