Secret Inner Order Rituals of the Golden Dawn
| Date: 15 April 2011, 00:38
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The Golden Dawn is probably the most influential occult order of modern times. Its membership included the notorious - such as Aleister Crowley - and the celebrated - such as WB Yeats. It was crucial to the development of noted writers on the occult, such as John Brodie-Innes, Arthur Machen, A E Waite, Dion Fortune, Evelyn Underhill, and others - who were all members. In 1937, most (but not all) of its rituals were published by Israel Regardie.
"The Secret Inner Order Rituals of the Golden Dawn" will mostly appeal to those who have read Regardie's book ("The Golden Dawn", 6th ed., Llewellyns). Voluminous though the material published by Regardie was, there was however more to the Golden Dawn than he was able to get his hands on. In this sense, "Secret Inner Order Rituals of the Golden Dawn" is a sort-of sequel to Regardie's book.
Pat Zalewski was initiated into the Golden Dawn system by members of the last surviving GD temple, in New Zealand. As a high Adept of the order, he has had the opportunity to see many documents that of which Regardie never got hold (Regardie's 1937 expose had caused him to be expelled).
Zalewski's book is therefore interesting to read for two main reasons: firstly, he presents the history of one branch of the Order from a unique point of view - that of an insider. He is able to write as a man privy to the goings-on of a secret society, and who has met practising magicians (including Regardie himself - a meeting which Zalewski describes in "Israel Regardie - An Appreciation" in this book). Moreover, Zalewski is himself a practising magician, and therefore brings sympathy to the subject which an earnest but non-magical observer would not possess.
Secondly, he reveals a number of hitherto-secret documents, including three initiation rituals: the "Adeptus Major" ritual; the "Adeptus Exemptus" ritual; and the "Etheric Link" ritual. These will probably make no sense whatsoever to a reader who is unfamiliar with the Golden Dawn, and very little sense to anyone who has not read Regardie's book. However, to someone who has read - and enjoyed - Regardie's "The Golden Dawn", the material presented by Zalewski's book is absolutely compelling.
"Secret Inner Order Rituals of the Golden Dawn" may thus be summarised as a book which will inevitably only appeal to a small number of people, because of its subject matter: however, within the context of its particular niche, it is a very good piece of work.
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