Category: Golden Dawn
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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…
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Working with Earth
My personal experience of working with the element of Earth is that my attempts to use earth to cause change directly is often ineffective. Earth is normally perceived as a passive element. It doesn’t act; it is acted upon. How does that work in the real world? We will have to experiment and see. This…
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Qabalistical Cross
This is the first part of the banishing ritual known as the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram and it should also be the last part of the same. It involves spoken words and hand signals and can be accompanied with visualization. The visualization gives one the sensation of energy flowing through the energy body…
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Did Crowley end up insane and destitute?
I thought that I’d share this here. It’s a copy of an online thread that occurred today and someone mentioned that it contained useful information. I hope you can look past my egotistical drive to be correct and see the debate that’s going on between different groups: some groups that accept Crowley as contributor to…
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Is Energy Work important in Ceremonial Magic?
Yes it most certainly is! Next question please. As with anything. There’s almost always two sides to the story. Many students of Ceremonial Magic always practice energy work and they have never questioned that. Crowley taught it, the Golden Dawn taught it, Reiki is just as spiritual as their Llewellyn Ceremonial Magic and that also…