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Secrets of a Golden Dawn Temple: The Alchemy and Crafting of Magickal Implements (Llewellyn's Golden Dawn Series)

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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.

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.

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.

This thick and oversized volume eplains crafting and rituals, necessary information for the formation of a temple. Most of it over my head. An inset with color pictures of tablets and tools, a description of the appropriate energies associated and especially the description of the vault of the adeptii taken straight from the "The Golden Dawn" written by the late Mr. Israel Regardie. This book unlocks secrets for "outer" students and explains all those tools pictured in the tarot. Some rituals ar4e given to help understand the pack. Gives you a real grasp of the things required for the basic entry into the temple and also new directions to further your studies or a brief look at things that just aren't for you.

An essential reference book on how to craft almost all of the golden dawn magical tools for ritual work-a rare find indeed.

Included are detailed instructions on correct painting schemes and correct sizes for each implement or accessory to make your Golden Dawn Temple as authentic looking as possible.

The tools and robes and other implements follow Israel regardies lineage of Golden dawn practice.

this book is a must for the Golden dawn practitioner or serious magical historian...

This book is wonderful for constructing magickal implements -- if you are a practicing mystery school / Golden Dawn initiate. Not something to order out of casual interest but amazing for those whose minds are receptive to the divine light of creation. Try Israel Regardie's The Golden Dawn, or Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero's Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition. Better yet, find a true Modern Mystery School Guide or Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Temple -- if you have already done a lot of spiritual work and are ready for it. The path of an initiate is not for the faint of heart or mind -- true dedication to your truth and to service to humanity in the light must be developed to a high degree before beginning this kind of work.

It has been over fifteen years since I first acquired this wonderful work. It is an outstanding companion to Israel Regardies Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.

It is extremely useful to the Neophyte and Adept alike, with considerable matierial to work with contained inside. It add a breath of life the the often skeleton rituals that are located in Israel Regardie's masterpiece.

I would strongly reccommend this book along with Self Initiation into the Golden Dawn and Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig.

This is a wonderful book produced by the Ciceros on the creation of Golden Dawn style magickal implements and also includes several interesting rituals for their use. Not all of the implements are "official" Golden Dawn but are wonderful additions to the system nonetheless such as the Wand of Double Power used in tracing the pentagrams and other symbols for invoking and banishing. The Geomancy box is another example of a great idea. Because this book includes almost everything I would say it is a wonderful addition to the Golden Dawn canon and is essential to every magicians library. That said though the book has some problems that can be quite daunting.

Many of the implements described in this book require the crafter to have access to a full wood shop and metal shop. This is simply impractical for the magician living in the city or even those who are not able to afford the equipment necessary. I'd like to see someone write a book similar to this but with more practical instructions that anybody can use without costing an arm and a leg just to get started on some of the more immediate things. Otherwise, some of the items in this book are quite daunting to produce.

Also, the book lacks practical instructions on constructing the pillars, instead giving "at best" type advice and anecdotes of their own experiences that while interesting are not at all useful.

One thing it lacks, and well it should because it would take a whole book of it's own, is the construction of a Vault of the Adepti. Such a project is too big for a book of this scope but it is a book I would like to see with practical instructions on items like the lid of the pastos etc. There is a picture of Doc Regardie standing in the Vault that Chic and his wife contructed in the 1970s that is very powerful but even with all that power fails to get across the true scope of the Vault.

I give the book a 3 overall in spite of its excellence, it just isn't a practical manual unless you have all the tools required.

Arrived quickly and in good shape thank you!!!!! This book has answered allot of questions and has given a better understanding of the various parts each level has in construction and maintenance of the initiation rites and of the large armada of tools needed for a physical temple etc.... I do not see this for someone who started the path in the past week to begin with either.
Nick