There is no order to this book, per se, unless chaos and disorder are now considered order. Yet, I do recommend reading it from beginning to end in numerical order.

Tom Taylor, Aphorisms to the Individual: Notes for my Sons

Consider also:

  1. “He was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, fraudulent imitations of which have created so much scandal in later years. Through his good offices I was initiated into the Order in November 1898.”
  2. “He announced the religion of art, of which no man dreamed in the world about him; and he understood it more perfectly than the thousands of subtle spirits who have received its baptism in the world about us, because, in the beginning of important things–in the beginning of love, in the beginning of the day, in the beginning of any work, there is a moment when are understand more perfectly than we understand again until all is finished.”
  3. “For ‘Initiation’–for which there are so many candidates little conscious of what is implied in that for which they ask-what does it really mean and intend? It means a new beginning (initium); a break-away from an old method and order of life and the entrance upon a new one of larger self knowledge, deepened understanding and intensified virtue.”
  4. “The works of the Italian Renaissance hermeticist Marsilio Ficino are of immense value, in that they bridge the gap between psychology and magic to a great degree. Unfortunately, they can be difficult to obtain, and deal with a style of kabbalah stylistically different from the more famous modern schools, such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and its off-shoots. Some of Ficino’s insights will be considered as well.”
  5. “The prospect of finding the end of life at the beginning seemed contradictory at first; but then, she figured, it was so much better than finding it at the proper end.”