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The Ruby Tablet Vol 1 No 2

Sunday, May 13, 2012

The second number of The Ruby Tablet is now available. The Ruby Tablet is a periodical compiled and edited by Darcy Kuntz, under the auspices of the Golden Dawn Research Trust, which may be of some interest. So, check it out and consider helping with a donation to keep new issues of this periodical coming. [...]

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Weiser Antiquarian Books Catalogue #99 Dion Fortune, Israel Regardie, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Monday, April 9, 2012

You may be interested in Weiser Antiquarian Books Catalogue #99 Dion Fortune, Israel Regardie, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn “The majority of the books in the catalogue are reference works, and it includes most of the standard studies of the Golden Dawn by scholars like R. A. Gilbert, Ellic Howe, R. A. [...]

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The Ruby Tablet

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Ruby Tablet is a new periodical compiled and edited by Darcy Kuntz, under the auspices of the Golden Dawn Research Trust, which may be of some interest. [via, also] So, check it out and consider helping with a donation to keep new issues of this periodical coming. “The Ruby Tablet is a periodical featuring [...]

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The Nature, Structure, and Role of the Soul in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

“The Nature, Structure, and Role of the Soul in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn” is Hermetic Library founder Albert Billings‘ Master’s thesis, and added to the Golden Dawn Library project last night. “The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was a 19th century English society engaged in the creation of a systematic form [...]

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Violet Tweedale’s first edition of The Secret Doctrine

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Violet Tweedale, who was, among other things, a member of the Isis-Urania Temple in Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, once owned a first edition of H.P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine which is now on auction online at “The Secret Doctrine – First Edition 1888 Volumes I & II with Volume III & Index“. “A [...]

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Magick

Saturday, December 24, 2011

  “Magick” by Klaxons from Myths Of The Near Future “Magick, without tears Magick, without tears Magick, without tears The magick-al veneer The way to mother goose The way to suck an egg The way to golden dawn The way to Koh Phangan The glitter on the snow the place to always go Do what [...]

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The White People and other Weird Stories

Friday, December 23, 2011

“The White People and other Weird Stories, By Arthur Machen” by Tim Cumming is a review of a new collection of Golden Dawn initiate Arthur Machen, The White People and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics). “Machen was a bestseller in his day, a member of the Golden Dawn, and intimately acquainted with the spiritualism, occultism, [...]

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“I began my pilgrimage to far-distant countries. Mexico was the first. I was sent there by the head of the Order to consecrate a priest to serve the Lamp of the Invisible Light.”

Thursday, December 8, 2011

I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley. “I began my pilgrimage to far-distant countries. Mexico was the first. I was sent there by the head of the Order to consecrate a priest to serve the Lamp of the Invisible Light.” [via, also, see]

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“By 1899 I had gone through seven stages of initiation. These constituted me an Adept, but accidents were still happening to me.”

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

I Make Myself Invisible in Articles by Aleister Crowley. “By 1899 I had gone through seven stages of initiation. These constituted me an Adept, but accidents were still happening to me.” [via, see]

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“Finally I was unbound and bidden to take my place in the north, the place of greatest darkness, to show that I had taken only the first step in a long and difficult road.”

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley. “Finally I was unbound and bidden to take my place in the north, the place of greatest darkness, to show that I had taken only the first step in a long and difficult road.” [via, also,see]

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“The hoodwink was removed also when I arrived at the throne in the east, where the officer representing the god Osiris gave me another injunction–that the path of attainment lies through the knowledge and use of perfect balance, justice, righteousness, and truth.”

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley. “The hoodwink was removed also when I arrived at the throne in the east, where the officer representing the god Osiris gave me another injunction—that the path of attainment lies through the knowledge and use of perfect [...]

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“He gave me my first injunction: ‘Fear is failure and the forerunner of failure. Be thou therefore without fear, for in the heart of the coward virtue abideth not. Thou hast known me. Pass thou on.’”

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley. “He gave me my first injunction: ‘Fear is failure and the forerunner of failure. Be thou therefore without fear, for in the heart of the coward virtue abideth not. Thou hast known me. Pass thou on.’” [via, [...]

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“The hoodwink was removed from my eyes at a throne set up in darkness in the west. Here I was confronted by a black-hooded officer representative of the god Horus.”

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley. “The hoodwink was removed from my eyes at a throne set up in darkness in the west. Here I was confronted by a black-hooded officer representative of the god Horus.” [via, also,see]

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“I was made to kneel before an altar and repeat a formidable oath of fidelity, of secrecy, and of abstinence from any kind of conduct which might impair my power of self-control.”

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley. “I was made to kneel before an altar and repeat a formidable oath of fidelity, of secrecy, and of abstinence from any kind of conduct which might impair my power of self-control.” [via, also,see]

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“He conducted me through the first of the Great Pylons. After being blindfolded and bound, purified by being sprinkled with water and consecrated by fire, I was led into semi-darkness thick with the fumes of incense.”

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley. “He conducted me through the first of the Great Pylons. After being blindfolded and bound, purified by being sprinkled with water and consecrated by fire, I was led into semi-darkness thick with the fumes of incense.” [via, [...]

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“The initiation ceremony was impressive. I was handed over by my sponsors at the door of a secret temple (even today I must not reveal its whereabouts) by the Kerux or Herald; a man in a golden robe with a drawn sword.”

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The ‘Worst Man in the World’ Tells the Astounding Story of His Life in Articles by Aleister Crowley. “The initiation ceremony was impressive. I was handed over by my sponsors at the door of a secret temple (even today I must not reveal its whereabouts) by the Kerux or Herald; a man in a golden [...]

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The Book of Law of the Venerable Secret Order of the Eye

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

I noticed a post over at Slashdot, “Copiale Cipher Decoded“, about how the breaking of the Copiale Cipher has revealed the previously coded instruction documents for the ritual of an 18th century secret order “that apparently had a fascination with eye surgery and ophthalmology.” Of course, for those interested in such things as secret orders, [...]

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Pat Zalewski’s Alchemy and Golden Dawn Ritual

Sunday, July 31, 2011

You may be interested in Alchemy and Golden Dawn Ritual, a newly available book by Pat Zalewski. This is book 3 in The Golden Dawn Alchemy Series. Previous installments in the series were The Secret Fire: An Alchemical Study – The Golden Dawn Alchemy Series I by E.J. Langford Garstin and Hermetic Alchemy: Science and [...]

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“Aleister Crowley was for a great part of his life a regular Freemason and his life and work reflect the great lessons taught in Freemasonry. His magick, his work in the Golden Dawn, A∴A∴ and O.T.O., including the Book of the Law reflect Masonic ideas and ideals and his work cannot really be fully understood without the context of Freemasonry.”

Friday, July 1, 2011

Aleister Crowley Freemason? Revisited. David Richard Jones. “Aleister Crowley was for a great part of his life a regular Freemason and his life and work reflect the great lessons taught in Freemasonry. His magick, his work in the Golden Dawn, A∴A∴ and O.T.O., including the Book of the Law reflect Masonic ideas and ideals and [...]

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Aleister Crowley, The Golden Dawn and Buddhism: Reminiscences and Writings of Gerald Yorke

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

You may be interested in a new book, being published by Teitan Press (though for some reason it does not appear on their website): Aleister Crowley, The Golden Dawn and Buddhism: Reminiscences and Writings of Gerald Yorke. Edited by Keith Richmond, with contributions by David Tibet, Timothy d’Arch Smith and Clive Harper. “Aleister Crowley, The [...]

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