The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic
Israel Regardie
Language: English
Pages: 552
ISBN: 1567181325
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Israel Regardie wrote The Tree of Life, a book many consider his magnum opus, in 1932. It has continued to sell for decades. And no wonder. Up until the time this book was published, very little information about true high magic was available to the public.
In this book, Regardie reveals the secrets of real magic. He begins with an explanation of what magic is and, just as importantly, what magic is not. He explains that it is a spiritual study and practice which, along with forms of yoga, forms the two branches of the tree that is mysticism. Magic is not being a medium or a psychic. Then he explains the tools of the magician, what they mean, and how to use them. He explains the techniques of evocation and invocation, skrying, and astral travel. He shows how the Qabalah unites everything. He even gives a description of the secrets of sexual magick. All of this is in a clear, lucid writing style. This book is simply a must for anyone who is, or aspires to be, a real magician.
Although Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero were friends of Regardie and are Senior Adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, what changes could they have made to this classic book? Well, they did change the spelling from British style to American. And they did change his transliterations of Hebrew into the more popular style he used in his later books. But nothing vital was changed or removed. Everything else they added was complementary to the text that was there. And what incredible additions they are! Extensive annotations throughout every chapter; over 100 illustrations; more descriptive contents pages; a glossary, a bibliography and an index. They've even added a biographical note on Regardie and the importance of this book to him and to the occult world.
This book contains some of the finest occult writing that has ever been produced. And with the new material by the Ciceros, it becomes a must-have for any magician!
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Is with dogma and an outworn tradition, there seldom comes that flash of spiritual light making descent in splendid tongues of flame like the Pentecostal Holy Ghost,6 radiant with joy and the highest wisdom, pregnant with spontaneous inspiration. The sophisticated, the blase, the dilettanti-these are debarred by insuperable barriers from the merits of its benediction. To those having talent.
In connection with the process of traveling in the Body of Light,13 the authority whom I cite above mentions in addition that there one is insensible to heat, cold, pain, and other forms of sensuous apprehension and in this Light one is bound by what superficially may appear to be an entirely different series of laws. On this plane, which is the magical agent par excellence, symbols and emblems and sigillx are not intellectual conventions nor even arbitrary.
Ecstatically transformed. Thus union with a god and the consequent ecstasy are the outcome of harmonizing, or equilibrizing by means of Magic, the various hitherto conflicting or separated portions of the consciousness. Nothing new has been added to the mind or invaded the sphere of consciousness from without that a man should be so illuminated and enabled to perceive with fine rapture the beauty of Nature and the.
Separate-mapping correspondences between one culture's spiritual system and another's is an inexact science at best. 8. Archangels are pure and high-ranking angels who function in the Briatic World of the Qabalah and govern large groups or hosts of lesser angels. The list of Briatic archangels given here is in accordance with the Golden Dawn's teachings (with one exception-see endnote 14).
13. This is usually listed as Malkah be Tarshisim ve-ad Ruachoth Schechalim, a virtually untranslatable phrase. According to David Godwin, the best translation of the phrase is "Queen of the Chrysolites and the Eternal Spirits of the Lions." (See Godwin, 184.) 14. The archangel usually associated with Malkuth is Sandalphon, so it is a mystery why Regardie chose to place Zaziel (Zazel) here. Zazel is the spirit of.