12-16-2014, 03:54 PM
Been talking with the folks from one of the Golden Dawn temples on the island here, it seems the Golden Dawn is a very tight-knit group globally and they keep close ties. I have been practicing the Middle Pillar exercise, as well as building my techniques for performing the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.
I do have other ritual experience though, mostly related to Celtic Druidry and fire festivals.
To be honest, I think that most of the basic 'magical knowledge' that they were using to establish the Ra contact all came from Golden Dawn principles and techniques (such as the LBRP).
I also actually was curious about how Ra said that the Ipsissimus is one who has polarized negatively and I asked my GD contact about it and he said there origins of the word are uncertain and it does to an extent pertain to an individual who has achieved a great degree of personal power but in his opinion that means the release of the lesser self to embody the higher self. There is debate in the GD whether or not Ipsissimus is even an attainable grade in life, some believe it can happen only after death. Many schools of GD don't even go past the Adeptus Minor grade, which is the grade Israel Regardie got to and whom is the main source of "public" writings on the GD. I understand the temple I am talking with goes beyond that, however.
However, that being said, Aleister Crowley was the one who claimed to have achieved the grade of Ipsissimus and if you look at the Thelemic system it would make plenty of sense for one of the highest grade to be negatively polarized (remember Crowley was positive, but he became very imbalanced.) So it could be that Ra is referring to different systems there as Crowley borrowed the term Ipsissimus from the Golden Dawn.
I do have other ritual experience though, mostly related to Celtic Druidry and fire festivals.
To be honest, I think that most of the basic 'magical knowledge' that they were using to establish the Ra contact all came from Golden Dawn principles and techniques (such as the LBRP).
I also actually was curious about how Ra said that the Ipsissimus is one who has polarized negatively and I asked my GD contact about it and he said there origins of the word are uncertain and it does to an extent pertain to an individual who has achieved a great degree of personal power but in his opinion that means the release of the lesser self to embody the higher self. There is debate in the GD whether or not Ipsissimus is even an attainable grade in life, some believe it can happen only after death. Many schools of GD don't even go past the Adeptus Minor grade, which is the grade Israel Regardie got to and whom is the main source of "public" writings on the GD. I understand the temple I am talking with goes beyond that, however.
However, that being said, Aleister Crowley was the one who claimed to have achieved the grade of Ipsissimus and if you look at the Thelemic system it would make plenty of sense for one of the highest grade to be negatively polarized (remember Crowley was positive, but he became very imbalanced.) So it could be that Ra is referring to different systems there as Crowley borrowed the term Ipsissimus from the Golden Dawn.
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