EsoteriaA library of sacred & hidden knowledge
Liber XIII · High Magick

Liber XIII · High Magick

Introduction

The Golden Dawn, Enochian magic, Lévi and the modern ritual tradition.

High or ceremonial magick is the learned, ritual tradition of Western magic, in which elaborate correspondences, divine names and symbolic tools are used in pursuit of spiritual attainment. Its modern form was shaped by Eliphas Lévi in nineteenth-century Paris and systematised by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in London in 1888, which drew together Kabbalah, astrology, tarot, alchemy and the angelic magic of John Dee. This section explains its history, its key figures and the meaning of its rituals and symbols.

6 min readWhat Is Ceremonial Magic? History and Practice of High MagickWhat is ceremonial magic? An introduction to high magick: its roots in the grimoires and Renaissance occult philosophy, the Golden Dawn, methods and aims.

Forthcoming in this chapter

53
  • John Dee: Life, Works and Influence
  • Edward Kelley: Life, Works and Influence
  • Peter of Abano: Life, Works and Influence
  • Papus: Life, Works and Influence
  • Stanislas de Guaita: Life, Works and Influence
  • Joséphin Péladan: Life, Works and Influence
  • William Wynn Westcott: Life, Works and Influence
  • Moina Mathers: Life, Works and Influence
  • William Robert Woodman: Life, Works and Influence
  • Florence Farr: Life, Works and Influence
  • William Butler Yeats: Life, Works and Influence
  • Annie Horniman: Life, Works and Influence
  • Allan Bennett: Life, Works and Influence
  • Dion Fortune: Life, Works and Influence
  • Paul Foster Case: Life, Works and Influence
  • Franz Bardon: Life, Works and Influence
  • William G. Gray: Life, Works and Influence
  • Donald Michael Kraig: Life, Works and Influence
  • Lon Milo DuQuette: Life, Works and Influence
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton: Life, Works and Influence
  • Liber Loagaeth: History, Contents and Meaning
  • Sigillum Dei Aemeth: History, Contents and Meaning
  • The Great Table of the Watchtowers: History, Contents and Meaning
  • The Cipher Manuscripts: History, Contents and Meaning
  • The Flying Rolls: History, Contents and Meaning
  • Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie: History, Contents and Meaning
  • Histoire de la Magie: History, Contents and Meaning
  • The Mystical Qabalah: History, Contents and Meaning
  • The Tree of Life: History, Contents and Meaning
  • Initiation into Hermetics: History, Contents and Meaning
  • Modern Magick: History, Contents and Meaning
  • The Book of the Sacred Magic: History, Contents and Meaning
  • The Middle Pillar Exercise: Meaning, History and Practice
  • The Qabalistic Cross: Meaning, History and Practice
  • Rending of the Veil: Meaning, History and Practice
  • The Watchtowers: Meaning, History and Practice
  • Scrying: Meaning, History and Practice
  • The Four Elements in Magic: Meaning, History and Practice
  • Elementals: Sylphs, Undines, Salamanders, Gnomes: Meaning, History and Practice
  • The Astral Plane: Meaning, History and Practice

and 13 more.