By Names and Images. Bringing the Golden Dawn to Life

WILDOAK, Peregrin

ISBN 10: 1908011505 / ISBN 13: 9781908011503

Published by Skylight Press, 2012

About this Item

2012, 371pp. Illustrated. Paperback. In good condition.

Seller Inventory # 60214

Bibliographic Details

• Title: By Names and Images. Bringing the Golden Dawn to Life
• Publisher: Skylight Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908011505
• ISBN 13: 9781908011503
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • studieboeken

About this title

Synopsis

The Golden Dawn (GD) system of magic is the main source of the esoteric and magical wisdom and techniques practiced in the West today. While the rituals and bare teachings of the tradition have been published for sixty years, the inner workings and esoteric keys that empower those rituals have largely remained unpublished or unexplored in contemporary works. By Names and Images remedies this lack by providing detailed and clear instructions for the visualisations, spiritual connections and energetic practices required for every major GD practice and ritual, as well as several unpublished techniques. Focusing on the meanings and use of sacred names and practical techniques of visualisation, the book thoroughly explores meditation and divination, purification ritual, invocation and evocation, grades of initiation, and direct experience of the inner realms. Also covered is an explanation of the Qabalah and its use as a magical framework. While the book is sufficiently practical and clearly explained to be of huge benefit to a newcomer to magic, its primary aim is to allow people already practicing the Golden Dawn system to do so more effectively, and to be touched by the amazing spiritual blessings the rituals offer.

About the Author

Peregrin Wildoak was born in Warwickshire, UK and emigrated to Perth, Western Australia at age 12, where he has lived ever since. In his youth he came into contact with the western mystery traditions and was initiated into the Golden Dawn. He has also received initiation and training in several other traditions including Wicca and an Isis Mystery School. Peregrin is a former editor of Pagan Times and Greenspirit, and co-founded the EarthDreaming tradition and the Golden Dawn Society of Western Australia.