Israel Regardie - The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic.pdf

THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC
THE TREE OF LIFE AS PROJECTED IN A SOLID SPHERE
By
V.H. FRATER S.R.M.D.
The Planets’ sphere which illustrates this manuscript, as part of the Z.A.M.’s Abstract of
the Tarot, has been drawn by S.R.M.D. as instructed. It represents the Heavens polarized on the
plane of the Ecliptic, not on the plane of the Equator of our Earth, so that its North Pole is the
veritable North Pole of our Heavens and not merely that part of them to which the North Pole of
our Earth now points.
Another very important difference is that, throughout the true Tarot, the teaching assigns
the commencing Point of the Zodiac to the bright Star “Regulus” which is in Leo. And it
measures Right Ascension and Longitude from that point, and not from a suppositious point
divided by the Equinox and called the 0° of Aries (though in reality now far removed from the
constellation of that name), which has been adopted by modern or western astronomy and
astrology.
By this now usual way of reckoning, and the Procession of the Equinoxes, it has
gradually come to pass that the signs (or divisions, each of 30°, of the Zodiac) no longer coincide
with the constellations of the same name, and each decade shows them slowly but surely
receding.
But the Tarot method of reckoning from the star named Regulus has, it will be seen, the
effect of making the Signs and the Constellations coincide.
“Regulus” is also named Cor Leonis - “The Heart of the Lion.”
“Regulus” means “Star of the Prince.” “Regulus” coincides with the position of the
“heart” in the figure of Leo upon the Star Maps.
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