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158 The Kabbalah ofthe Golden Dawn
time in the Order, he made the comment a number of times in print that
he had seen no reference to practical alchemy in the Order. 169
I am going to devote considerable space to this aspect of Kabbalistic
work because of its importance within the Golden Dawn scheme,
although, in fact, most Kabbalistic writers seem to gloss over or avoid
it completely.
Within the Golden Dawn's Outer Order there are three areas where
the initiate is introduced to Kabbalah as applied to alchemy. One is in the
Second Knowledge Lecture where the metals are attributed to the planets
as shown below.
The Names and Alchemical Symbols of the Three Principles
of Nature are:
Sulphur Salt
The metals attributed to the planets are:
Saturn Lead
Jupiter Tin
Mars Iron
Sun Gold
Venus Copper or Brass
Mercury Quicksilver
Moon Silver
Mercury
Binah 170
Chesed
Geburah
Tipharerh
Netzach
Hod
Yesod
This is the alchemical/Kabbalistic association the initiate has to
comprehend and learn to apply along with two other associations taken
from the book AeschMezareph.
169Ellie Howe's Alchemist of theGolden Dawn was really a bitter disappointment in terms of revealing
the Golden Dawn's alchemical work, (or it contains nothing but a series of letters to and from
W. A. Ayton, alchemical matters being mentioned only briefly. Francis King in his Ritual Magic
in England also includess a chapter on alchemy and the Golden Dawn.
170This final c?lumn of Sephirotlc association was included in some temples and left out in others.