Don's Source About Magical Personality

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There is much more to these traditions than the "attaining of states", in my humble opinion, but everyone finds their own way to the One and no path is wrong.

As for how these recipes were tested, they were not built from nothing. The founders of the Golden Dawn were Master Masons and high ranking SRIA Rosicrucians who had practiced and studied esoterics for many years. Dr. Wescott in particular was quite oriented towards the sciences and they were tested through repeated experimentation as far as I understand, building from hypothesis. The LBRP is but one ritual of the Golden Dawn which was built from a variety of influences, of which there is indeed a verifiable history scattered across various books.

However, the easiest way to understand Golden Dawn is as "fringe masonry", it has a lot of similarities to masonry in its ritual structure and design but is pointedly more pagan and 'occult' than masonry which is more influenced by Hiram and Judaism.

Ultimately, everyone connects with different things and different paths. I'm of the opinion that many paths exists because people are very different but everyone will find their own way.

As far as i know, magickal rituals in similar form were practiced in ancient sumeria, so one can say that they are as old as our recorded history goes - who knows where they got it from. Tbh if i had to bet i would say that magick in different forms was somehow channeled to us, or brought to this density by incarnated figures from higher densities, like Hermes Trismegistos (if he was a real individual) or Jesus.

Actually a lot of stuff in magick is parallel with what i've read in the Law of One. For example, as you develop yourself, you move through sefirots on the tree of life, and get to tiphereth - you attain something called knowledge and conversation of your holy guardian angel. I think it is synonymous with establishing a contact with your higher self. Couple of steps later, you get from chesed to binah - this process is called crossing the abyss, and it is synonymous with starting to perceive the world from perspective of unity. Getting to the top, keter, would be connecting to intelligent infinity - which means progressing to the next octave of experience while still being in 3rd density.

If i had to describe magick rituals (like lbrp) performed with intention to make a change in consciousness - they are a set of symbols visualised and performed in a ceremonial setting to make an imprint on your unconscious (which speaks through symbols), in order to make parts of it conscious. All zodiac signs, planets, and elements (air, fire, water, earth) work as archetypes, that exist in our minds, so that we can make certain forces in us stronger or weaker in order to achieve equilibrium, or any other state we want. Thats why magick is explainaible for people that both believe in supernatural or not. Explaining manifesting things is harder though haha, but i never felt drawn to that part so i wont even start.