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The Magical Pantheons: A Golden Dawn Journal (Bk.4)

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THE MAGICAL PANTHEONS
a golden dawn journal
edited by Chic and Sandra Cicero

This is one amazing and powerful book. Its useful for those on the path of Ceremonial Magick, Greek path of the Samothrace tradition, Celtic path, Faery path, Asatrue path, and other pagan paths. Its diffrent ideas and beliefs from diffrent authers. Each auther has contributed wonderfu information to make this book as wonderful as it is. Its a must. There is not a lot of ritual outline just lots of info. Once you read this you will find you will want to keep reading it over and over again. My favorite article in this book is from the Ciceros it had so much good information on goddesses and gods from diffrent panteons. I have to say once again the Ciceros has done it again with their writting and making a great journal. Its ecceltic and open minded. Pat Zalewski had published a topic in this book that Mathers and Yeats had worked on but never published. The Irish Pantheon is something that these two magicians of the Golden Dawn were working on. According to Zalewski he writes "according to the Ithel Colquhoun in her book Sword Of Wisdom, a full or partial manuscript of the Mathers/Yeats colllaboration does exist, though it has never been published." also he goes on to write how the Norse pantheon was referred to quite often by the Golden Dawn. The one draw back by this auther is that he writes about these deities as if they are dead and gone. This is quite untrue at least for me. Also the work that Harvey Newstrom did on the article In The Beginning was the word was wonderful indeed. The Samothracian Fire by Steven Cranmer was good as well although in the consecration of the ring he does not give out the proper sigils.
Here are the list of authers and their articles they contributed
Gods and Humans--Chic and Sandra Cicero
Pagans and Neo-Pagans--M. Isadora Forrest
Samothracian Fire-- by Steven Cranmer
The Ancient Ones of The Irish Faery-Faith--Kisma K. Stepanich
In The Beginning Was The Word--Harvey Newstrom
The Incomplete Mythological Pantheons of the Golden Dawn--Pat Zalewski
Hebrew Hierarchical Names In Briah--James A. Eshelman
Osiris And Christ--John Michael Greer
Do the Gods Exist?--Donald Micheal Kraig
As you can see there are some pretty well known authers iin this book. It has a diverse perspective on the subjects of the gods and goddesses. Of corse it does not cover every pantheon but its a great book none the less. The Ciceros has written many wonderful books and they are not some pretend to know it all and arm chair magician. No quite the opposite is true. If you are interested in the magick of the Golden Dawn than I would suggest getting some of their books.