Golden Dawn Blog by Frater Yechidah

Volume 5, Issue No. 3 of Hermetic Virtues has been released, containing the following excellent articles and reviews: + Hidden Church by John Michael Greer + The Hierophant by Harry Wendrich + Tools of Light by Chic Cicero + New Way of Looking at Golden Dawn Rituals – a book review by Samuel Scarborough + Traditional Golden Dawn and the Missing Landmarks by Nick Farrell + King Over the Water – a book review by Frater YshY + Two Thrones for the Golden Dawn by Aaron Leitch + Summer Solstice Ritual by Darcy Kuntz + Change Your Motto, Change Your Destiny by Eric V. Sisco + Consciousness and the Tree of Life by Jane Gibson + An Invocation of Chokmah by Samuel Scarborough + Enochian Magic in the Golden Dawn Tradition by Frater Yechidah + The Origins of the Rosicrucian Society in England by Ian Cowburn To obtain a copy, click here .

Geomancy is probably the least practiced system taught by the Golden Dawn, and I believe the reason for this is how it was and is continuing to be taught. It is made to seem overly complex, like an elaborate mathematical equation, but underneath it all lies a much simpler system, and Earth Divination, Earth Magic by John Michael Greer exposes this simplicity to great effect. This book has two sections, the first covering the divinatory aspects of geomancy, which includes a brief history, an overview of the geomantic figures, the method of casting a chart, and then several methods of reading it. What is noteworthy about this section is that it contains many elements of teaching that are absent from the original GD documents on the subject, particularly in terms of interpreting the figures that have been obtained. The shield chart is also an extremely useful method of obtaining the figures which works in a very common-sense way. The multiple examples given bring the theory a little cl...

Issue 9 of Hermetic Virtues has been released, containing the following excellent articles: + A Hermetic Ritual from the Picatrix by John Michael Greer + The Devil, another new Tarot trump by Harry Wendrich + Seven Stages of Spiritual Unfoldment by Nick Farrell + Initiation and the Four Worlds by Olen Rush + Review of John Michael Greer's The Art and Practice of Geomancy by Lauren Gardner + Theoi Megaloi: The Many Faces of the Kabiric Mysteries by Sandra Tabatha Cicero + Review of Robert Moore's Facing the Dragon by Lauren Gardner + In Search of the Lost Colour: Mystical Magenta and the Golden Dawn by Harry and Nicola Wendrich + An Invocation of Yesod by Samuel Scarborough To obtain a copy, click here .