The Magister 2

by Marcus Katz

  [243] King, F. (editor). Astral Projection, Ritual Magic and Alchemy. Aquarian Press: Wellingborough, 1981.

  [244] Including MacGregor-Mathers, S.L. The Key of Solomon the King. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd: London, 1981, first published 1888. Also The Grimoire of Armadel. Weiser: Boston, 2001. For an analysis of grimoire magic, see Fanger, C. (editor). Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic. Sutton Publishing Ltd: Stroud, 1998, and Kieckheffer, R. Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century. Sutton Publishing Ltd: Stroud, 1997.

  [245] Anon. Notes of an Adept, Alpha Omega Temples. Portal Publications, 2005. A reproduction of G.F. Frater D.D.C.F.’s (MacGregor-Mathers’) issue of Ritual A, September 1897, revised 1898.

  [246] Notes on alchemy by N.O.M. [Non Omnis Moriar, William Wynn Westcott], Yorke Collection NS32.

  [247] Private letter from Sir Frederick Leighton to H.M. Paget, postmarked March 1879 (private collection).

  [248] Gilbert, R.A. William Wynn Westcott and the Esoteric School of Masonic Research, 19 February 1987, http://www.mastermason.com/luxocculta/westcott.htm [last accessed 14 July 2009], paragraph 45.

  [249] Howe, E. The Magicians of the Golden Dawn. RKP: London, 1972, p.12.

  [250] Westcott, W.W. An Address to the Sociatas Rosiciana in Anglia. http://www.goldendawn.com/temple/index.jsp?s=articles&p=address_to_the_sociatas_rosiciana_in_anglia [last accessed 14 July 2009].

  [251] Yorke Collection, NS64, 17b.

  [252] Luhrmann, T.M. Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England. Picador: London, 1994, p.6.

  [253] King, F. Astral Projection, Ritual Magic and Alchemy. Aquarian Press: Wellingborough, 1987, pp.257-260. There were 36 such papers circulating amongst the Golden Dawn members.

  [254] Luhrmann, T.M. Ibid, p.367.

  [255] Luhrmann, T.M. Ibid, p.12.

  [256] Greenwood, S. The Anthropology of Magic. Berg: Oxford, 2009, p.113.

  [257] Ibid, p.31 on Lévy-Bruhl and participation.

  [258] Owen, A. The Place of Enchantment. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2004, p.73.

  [259] The term ‘Flying Rolls’ (or ‘Flying Scrolls’) derives from Zechariah 5:2: “And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.”

  [260] G.H. Frater Deo Duce Comite Ferro [S.L. MacGregor-Mathers], ‘The Theoricus Adeptus Minor Manifesto’ in Küntz, D. The Golden Dawn Legacy of MacGregor Mathers. Holmes Publishing Group: Sequim, 2005, p.12.

  [261] Westcott, W.W. ‘Samuel Liddell Mathers’, in Küntz, D. The Golden Dawn Legacy of MacGregor Mathers. Holmes Publishing Group: Sequim, 2005, p.29.

  [262] Ibid, p.13.

  [263] A.E. Waite, ‘Notes of the Month: Appreciation of S.L. MacGregor Mathers’ in The Occult Review, Volume 29, Number 4. Rider & Co: London, 1919, pp.197-199.

  [264] Westcott, W.W. ‘Samuel Liddell Mathers’, in Küntz, D. The Golden Dawn Legacy of MacGregor Mathers. Holmes Publishing Group: Sequim, 2005, p.29.

  [265] Küntz, Ibid, p. 30.

  [266] G.H. Frater Deo Duce Comite Ferro [S.L. MacGregor-Mathers], ‘The Theoricus Adeptus Minor Manifesto’ in Küntz, D. The Golden Dawn Legacy of MacGregor Mathers. Holmes Publishing Group: Sequim, 2005, p.12.

  [267] Gardner, F.L. copy of ‘General Orders’ in Yorke Collection, NS63. GD MSS. 1.

  [268] King, Ibid, pp.284-285.

  [269] Ibid, pp. 286-288.

  [270] Ibid, p.287.

  [271] Ibid, pp.257-260, pp.286-288.

  [272] Ibid, p.258.

  [273] Ibid, p.14.

  [274] Word count of text in rolls written by Mathers and Westcott by present author.

  [275] King, F. Ibid, p.265 on Stella Matutina, pp.195-256, ‘Unpublished Papers of the Cromlech Temple’.

  [276] King, F. Ibid, p.11.

  [277] Gilbert, R.A. The Golden Dawn Companion. Aquarian Press: Wellingborough, 1986, p.94.

  [278] King, F. Ibid, p.58.

  [279] Regardie, I. The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic. Falcon Press: Phoenix, 1984, Volume 8, p.11.

  [280] Symonds J. & Grant, K. (editors). The Confessions of Aleister Crowley. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London, 1986, p.177.

  [281] Ibid.

  [282] Gilbert, R.A. The Golden Dawn Scrapbook. Samuel Weiser: York Beach, 1997, p.64.

  [283] Crowley, A. Ibid, pp.176-177.

  [284] Crowley, A. Ibid, pp.176-177.

  [285] Crowley, A. Ibid, pp.177-178.

  [286] Gilbert, R.A. The Golden Dawn Scrapbook. Samuel Weiser: York Beach, 1997, p.167.

  [287] Gilbert, R.A. A.E. Waite: Magician of Many Parts. Crucible: Wellingborough, 1987, pp.111-112.

  [288] Gilbert, R.A. (editor). The Sorcerer and his Apprentice: Unknown Writings of S.L. MacGregor Mathers and J.W. Brodie-Innes. Aquarian: Wellingborough, 1983, p.115.

  [289] Ibid, p.161.

  [290] Gilbert R.A. (editor). Hermetic Papers of A.E. Waite. Aquarian: Wellingborough, 1987, p.193.

  [291] Eco, U. Foucault’s Pendulum. Pan Books: London, 1990, p.215.

  [292] Geffarth, R.D. Religion und arkane Hierarchie. Brill: Leiden, 2007, pp.182-183, Abb. 5.1 & 5.2.

  [293] Geffarth, R.D. Ibid, p.181; “Die mitglieder des ersten, untersten grades, juniores genannt, waren die neuaufgenommenen bruder und galten als anfanger, welche den esten teil des institutes, die ordens-regeln, das ceremonial, den catechismum und die chymischen zeichen kennen lernen sollten. Mit dem ersten teil des instituts war die in der instruction des ersten grades enthaltene erklarung der vier elemente feuer, wasser, luft und erde gemeint. Ein junior bekam also lediglich das grundlegende rustzeug einschlieblich der alchemistischen schriftsprache vermittelt.”

  [294] Geffarth, R.D. Ibid, p.183.

  [295] Geffarth, R.D. Ibid, p.184.

  [296] Ibid.

  [297] Ibid.

  [298] Letter from Florence Farr to Frederick L. Gardner, 10 July, Yorke Collection, GD Z1.

  [299] Ibid.

  [300] Ibid.

  [301] Gilbert, R.A. personal correspondence to present author, 22 August 2007.

  [302] Letter from W.F. Kirby to unknown addressee, dated 14 March 1897 (Warburg Institute, University of London: Yorke Collection) NS73, Letters A-Z, K.

  [303] Howe, E. Ibid, p. 40.

  [304] See King, F. Modern Ritual Magic. Prism Press: Bridport, 1989, pp.79-93.

  [305] Howe, E. Ibid, p.240 on Westcott’s account of William Peck’s reaction to the trial. William Peck (1862-1925) was the City Astronomer at Edinburgh and was knighted in 1917.

  [306] Howe, E. Ibid, p.99.

  [307] King, F. Ritual Magic in England. New English Library: London, 1973, p.123.

  [308] See http://www.thewica.co.uk/DV%20and%20the%20GD.htm [last accessed 29 June 2012].

  [309] Howe, E. Ibid, p.98.

  [310] Howe, E. Ibid, pp.288-289.

  [311] Yorke Collection NS73.

  [312] Fleming, A. ‘Introduction’ in Küntz, D. The Golden Dawn Court Cards. Holmes Publishing Group: Edmonds, Wash., c. 1996.

  [313] King, F. (editor). Astral Projection, Ritual Magic and Alchemy. Aquarian Press: Wellingborough, 1981, pp.40-41. ‘Flying Roll XXXIX: An Exorcism by Frater Sub Spe’.

  [314] http://postalheritage.org.uk/page/movingthemail-timeline [last accessed 29 June 2012].

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  [316] Bogdan, H. Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation. State University of New York Press: Albany, 2007. Bell, C. Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1997.

  [317] Guénon, R. Perspectives on Initiation. Sophia Perennis: Hillsdale NY, 2004, p.98.

  [318] Yorke Collection, NS64, GD IV.12.

  [319] Regardie, I. The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic. Falcon Press: Phoenix, 1984, Volume I, p.23. The statement, “This secret is reserved for a higher grade”, became an in-joke for several years within the members of ICOM (see the fi
rst part of the Magister Vol. 0) who would use it in everyday life for any situation where information was withheld for no real purpose, or when an employee did not know precisely why they were following some particular rule or code of conduct. As in, “Why do we have to get on the bus?” “The guy didn’t say, I think it is a secret reserved for a higher grade”.

  [320] Regardie, I. The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic. Falcon Press: Phoenix, 1984, Volume IV, p.8.

  [321] Regardie, I. The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic. Falcon Press: Phoenix, 1984, Volume I, p.60.

  [322] See amongst other works cited, Colquhoun, I. Sword of Wisdom: MacGregor Mathers and The Golden Dawn. Neville Spearman: London, 1975, amongst the earliest surveys of the Golden Dawn.

  [323] Letter to F.L. Gardner from F.J. Johnson, Christmas 1889 (Warburg Institute, University of London: Yorke Collection) NS73, Letters A-Z, G. Also quoted in Howe, E. Ibid, p.182, n.1.

  [324] Howe, E. Ibid, p.97.

  [325] Ibid.

  [326] Farrell, N. King Over The Water: Samuel Mathers and the Golden Dawn. Kerubim Press: Dublin, 2012. Mathers’ Last Secret: The Rituals and Teachings of the Alpha et Omega. Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn: Laguna Niguel, 2011.

  [327] Letters from Lilli Geise to Brodie-Innes (New York, 1922). http://www.sria. org/1LilliG_BInnes.htm [last accessed 07 August 2007].

  [328] Moina Mathers, letter to Paul Foster Case, 18 July 1921. http://www.golden-dawn.org/ biocase.html [last accessed 08 August 2007].

  [329] Mathers, M. ‘Theoricus Adeptus Minor’ Document. Yorke Collection, NS99.13.

  [330] Case, P.F. Wheel of Life Magazine, March 1937. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_ Foster_Case [last accessed 28 July 2007].

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  [332] Gilbert, R.A. The Golden Dawn Scrapbook. Weiser: York Beach, 1997, p.137.

  [333] Ibid, p.132.

  [334] Letter from Chris van Berne to Norman Mudd, dated 10 August 1925, Yorke Collection, OSEE1.

  [335] Ibid.

  [336] Fortune, D. ‘Ceremonial Magic Unveiled’ in Occult Review, January 1933.

  [337] Theoricus Ritual in the Golden Dawn, see Regardie, I. The Golden Dawn. Llewellyn: St. Paul, 1989, p.160. The notion of our embodiment of the four elements is perhaps here taken from Paracelsus, “... there are not four arcana but only one Arcanum; however it has four aspects, just as a tower has four sides, according to the four winds. And just as a tower cannot be lacking in one side, so a physician must not lack any of these aspects. For one aspect does not yet make a whole physician, nor two, nor three; all four are needed. Just as the arcana consist of four parts, so the whole physician must comprise of the four aspects.” Jacobi, J. (editor). Paracelsus: Selected Writings. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1979, p.61. See also Goodrick-Clarke, N. Paracelsus: Essential Readings. Crucible: Wellingborough, 1990, and Webster, C. From Paracelsus to Newton: Magic and the Making of Modern Science. Dover: Mineola, 1982.