Oh wow, that is very interesting. Thanks for that! I get 4 quarters is not original, but did other groups before Golden Dawn do tracing pentagrams in four quarters and summoning personifications of elemental energies in each quarter and tapping the forehead and bringing light from the heavens down through the body into the Earth and stuff like that? That I thought was exclusively Golden Dawn.
I assumed the whole Hermetic Qaballah/Tarot/tracing pentagrams/Neo-Egyptian system was exclusively Golden Dawn, the way they mashed it all together in a workable system. Is that wrong? Almost all magic today stems from Golden Dawn, so you said another group would have taken hold, but what do you think that would have been like? Maybe I'm not explaining myself well. I am trying to imagine what it's like outside this Golden Dawn/Wicca paradigm it seems we are all stuck inside.
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Date: 2023-07-03 07:31 pm (UTC)I assumed the whole Hermetic Qaballah/Tarot/tracing pentagrams/Neo-Egyptian system was exclusively Golden Dawn, the way they mashed it all together in a workable system. Is that wrong? Almost all magic today stems from Golden Dawn, so you said another group would have taken hold, but what do you think that would have been like? Maybe I'm not explaining myself well. I am trying to imagine what it's like outside this Golden Dawn/Wicca paradigm it seems we are all stuck inside.