Apr 02, 2009 - Sale 2175

Sale 2175 - Lot 26

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 1,000
(HERMETIC ORDER OF THE GOLDEN DAWN.) Notebook containing manuscript transcription of 3 Knowledge Lectures. Over 180 leaves, roughly half of them blank. 177x114 mm, contemporary 1/2 black sheep with typewritten paper lettering piece, worn and shaken, top of spine damaged. Early 20th-century booklabel of the London occult bookseller John M. Watkins; pencil note apparently by Gerald Yorke dated 1951 on page 27. London, late 1890s?

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Meticulously transcribed texts from the Golden Dawn initiatory curriculum for the First (Outer) Order grade of practicus, incorporating comments by S''Rioghail Mo Dhream (i. e., Samuel MacGregor Mathers, one of the founders of the Order) and Resurgam (Dr. Edward Berridge). The contents are: Lecture on the General Guidance and Purification of the Soul from the Ancient G. D. cypher M.S.S.; Lecture on the Tarot Trumps; and Lecture on Geomancy.