Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's midnight as I type this, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. This week's classic book of Western occultism is The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie -- far and away the most influential book on magic published in the 20th century. Regardie, an initiate of one of the successor orders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, gathered up everything he could find of the original order's papers and published the lot in four volumes in the late 1930s, providing the most extensive and detailed curriculum of magical study ever made public. Republished regularly in a single volume since the 1970s, it's about ten years of daily practice and hard work in a single package. 

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***This Magic Monday is now closed -- and yes, this means you. See you next week!*** 

Comments

[ecosophia]

You're most welcome. You might also want to find a copy of Ellic Howe's waspish but well-researched The Magicians of the Golden Dawn, which is a good solid history of the order, and if your setting is in the Second World War you might want to consider reading a bio of Dion Fortune, who was the most influential British occultist before and during that conflict -- her bio will give you a good idea of what the British occult scene was like at that time.

[nodrog]

Noted!

        For information on the Golden Dawn today visit:
        Golden-Dawn.org
        EsotericGoldenDawn.com
        HermeticGoldenDawn.org

- was nice but not what I was looking for.  A Crowley’s Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 was what I would have worked from.  I didn’t want to just make it up, y’ know?