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Inner Order Teachings of the Golden Dawn Inner Order of the Golden Dawn Pat Zalewski THOTH PUBLICATIONS Loughborough, Leicestershire Copyright O 2006 Pat Zalewski All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission of the Publisher, or in accordance with the provision of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The Moral Rights of the Author have been asserted. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Cover design by Tabatha Cicero Additional diagrams by Tommy Westlund. Printed and bound in Great Britain Published by Thoth Publications 64, Leopold Street, Loughborough, LEI 1 5DN First published 2006 ISBN-1 0 1-870450-48-5 ISBN-13 978-1- 870450-48-5 web address: www.thoth.co.uk email: [email protected] Contents Introduction by Nick Farrell Preface CHAPTERO NE The Universe CHAPTER Two The Table of Shewbread CHAPTERT HREE The Order of the Heptagram CHAPTERF OUR The Hermetic Cross CHAPTERF M Golden Dawn Alchemical teachings CHAPTER SIX Secret Teachings of the Zelator Grade CHAPTERS MN Practicus Adeptus Minor CHAPTERE IGHT Alchemy and the Tarot CHAPTERN INE The Moon and the Tarot CHAPTER TEN The Caduceus Introduction The resurrection of the Golden Dawn from moribund esoteric curiosity to the living and working esoteric orders we see today, has been the result of the work of very few people. That such a few can have a key impact on the development of the spiritual lives of thousands is a testament to their work, and the genius behind the Golden Dawn tradition itself. One of the main players behind this resurrection is Pat Zalewski, who was one the first to show to the public that the Golden Dawn is a complete system of magical training. Unlike many who have come to the Golden Dawn system through the books of Israel Regardie or Aleister Crowley, Pat trained under some important magicians from the New Zealand Golden Dawn temple Whare Ra. Not only did this Golden Dawn temple remain vibrant after all the others collapsed, it offered its students some of the best esoteric training ever seen. When it did finally die, in the late 1970's some of its senior members went on to train others in the tradition. Pat trained under Jack Taylor who was one of the most experienced ritual magicians that Whare Ra produced. Fortunately, I was able to see some of these Whare Ra magicians in action, when I joined its side order, the Order of the Table Round. Then, most of the ritual officers were ex-Whare Ra members who applied their knowledge of initiation techniques to this different ritual. While I have been a member of many different groups and experienced many different initiations, I am yet to find a group that could duplicate all that team of officers could do in a single rite. That teaching I found when I read Pat's books for the first time and it has been extremely useful for me in working my own Golden Dawn group. One thing that people should be aware of, the former adepts of Whare Ra were not a loose lipped bunch. They took their oaths extremely seriously and would not tell anyone anything unless the person asked the right question or showed that they knew what they were talking about. As a result, getting information out of some of them was like getting blood out of a stone. The fact that Pat managed to work with these people and gained their trust is an indication of his stature. Unfortunately a lot of these old Whare Ra adepts are dead now and much of what Whare Ra has taught has been lost. In the case of Whare Ra, much material was actually burnt by the chiefs when the Order shut its doors. Fortunately, an esoteric order that stands for 70 years leaves bits of paper everywhere, no matter how good its esoteric security. Pat was able to combine these, with the oral training he received from the Whare Ra members, to make these teachings more than just intellectual chewing gum. When Pat started to write about the Golden Dawn system, there were few who would have thought that they would see working temples of the tradition. People sniffily said that now that the Golden Dawn had all its rituals and papers published, its contacts had withdrawn and its rites were meaningless. Pat proved them wrong by setting up his own group in New Zealand and, more to the point, it started to produce adepts. Pat's work was mirrored by those in the US, including Chic and Tabatha Cicero and the results were the same. Now there are countless Golden Dawn temples working throughout the world, with more members than the original founders could even dream of. For many of the groups that started to work practically, it is Pat's books that became 'must have' manuals. However, as these groups evolved and their members started attaining the higher grades, there appeared a slight problem that many people were unaware of. What most people considered as being Golden Dawn was actually only the outer order. The rites that started at 0=0 and ended at 4=7 were only preparing the candidate for more important work in the Rosicrucian based 'inner order' which was called the Roseae Rubeae Et Aureae Crucis. Since the largest amount of documentation about this order came from one of its former members, Israel Regardie, we are limited about what we know about this material, by what he knew or was prepared to publish. Regardie only obtained the 5=6 grade and there was much more work above that. This has led some Golden Dawn groups to either create their own material for an inner order, or look to other groups to provide it with a ritual and teaching structure for the higher grades. While the Regardie inner order material was not small, it is only the tip of the iceberg for what was available. When a person joined Whare Ra's inner order they were given a mountain of papers and work to get on with. They were given a lot more information in later grades. However, Whare Ra was not just a paper based order. There was a lot of oral and practical teaching that accompanied that material. This not only unlocked the secrets of the Golden Dawn system, it also provided the magician with a life time of esoteric work. In this book, Pat has provided both the unpublished paperwork and the oral teachings that reflect, not only his lifetime's work in the Golden Dawn, but the combined experience of Whare Ra's best ritual magicians. Studying this book will give many Golden Dawn groups a hint of what it is like to be a working GD temple and, more importantly, help evolve the deeper aspects of the tradition. In releasing this material, Pat will no doubt attract the attention of the Internet-based would-be Grand Magi of the Golden Dawn, who, to justify their own lack of importance in the grand scheme of things, will call him oath breaker or otherwise question his right to publish such teachings. Over the years watching these types attempting to make themselves gods with their vacuous pontifications before their ephemeral and transient students, I can only say that it is just as well that the tradition has some level headed, straight talking people like Pat around to inspire it with proper teaching materials. This book is exactly what you need if you are practically working within the Golden Dawn tradition. Nick Farrell Sofia, Bulgaria August 2005 Preface W hen I was first initiated into the Golden Dawn, Jack Taylor, a former Hierophant of Whare Ra temple in New Zealand, told me that he felt that the 5=6 level, as used by Whare Ra and the Stella Matutina was barely adequate for further advancement. Many of the teachings of the grades of 6=5 and 7=4 at Whare Ra were deficient. Minor lectures were handed out with virtually no teaching other than on the mechanics and inner mechanisms of ritual. While this was no small thing in itself it was lacking some of the finer points. In the Golden Dawn there were two levels of the 5=6. These were the Zelator Adeptus Minor and the Theoricus Adeptus Minor grades. Lectures for these were drawn up by Mathers and Westcott and circulated to the Adepti. When the split in the Golden Dawn occurred, then the Alpha et Omega temples continued with the Mathers system of the sub-grades. The framework or structure of them was simple. Zelator Adeptus Minor grades related to the Neophyte Ritual. The Theoricus Adeptus Minor rank related to the 1=10 Ritual and so on. The 4=7 ritual related to the Philosophus Adeptus Minor Rank. The 6=5 grade studied the Portal and the 7=4 studied the 5=6 Ritual. The basis for all the Mathers papers in this instance were lectures on the Elemental grades, like the Z1 and 23, only explaining the mechanics of each of the elemental rituals instead of the 0=0. At Whare Ra, they decided to give this out in the form of an 'Allocution7 and this was attached to the Elemental grade rituals. What Felkin gave out, was just as informative as that done by Mathers. At Whare Ra they had more information about the elemental grades than that which those in the Golden Dawn did by the time they got to 5=6. When I reached the Inner Order, Taylor told me to go over the rituals and especially the diagrams and to re-introduce the sub grades of the 5=6. My basic thesis for that was in my previous book Golden Dawn Ritual and Commentaries. I have always been of the opinion that what happens in any else's temple is their business, including their study curriculum. I have had more than one temple head ask me about the teaching of the 6=5 and 7=4 ranks. One claimed he was a 7=4 and then in the same breath was asked if I had any 7=4 papers - as he was never given any. Some temples went up to the 5=6 level with the grades above that being given mainly though for Ego inflation. In the end, the Whare Ra Temple in New Zealand ended up like that, although they did some terrific ritual work. I have worked with people from Whare Ra who got up to 6=5 level and though they were short on scholarship they were big in ritual ability. I realised that everything came back to the practical mechanics of ritual, and what they taught at Whare Ra was right, but it was not good enough. The intellectual aspect had to be understood as well. Taylor knew this and pushed me into this area relentlessly. People like to know the 'why' of things, and that is one of the reasons I progressed and extrapolated the Mathers concept of grade requirements, using his Theoricus Adeptus Minor level (and other papers I have been privy to) as a template for higher ones. The grades requirement for the 5=6 should be as full as possible, and the study of the sub grades I think is a step in the right direction. That requires going back into the Elemental rituals and looking at them in more thorough context than previously anticipated. When you look at the work of the God forms and the subtle anatomy and how it is utilised in ritual one can only wonder at what more there is left to discover with the Golden Dawn system. In Secret Inner Order Rituals of the Golden Dawn there is outlined the course structure I used between 1982-83 (though the book was published in 1988) on sub grades of the 5=6. This was inferior and was intended merely to take the Theoricus Adeptus Minor teaching and spread them out over the 5=6 level. It was experimental, something I did not use long and it was changed by the time the book was published. Later I decided to go the way Mathers intended and experimented a little, now I have taken it back to the original MathersIWestcott formulae. Included in this book are most of the previous unpublished teachings of Mathers for the Theoricus Adeptus Minor grade of the old Golden Dawn. The one manuscript that has been published, though it is hard to get, is a paper that Mathers used called 'Homer's

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For more than 100 years secret magical manuscripts from the Order of the Golden Dawn's inner order of adepts Rosae Rubeae et Aureae have been unseen by most students of the esoteric. This includes the Golden Dawn Alchemical teachings, Secret Teachings of the Zelator Grade and the important Caduceus
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