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Growing as a Magician

Three things make, not just our Order, but joining any long-standing Golden Dawn Order, not only valuable, but essential to those seeking mastery of Magic and Alchemy.

The first is the most important one: initiation. Initiation is not about personal meditation, running through a ceremony, or reading a script for some interesting information. Its about recieving a gift of magical power (called Current) from more experienced magicians who themselves have recieved it from a chain of Hierophants going back centuries. This gift not only is a powerful leg up to your level of magical ability, it also starts various alchemical processes that gradually awaken the latent powers of your soul much more quickly than you could on your own. Remember, magic done by multiple people working together is exponentially more powerful than the sum of the individual magicians working by themselves. One may argue that one may have access to the same benefits of initiation through a self-initiation book, but consider this: you are doing it on your own, not with 7+ people all working for your benefit, and you are being Hierophant for the first time, not recieving it from those who have initiated hundreds before you and have a lot of experience and training in the Royal Art.

Second, learning magic from books or from the internet is like trying to learn martial arts from the same media. Sure, you can be well versed on the theory and may learn a lot of information from discussion boards, but you are never going to win a match against someone who went to a dojo and trained for real. There is just too much to grasp that can't be written down, only demonstrated and drilled. Likewise, having access to in-person training at Temples (even if only for Power Week once a year) as well as online classes and experienced, well-trained Proctors is worth far more to your magical development than any amount of dues charged could ever pay for. And most orders charge very little. Our Order (www.esotericgoldendawn.com) only asks the equivalent of $10/month + instructional materials.

Third, despite popular belief, the Golden Dawn instructional materials are not all on the internet or published in books. Even if you manage to grab a copy of one of our collections of higher grade materials from an illegal posting, not only are you not going to be able to understand half of it without the help of one of our Adepti, but there is also more than three times that amount of information that we are not even allowed to write down and never has been. That's the added benefit of a rich oral tradition that has descended through the lineage to which we belong.

Simply put, if you are serious about becoming or growing as a magician, joining an order representing the school of magic you feel drawn to is not just an important move, its essential.