Golden Dawn Blog by Frater Yechidah

Issue 8 of Hermetic Virtues has recently been released, containing the following excellent articles: + The Rosicrucian Impulse: Magic, Mysticism and Ritual by Chic Cicero + The Tower, another new Tarot trump by Harry Wendrich + Abramelin and the Golden Dawn by Nick Farrell + Magical Maturity by Dean F. Wilson + Ain Soph and the Golden Dawn by Harry Wendrich + Review of a Previously Unpublished Alchemical Manuscript by Samuel Scarborough + The Alchemical Room by Tommy Westlund + A Solo Equinox Ritual by Samuel Scarborough To obtain a copy, click here . To read my article on Magical Maturity, check here .

One of key factors to Adepthood, as far as I'm concerned, is the magical maturity that should be present, or, at least, a magical puberty that will culminate in magical maturity when the Lesser Adept progresses towards Greater Adept. The point of this is that the entry into Adeptus Minor does not, for one, automatically equate with the entry into Tiphareth, and certainly does not equate with communion with the Higher Self, which may not come until much of the work of that grade is complete. I expressed this point somewhat in a previous post , but I would like to comment more now on exactly how I view this magical maturity and the preceding stages of magical growth. Neophyte can be seen as the symbolic or magical birth of the initiate, from the darkness of the Womb of Matter into the Light of the Spiritual World. Even the thrice-bound cord around the candidate's waist can be seen as the symbolic umbilical cord, which is removed as the initiate enters the Light of Day, and is, as...