Secrets of a Golden Dawn Temple: The Alchemy and Crafting of Magickal Implements the Alchemy and Crafting of Magickal Implements

by Chic & Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Chic Cicero

Now here is a unique compilation of the various tools used in Golden Dawn ritual, all described in full with complete step-by-step instructions for the construction of nearly 80 different implements. Includes rituals or meditations for each one. An indispensable guide.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875421504
• ISBN13: 9780875421506
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Personal Work

Chic and Tabatha Cicero have given the occult world quite a present with this text, as it is informative, insightful and a glimpse at some of their own personal work. The "meat and potatoes" of this book, if you will, is as it says the creation of ritual implements. Within is contained a step-by-step guide which starts with finding the materials and ends with consecrating the tool. The tome is further supported with several color images of some of the author's very own creations. The aspiring Hermetic Magus would do well to purchase a copy of this book as even those inept at wood-carving would be able to follow its easy instructions. Kudos to the Cicero's for this excellent piece of work.

A must-have if you follow the Golden Dawn magical tradition

The path of western Hermetic magic is a path full of symbolism and a staggering amount of paraphernalia that has the intention of sending symbolic messages to the mind of the practitioner, a western mind that usually craves for lots of information in the form of colour, shapes, aromas... This wonderful book gives detailed instructions on building all of the implements of the elemental grades, the Portal grade, the Adeptus Minor grade, and also how to furnish your Outer Order Temple, a Crypt of the Adepts and the Adept's personal Temple. Not only does it give detailed and easy-to-follow instructions on building these implements, but includes explanations on the instrument's symbolism, and profound meditations to help you get attunded with the instrument's power and meaning. At the end of the book, several non-traditional, but useful instruments are included. I have made several of these myself, and can assure you they work very well. If you follow the Golden Dawn magical tradition either in a group or by yourself, you should have this book. Even more if by chance of destiny you have become the elder or leader or founder of a Ceremonial Hermetic Magical group, and you steer quite an amount of your magical peers' education, training, and inner work.

Next best thing to the temple

This thick and oversized volume eplains crafting and rituals, necessary information for the formation of a temple. Most of it over my head. An inset with color pictures of tablets and tools, a description of the appropriate energies associated and especially the description of the vault of the adeptii taken straight from the "The Golden Dawn" written by the late Mr. Israel Regardie. This book unlocks secrets for "outer" students and explains all those tools pictured in the tarot. Some rituals ar4e given to help understand the pack. Gives you a real grasp of the things required for the basic entry into the temple and also new directions to further your studies or a brief look at things that just aren't for you.

Brilliant!

An essential reference book on how to craft almost all of the golden dawn magical tools for ritual work-a rare find indeed.Included are detailed instructions on correct painting schemes and correct sizes for each implement or accessory to make your Golden Dawn Temple as authentic looking as possible.The tools and robes and other implements follow Israel regardies lineage of Golden dawn practice.this book is a must for the Golden dawn practitioner or serious magical historian...

A must for the Golden Dawn student

This book gives descriptions of items you won't find anywhere else, and tells how to make and use them! It is a wonderfully practical and helpful book.