![]() ![]() Why was it so important that Olympic Spirits were used at all? They appeared to be just other names for planetary spirits, of which the Golden Dawn used the Hebrew versions taken from Agrippa. In the Golden Dawn tradition being shown a diagram is an initiation to the powers that are behind it. When creating the diagrams for the Magical Order of the Aurora Aurea we restored those that were missing and I was left puzzled as to why the creator of the Cipher documents considered them so important. They had been dropped completely by the Bristol temple, which provided Regardie's rituals, and have been lost from what many people consider traditional Golden Dawn. In modern Golden Dawn Orders which take their rites from the “black book” the Olympic Spirits are not even accorded that dignity. ![]() While the person who wrote the Cipher manuscripts had an idea that the Olympic Spirits were important, the information as to why seemed to have passed the Golden Dawn by, and their function was left to the role of passively working on the candidate's sphere of sensation during the 3=8 ritual. The diagram was considered important but no reference was made to it in the Golden Dawn outside a 5=6 paper by Sam Mathers which was a cut and paste effort from traditional sources. In the 3=8 ritual of the Golden Dawn the candidate was shown a diagram of the seven Olympic Spirits. ![]()
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