Full Description
The Definitive Edition of a Timeless Classic
This third edition of The Middle Pillar is more complete, more modern, and more usable than ever. Extensively edited and expanded by Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero, close friends of Regardie and Chief Adepts of the Golden Dawn, this classic work is highly accessible and relevant to today's practitioners.
The exercise known as the Middle Pillar, created by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, activates the five psychic centers on the Tree of Life's Middle Pillar. This exercise draws divine light through the body's energy centers, clearing and strengthening them for magic. Designed to bridge the divide between psychology and occultism, the Middle Pillar exercise was little-known until this book's first edition. Since then, it has become a mainstay of many Western traditions of magic.
This edition features:
• The complete original text with spelling standardized to Western traditions
• The Ciceros's notes on each chapter
• Clearer, modern illustrations
• More than five techniques to enhance relaxation
• The connection between the Middle Pillar and the chakras
• How to charge talismans and do healings using the Middle Pillar
• Egyptian, Greek, Gaelic, and shamanic versions of the Middle Pillar rite
The Middle Pillar is a step-by-step, accessible examination and extension of the single ritual that has become the very embodiment of magic.
Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations...............................................................................ix
Introduction to the Third Edition by Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero.................................xiii
Introduction to the Second Edition................................................xxv
Foreword........................................................................................ xxxiii
Part One: The Middle Pillar: A co-relation of the principles of analytical psychology and the elementary techniques of magic. by Israel Regardie with annotation by Chic and Sandra Tabatha Cicero
Chapter One: The Two Pillars of the Temple (ed.)........................................... 3
Chapter Two: The Tree of Life (ed.).................................................................. 25
Chapter Three: The Qabalistic Cross and the Pentagram Ritual (ed.)............... 47
Chapter Four: The Middle Pillar Exercise (ed.)............................................... 69
Chapter Five: Circulating the Light and the Formula of Vibration (ed.).......85
Part Two: The Balance Between Mind and Magic A further analysis of the relationship between psychology and magic. by Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero
Chapter Six: Psychology and Magic............................................................ 103
Chapter Seven: The Art of Relaxation.............................................................. 139
Chapter Eight: Yoga, Chakras, and the Wisdom of the East........................ 159
Chapter Nine: The Pentagram......................................................................... 175
Chapter Ten: The Middle Pillar Exercise..................................................... 209
Appendix: The Musical Qabalah by Thom Parrott................................... 243
Glossary.............................................................................................. 251
Bibliography...................................................................................... 267
Index ................................................................................................... 273
