GOLDEN DAWN RITUALS AND - COMMENTARIES VOLUME ONE BY PAT ZALEWSKITable of Contents 1. Forward 2. Introduction Book 1 ‘A History of the Golden Dawn, 3. Roots 4. Foundation 5. Growth Book 2 zs Outer Onder Rituals ofthe Whare Ra Temple 6. The Neophyte Ceremoay 7. The Zelator Ceremony 8 The Theorcus Ceremony 9. The Practicus Ceremony 10. The Bhilosophus Ceremony 4 Commentary onde Outer Order Rtas 11. The Neophyte Ceremony 12. The Zlator Ceremony 1, The Theorcus Ceremony 14. The Pacis Ceremony 15. The Philosophus Ceremony Book 3 a Inner Order Rituals ofthe Whare Ra Temple 16. Introduction tothe 24 17, The Portal Ceremony 18, The Adeptus Minor Ceremony A Commentary on the Inner Order Rituals 19, The Portal Ceremony 18, The Adeptus Minor Ceremony v8 239 255 286 318 359 394Forward Quite a few years ago, when browsing through a book shop, I came across The Golden Dawn, writen by Israel Regard. From the moment I picked up those volumes T felt as iT had come home to anol fiend. For many years my wife Chris and I struggled with the Golden Dawn system to a level where some of it actully started to make sense. Eventually a group of us started to practice the Rituals ad study the associated Knowledge Lectures. It was at this pont tht we realised the published ‘volumes lef out a great deal of information, aot only on physical ritual tums and pivots, but also ‘what was happening during the rituals themselves, th intemal changes onthe subtle anstomy. AB fares the Knowledge Lectures were concerned, we found them barely more than adequate. Having worked the Rituals upto the Grade of 5 = 6, by luck coincidence, we found out there had been a Golden Dawn Order in New Zealand since 1912. The Order was not called the Golden Dawn but the Smaragdum Thalases (Emerald of the Seas), andthe Temple was the Whare Ra. Tt was located in Havelock North, Hawkes’ Bay, New Zealand. ‘Through contacts of Chis, who came fom that general ara, afew names and addresses suddenly became availble tous. Thad sent three letters to former members including an ex-Chief) and two of the replies told me thatthe Ordér had just closed its doors. But thea, I received a very ‘extraordinary letr from a very extraordinary person whom I had never heard of. Apparently one ofthe individuals Thad written, passed my eter on to Tack Taylor who responded very quickly. As Thad later found out, Taylor was a person of remarkable cirvoyant gifts and a powecfil personality in his ovm right. He told us that he was told by ‘them’ that we were expected, and ‘would see him in the net few days. The leter really surprised us for we had just booked a fg to the Havelock North area, and were to arrive the nextday, something Taylor could not have known shout by ay normal means The afternoon ofthe following day we were introduced t0 Taylor and a roomful of people. ‘They all were ex-members of the Whare Re, and if I remember correctly, all were Inner Order members. To the suprise ofall, Taylor waved away the oath of secrecy, and said he was told Clairvoyant that we had been seat to do a job and were tobe given as much support as possible Taylor, as we found out, was an ex-Hicrophant of the Whare Ra and had reached the rank of ‘depts Exemptus, 7= 4. He was also head of an Arthurian side order called the Order of the ‘Table Round, which stil had the bulk ofthe ex-Whare Ra members practicing ritual magic together. [After that initial meeting, Taylor decided we had to be waned inthe ital and esoteric teachings ofthe Golden Dawn. He and others began to teach us the rituals at levels that at frst ‘were quite beyond us. Chis and Thad to forget everthing we had learned beforehand and started from scratch! Taylor took us through the Grades and when he felt that we were at a point where ‘we could teach properly he chartered our (existing) Temple. Infact, he became one of its Chiefs “Taylor decided that the Chiefs ceased to be Chiefs when thy closed down the Whare Ra. Having ‘ben inthe Order since 1930, a Hierophant and had of the rank of Adeptus Exemptus, he had as such right as anyone to charter a Temple. From him and others, such as Percy Wilkinson (who reached the 6= 5 rank’), we aso received the addtional documentation ofthe Whare Ra and found the rituals were far more complete than those published by Regard, While some of the documentation was adequate, the major pat of our teaching was concering ritual. We both fl very fortunate to train under Teylor, and by analogy I fet lke Carlos Castaneda before me, and had found my Don Juan T have read the works of both Francis King and Regerde with references of the Stell ‘Matutia being not up tothe standard ofthe Golden Dawn, and found just the opposite fom the excWhare Ra members, To be fir to King and Regardie, nether had any real contact withthe 2