The idea of doing this book originally came from a conversation between Israel Regardie and Patrick Zalewski during 1983 in New Zealand. The decision to publish the Inner Order Rituals of the 6=5 and 7=4 was not made lightly, but Regardie and Zalewski both thought that these were better out in the open for all to use. Their feelings were summed up in Regardie s work WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE GOLDEN DAWN (New Falcon Publications), in which he wrote:Obligation to personal allegiance, whether tacit or avowed, is the ideal method of enhancing the personal reputation of those who for many years have sat resolutely and persistently upon the pastos of the hidden knowledge. If by any chance the hidden knowledge were removed from their custody, their power would be gone. For in most cases, their dominion does not consist in the gravitational attraction of spiritual attainment or even ordinary erudition. Their power is vested soley in the one fact, that they happen to be in possession of the private documents for distribution to those whom they personally wish to bestow a favour as a mark of their esteem. Regardie also hated to see the Golden Dawn system abused. He thought that the publication of the 6=5 and 7=4 Grade Rituals, in their original form, might minimize that abuse by those who would change the rituals at a later date.

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Pat Zalewski was born in Brisbane on 21st of May 1948. His first interest in esoteric studies came from yoga and karate which he studied in Brisbane in his early teens. In 1970 he left to settle in New Zealand and started studying the Golden Dawn in 1978 when he bought a copy of Regardie s book on Golden Dawn rituals. By 1980, while enquiring about a New Zealand Golden Dawn temple in Havelock North, through some local masons, he was contacted by former Whare ra Hierophant, Jack Taylor and invited to study under him and was assisted by a small group of ex Whare ra members. After a brief exchange of letters with Israel Regardie in 1982, the two met in Wellington, New Zealand in August of 1983. Zalewski wrote a number of books on the Golden Dawn which he lectured and did ritual workshops in 1988 and 1992 in both Los Angeles and Seattle. In 1999 he returned to Australia and settled in Australia s tropical north. During this time he was inducted in the New Zealand Martial Arts Hall of Fame in 2000 for a life time achievement award. In 2002 he was also inducted into in to the Australian Martial arts Hall of Fame as Martial arts Historian of the year jointly with the World Karate Union Hall of Fame along with a promotion to 6th degree Black Belt New Zealand Sokeship Council. He was awarded a degree in history with Honours and a Masters of Philosophy in History from James Cook University. To date he has published 11 books on the Golden Dawn and number of academic articles on Australian historical studies.

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