Look, we all want something new, and our egos want something new all the time. But tradition brings forth power and dedication and persistence. IT IS IN THESE QUALITIES THAT MAGICAL POWER IS AWAKENED.
Take for example the Lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram. Many GD groups do not teach their students to do this ritual daily. We do. We believe that on a deep mind level you are uniting with the perfection of pentagram ( Spirit ruling over matter ) and that the more you perform this ritual, the deeper the concepts and constructs of the ritual become part of you and you become part of the ritual. At some point you are no longer doing the ritual, the ritual becomes ALIVE and works through YOU. You are the conduit of the current, but this POWER only comes though constant dedication to the tradition.
Next we discover that someone somewhere is changing the basics of the Golden Dawn rituals.
*They change the Divine Names to fit their personal paradigm rather than expand to fit into the GD.
*They change the direction of the elements. Some even have changed the pentagram symbol.
Our take on this is simple, if it works for you, do it. But let us be very careful not to confuse it with CLASSICAL GOLDEN DAWN and the tradition as taught by Mathers and Westcott.
In any event, our basic point is, that this system as been well thought out. It is timeless, and it works and it awakens the LATENT POWER WITHIN YOU if you stick with it and give it time to allow it to work through you. Most importantly, do not be mis-led by the collectors, find a mentor or Order that is filled with passion, and then develop the passion within yourself for the work. It is the passion pointing upwards that gives life to the work. Anything less is piles of old papers that eventually turn to dust in the hands of the collector.
Your Brother in the Great Work,
Frater PDR
www.esotericgoldendawn.com
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