A magical group is something that has a life of its own, it is not simply the quality of the teachings but also the drive of the members that are currently in place. Builders of the Adytum for example started out as a vibrant group with two very good spiritual teachers – the last died in the 1960s. It could have continued were it not for the actions of Will Chesterman, who with the best motivations, froze the Order so it focused on a worship of founder Paul Case and his successor Anne Davies. In Chesterman’s view, the teaching of BOTA stopped with Davies death and all that needed to be done was preservation. In some ways he might have
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Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn workshops
American readers of this blog might want to know that one of the senior adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Carrie Mikell & Aaron Leitch are running their ceremonial magic workshops in ceremonial magic starting from March 3.Aaron LeitchYou can find out more here. Aaron knows his stuff and is an expert on ceremonial magic and Enochian, having published some important books on the subject and if you want to learn more about practical Golden Dawn magic, then this is a good one to learn all about it.There are lots of different teachers within the Golden Dawn community who are offering courses either online or offline. They are well worth looking at if you cannot join a
Apprenticed to Magic
At the end of the 20th century the system of magical training started to break down. There once was a time that you would be taught by one person who would show you their magical system, which was often worked out over years by experience. To some measure that changed with the adoption of the Order system. You would join a group like the Order of the Golden Dawn and that would train you. What really happened was nothing of the sort. An order, like the Golden Dawn, would perform some of the magical work on the students sphere of sensation, but actual training was carried out by adepts who knew what they were doing.But sir, you might know the secrets