The Magical Witch (Gleamings from the Golden Dawn)

Nick Farrell wrote: For a while I wondered why in the Sepher Yetzirah it refers to God by the name יהו instead of the more traditional tetra...

Previous/ Master List/ Next Today's Tarot Blog Hop subject is Oracular Anomalies, those cards that do not match the standard, yet ne...

Previous / MasterList / Next The theme of this Samhain Tarot Blog Hop is feasting with our honored ancestors. Out of all the ancestors tha...

One of the reasons that I am welcome as a plague in certain circles is the simple fact that I became a magician to keep the wolf away from t...

Were Samuel Macgregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott actually initiates of the Hermetic Golden Dawn? At first glance, this question seems...

Something that often disturbs me is that some students of Golden Dawn believe that unless an idea was written down by an old dead guy, it is...

Recently, I have been following a discussion on the existence, or non-existence, of the Secret Chiefs and the Third Order on the Golden Dawn...

One of the things that people need to keep straight when dealing with the occult is the difference between the Mythical History and Actual H...

The biggest portion of published Golden Dawn and RC et AC documents (assuming that Stella Matutina can be considered Golden Dawn) was publis...

This post also was issued to the members of Bast Temple on their private forum. During the midst of labeling one of the documents for the lo...

Oral v. written tradition One of the great debates that affect what we view as the roots of Golden Dawn is whether Golden Dawn is essentiall...

One of the GD blogs that I read, Mishkan Ha-Echad , today was talking about brief histories of Golden Dawn. So I thought that I would presen...

This particular post may not seem to fit into the set of The Roots of GD, but it really it does. Yesterday, I was listening to Common Sense ...

And while we are considering terms that people assign different meanings to, and then forget that others are using other meanings for the sa...

Let’s take a look at the word “lineage.” It seems to be a clear-cut word, and people who use it tend to act as if it has a precise definitio...

“Where is the foundation of Golden Dawn? What are its roots? What is the essential core of the Golden Dawn system?” At fist glance, these qu...

The Golden Dawn system of attainment is unfinished; I mean this in the sense that all living spiritual and magical systems are being consta...