The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was finished. However, much of their mystique was only just beginning. With the publication of their Rites and Rituals by Israel Regardie, the secrets of this Magical Order were finally revealed to the world. As for the world of the Golden Dawn, it was one of Kabbalah, of Divine Will and one that believed that all things that were manifest on earth was somehow connected to one another through correspondences. Yet what effect did the Golden Dawn have on Magic after their dissolution? In the conclusion to this two-parter, Douglas goes through all of the consequences and positive virtues of this short-lived but infamous Magical Order.
Show Notes
- The Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order 1887-1923 by Ellic Howe
- What You Should Know about the Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie
- A Short History of the Golden Dawn
- The Occult Movement in the 19th Century – Lectures by Rudolph Steiner
- Zanoni
- Francis Barrett
- Ebenezer Sibly
- Frederick Hockley
- Coffee at the Battle of Blythe Road
- Ossian
- Did Sir Walter Scott invent Scotland? A lovely perspective by Dr. Juliet Shields. If you prefer your information to be visual there is a video here.
- Hermetic Kabbalah
- The Mystical Qabalah by Dion Fortune
- Stephen Skinner Discusses the Evolution of Magic
- Hermeticism? Sam Block has much to say about it. Plenty to chew over in this blog post, in this blog post and in this blog post. Sam is awesome and if you haven’t become acquainted with his work- get to it
- Dan Attrell lays out the some of the more interesting aspects of Christians taking Kabbalah for their own purposes. This is a must listen if Kabbalah is interesting to you. From Glitch Bottle Podcast, a wonderful program
- The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians and the Economy of Secrets 1400-1800 by Daniel Jütte – I love this book. If my recommendation is not enough, here is a fantastic review from Dan Harms’ Blog
- Pharaonic Occultism: The Relationship of Esotericism and Egyptology
- A Microcosm of the Esoteric Revival: The Histories of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram
- The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern by Alex Owen – A superb read
- Magic Made Modern? Re-evaluating the Novelty of the Golden Dawn’s Magic – A quick read worth your time
- List of People who joined the Golden Dawn
- Flying Rolls? What the hell does that mean? Francis King goes over it in his book Astral Projection, Ritual Magic and Alchemy
- Promethea by Alan Moore – A look at the Golden Dawn’s Magic (plus more, MUCH much more)
- Techniques of High Magic by Stephen Skinner – The Only book of practical Golden Dawn Magic that I can willfully suggest
Special thanks to @AntacaLeon for fielding a few questions and giving me the thumbs up on my Scottish comparison. There’s nothing greater than getting the thumbs up from a Scotsman.
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Send em up!!!! Im in Buffalo MN it’s Jason and Hell is here
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I recently listened to your golden dawn eps and I was wondering what you thought about the lbrp and such ritualistic high magick. I am new and trying to find my way though it all
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I don’t really think much of it, honestly. It’s a ritual that was made up mostly by Eliphas Levi with Hebrew prayers that one would use before going to bed, which is apropos as ‘Ritualistic High Magick’ puts me to sleep. 😉
I’ve never really been a fan of the term ‘High Magic’ nor the idea of stratifying Magic/Witchcraft.
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Got a quick question and instead of listening to a hundred podcasts to find the answer I thought I should just ask it here (still going to listen to them all just not gonna search for one thing) in this episode you mentioned that Donald kraigs book isn’t really a good place to start and there’s been a lot written since then but you didn’t mention any. I was wondering if you might be able to point me in the appropriate direction?
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Probably the best book to start with these days would be Aidan Wachter’s book “Six Ways: Approaches and Entries for Practical Magic.” Spend a year going through the things in that books, it’ll set you up much better than MM.
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Wowwww thank you so very much for the info and the lightning quick response!
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No worries! Happy to help!
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