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A must-have if you follow the Golden Dawn magical tradition, January 22, 2002
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This review is from: Secrets of a Golden Dawn Temple: The Alchemy and Crafting of Magickal Implements (Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Series) (Paperback)
The path of western Hermetic magic is a path full of symbolism and a staggering amount of paraphernalia that has the intention of sending symbolic messages to the mind of the practitioner, a western mind that usually craves for lots of information in the form of colour, shapes, aromas... This wonderful book gives detailed instructions on building all of the implements of the elemental grades, the Portal grade, the Adeptus Minor grade, and also how to furnish your Outer Order Temple, a Crypt of the Adepts and the Adept's personal Temple. Not only does it give detailed and easy-to-follow instructions on building these implements, but includes explanations on the instrument's symbolism, and profound meditations to help you get attunded with the instrument's power and meaning. At the end of the book, several non-traditional, but useful instruments are included. I have made several of these myself, and can assure you they work very well. If you follow the Golden Dawn magical tradition either in a group or by yourself, you should have this book. Even more if by chance of destiny you have become the elder or leader or founder of a Ceremonial Hermetic Magical group, and you steer quite an amount of your magical peers' education, training, and inner work.
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A must for the Golden Dawn student, June 15, 1998
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This review is from: Secrets of a Golden Dawn Temple: The Alchemy and Crafting of Magickal Implements (Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Series) (Paperback)
This book gives descriptions of items you won't find anywhere else, and tells how to make and use them! It is a wonderfully practical and helpful book.
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A Personal Work, February 26, 2002
This review is from: Secrets of a Golden Dawn Temple: The Alchemy and Crafting of Magickal Implements (Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Series) (Paperback)
Chic and Tabatha Cicero have given the occult world quite a present with this text, as it is informative, insightful and a glimpse at some of their own personal work. The "meat and potatoes" of this book, if you will, is as it says the creation of ritual implements. Within is contained a step-by-step guide which starts with finding the materials and ends with consecrating the tool. The tome is further supported with several color images of some of the author's very own creations. The aspiring Hermetic Magus would do well to purchase a copy of this book as even those inept at wood-carving would be able to follow its easy instructions. Kudos to the Cicero's for this excellent piece of work.
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