Seeking Recommendation Best book for learning golden dawn magick?

[lumineth Realm Lord]

As said

Plus, do I necessarily need to the specific things like the lotus wand and elemental tables?

 

[Mycelial_Adept]

IMO, true Golden Dawn books would be the ones we know were from members of the original group. I would not consider New and schismed orders the same. That is not to say they aren't effective or have their own merit. I judge things based on the results more than what they are called or who wrote or said what. I am not a Golden Dawn practitioner though so don't have experience to say which thing works better from experience.

But I have spent my life studying magic and you cannot learn about magic in the West without knowing about the Golden Dawn. The way I would recommend studying anything is learn how that's were done originally and once you have the fundamentals down you start expanding out. But that is just my preference of course.

 

[HoldAll]

I moved your question to Book Discussion and Reviews, Book Requests is for specific books only.

 

[lumineth Realm Lord]

IMO, true Golden Dawn books would be the ones we know were from members of the original group. I would not consider New and schismed orders the same. That is not to say they aren't effective or have their own merit. I judge things based on the results more than what they are called or who wrote or said what. I am not a Golden Dawn practitioner though so don't have experience to say which thing works better from experience.

But I have spent my life studying magic and you cannot learn about magic in the West without knowing about the Golden Dawn. The way I would recommend studying anything is learn how that's were done originally and once you have the fundamentals down you start expanding out. But that is just my preference of course.

And what book/media would you suggest?

 

[Mycelial_Adept]

Start with Mathers and Westcott, they can be a bit dense, but you can get a good number of resources from starting their stuff and looking up meanings of things you don't recognize. You'll need at least some starter knowledge on Hebrew and the Sepher Yetzirah etc. Later came Israel Regardie, who is the big name in the GD tradition, but he came from a later GD group, his stuff will be easier to read though, even if you start there, I would say the original members writings should be high on the reading list.

Also be wary of joining any groups.

 

[HoldAll]

Small book collection here. You can also search the Forum Library (any books with dead mega.io links can be found on

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Personally, I've found the GD's history more interesting than what they actually got up to magically. However, they were pioneers in their field and condensed the knowledge available at that time into a single system, an admirable effort, gotta hand it to them.