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  About the Authors

  Francis I. Regardie was born in London, England, on November 17, 1907, and died in Sedona, Arizona, on March 10, 1985. He came to the United States in August 1921 and was educated in Washington, DC, also studying art in schools in Washington and Philadelphia. Returning to Europe in 1928 at the invitation of Aleister Crowley, he worked as Crowley’s secretary and studied with him. Regardie returned to London as secretary to Thomas Burke (1932–34), and during that time he wrote A Garden of Pomegranates and The Tree of Life.

  In 1934, he was invited to join the order of the Golden Dawn, Stella Matutina Temple, during which time he wrote The Middle Pillar and The Art of True Healing, and he did the basic work for The Philosopher’s Stone.

  Returning to the United States in 1937, he entered Chiropractic College in New York, graduating in 1941, and published The Golden Dawn. He served in the US Army (1942–45) and then moved to Los Angeles, where he opened a chiropractic practice and taught psychiatry. Upon retirement in 1981, he moved to Sedona.

  During his lifetime, he studied psychoanalysis with Dr. E. Clegg and Dr. J. L. Bendit, and later studied psychotherapy under Dr. Nandor Fodor. His training encompassed Freudian, Jungian, and Reichian methods.

  As to who authored the various foundation rituals upon which the edifice of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was erected, debate will perhaps continue forever. One history is given in this book; the other histories have likewise been written and will continue to be written. Their authenticity does not rest upon their history, but history has proven their value. For one hundred years this has been the Mother Lode of Western Esotericism.

  John Michael Greer (Western Maryland) has been a student of occult traditions and the unexplained for more than thirty years. A Freemason, a student of geomancy and sacred geometry, and a widely read blogger, he is also the author of numerous books, including Monsters, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, and Secrets of the Lost Symbol, and he currently serves as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), a contemporary school of Druid nature spirituality

  To Carl Llewellyn Weschke

  1930–2015

  In 1969, as president of Llewellyn Publications (now Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd.), he published the first new edition of this book since its original printing and kept it in print continuously thereafter. For that, as well as for his lifelong efforts to promote magic and occult philosophy of all kinds, every student of the Golden Dawn tradition owes him an immense debt. This seventh edition of The Golden Dawn, which he set in motion but did not live to see completed, is dedicated to his memory.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Regardie, Israel.

  The Golden Dawn : the original account of the teachings, rites, and ceremonies of the Hermetic Order / by Israel Regardie. — 7th edition, revised and corrected / by John Michael Greer.

  pages cm

  Includes index.

  ISBN 978-0-7387-4399-8

  1. Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. I. Greer, John Michael. II. Title.

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  Dedicated

  To all True Seekers of the Light

  May what they find herein sustain them in their search for the Quintessence;

  the Stone of the Philosophers, true Wisdom, and perfect Happiness,

  the Summum Bonum.

  The Golden Dawn

  “Howbeit we know after a time there will now be a general reformation, both of divine and human things, according to our desire and the expectation of others; for it is fitting that before the rising of the Sun there should appear and break forth Aurora, or some clearness, of divine light in the sky. And so, in the meantime, some few, which shall give their names, may join together, thereby to increase the number and respect of our Fraternity, and make a happy and wished for beginning of our Philosophical Canons, prescribed to us by our Brother R.C., and be partakers with us of our treasures (which can never fail or be wasted) in all humility and love, to be eased of this world’s labours, and not walk so blindly in the knowledge of the wonderful works of God.”

  FAMA FRATERNTATIS (1614)

  Contents

  Illustrations, Tables, and Diagrams

  Preface to the Seventh Edition by Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero

  Foreword to the Seventh Edition by John Michael Greer

  Introduction to the First Edition by Israel Regardie

  color insert

  Book One: Knowledge Lectures and Instructional Papers

  NEOPHYTE GRADE PAPERS

  ZELATOR GRADE PAPERS

  THEORICUS GRADE PAPERS

  PRACTICUS GRADE PAPERS

  PHILOSOPHUS GRADE PAPERS

  PORTAL GRADE PAPERS

  ADEPTUS MINOR GRADE PAPERS

  Book Two: Rituals of the Outer Order

  CEREMONY OF THE NEOPHYTE 0xox = 0xhx GRADE

  CEREMONY OF THE 1xox = 10xhx GRADE OF ZELATOR

  CEREMONY OF THE 2xox = 9xhx GRADE OF THEORICUS

  CEREMONY OF THE 3xox = 8xhx GRADE OF PRACTICUS

  CEREMONY OF THE 4xox = 7xhx GRADE OF PHILOSOPHUS

  Book Three: Rituals of the Inner Order

  CEREMONY OF THE PORTAL

  OF THE VAULT OF THE ADEPTI

  CEREMONY OF THE 5xox = 6xhx GRADE

  OF ADEPTUS MINOR

  CEREMONY OF THE EQUINOX

  THE CONSECRATION CEREMONY
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  OF THE VAULT OF THE ADEPTI

  THE SYMBOLISM OF THE SEVEN SIDES

  CONCERNING THE USE OF THE VAULT

  THE THREE CHIEFS

  Book Four: Primary Techniques of Magical Practice

  THE RITUAL OF THE PENTAGRAM

  THE RITUAL OF THE HEXAGRAM

  THE LOTUS WAND

  THE RITUAL OF THE ROSE CROSS

  THE COMPLETE SYMBOL OF THE ROSE CROSS

  THE MAGIC SWORD

  THE FOUR ELEMENTAL WEAPONS

  Book Five: Inner Order Teachings on the Neophyte Grade

  Z.1: THE ENTERER OF THE THRESHOLD

  THE SYMBOLISM OF THE OPENING

  OF THE 0xox = 0xhx GRADE OF NEOPHYTE

  THE EGYPTIAN GODFORMS

  OF THE NEOPHYTE GRADE

  THE CANOPIC GODS

  Z.3: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE

  ADMISSION OF THE CANDIDATE

  Z.2: THE FORMULAE OF THE MAGIC OF LIGHT

  Book Six: Ceremonial Magic

  EVOCATION

  CONSECRATION CEREMONY

  FOR JUPITER TALISMAN

  INVISIBILITY

  TRANSFORMATION

  SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

  THE BORNLESS RITUAL FOR THE INVOCATION

  OF THE HIGHER GENIUS

  REQUIEM

  PRACTICAL Z. PREPARATION FOR DIVINATION

  Book Seven: Clairvoyance, Talismans, Sigils, Etc.

  CLAIRVOYANCE

  OF SKRYING AND TRAVELLING IN

  THE SPIRIT-VISION

  TATTWA VISIONS

  M. THE VISION OF THE UNIVERSAL MERCURY

  TALISMANS

  TALISMANS AND SIGILS

  POLYGONS AND POLYGRAMS

  ADDITIONAL LECTURE ON THE TATTWAS

  OF THE EASTERN SCHOOL

  Book Eight: Divination

  GEOMANCY

  BOOK “T”—THE TAROT

  Unofficial: THE TAROT TRUMPS by G.H. Soror, Q.L.

  THE TREE OF LIFE AS PROJECTED

  IN A SOLID SPHERE

  Book Nine: The Angelic Tablets

  INTRODUCTION TO THE ENOCHIAN SYSTEM

  THE BOOK OF THE CONCOURSE OF THE FORCES

  OFFICIAL RITUAL by G.H. Frater D.D.C.F.

  NOTES CONCERNING THE BOARDS

  AND THE PLAY GENERALLY

  Illustrations, Tables, and Diagrams

  Book One

  Invoking Pentagram

  Banishing Pentagram

  Images on White Pillar

  Images on Black Pillar

  The Serpent on the Tree of Life

  Fylfot Cross

  Mother Letters Caduceus

  Tree of Life Caduceus

  Solid Greek Cubical Cross

  Tetrahedron

  Greek Cross

  Cup of Stolistes

  Mercury on the Tree of Life

  Attribution of the Tarot Trumps

  Tetragrammaton on the Tree

  Calvary Cross of Twelve Squares

  Pyramid of the Four Elements

  Calvary Cross of Ten Squares

  Hegemon’s Badge

  Venus on the Tree of Life

  The Seven Palaces Attributed to the Ten Sephiroth

  Sulphur on the Tree of Life

  Salt on the Tree of Life

  The Trinity on the Tree of Life

  The Angels of the Shemhamphoresch

  The Middle Pillar and the Human Body

  The Four Colour Scales

  Book Two

  Neophyte Temple

  Hexagram of Officers

  Grade Signs

  Zelator Temple 1

  Flaming Sword

  Zelator Temple 2

  Table of Shewbread

  Seven-Branched Candlestick

  Theoricus Temple 1

  Tarot Key 21, The Universe

  Theoricus Temple 2

  Tree of Life

  Sword and Serpent

  Practicus Temple 1

  Tarot Key 20, Judgment

  Practicus Temple 2

  Tarot Key 19, The Sun

  Practicus Temple 3

  Philosophus Temple 1

  Tarot Key 18, The Moon

  Philosophus Temple 2

  Tarot Key 17, The Star

  Philosophus Temple 3

  Tarot Key 16, The Tower

  Philosophus Temple 4

  Book Three

  Portal Temple 1

  Maltese Cross of Four Triangles and Symbol of Malkuth

  Geometric Symbols

  Great Hermetic Arcanum

  Vision of Nebuchadnezzar

  Alchemical Names

  Portal Temple 2

  Tarot Key 13, Death

  Typhon

  Tarot Key 15, The Devil

  Pan

  Old Tarot Key 14, Temperance

  New 14th Key of Tarot, Temperance

  Adeptus Minor Temple, First Point

  Crux Ansata

  Cross of Suffering

  Adeptus Minor Temple, Second Point

  Circular Altar of Vault

  Adeptus Minor Temple, Third Point

  Mountain of God

  Book Four

  Attributions of the Pentagram

  Spirit Invoking and Banishing Pentagrams

  Elemental Pentagrams

  Zodiacal Pentagrams

  Hexagrams of Saturn

  Invoking Hexagram of Air

  Invoking Hexagram of Fire

  Invoking Hexagram of Water

  Invoking Hexagram of Earth

  Hexagrams of Saturn

  Hexagrams of the Planets

  Banishing Hexagrams of the Sun

  Hexagram of Fire

  Hexagram of Earth

  Hexagram of Air

  Hexagram of Water

  Invoking Hexagram of Fire

  Banishing Hexagram of Fire

  Invoking Hexagram of Earth

  Banishing Hexagram of Earth

  Invoking Hexagram of Air

  Banishing Hexagram of Air

  Invoking Hexagram of Water

  Banishing Hexagram of Water

  Cross and Circle

  Rose Cross Ritual

  Magic Sword

  Four Elemental Weapons

  Book Five

  Calvary Cross

  Pyramidal Cross

  Equilateral Cross

  Maltese Cross

  Golden Dawn Temple Warrant

  Wands of the Chiefs

  Wands and Cloaks of the Primary Officers

  Grade Sash

  Officers’ Lamens

  Symbolism of the Coptic Alphabet

  Osiris

  Horus

  Thmaa-Est

  Anubis of the East

  Auramo-ooth

  Thaum-Aesch-Niaeth

  Anubis of the West

  Nephthys

  Isis

  Thoth

  Hathor

  Harparkrat

  Alchemical Altar

  Book Seven

  The Universal Mercury

  Sigils of Metatron and Elohim

  Sigils of Binah

  Telesmatic Image of Adonai ha-Aretz

  Geomantic Sigils

  Geomantic Talismans

  Kameas and Seals of the Planets

  Sigils of the Olympic Spirits

  Point in Circle

  Cross in Circle

  Triangle in Circle

  Square in Circle

  Triangle

  Square

  Pentagon and Pentagram

  Hexagon and Hexagram

  Heptagon and Heptagrams

  Octagon and Octagrams

  Enneagon and Enneagrams

  Dekagon and Dekagrams

  Endekagon and Endekagrams

  Dodekagon and Dodekangles

  The Five Tattwas

  Book Eight

  Pentagram in Circle with Sigil of Hismael

  Geomantic Attributions Table

  Geomantic Reading

  Example of Counting Cards

  First Operation�
�Cutting the Cards

  First Operation—Example

  Second Operation—Twelve Houses

  Second Operation—Example

  Third Operation—Example

  Fourth Operation—Cutting the Cards

  Fourth Operation—Example

  Fifth Operation—Tree of Life

  Fifth Operation—Example

  Northern Hemisphere

  Southern Hemisphere

  Celestial Cross and Triangle

  S.A.’s Key Plan of Sephiroth

  S.A.’s Key Plan of the Paths

  S.A.’s Key Plan of the Tarot

  Course of the Aces

  Connection Between the Worlds

  Transmission of Force from Malkuth to Kether

  Direct or Creeping Formula

  Looped or Flying Formula

  Leaping or Darting Formula

  Revolving or Flowing Formula

  Book Nine

  Creation of BATAIVAH

  Creation of Six Seniors

  Lesser Angle of Fire of Water Tablet

  AAttribution of the Great Name to the Four Tablets

  Attribution of the Great Name to the Corners

  Attribution of the Great Name to the Great Cross

  Attribution of the Great Name to the Kerubic Rank

  Great Cross of the Air Tablet

  Earth Angle of Water Tablet

  Elemental Correspondences of Court Cards

  Attribution of the Great Name to the Lesser Angles

  Pyramid of Four Triangles

  Pyramids of ORO

  Pyramids with Symbolism

  Enochian Attributions

  Enochian Alphabet

  Directions of Force in Enochian Pyramids

  Egyptian Gods of the Enochian Pyramids

  Images of the Egyptian Gods

  Enochian Keys or Calls

  Setting of the Enochian Chessmen

  Color Insert

  Garden of Eden

  The Fall

  Banner of the East

  Banner of the West

  Lid of Pastos

  Minutum Mundum

  Ceiling of Vault

  Floor of Vault

  Wall of Vault

  Head of Pastos

  Foot of Pastos

  Side of Pastos

  Lotus Wand

  Head of Lotus Wand

  Rose Cross Lamen

  Tattwa Symbols

  Telesmatic Image of Adonai ha-Aretz

  Tarot Crux Ansata

  Enochian Tablet—The First Watchtower

  Enochian Tablet—The Second Watchtower

  Enochian Tablet—The Third Watchtower

  Enochian Tablet—The Fourth Watchtower

  The Sigils of the Angelic Tablets

  Preface to the Seventh Edition

  “Lord of the Universe—the Vast and the Mighty One!

  Ruler of Light and the Darkness!