Golden Dawn Blog by Frater Yechidah

A widely-shared view of the goal and method of the Golden Dawn's Outer Order, in particular, but also the system as a whole — which I have also shared at one point — is to improve the self, to go through an alchemical process of change (often seen today in psychological terms), which typically involves breaking down one's life, one's fears, one's desires, one's weaknesses, and one's strengths, into Elemental aspects, which are then explored, strengthened, addressed, or balanced in each of the Elemental Grades (at least from the modern perspective). While entirely admirable, and not without a measure of success — as experienced by many who have followed this approach — this conflicts with some of the official instructions given on how the Order (at least in its original incarnation, and subsequent form in the A.O.) approached things. Consider, for example, this extract from Flying Roll XX ("The Constitution of Man", a lecture delivered on 23 September 1...

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...