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The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
The subject of the Kabbalah itself is well documented but there are
too few publications written from the occultist's viewpoint, which differs
somewhat from that of the Hebrew traditionalist. There are some useful
books of this type available however, and one of rhe best texts is Dian
Fortune's Mystical Qabalah, though she worked only on the Sephiroth.
Another is A. E. Waite's book The Holy Kabbalah, which is really a monumental
and impressive piece of work. Waite's commentary on the historical
gleanings and folio references in the Zohar proved invaluable in
the preparation of this work. My own personal favorite, though, is the
Kabbalah by Charles Ponce, who does a brilliant job of condensing the
vast and complex history of the Kabbalah into a very fine little volume.
Ponce went further toward the occult viewpoint than Waite, while still
retaining the integrity of the traditionalist.
My own work here, which is combined with the Golden Dawn viewpoint,
takes things a step further toward the occultist's viewpoint. In many
respects it isa Golden Dawn notebook on the Kabbalah, for it retains a number
of previously unpublished Golden Dawn texts on the subject, as well as
later ones which have been pruned and presented together. When Regardie
published all the Golden Dawn rituals (Llewellyn Publications), only the
bare bones of the Kabbalistic papers were included for reasons of space.
It is inevitable that there are some quores from previously published
Golden Dawn ritual papers, but these have been re-edited in such a fashion,
with additional footnotes, that most of this material will be seen as it
was intended by the Chiefs of the Golden Dawn. In context, therefore, it
is very much a new type of work and direction.
Each Golden Dawn Temple had quite a number of lectures circulating
on the Kabbalah that were never part of the five basic knowledge lectures,
and even these differed from temple to temple. From 1900, when
the Golden Dawn split into the Alpha et Omega Temples under Mathers
and the remainder, who changed the name to Morgan Rothe, 1 the Order
still continued to function on the practical level as it had before. Thus
over the years from 1900 2 to the present day, quite a lot of Kabbalistic
texts were added by various members of the Order as more translations of
the Zohar became available.
This is German and roughly translated means Red Dawn.
A further split in the Order developed in 1903. One group was called rhe Holy Order of the Golden
Dawn under Waite and the other was called the Stella Matutina under Dr. R. W. Felkin.