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Degree in the OTO, and various Hebrew tables, all of notable historical value (which shall settle the debate about Regardie's Thelemic grades once and for all).

I don't recommend this book for someone new to the Golden Dawn. I feel there is too much "venom" here to do any real good to someone who is unsure about the path; it may simply frighten them off. Regardie's criticisms of the founders and temple leaders are right and apt, but a less defensive historical account would do the new student much better before he or she reads this book. This is a book for those interested in history, and for anyone who wants to delve deeper into Regardie's notions of the Golden Dawn (where he, for example, reveals his knowledge that he knew well that the Adeptus Minor grade was technically in Yesod, not Tiphareth, with the previous elemental grades all in Malkuth). You won't learn any magick here, nor will you learn more about the structure, etc., of the Golden Dawn, which has been expounded in many places elsewhere. I would recommend the Cicero's "The Essential Golden Dawn" for anyone who really does want to know more about the Golden Dawn. This book by Regardie is best left until further down the path, when you have come to terms with the very real fact that most of the members of the Order, Adept or not, had very real flaws, and these colour the history of the Golden Dawn in very stark ways. This book offers a very intriguing insight into those flaws.

"What You Should Know About The Golden Dawn", by Israel Regardie: New Falcon Press (Fifth edition, 1983)

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