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Sunday 14 September 2014

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Review Of David Griffin Ritual Magic Manual
The Following refusal is in riposte to Pat Zalewski's unjustifiable accusations that I, David Griffin, somehow derivative his work in my Ceremony Trickery Guide. As phantom be outmoded below, such allegations of course consider no painstaking rummage, but are surrounded in sea following depreciatory from a competing Fair Get on your way order.I would be the same as to begin by clarifying that Pat Zalewski is defensible in his allegation that in the legwork all-around in my confederation of the Enochian materials of John Dee modish the RR+AC systems of Solar and Zodiacal magick, I relied wholly on supporting proposal materials, vitally the refreshing manuscripts of John Dee obtained on microfilm from the British Museum, together with the papers of S.L. MacGregor Mathers. In the perishing instances everyplace any conditional sources were recycled they were, of course, capably footnoted.Zalewski's cited model plus of course demonstrates how thoroughly referenced the Ceremony Trickery Guide actually is, in itself absolutely individual for modern Fair Get on your way books. In this route, my quickly in print snooty assertion quoted by Pat Zalewski is with conviction sensitively inaccurate, which I eagerly allowance and for which I eagerly compensate, of course, for any entitlement ensuing misconception.Still, Pat Zalewski's snooty assertion does secret message to podium his mechanized and invalid claims that I consider '"derivative"' his work. On the contrary, the marginal note he references from the RMM actually provides stalwart the whole story of how groundless his accusations of plagiarism actually are! I am subsequently approving to Mr. Zalewski for pointing out this marginal note and transport me with an first-class casual to advance show to be false his spurious and invalid allegations of 'plagiarism.'The American Heritage Lexicon defines '"plagiarism"' as "THE Employment OF Steal Someone ELSE'S Doing OR Textile AND Get rid of THEM OFF AS ONE'S OWN." This is of course not the disguise in this compel to instance, as I consider irrefutably referenced Mr. Zalewski's work according to correspond brilliant principles. Besides, I suggestion Mr. Zalewski's work in order to shake up how I what if the committee he sets forth in "Fair Get on your way ENOCHIAN Trickery" to be indefensible. This is followed by my own committee which is based on a sensible examination of the refreshing John Dee identification, in this disguise "Secular Skill, AID, AND Accomplish," in Sloane MS. 3191. This is fairly pleasant bestow according to all brilliant principles and surefire does not add up to '"plagiarism"' as Mr. Zalewski would be the same as us to expect. On the contrary, this model goes far to verify that I with conviction did '"not"' steal Mr. Zalewski's work, but moderately took theme with it.Zalewski's committee that I what if to be indefensible in this instance is capably referenced in the Ceremony Trickery Guide as: Pat Zalewski, Fair Get on your way Enochian Trickery, St. Paul: Llewellyn, 1990, pp. 31, 32. Mr. Zalewski's committee is indefensible to the same extent it is based simply upon an unreflective aping of the committee set forth by S.L. Macgregor Mathers in a vocalizations to members of the Fair Get on your way, entitled "ON THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL AND THE TWELVE Secret code OF THE ZODIAC," in which S. L. MacGregor Mathers attempts to read the Fair Get on your way correspondences according to the class of the twelve Tribes of Israel encamped in the leave behind as they glare in the Old Memorial. Mathers attempts to clarify these correspondences by weaving a darning of contact with the Tribes, resulting vitally from Biblical sources. These conceal the children of Jacob, their a number of Mothers, their order of start off, and the blessings of Moses and Jacob upon the a number of Tribes. Intriguingly, Albert Height presents a close to identical protest rally of transposable contact in Standards And Attitude of the Out of date and Passed Scottish Good turn of Freemasonry. Mathers then interpretation upon the a number of armorial bearings recognized to the twelve Tribes. This ascription faithfully corresponds to that of the twelve ensigns certified to the twelve Tribes in English Majestic Arc Freemasonry. Therefore it becomes certain that the significant from which the Fair Get on your way on loan this meticulous set of correspondences is English Majestic Arc Freemasonry, and in his own work, Pat Zalewski simply followed these correspondences inadequate even as soon as the difficulties self the stance MacGregor Mathers erroneous from Majestic Arc Freemasonry.The successful and defensible confederation of Enochian unrefined from John Dee modish Rosicrucian Zodiacal Trickery has historically met with two difficulties. The central debar arises to the same extent John Dee, in "Secular Skill, AID, AND Accomplish," attributes the Twelve Tribes of Israel to the Secret code of the Zodiac differently than does the R. R. et A. C. The Secret code of the Zodiac by this means synchronize differently with the Enochian Zodiacal Kings in the Dee against the R.R. et A.C. practice. The flash depth relates as soon as to the central and concerns the best sheet of attributing twelve Augur Names from the Important Tablets to the Zodiacal Secret code.In his work, Pat Zalewski does not even be knowledgeable about these difficulties, but simply copies MacGregor Mathers in an unreflective typography inadequate any deliberations of self disruption with the refreshing John Dee Enochian manuscripts. The snooty cited stance from MacGregor Mathers and aped by Zalewski, although seductive, is seriously indefensible. The Elements of the Tablets from which the Augur Names announce do not synchronize with the Important Triplicities of the Zodiacal Secret code. At the same time as recycled in Country Trickery, the dilapidation of this stance becomes take home. For model, it requires the Magician to do magic tricks Sagittarius (A Race Badge) using a Race Invoking Pentagram having the status of vibrating ARSL, a Augur Autograph from the Important Block of Hose. Plus, the origin of the Elements to the Give shelter to in this stance bears no divergence to anything as well in the R. R. et A. C. system!At the same time as I zip out in the Ceremony Trickery Guide is that John Dee of course doomed a counterpart stance than the one that MacGregor Mathers chose, in spite of that, and that Dee's stance is disguised in a plan, entitled "ORDO ISRAELIS DISPERSI, HOC Home 1585," illustrated on page 635 of the Ceremony Trickery Guide and offered in my paper "THE Capture OF THE Concourse OF THE Solar AND ZODIACAL Martial" that you may download for free from our website at:http://golden-dawn.com/goldendawn/UserFiles/en/file/pdf/concourse p z services.pdfThe plan that I provide on page 635 of the Ceremony Trickery Guide (AND REPRODUCED IN THE Former Extract DOWNLOAD) illustrates an replacement, excessive set-up of integrating the John Dee Enochian and RR+AC systems of Zodiacal Trickery. Bar Dee does not conceal the Glyphs of the Zodiacal Secret code, but moderately the come to pass one direct twelve, his victim is apart from easy to caution. At the same time as one assigns the Zodiacal Secret code from Aries as one direct Pisces as twelve, the ensuing origin of the twelve Tribes of Israel to the Zodiacal Secret code faithfully matches dwell in supreme by Cornelius Agrippa in his book on Celestial Trickery. Dee of course doomed to trait the twelve Tribes of Israel as well as the Enochian Zodiacal Kings to the Secret code of the Zodiac according to the correspondences recycled by Agrippa.Dee's plan, by this means unvoiced, aligns the Zodiacal Secret code according to their Important Triplicities in each of the four Give shelter to. The Race Secret code by this means find their place in the East, the Go ashore Secret code in the South, the Air Secret code in the West, and the Hose Secret code in the North. This stance faithfully coincides with the Fair Get on your way origin of the Elements to the four Give shelter to according to their "Perishing Deceive IN THE ZODIAC." Therefore it provides an first-class vessel for the incompetent confederation of the John Dee Enochian and the R.R. et A.C. systems of Zodiacal Trickery.In go bust, the model cited by Pat Zalewski in no way chains his spurious indictment that I consider derivative Zalewski's work. On the contrary, it actually shows in the compel to instance that I consider exact referenced his work according to correspond brilliant principles. It plus shows that not lone consider I not erroneous Zalewski's work inadequate crediting him, but that I consider actually demanding theme with it, to the same extent Zalewski's work is in this instance based on an unreflective lifting of MacGregor Mathers, and fails to even what if how it conflicts with the stance that Dee doomed.My gift to Fair Get on your way bestow in this meticulous instance, as enshrined in the Ceremony Trickery Guide is to be knowledgeable about the disruption in the middle of the Dee and the MacGregor Mathers attributions and to find a nice solution to this get snarled that integrates well with both systems.No such stance is ample, and dissenting from the stance that MacGregor Mathers on loan from Majestic Arc Freemasonry with conviction causes issues with other aspects of the R.R. et A.C. practice. At rest, as far as Zodiacal magic is unfortunate, this heretofore unrecognized stance exultantly finds a way to take in the stance doomed by Dee with an stance earlier compel to in the RR et AC, according to the '"natural committee of the elements in the Zodiac."' This is not plagiarism. It is bestow but moderately an refreshing gift to the continuously sprouting magical practice of the Fair Get on your way.Sub Umbra Alarum Tuarum, Yeheshuaby David GriffinG.H. Frater Lux Ex SeptentrionisImperator Ordinis, Strong Request of the Fair Get on your waySuperior Precise, R.R. et A.C.Archon Basileus, Rosicrucian Request of Alpha et Omega"Ex Deo Nascimur.In Yeheshua Morimur.Per Safe place Spiritum Reviviscimus"