Making Tools - Materials
One of the important things to realise when making tools within the Golden Dawn tradition is that the material largely does not matter. Unlike some grimoiric traditions, the Golden Dawn generally does not see the magic as being inherent within the material itself, but rather within the symbolism employed upon it. An example of this can be found in the Theoricus Adeptus Minor paper on the Ring and Disc (see Sandra Tabatha Cicero's The Book of the Concourse of the Watchtowers , p. 258): "The Ring and the Disc may be made of any material - cardboard will do - not too light, or the elasticity of the thread may vitiate its action." It may come as a surprise to many people that cardboard was a particularly common material used by the original members. For example, W.B. Yeats made a lot of his talismans from cardboard, pasting coloured paper on to make the various polygrams, etc. Yeats' Tzadkiel Talisman Yeats' Rose Cross Lamen This is not ...