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Israel Regardie and the Psychologization of Esoteric Discourse
Correspondences 3 (2015) 5–54 ISSN: 2053-7158 (Online) correspondencesjournal.com Israel Regardie and the Psychologization of Esoteric Discourse Christopher A. Plaisance E-mail: [email protected] Abstract This is an article in the history of Western esoteric currents that re-examines and clarifies the relationship between esoteric and psychological discourses within the works of Israel Regardie. One of the most common ways in which these two discourses have been found to be related to one another by scholars of the esoteric is through the process of “psychologization”— with Regardie often being put forth as a paragon of the process. This paper argues that a unitary conception of psychologization fails to adequately describe the specific discursive strategies utilized by Regardie. In order to accurately analyze his ideas, a manifold typology of complementary, terminological, reductive, and idealist modes of psychologization is proposed instead. Through this system of classification, Regardie’s ideas regarding the relationship between psychological and esoteric discourses are understood as a network of independent but non-exclusive processes, rather than as a single trend. It is found that all four modes of psychologization are present, both in relative isolation and in combination with one another, throughout his works. These results demonstrate that while it is accurate to speak of Regardie as having psychologized esoteric discourse, this can only be the case given an understanding of “psychologization” that is differentially nuanced in a way that, at least, accounts for the distinct discursive strategies this paper identifies. Keywords psychologization; method and theory; psychology and esotericism; science and religion; Israel Regardie; Golden Dawn © 2015 Christopher A. -
Israel Regardie
This torrent represents a work of LOVE All texts so far gathered, as well as aU future gatherings aim at exposing interested students to occult information. Future releases will include submissions from users like YOU. For some of us, the time has come to mobilize. U you have an in terest in assisting in this process - we aUhave strengths to brin g to the table - please email occu lt .d igital.mobilizalion~gtt\O.il.com Complacency serves the old go ds. A GARDEN OF POM\EGRANATES AN OUTLINE OF THE QABALAH By the author: The Tree of Life My Rosicrucian Adventure The Art of True Healing ISRAEL REGARDIE The Middle Pillar The Philosopher's Stone The Golden Dawn Second Edition The Romance of Metaphysics Revised and Enlarged The Art and Meaning of Magic Be Yourself, the Art of Relaxation New Wings for Daedalus Twelve Steps to Spiritual Enlightenment The Legend of Aleister Crowley (with P.R. Stephensen) The Eye in the Triangle 1985 Llewellyn Publications St. Paul, Minnesota, 55164-0383, U.S.A. INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION It is ironic that a period of the most tremendous technological advancement known to recorded history should also be labeled the Age of Anxiety. Reams have been written about modern man's frenzied search for his soul-and. indeed, his doubt that he even has one at a time when, like castles built on sand, so many of his cherished theories, long mistaken for verities, are crumbling about his bewildered brain. The age-old advice, "Know thyself," is more imperative than ever. -
Kabbalah, Magic & the Great Work of Self Transformation
KABBALAH, MAGIC AHD THE GREAT WORK Of SELf-TRAHSfORMATIOH A COMPL€T€ COURS€ LYAM THOMAS CHRISTOPHER Llewellyn Publications Woodbury, Minnesota Contents Acknowledgments Vl1 one Though Only a Few Will Rise 1 two The First Steps 15 three The Secret Lineage 35 four Neophyte 57 five That Darkly Splendid World 89 SIX The Mind Born of Matter 129 seven The Liquid Intelligence 175 eight Fuel for the Fire 227 ntne The Portal 267 ten The Work of the Adept 315 Appendix A: The Consecration ofthe Adeptus Wand 331 Appendix B: Suggested Forms ofExercise 345 Endnotes 353 Works Cited 359 Index 363 Acknowledgments The first challenge to appear before the new student of magic is the overwhehning amount of published material from which he must prepare a road map of self-initiation. Without guidance, this is usually impossible. Therefore, lowe my biggest thanks to Peter and Laura Yorke of Ra Horakhty Temple, who provided my first exposure to self-initiation techniques in the Golden Dawn. Their years of expe rience with the Golden Dawn material yielded a structure of carefully selected ex ercises, which their students still use today to bring about a gradual transformation. WIthout such well-prescribed use of the Golden Dawn's techniques, it would have been difficult to make progress in its grade system. The basic structure of the course in this book is built on a foundation of the Golden Dawn's elemental grade system as my teachers passed it on. In particular, it develops further their choice to use the color correspondences of the Four Worlds, a piece of the original Golden Dawn system that very few occultists have recognized as an ini tiatory tool. -
A Garden of Pomegranates (Regardie)
A GARDEN OF POM\EGRANATES AN OUTLINE OF THE QABALAH By the author: The Tree of Life My Rosicrucian Adventure The Art of True Healing ISRAEL REGARDIE The Middle Pillar The Philosopher's Stone The Golden Dawn Second Edition The Romance of Metaphysics Revised and Enlarged The Art and Meaning of Magic Be Yourself, the Art of Relaxation New Wings for Daedalus Twelve Steps to Spiritual Enlightenment The Legend of Aleister Crowley (with P.R. Stephensen) The Eye in the Triangle 1985 Llewellyn Publications St. Paul, Minnesota, 55164-0383, U.S.A. INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION It is ironic that a period of the most tremendous technological advancement known to recorded history should also be labeled the Age of Anxiety. Reams have been written about modern man's frenzied search for his soul-and. indeed, his doubt that he even has one at a time when, like castles built on sand, so many of his cherished theories, long mistaken for verities, are crumbling about his bewildered brain. The age-old advice, "Know thyself," is more imperative than ever. The tempo of science has accelerated to such a degree that today's discoveries frequently make yesterday's equations obsolescent almost before they can be chalked up on a blackboard. Small wonder, then that every other hospital bed is occupied by a mental patient. Man was not constructed to spend his life at a crossroads, one of which leads he knows not where, and the other to threatened annihilation of his species. In view of this situation it is doubly reassuring to know that, even in the midst of chaotic concepts and conditions there still remains a door through which man, individually, can enter into a vast store-house of knowledge, knowledge as dependable and immutable as the measured tread of Eternity. -
[Aleister] Crowley
A REEVALUATION OF TI-IE LITERARY WORKS OF EDWARD ALEXANDER [ALEISTER] CROWLEY A Thesis Presented to The School of Graduate Studies Drake University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts by Charles Nicholas Serra II April 1991 A REEVALUATION OF THE LITERARY WORKS OF EDWARD ALEXANDER [ALEISTER] CROWLEY by Charles Nicholas Serra Il Approved by Committee: ~~.;.,. Dean of the School of Graduate Studies Dedicated to four instrumental people: For Aleister Crowley, who quested after "the light that never shone on land or sea"; for B. H. who provided patronage and patience; for Grace Eckley, who managed to nurse me through; and for L. L., "my Gitana, my Saliya," who has all the answers I lack, now in the ineffable. Unpublished Copyright. all rights reserved. 1991 1 A REEVALVATION OF THE LITERARY WORKS OF EDWARD ALEXANDER [ALEISTER] CROWLEY Table of Contents Page Abstract ., . ............. ..... ... .......... u Section One: Yeats and the Golden Dawn . Section Two: Augoeides, Maturity and Mysticism. ...... .. ..... 17 Section Three: Literary Decline, the War Years 36 Works Consulted. ...... ...... .. ........................... 44 Notes. .......... ....... ............ 49 Textual Appendix. ......................................... IA 11 A REEVALVAnON OF THE LITERARY WORKS OF EDWARD ALEXANDER [ALEISTER] CROWLEY Abstract For the last fifty years the poetry and prose of Edward Alexander [Aleister] Crowley (1875-1947) has been systematically ignored by scholars and critics on the narrow grounds that it deals with the occult sciences, is pornographic, or simply because detractors did not agree with Crowley's personal philosophy or life. Since the mid 1970's, however, academics have become increasingly interested in the mystical and occult content of William Butler Yeats's poetry, praising it for the same characteristics which have always been labeled "defects" in Crowley's work. -
The Black Lodge of Santa Cruz Bysatyr Tex Rii Bag Zaa Des VTI the Kaos-Babalon Press London Copyright © 2002 the Satyrikon All Rights Reserved
the black lodge of santa cruz bySatyr tex rii bag zaa des VTI The Kaos-Babalon Press London Copyright © 2002 The Satyrikon All rights reserved Citation: Satyr. “The Black Lodge of Santa Cruz.” In: Biroco, Joel (ed). KAOS 14: Supplement [pdf edition]. London: The Kaos-Babalon Press, 2002. I “Jacques de Molay was not roasted alive so we could put a Holy King on the throne.” Fr Spartacus In the spring of 1990, an ashlar was ripped from the foundation of the Caliphate Ordo Templi Orientis, heaved into the trunk of a Chevy Nova, taken by a steep and precipitous route to the California coast, and there for a time brought to rest. It was an ominous moment, the kind that though significant only to a handful, nonetheless spawned rumor, hearsay, and the balance of that from which myth and legend are born. One such rumor is that the person responsible—or persons responsible, as some might object—was a renegade “Wandering Bishop”, acting under the auspices of the Black Lodge of Santa Cruz, a clandestine initiatory body that had formed near the heart of the Caliphate and now threatened its very existence. Personally, I felt such speculation was mere fodder for foolish assumption, and am surprised to find it persists to this day. It is for this reason that I have found myself compelled to step forward, and present the truth of the matter as best I can. I can assure you that when I, the witness of these events, first came into contact with the Caliphate, becoming embroiled in an insane plot to break away from that celebrated body was the farthest thing from my intent. -
From the Occult to Chiropractic Psychiatry: Francis Israel Regardie, D.C
Reprinted by permission of the Association for the History of Chiropractic Chiropractic History Volume 7, No. - 007 From the Occult to Chiropractic Psychiatry: Francis Israel Regardie, D.C. NICHOLAS T. POPADIUK, B.A., JOSEPH C. KEATING, JR., Ph.D.*, D. PATRICK MONTGOMERY, D.C., F.A.S.A., and LAWRENCE SIORDIA, M.D., D.C. Francis Israel Regardie, D.C. is something of an enigma: a celebrity in one community - the world of the occult - and a forgotten figure in the history of chiropractic. An author, masseur, chiropractor, magician, psychotherapist and scholar, the largest volume from his prolific pen resides in the literature of the “Western Esoteric Tradition.” He is considered one of the preeminent occult scholars and an important influence in the occult revival of the twentieth century. However, his numerous psychoanalytic writings, the bulk of which may be found in the Chirogram – periodical of the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic – remain to be explored. As well, the ways in which Regardie synthesized magic, psychotherapy and manual therapies merit further analysis. In Pursuit of the Occult Named Israel Regudy at birth, Francis Israel Regardie entered the world at London, England, on 17 November 1907 (1). The child of impoverished, orthodox Russian Jewish immigrants, he grew up in a slum area in the East End of Great Britain’s capital city. The family’s name change (there are several explanations offered) followed a registration error made when an older brother enlisted in the Royal Army during World War I (2). Apparently the family chose to keep the misspelling: Regardie. Francis was barely a teenager when the family came to the United States in August 1921 and settled in Washington, D.C. -
The Tree of Life, I Feel a Warm Inner Glow Which Combines a Number of Quite Separate Emotions
A Collection of Sacred-Magick.Com < The Esoteric Library TAHLTTI The Patron of Magic. SAMUEL WEISER, INC. York Beach, Maine A Collection of Sacred-Magick.Com < The Esoteric Library " You must understand therefore that this is the first path to felicity, affording to souls an intellectual plenitude of divine union. But the sacerdotal and theurgic gift of felicity is called indeed the gate to the Demiurgos of wholes, or the seat, or palace, of the good. In the first place, likewise, it possesses a power of purifying the soul . afterwards it causes a coapta- tion of the reasoning power to the participation and vision of the good and a liberation from every thing of a contrary nature, and in the last place, produces a union with the Gods, who are the givers of every good." IAMBLICHUS. INTRODUCTION To The Second Edition OES a parent have a favorite child? Is there one, above all others, that secretly he feels is the apple of his eye? More D often than not, despite all protestations to the contrary, there certainly is. So it is with me. In having been asked to write an introduction to this new edition of The Tree of Life, I feel a warm inner glow which combines a number of quite separate emotions. This book has special meaning for me that none of my other writing ever had. Primarily, there is the basic fact that it was the first book that emerged from my burgeoning spirit. A Garden of Pomegranates, a prior publication, simply expanded itself from a set of Qabalistic notes I had kept for several years-and that is all it ever was. -
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THE WILL TO CHAOS AND A DANCING STAR: ALEISTER CROWLEY, NEO-P AGANISM AND THE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE SELVES THESIS Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Joseph A. Marino III * * * * * The Ohio State University 2007 Master's Thesis Committee: Approved by Professor Hugh Urban, Adviser Professor Michael Swartz \-WG.~\· b. Uru).y Professor Philip Armstrong Adviser Comparative Studies Graduate,, Program ABSTRACT Entrenched in Victorian England and raised in a puritanical Christian family, Aleister Crowley delved into Western Esotericism and the study of ritual magic as a means to subvert the stifling environment into which he was bom. Among his chief acts of subversion were his many displays of a very fluid and malleable identity. He played with “selves” like they were merely wardrobes for a day and found himself developing more fully for the breadth of experience that he achieved from such practices. In the wake of Friedrich Nietszche, Crowley looked to the strength of each individual will to deny being identified by traditional systems such as Christianity or “Modernity,” pushing instead for a chaotic presentation of the self that is both wholly opposed to external authority and wholly enthusiastic about play, contradiction and experimentation. Through the lens of Michel Foucault’s “Technologies of the Self' and Judith Butler’s notion of performativity, one can come to see Crowley’s performances (through dress, pseudonyms, literary license and more) as operations that he performs on himself to knowingly affect a change in his identity. -
Introduction
Notes INTRODUCTION 1. Richard Kaczynski, Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, revised and expanded edition (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2010), 296. 2. Aleister Crowley, The Complete Astrological Writings (London: W. H. Allen, 1987), 90–91. 3. Ronald Hutton, Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, paperback edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 227, 247. 4. Paul Heelas, “Introduction: On Differentiation and Dedifferentiation,” in Religion, Modernity, and Postmodernity (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), 8. 5. John Patrick Deveney, Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, ed. Wouter J. Hanegraaff (Leiden: Brill, 2005), 1077–1079. 6. Eliphas Lévi, Dogme et ritual de la haute magie, in Secrets de la magie, edited by Francis Lacassin (1856; reprint, Paris: Robert Laffont, 2000), 205–215. 7. Maria Carlson, “No Religion Higher Than Truth”: A History of the Theosophical Movement in Russia, 1875–1922 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993), 29. 8. Carlson, “No Religion Higher Than Truth,” 28. 9. Antoine Faivre, Access to Western Esotericism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994), 37. 10. Faivre, Access to Western Esotericism, 19. 11. Arthur Versluis, The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 4. 12. Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “Esotericism,” in Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, 337–338. 13. Wouter J. Hanegraaff, “Occult/Occultism,” in Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, 888. 14. Faivre, Access to Western Esotercism, 5. 15. Faivre, Access to Western Esotercism, 5. 16. Faivre, Access to Western Esotericism, 34–35. 17. Roger Dachez, “Freemasonry,” Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism, 383. 188 Notes 18. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy, 2nd ed. -
Israel Regardie
HOW TO MAKE AND USE TALISMANS By ISRAEL REGARDIE LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Page 1. Origin of Talismans ………………………………………………………..……..7 2. How to Overcome Unfavourable Aspects …………………………………..…..24 3. Words of Power ……………………………………………………………..…..28 4. Talismans of the Five Elements …………………………………………..……..32 5. A Practical Example ……………………………………………………..……...40 6. How to Charge the Talisman ……………………………………………..……..47 Appendixes ………………………………………………………………..……..51 Bibliography ………………………………………………………….………....63 DEDICATION This book was written for Sangreal Foundation (Dallas, Texas) at the suggestion of Mr. Carr P. Collins, Jr. It is therefore with pleasure that I dedicate this work to: Carr P. Collins, Jr. and his gracious wife YYVONNE. CHAPTER ONE ORIGIN OF TALISMANS A TALISMAN IS any object, sacred or profane, with or without appropriate inscriptions or symbols, uncharged or consecrated by means of appropriate ritual magic or meditation. Amongst other things it exerts an auto- suggestive effect on the wearer. It is made to serve a specific end, to bring good fortune in some area of life, or to achieve some specifically named goal. An amulet is in effect no different, save that as a charm it is supposed to be worn for protection against disease, sickness, ill- fortune, or witchcraft. For the purpose of this manual, the word talisman will be the preferred term. In passing, it should be emphasized that I have no fundamental objection to the theory of suggestion so long as it is clearly understood that suggestion cannot implant in or evoke from the psyche what is not already there. Suggestion is evocative only of those psycho-spiritual factors that are innate. According to the Golden Dawn’s somewhat larger frame of reference, a talisman ‘is a magical figure charged with the Force which it is intended to represent. -
Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn
The First Definitive Study of Enochian Chess Enochian chess' fascinating history begins in the late 1800s, when occultists Wynn Westcott and MacGregor Mathers updat- ed the Enochian system of magic for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and incorporated a four-handed chess game orig- inally dubbed Rosicrucian chess-later dubbed Enochian chess, due to its derivation from the Enochian Tablets of Dr. John Dee. Since the publication of the secret rituals of the Golden Dawn in the 1930s by the late Israel Regardie, there has been much speculation about Enochian chess' system of play, since the pub- lished manuscripts lacked the information necessary to actual- ly play the game. But now, Chris Zalewski has made Enochian chess accessible as a "working game,," with all the examples, rules and directions you will need to enjoy playing it. Whether you want to explore Enochian chess as a divinatory tool rich with magical associations and kabbalistic analogies or are just intrigued by a four-handed variant of a "normal" chess game, you will find this book thorough, to-the-point and the most complete and authoritative text on the subject ever published. About the Author Chris Zalewski was born in 1956 in Hastings, New Zealand. She is a keen amateur artist and bodybuilder, has a diploma in herbal medi- cine, runs an herbal clinic and is president of the Wellington Astro- logical Society. In early 1980, she was initiated into the Golden Dawn, with her husband Pat, by ex-members of the New Zealand temple, Whare Ra. Her study of the Enochian chess game for the last 14 years was acknowledged by the late Israel Regardie as taking the game to an area that was quite beyond him.