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Introduction
This book on talismans and evocation techniques is a further
extension of my previous 'Z' works regarding the magical techniques
used by the Golden Dawn. Although much has been written on the
history and initiation ceremonies of the Order of the Golden Dawn
and its successors, the Stella Matutina and Whare Ra, little has
been presented on the practical magical workings of its Inner Order
the Rosae Rubae Et Aureae Crucis. Many assume that the order
members simply performed the rituals presented by Israel Regardie
in his Golden Dawn book. However this is far from the case. A
large body of teaching was presented to the new initiate about
evocation and talisman manufacture and each adept was expected
to use this information to write and perform his or her own rituals.
To the best of my knowledge only the evocation ritual has
appeared in print and that was an edited version in Crowley7s
Equinox volume. Where I could I used original manuscript source
and you will see this in the Evocation ritual where I have replaced
text taken out of the original ritual. I am deeply indebted to my old
friend Nick Farrell who, being based in England, waded through
mountains of material for me to obtain the specific papers so that I
could compare them with those I had in New Zealand.
Most personal rituals, such as the 22, are an evolutionary process
which change with the development of a personality. For example,
when I spoke to Israel Regardie in 1983, he felt that it was
unnecessary to use anything but planetary names of power during
a talisman ritual. This meant omitting all the other Kabbalistic
associations of the 0=0 ceremony and I disagreed with him. It was
my view that the 0=0 ceremony, which is the template of the
talisman making and evocation rituals must never be forgotten, and