Kabbalah-of-the-Golden-Dawn-Pat-Zalewski - D Ank Unlimited

INTRODUCTION
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn has attracted enormous interest
in recent years, not merely from the many groups of practicing
occultists who have based their activities on the Golden Dawn system,
hut also from a growing number of serious scholars and academics. Scholurlyinterest
has concentrated on the pervasive influence of the Order on
II number of celebrated writers, but particularly on the poet, W. B. Yeats.
There have also been a considerable number of books over the past
twenty years which have covered the history of the Order in some detail
and have progressively revealed its ritualistic and magical secrets. Despite
this publishing phenomenon, there is still much that is unknown about
the Golden Dawn. As Golden Dawn historian and author R. A. Gilbert
has noted, the Order "Yet remains as maligned, misunderstood and misappropriated
as ever it was during its heyday."
One area that has not received the attention it deserves is that of
the Kabbalah, which was the basis of all Golden Dawn rites. The idea of
writing a book on the Kabbalah from the perspective of the Golden
Dawn is something I had considered for many years. My first attempt at
R similar venture was in the Golden Dawn Correspondence Course, in
which a very detailed study of the Kabbalah was made in the form of a
series of tabulations. It was based on the Golden Dawn manuscript
"General Correspondences" which Aleister Crowley subsequently modified
slightly and published as 777. While this course provided a great
deal of original material, it did not cover many important areas of the
subject. Originally I had intended to do a followup on the correspondence
course, but due to an estrangement with the publishers, this did
not eventuate.