Self-Initiation Into the Golden Dawn Tradition: A Complete Curriculum of Study for Both the Solitary Magician and the Working Magical Group Kindle Edition

This is a great guide to flying solo into the fulfilling practice of the Golden Dawn. When I purchased it, I thought I would breeze through this book and the practices as I do with most other training manuals. Not the case. This is a lengthy process that takes years. The Introduction (before the Neophyte chapter) is going to take several months alone and a lot of discipline and will power.The Cisero's pick up and expound upon where Regardie left off with his Golden Dawn book. Having both books is very helpful, but this book fills in a lot of detail to help you find your way when you are far away from a major city (or out in the woods).This is a very big book. It feels like a text book from college after glancing through the chapters ahead. There are quizzes, homework, and yes... lots of memorization. Like I said... not for the undisciplined. I would encourage you to explore this though as after just a few months with this program there have been some major changes in my life, very subtle, but major shifts in thinking, willing, seeing. Stick with it. I promise the same will happen for you.I do wish this book would have more pronunciation guides than it does but Youtube has been a helpful supplement.

This book is really heavy. Good guidebook for becoming a mage.

I'm very picky about the books I purchase about western occultism. After purchasing this book, I was happy with the content. It wasn't on the same level as David Griffin, but it gave me what I needed in a supplemental Golden Dawn resource.I've read many reviews on "Self-Initiation...". I respect the differing opinions presented therein. They appear to fall into a few categories:Those that are members and like it as a supplemental resourceThose that are members and don't respect the concept of self-initiation, or learn magick from a book without mentorshipThose that are beginners to magick; or atleast to ceremonial magick and are frightened by the depth of curriculumI belong to the first group. I have been initiated by two ceremonial groups and one Wiccan group. I have over 20 years experience with different paths. I chose to study the Golden Dawn system, though I am reluctant to join the Golden Dawn, because I have an affinity to other Gods than typically used for the group. However, with my experience, it isn't that difficult to utilize corresponding archetypes. As far as utilizing planetary, zodiac, and various other concepts that scare the beginner; I think that before taking on such a task, some formal training and mentorship is essential. With this training in place, it is very practical to use this book.I agree that if you want to be officially recognized within a particular grade, then-by all means-join the Golden Dawn. If however, you simply want the training, this is not a bad resource.

Like a lot of magical literature, this one has a few errors. Specifically, some alchemical terms are misapplied or poorly explained. I recommend Julius Evola's The Hermetic Tradition, which was praised by Carl Jung as the most important work on Alchemy in recent time. Evola's exactness is refreshing and will clear up any confusion regarding alchemical symbolism, he is a trustworthy author.I don't know if these are really "errors" or blinds. If it's the latter, then shame on the author. The spiritual situation in the present age is too dire to warrant obscurity. If the former, then shame on the author, he ought to have done his research properly.Otherwise this seems like a solid book, just read it with caution, as one should do with any magical literature.

I have been struggling to understand the official text from a ceremonial view as it’s not very descriptive on HOW to perform the rituals, just an outline of the rubrics assuming you know others who can teach you. This is my beginning into practice and I couldn’t be happier! The pros of this book vastly outweigh the few cons, and make sure to get a highlighter and post-it notes as you will be doing a lot of cross referencing! Thank you, Chic and Tabatha for helping me finally cross over and begin the Great Work for myself!

This book is awesome if you’re new to the Kabbalah alchemy Egyptology and you want to learn more then this is the book for you it’s all encompassing practically it has everything from astrology to in depth meaning to every sphere in the tree of life the qabalistic cross lesser banishing rituals planetary squares the Hebrew alphabet quizzes for each chapter this book goes extremely in depth and can help any beginner interested in learning magick from the ground up basicallyit’s honestly just too much to even write about this book I love it

This book left many questions unanswered. I have found one entry that was totally wrong stating deity was in West instead of North. Comparing this heavy volume to the Israel Regardie complete system of the golden dawn and The original rites books this Cicero book has too much in it that you will never use if you want to stay old school and keep with Regardie. This book has a ton of info and is for modern let's beat this certain subject to death. The rituals for each grade are very long and I suggest sticking to Israel's book for the rituals. Don't get me wrong - this is a great volume for MODERN magicians and a great read. I read this as a novel for a refreshment as I did read what I call the supplement papers and curiously did the quizzes after each chapter. I call this book " I'm curious as to what exactly is the new golden dawn compared to old school golden dawn ". Im going to put this book on my shelf and go back to The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic and the original accounts and teachings

It has a learning curve and I can recommend HIGH MAJICK by Damien Echols.These are a great way to get started and build a foundation for complete life control.If you lack or ,”want for anything,” quit wasting time and see how amazing life can be.I am forever a better person.

Quanto ao conteúdo, é imprescindível pra quem procura desenvolver uma base sólida no sistema da Golden Dawn, é realmente uma maratona! O material eu achei um pouco frágil pra um livro de 1,7 kg, merecia uma edição em capa dura. A entrega foi muito rápida, veio em uma caixa, mas apenas com um papel pardo dobrado, o livro ficou "sambando" na caixa, talvez por isso ele tenha vindo com pequenos amassados nas pontas, e o livro veio sem o plástico, mas parece ser novo.

It was very well put together

This book could be viewed as a master key to self initiation in the magickal stream of the Hermetic order of the Golden Dawn. If you have the long-term goal of getting on the ladder of spiritual alchemy and are prepared to commit to many weeks, months and even years of work without instant overnight results, you'll find it very worthwhile. It may cost more than your average book, but really it's an investment in your future and compared with online study groups and a thousand new age organizations who'll take you round in circles forever, this book is actually priceless!

Hi,thank you so much for sending this book to me. It is huge in terms of content and the Intelcom/Amazon delivery was good too.God bless!

not much to add to the above. probably if you are considering, you already know about the excellent Ciceros and the Golden Dawn. my only quibble was this is not available in hardback, would have loved to get an HB for better durability. however, the pages are relatively thick, the print is very good and the cover seems robust for a paper back. am more than happy, a classic of occultism.