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By Israel Regardie, Chic Cicero, Sandra Tabatha Cicero

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"The Tree of lifestyles offers an immense volume of fabric that brings jointly old knowledge and sleek magical experience." -- Bodhi Tree publication assessment, wintry weather 2001/Spring 2002
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Have you ever heard of Elbert Hubbard? After being a cleaning soap salesman he based the Roycrofters (part of the handicraft circulate) and the Roycroft Press, which revealed magazines and books choked with thought and data. He was once renowned within the early 1900s. most folk this present day have by no means heard of him.

On the opposite hand, you've most likely heard of Israel Regardie. approximately his e-book, The Tree of existence, well-known occultist Dion Fortune wrote, "…it goes to be one of many classics of occultism." She used to be right.

The Tree of existence was once a publication of its time. And simply as bad Elbert is lovely vague at the present time, so, too, are some of the references in Regardie's booklet. It used to be time, to not switch the e-book, yet to replace it for contemporary readers.

The perfect humans to do that have been stylish and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Senior Adepts of the airtight Order of the Golden sunrise and revered writers and teachers. the particular adjustments they made have been few — they Americanized a few British spellings and punctiliously grew to become the transliterations of Hebrew into the fashionable approach that Regardie utilized in his later books. yet that was once simply the beginning.

Next, they made a variety of explanatory notes for every bankruptcy in order that all people can now totally comprehend the ebook. Then, to allow you to use and extra beneficial they additional a thesaurus, a bibliography, an index, and data on each one bankruptcy for the contents pages. to teach its significance, they incorporated a biographical preface giving information regarding Regardie and the e-book. and at last, to make it much more beautiful, they've extra over a hundred illustrations. Now, this vintage from the 12 months 1932 is back a vintage for the twenty first century. Elbert Hubbard might be forgotten, yet this e-book is clean and vigorous. back, in the event you get a e-book on genuine magic, this could be it!

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Like a star shining and existing by its own inward light, it pursues its way in the star-spangled heavens, solitary, uninterfered with, except in so far as its heavenly course is gravitationally modified by the presence, near or far, of other stars. Because men have strayed from the dynamic sources inhering within themselves and the universe, and have forsaken their true spiritual wills, because they have divorced themselves from the celestial essences, betrayed by a mess of more sickly pottage than ever Jacob did sell to Esau,5 the world in this day presents a people with so hopeless an aspect, and a humanity impressed with so despondent a mien.

H. Lawrence. The text was designed to give readers a simple yet comprehensive guidebook outlining the complex system of the Qabalah and providing a key to its symbolism. Figure 3: Israel Regardie, Author and Magician. That same year, Regardie published The Tree of Life, a book usually considered his Magnum Opus. In Regardie's words: "I had already written two books, A Garden of Pomegranates and The Tree of Life. At the same time, it is an outstanding introduction to the subject. Crowley had also tried to write magical books that were readerfriendly and easy to comprehend, but he was never really capable of reaching this goal.

Wallis. The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. 1969). Part One Preliminaries Magic is the traditional science of the secrets of nature which has been transmitted to us from the Magi. -Eliphas Levi Figure 6: The Way to the Upper World. And now, the entire fabric of the social world appears in process of disintegration. More and more impossible does it seem with the setting of each sun for anyone to retain even the slightest portion of his divine heritage, individuality, and to exert that which makes him man.

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