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Astral projection, ritual magic, and alchemy : Golden Dawn material by S.L. MacGregor Mathers and others ; edited and introduced by Francis King ; additional material by R.A. Gilbert PDF

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JJtstraf cRi!.ua!MagU, cftr#ction, ~ By the same author TANTRA FOR WESTERNERS Edited and Introduced by ifra ntis CZ<..ing Additional Material by R. A. Gilbert DESTINY BOOKS Rochester, Vermont Destiny Books One Park Street Rochester, Vermont 05767 U.K. edition published by Aquarian Press Denington Estate, Wellingborough Northamptonshire, NN8 2RQ England Copyright © 1987 Francis King Cover illustration: 'The Star', from the unpublished MacGregor Mathers deck designed by Miranda Payne on the basis of pre-l900 Golden Dawn forms. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Publisher. Inquiries should be addressed to Destiny Books. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mathers, S. L. MacGregor (Samuel Liddell MacGregor), 1854-1918. Astral projection, ritual magic, and alchemy. Originally published: London: Spearman, 1971. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. 2. Magic. 3. Astral projection. 4. Rosicrucians. 5. Occult sciences. I. King, Francis. II. Gilbert, R. A. III. Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. IV. Title. BF161l.M378 1987 133.4'3 87-1768 ISBN 0-89281-164-1 (pbk.) 10987654321 Destiny Books is a division of Inner Traditions International, Ltd. Printed and bound in the United States of America Distributed to the book trade in the United States by Harper and Row To the memories of Gerald Yorke and Francis Israel Regardie CONTENTS Foreword New Golden Dawn Discoveries 9 Introduction I. The Survival of Magic 21 II. The Revival of Magic 28 III. The Golden Dawn 33 IV. The Magic of the Golden Dawn 37 PART ONE Imagination and Will-Power 45 Flying Roll V 47 Flying Roll I 53 Flying Roll II 57 Flying Roll VI 61 PART TWO Astral Projection 63 Prefatory Note 65 Flying Roll IV 71 Flying Roll XI 75 Flying Roll XXV 85 Flying Roll XXX 91 Flying Roll XXXVI 93 Flying Roll XXXIII 95 PART THREE Rosicrucian Adeptship 103 Flying Roll XVI 105 Flying Roll XVIII 111 Flying Roll XIX 115 PART FOUR Man, God and the Rosicrucian Initiation 123 Flying Roll XV 125 Flying Roll X 131 7 CONTENTS PART AVE Esoteric Psychology 141 Prefatory Note 143 Hying Roll XX 145 Hying Roll XXI 151 PART SIX Hermetic Love and the Higher Magic 161 Hying Roll XIII 163 Hying Roll XXVII 167 PART SEVEN Alchemy 175 Prefatory Note 177 Hying Roll VII 179 PART EIGHT Christian Occultism 193 Prefatory Note 195 Paper I 197 Paper II 199 Post Mortem Conditions 201 The Devotion of the Quipus 204 The Eagle 217 Teachings on the Church 228 PART NINE Hermetic Wisdom and Mystical Prayer 235 The Three Grades of Prayer 237 Various Teachings 239 On Divine Names 243 Four States of Prayer 247 APPENDIX A An Exegetical Note Upon the Hying Rolls 257 APPENDIX B Enochian Magic and the Enochian Language 261 APPENDIX C A Stella Matutina Hying Roll 265 APPENDIX D The Fugitive Hying Rolls R. A. Gilbert 269 APPENDIX E 'Catalogue of Hying Rolls' R. A. Gilbert 286 8 FOREWORD New Golden Dawn Discoveries In view of the current widespread interest in both the history of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the magical system which was the basis of all the occult activities of its members, who included W B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, and Dion Fortune, it is surprising that today, in 1987, important Order-instructional documents dating from before 1900 should be published for the first time. Yet, as readers of Appendix D of this book will discover for themselves, such is the case, and it would seem probable that all the Golden Dawn instructional documents, on which the Order's magical workings were based, are now available in printed form. Only fifty years ago the position was very different, and the only people to have even heard of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, save for initiates of one or two obscure secret societies derived from it, were those comparatively few people who had read the Autobiographies of W B. Yeats, and a handful of dedicated students of the writings of Aleister Crowley. Somewhere around the middle of the 1930s the situation began to change. The fiction and non-fiction books and articles ofDion Fortune made available to the occult public a somewhat popularized version of some aspects of the Order's teachings: Israel Regardie's Tree of Life presented the Golden Dawn techniques of ritual magic in a readable and fairly easily comprehended manner; and, eventually, many of the Order's rituals and instructional documents were printed in The Golden Dawn (4 vols., Aries Press, Chicago, 1937-40). Since then much more has been published and, as a result of all this, most western occultists of the present day are well aware of the general nature of the Golden Dawn system-although few of them have worked that system in its entirety. An awareness of the one-time existence of the Golden Dawn as a working magical order now extends well beyond the ranks of those who could consider themselves to be 'working occultists' or even serious students of the occult; most people 9

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