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The Secret Rituals of the .
Edited and Introduced by FRANCIS KING
In recent years there has been a remarkable
resurgence of interest in what is generally
referred to as the 'Occult'. Popular Sun-sign
astrology has e a subject for cocktail
party chatter; the 'Underground press'
displays an intensive, although often ill-
informed, interest in such subjects as
Glastonbury, Ley Hunting, and Flying
Saucers; and books — many of them owing
what little merit they possess to the skillful
employment of scissors and paste — on all
aspects of occultism pour from all the
presses.
In the shadow of such well-publicised
aspects of the Occult revival can be dimly
discerned the shape of an altogether more
important phenomenon — nothing less than
the rebirth of Magic. Magic, that is, in the
sense that it is defined by the extraordinary
occultist Dion Fortune: 'The science and art
of causing changes in consciousness in
accordance with will.'
There is no doubt that the magical
techniques, for which extraordinary
efficacy is claimed, are almost exclusively
derived (although sometimes indirectly)
from those two extraordinary occult
sodalities the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Front dustjacket Dawn and the Ordo Templi Orientis. The
rites and secret instructions of the former
organisation are easily available in Dr,
Francis Regardie's Golden Dawn, a work
which only now, thirty-five years after its
first publication, is beginning to receive the
appreciation it so undoubtedly deserves.
Those of the latter, the Ordo Templi
Orientis, have hitherto never been
published, although grossly urate and
plete typescript versions of them have
occasionally been sold for high prices.
Now, at last, this volume makes available to
the occult student not only the symbolic-
masonic riches of the initiate on rituals pf
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