THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN SYSTEM OF MAGIC

My first bit of research to find legitimate print in book form appeared as the last chapter of Israel Regardie's "Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic". This book was a revision of Regardie's classic 1940 four volumes "The Golden Dawn" (reprinted by Llewellyn Publications in 1970).  In 1984, through Falcon Press, Regardie was able to revise his original research with the collaboration of many authors in the field of Ritual Magic, Alchemy, and the Qabalah.

I had the pleasure of being included in Regardie's most monumental publication at the last moment.  The presses were literally put on hold in order to squeeze me in at the end of the tenth volume. I had been corresponding with Israel Regardie since 1973.  I first wrote to him in search of Aleister Crowley's lost Greek Number Dictionary (known as Liber 1264-vel Geometry). Years later I would find it privately published in a California based O.T.O. newsletter, and had the opportunity to write a commentary on the discovered fragment of this text in the succeeding newsletter.  Regardie enjoyed my work, and requested that I write a rebuttal to Ellic Howe's "The Magicians of the Golden Dawn".  Unfortunately I was never able to do this for Regardie, since I believed in Howe's premise that the Golden Dawn charter documents were forged. The forgery did not take away the magic from the Golden Dawn, but did take away a false pedigree of German Rosicrucianism.  See my introduction to "The Eastern Mysteries" for my thoughts on this subject.

But my correspondence did not end with Regardie, for in 1978 I discovered a number system hidden in the Enochian Angelic Calls.  I also found the logic for the Golden Dawn's own system of numbering Enochian that was based on the geomantic attributes of Dr. Rudd.  I wrote my discoveries to Regardie, sending him photocopies of my working diaries that documented this decipherment. He in turn sent my research to Thomas Head who had written a Doctorate thesis on the artificial language of Enochian. Thomas Head then incorporated my own discoveries into his own chapter appearing in Regardie's "Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic".  He hid his source by claiming the decipherment was the result of a LISP computer program, but his tables show my own early mistakes that he patently copied without understanding.  Ironically, my own research, which was truly his own source for numbering Enochian, appeared at the last possible moment in the same section of the book as his own.

All of my research concerning the Enochian language has been fully documented in my eleventh key to Enochian found in "The Western Mysteries", including my initial correspondence to Regardie revealing my discoveries.  Regardie was very respectful of my own work in this area, and allowed my research to be included in his book, but I had only one week to write it and submit it back to the press. The 14 pages appearing under the chapter heading "The Numerical Structure of Enochian" was written in that short time span. 

If you look at the table of contents you will discover that my chapter is misspelled as "The Numberical (sic) Structure of Enochian.  Whoever typeset my manuscript could not spell this word. I was allowed one edit of my manuscript and caught every incident of this misspelling.  But I never got to proof the table of contents. The other humorous misspelling was the word Enochian.  Half the time it appeared in my chapter as Enochain (sic), but at least I was able to ferret out those misspellings completely before it went to final print. 

Anyway, in 1984, with such a golden opportunity to publish my research, I included at the end of my Enochian essay my beloved code for Sanskrit. I had completely deciphered Sanskrit in the summer of 1973, and eleven years later I was given a chance to put it into print, albeit in a skeleton form. Nine years later, the fourth key of "The Eastern Mysteries" would fully reveal the beauty and complexity of the alphanumeric code known as KA-TA-PA-YA-DHI.

There is a significant problem with Regardie's revision of his original research on the magical order of the Golden Dawn.  In the 1970s Regardie worked with Robert Wang to illustrate a first attempt of reconstructing the secret Tarot deck used by the members of the Golden Dawn.  The specifications for this deck can be found in S. L. MacGregor Mather's secret order document known as "Book T".
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