Bøker av Israel Regardie

Over the three quarters of a century since first printed, Israel Regardie's The Golden Dawn has become the most influential modern handbook of magical theory and practice ever produced. In this new, definitive edition, noted scholar John Michael Greer has taken this essential resource back to its original, authentic form

The Body-Mind Connection has become an increasingly important part of modern spiritual practice. More people than ever are exploring the benefits of energy healing, breathing techniques, and proper diet in an effort to overcome the deleterious effect of anxiety and stress in daily life. This book offers a very insightful and educational explanation on how the body-mind connection works and how we can use that information to help ourselves. These concepts, expecially the breathing and relaxation techniques can help you to become the vital, powerful, functioning person you were meant to be. If you are filled with unconscious tensions that inhibit the flow of blood to your vital organs, you cannot possibly make full use of your bodys energy. The fight for survival, and the longterm effects of childhood and cultural conditioning, have created restrictive, unhealthy patterns within our bodies. Its time to heal.

Israel Regardie is one of the most important figures in the twentieth century development of what many have termed the Western esoteric tradition, which normally refers to the synthesis accomplished by MacGregor Mathers within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn during the 1890s. Among those who proceeded to explore and build among this tradition are Israel Regardie and Aleister Crowley. In this 1968 classic, Regardie prefaces and expands upon Crowley's discovery that drugs initiate and stimulate the mystical state, providing the reader with a backgroud to Crowley's The Herb Dangerous. The English poet and mystic, Aleister Crowley had produced a series of ten large magazine-like volumes with board covers entitled The Equinox. The intention was to publish a separate issue every Spring and Autumn for five years making ten numbers in all. Openly published in them were his superbly written essays on the psychology of hashish. These were his earliest overt admissions to the occasional use of hashish as a psychedelic agent. The first four issues of this periodical contained an important serial entitled The Herb Dangerous. The opening essay, The Pharmacy of Hashish, by an English chemist, E Whineray, was a clinical and chemical analysis of Cannabis Indica, whose first cousin is marijuana, Cannabis Sattiva. The second essay entitled The Psychology of Hashish was written by Oliver Haddo, one of the innumerable pseudonyms used by Aleister Crowley. It was succeeded in the third issue by The Poem of Hashish, written by Charles Baudelaire, and translated beautifully from the French by Crowley himself. The final installment of the serial consisted of selections from a fantastic piece of writing by H G Ludlow entitled The Hashish Eater. Easily a rival to de Quincy's Confessions of an Opium Eater, Ludlow's book was published by Harpers (New York, 1857). These four essays comprise the main body of this text.

The proper working of ritual is at the heart of the Western magical tradition. This book shows exactly how ceremonial techniques can be used to concentrate and harness the enormous psychic and spiritual potential of human consciousness. Dr Regardie's detailed analysis and description of key rituals are based on his own considerable experience and his knowledge of Golden Dawn techniques. In addition to providing practical instructions on robes, ritual equipment and decor, he also links current occult practice to broader historical precedents.

These essays, now revised and brought together, represent the fruit of a lifetime's study and experience of occult techniques. The emphasis throughout is on practical methods of releasing the vast inner potential on which magic depends, with the aim of finding 'the jewel of a new life' - a life full of creative possibilities based on a radical renewal of consciousness.

The first new book by Israel Regardie in decades

Analyzes three important alchemical treatises from the 17th century, explaining them symbolically, psychologically, and magically. This title also includes illustrations, a glossary, a biographical dictionary, a bibliography, an index, and an introduction.

Written by Israel Regardie in 1932, this text is a comprehensive guide to the Qabala and its complex symbolism. This new edition includes annotations, a critical commentary, explanatory notes, suggested exercises and daily affirmations.

This edition of Regardie's 1938 work introduces a psychological perspective in magic and occultism while giving clear directions on how to perform Qabalistic Cross, the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, and the Middle Pillar exercise.