Golden Dawn Blog by Frater Yechidah

Volume 7 of the Golden Dawn journal series  The Light Extended  is out now, published by Kerubim Press. Get your copy on Amazon CONTENTS - The Third Order of the Golden Dawn by Tony Fuller - A Light Reignited: The Golden Dawn's Horus No. 5 by Melissa Seims - On the Symbolism of the Pastos and the Form of the Triple Cube by Frater A.R.O. - The Iyrin, the Watchers: The Faithful Angels, the Fallen Angels and Their Descendents, the Nephilim by Jayne Gibson - Becoming Spherical: The Golden Dawn's Theurgy of the Spiritual Vehicle by Ike Baker - The Monas Hieroglyphica's Influence Upon Modern Esoteric Thought by Teresa Burns - Healing Ceremony: For Use in a Temple of the Ordo Stella Matutina by Samuel Scarborough, with an Introduction by Morgan Stern - Hayim Luzzatto's Prayers of the Four Worlds Translated by JPF - The A.'.A.'. as an Expansion and Reformulation of the Order of the Golden Dawn: Part One by Frater S.P. - Lecture by G[.]H[.] Frater F.R. to 5-6 with an Int...

I have discovered an interesting point in a letter by Annie Horniman from 1902, which states: "S.R.M.D. [Mathers] made a great point to me about putting the 5=6 Obligation at the end of the book instead of in its place in the First Point. He gave me to understand that he had good reasons for this, something as to having received the Ceremony & Obligation from different sources or occasions." By coincidence (or perhaps not), I was inclined to do the same in The Complete Initiation Rituals of the Golden Dawn , where the 5=6 Obligation (as Ritual J) is given in the Appendices at the end of the book and not as part of the main 5=6 Ritual (some original copies of the Ritual were done this way, while others had the Obligation, also termed the Book of the Oath, given within the body of the Ritual). When it comes time for a new edition of The Complete Initiation Rituals of the Golden Dawn , I will add the above information in a footnote. However, as this will not be for many year...