Ra on The Golden Dawn

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I think most of the tradition of the western mystery tradition has come down from Ancient Egypt and into Greece/Roman before making its way across Europe.
The secret chiefs are normally seen as a type of inner plane contact but some consider them to have physical counterparts on Earth, perhaps through inner Earth civilizations.  

Crowley's Aiwass could be a type of Ra contact. The problem with different societies is that if they become distorted the contact is lost and it most likely becomes a STS channeling or contact.

Many modern groups exist today, most of which claim some type of contact with the inner planes.

I have been reading a lot about Qabalah lately and i think its a great system to use with the practical application of magick. One of the most interesting things to come out of the Golden Dawn was a practice called god form assumption , although i am not sure if this was the original name. When one takes on the form of a god making use of mytho drama and correspondences in relation to the sephiroth in question. This to me sounds a lot like becoming Archetypes at will and moving towards the great work of becoming the magical personality.

Remember that the Qabalah was one of the three systems Ra offered to teach the group about archetypes and their use. They chose tarot instead of Qabalah or Astrology, but I can imagine that if they had of chosen Qabalah it would have looked a lot like Golden Dawn concepts. God-form assumption is basically the western equivalent of guru yoga. Also, recall that the magical personality when invoked is synonymous with invoking the higher self. Interestingly, Ra suggests that this is something that happens gradually.

I would say that the Qabalah is most certainly a system of understanding the archetypes and learning to become them at will.

75.38 Questioner: Now the invocation of the magical personality is not necessarily effective for the neophyte. Is there a point at which there is a definite quantum change and that personality does then reside, or can it be done in small degrees or percentages of magical personality as the neophyte becomes more adept?

Ra: I am Ra. The latter is correct.

75.36 Questioner: How does the use of the magical ritual of invoking the magical personality aid the mind/body/spirit complex totality? Could you expand on the answer you gave in the last session with respect to that?

Ra: I am Ra. When the magical personality is properly and efficaciously invoked the self has invoked its Higher Self. Thus a bridge betwixt space/time and time/space is made and the sixth-density magical personality experiences directly the third-density catalyst for the duration of the working. It is most central to deliberately take off the magical personality after the working in order that the Higher Self resume its appropriate configuration as analog to the space/time mind/body/spirit.

By what it is saying here is that by magical practice you gradually allow your sixth-density self to more and more experience and be present here in this third-density incarnation. When the magical personality is invoked, you invoke your own unified self. Interestingly, it says that invoking the magical personality isn't effective for a neophyte per se, but rather it is a gradual process whereby one is more and more able to grasp that self.

I believe the magical personality/Higher Self is the same as the concept of the Genius in Golden Dawn or the Yechidah in Qabalah.