Category: Golden Dawn
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Michael – The Archangel
Michael is considered the most powerful angel. Revelation 12:7-9 has Michael as a leader of angels fighting a war against a dragon who fights back with the dragon’s own angels. Michael is stronger and as a result the dragon and his angels are thrown out of heaven to the earth. The dragon is revealed to…
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Gabriel – The left hand of God
This angel’s name means the strength of God. Gabriel is one of only two angels mentioned directly in biblical canon scripture. Gabriel is most well known for appearing to Mary to inform her of her pregnancy. Gabriel is also mentioned appearing to Daniel to elucidate his dreams. Gabriel (or gabril) was the angel who first…
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Raphael – the Divine Physician
This name means the Healing of God. Often this angel is called the Divine Physician for that reason. So this could be considered a healing angel, but like all angels he would normally be represented in roman armour. Raphael does not actually appear in the bible, but does occasionally show up in the Book of…
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4 Directions in Pentagram Rituals
This is part of my work on the LBRP and other rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The focus here is on what each direction means while doing the LBRP and Greater ritual of the Pentagram where the pentagrams drawn in the 4 directions are of an elemental nature. The ritual requires…
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Squaring the Circle
This is part of a series I am writing on the Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram and the other pentagram rituals taught to initiates of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. This ritual draws a circle on which there is four points where a pentagram is drawn. These directions have you draw a circle…
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The Pentagram
This article is about drawing the pentagram in the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. It is taken from my notes on the LBRP. Since this was taken from one mega article I’m sorry if somewhere in the text it doesn’t make sense out of context. This ritual involves drawing a five-pointed star while facing…
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God in the LBRP and changing the ritual
This part is a disclaimer, which you can just skip over if you like. I warn you that there will be a few references to God throughout my writing about the LBRP and other pentagram rituals and I hope to explore what is the nature of God to the magician doing this ritual. My perspective…
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Who are the Templars?
Okay! So this is a website concerned with the practical and accurate practice of magic in the modern day. So why would I write an article that sounds like it’s going to be a crazy conspiracy theorist rant? Also why is this relevant to us today? Firstly, I hope to pull apart from the romanticism…
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The Holy Guardian Angel
I will expand upon this more when I have time, but for now this a stub. The name of this ‘entity’ comes from a catholic prayer which is often recited in the morning with the words “O Holy Guardian Angel, whom God has appointed to be my guardian. Watch over and guide me during this…
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What is a mantle?
So I came across someone with whom I was discussing Golden Dawn ritual and we were talking about the clothes of roles involved when I realised my friend, who in every other way was very well informed, did not know what a mantle was. For him, like me when I was younger, a mantle was…